JohnWallace44 wrote:Haha, well he just might Panos. He can dribble and I'll fill in the blank for RVWink, Blair has just as many assists in the last two games as our PG of the future.

Assists require the guy you pass the ball to be able to score. DeJuan has some able scorers he is playing with like Manu, Timmy, etc..

rvwink wrote:"The argument against Blair starts and ends with him being injury prone."

Among the requirement of playing in the D'Antoni system is the ability of a player to run the floor quickly and shoot consistently from the outside. Does Blair's game remind you at all of the way that Amare Stoudemire's plays?

That's what makes Briggs' attraction to Blair so strange. Why fall in love with a guy that doesn't fit into the Knick's system and has zero ACLs to boot? How can you say that the Knicks would have a better record if they had someone that didn't fit into their system playing for them than if they had someone who is doing an excellent job playing the way D'Antoni wants him to play?

I thought he could be a Carl Landry/Paul Millsap type player who can average 13/14-8/9 55%+off the bench and bring toughness and leadership to a club void of any. He would help match up with clubs that have players like I just mentioned or guys like Brendan Bass Glenn Davis JJ Hickson etc... it was pick 29.

I'm pleasantly surprised with Douglas's last 5 Q's. He played hard from the minute he was drafted even though he couldnt hit the side of the barn and looked a lot like Royal Ivey. Evene if he cant keep up the offensive pace[of course I hope he does] to me he has proven to be the most worthy Knick on the team in terms of playing hard both ways. And I made mention to that.

At the end of the day this team scks--worse team that I have seen in the 10 years of crp fans have had to endure. Atleast Douglas fits in my memory banks as a guy who resembles Knicks of the 90's--you know the type that won games.

oohah

You are indeed Jedi as only one who has survived the urban jungle would know such a fact.

I bow at your feet master.

orangeblobman wrote:

oohah wrote:Somebody explain "dimes" to me. I never understood how a dime came to mean assist. I think I may be aging.

oohah

because in the olden days, making a payphone call used to cost a dime, so you would drop a dime. this was used especially when the phone call was used to help, or assist, the police in some way, maybe by reporting a crime.

so to drop a dime is to assist.

I know about "drop a dime" but the rest of the metaphor is somewhat suspicious. But sir, kudos to you for giving it a go!

oohah

My original infatuation of Douglas related to his admirable character, work ethic and self confidence which fits with what you said above. When I originally suggested that Toney Douglas had outstanding potential because of the kind of person he was, you initially suggested someone else who you thought the Knicks should have taken instead of Douglas. You were very confident you were correct. Second, you disregarded Douglas' consistent record of being the "go to" scoring guy on his college team that carried his team into the NCAA tournament. Instead you actually insisted that Douglas must be a flawed scorer because he missed so many shots in Summer League. That was mistake number 2 imo.

The fun for both of us is predicting who will be good, before it happens on the court. So I don't give you any credit for finally recognizing that Douglas was an outstanding late first round pick. Its too late to take credit for figuring that out imo. I am surprised I haven't once seen you refer to a guy's intangibles in making your assessment. You seem to focus primarily on a player's athletic potential. Did I get that wrong? Because my mind played such a valuable role in enhancing my own athletic results, I am attracted to athletes with character and confidence.

misterearl wrote:oohah - it is no metaphor.

If you played ball on the playground, the pay phone was your only contact with the outside world... or the hottie you were trying to hook up with after the half court run had to be called due to darkness. There were no lights.

You could look it up

People know my backboard shot in all 5 boroughs.

I am still not convinced of the explanation of the connection of dimes to assists. I will say that Orange's explanation was more convincing than yours!

I'll have to file this one under "unexplained".

oohah

misterearl wrote:oohah - my explanation of dimes was in total agreement with orangeblob, nothing different. If you never called a hottie from a pay phone of course my explanation would not make sense.

Some may disagree that your explanation was in concert with the Blob's.

But you might be right. Before cellphones, I let my butler place the call to the hotties while I sat back and waited for them to show up.

Let me see: "Jeeves, old chap, would you assist me by dropping a dime to Chantelle?"

oohah

rvwink wrote:"Atleast Douglas fits in my memory banks as a guy who resembles Knicks of the 90's--you know the type that won games."

My original infatuation of Douglas related to his admirable character, work ethic and self confidence which fits with what you said above. When I originally suggested that Toney Douglas had outstanding potential because of the kind of person he was, you initially suggested someone else who you thought the Knicks should have taken instead of Douglas. You were very confident you were correct. Second, you disregarded Douglas' consistent record of being the "go to" scoring guy on his college team that carried his team into the NCAA tournament. Instead you actually insisted that Douglas must be a flawed scorer because he missed so many shots in Summer League. That was mistake number 2 imo.

The fun for both of us is predicting who will be good, before it happens on the court. So I don't give you any credit for finally recognizing that Douglas was an outstanding late first round pick. Its too late to take credit for figuring that out imo. I am surprised I haven't once seen you refer to a guy's intangibles in making your assessment. You seem to focus primarily on a player's athletic potential. Did I get that wrong? Because my mind played such a valuable role in enhancing my own athletic results, I am attracted to athletes with character and confidence.

I'm sorry I didn't have privy to the fact that the Knicks had a second choice in the first round until a few hours before they drafted. But I would have taken Dejuan Blair all day every day at 29 from what was left. And at the end of the day--he is no slouch--he's good/great pick there--and I will be proven right. On a bad team like the Knicks Dejuan Blair would have a MUCH higher impact than Douglas and would had more value to W-L.

on one side, you got earl spinnin everyone into mass confusion. on the other side, you got oohah fantasizing about his make-believe rolls royce ridin king of the hood days. folks, this is gonna be a tough one to call.