Take players whom have underperformed their contract and feel the burdan of that every day and bring them to NY is not a recipe for success.

Its almost like Shoebury's off season antics of philinthropic genrosity is to garner the affections of the fans.

We just want to see the kid do well and his efforts benefit the team.
Thats his real job! Just do the job your paid to do!

For what it costs to see a game live one needs to feel good.

>>Its almost like Shoebury's off season antics of philinthropic genrosity is to garner the affections of the fans.

or maybe Marbury simply has a heart

what a concept

>>Thats his real job! Just do the job your paid to do!

don't say a word. smile for the camera. don't have an opinion on anything.

be a good boy.

"get back to your quarters until i call for you"

boy

If you can't play well at home because of pressure how are you going to play in the playoffs when there is pressure. I have no doubt that the fans affect our play. It's obvious. But number one this is part of the learning process in NY. YOu don't get credit until you earn it. Play hard like you did last night and the crowd will cheer you. Give up lay-up after lay-up and quit and you will get boo'd.

On a side note: It would have been nice to hear Isiah defending his team like this when Chaney, Wilkens, Herb and LB were here. This just further illustrates the lack of support our coaches have gotten over the year. The same support that Isiah is praying for.

I personally have never been a big fan of booing players. It doesn't help your team win. And it's a way to scapegoat players when everyone is playing poorly. That being said I cannot blame the fans for this response when the team is giving a half-asse effort. We had no business winning last night, but because we played hard we pulled out a win. Teams that play hard get the breaks. We haven't gotten one break at home for the past 2 years because we don't play hard. Fans aren't going to applaud that. SO STOP YOUR BITOCHING A PLAY.

Those fans in MSG are pretty brutal unfairly at times.

But, either way, this is NEW YORK.

You have to have thick skin to play in this town. If anything, blaming the fans for losses will make them want to boo even more.

Come on guys, lets be realistic. Everyone in the organization knows they lost fan support by giving up on themselves last year and with that in mind they send Steve francis out there to promise us the one thing they WILL give us is EFFORT, and then proceed to stand in awe of the Spurs and not give sufficient effort. At some point they should just say nothing and tell us their performance on the court will do the talking and then back it up.

It's not the fans jobs to entertain the team. When did things get so haywire? When MSG starts paying fans to attend games we can then put the burden on fans to perform, but the paying public has a right to see a quality product (by which I mean effort at a bare minimum) and far too often they feel ripped off.

I don't think it;'s fair for teams to expect to have things both ways. You cant want emotionally involved fans and then have a dispassionate team.

Posted by joec32033:

Posted by K22:

Those fans in MSG are pretty brutal unfairly at times.

But, either way, this is NEW YORK.

You have to have thick skin to play in this town. If anything, blaming the fans for losses will make them want to boo even more.

This is the only point I am trying to make!

The solution is simple: ignore the boos and do whatever is necessary to win those fans back.

Keyword: WIN.

[Edited by - K22 on 11-09-2006 10:01 AM]

Amen

Now can I get the proper spelling in the topic thread heading?

JOeC - hey, we all make mistakes, right?

Notice I didn't boo you?

Knicks fans don't cry

Like they say in New Orleans

It ain't my fault