Post Of The Weekjrodmc wrote:It's amazing the amount of negative energy that can be expended on a team that's now 9-3.NBA basketball is a sport-based business, played for money to provide entertainment. If you're finding more in it than that, you really need to sit back and assess your values. And your meds. You want to learn life lessons, go to your church or mosque or temple. The deeper morality of life is not to be found in the mecca of NYC basketball or any other sports arena.
It's not a way to learn life lessons. Unless you think millionaires and billionaires hold all the keys to the truth in the universe. These people do not live the same existence you do. They don't truly give two sheets what the price of gas is. They don't worry about mortgage payments. They don't beyatch and moan over how much they're paying for medical insurance each month. If you post on here and really believe your opinion matters, step back and think clearly for a second or two.
Whatever you type on here will be forgotten in less than a month. For the love of sheehit, you'll probably forget it and retype it again in month, anyway. I know I will be.
I am a Knicks fan. I absolutely love the sport itself. Playing it actually, rather than talking, writing, pontificating about X and O's or even watching or listening to it. I love the history of the game, but my allegiance, my loyalty as a fan of a team, is and always has been to the Knicks. If you actually try to correspond fandom to how you feel about your wife and kids and your house, you really have some issues.
Take this team for what they are; a deep bench team that's going to possibly wear down during the course of a long season. That also may get a mid-season boost from two of it's best players. The future looks much brighter than it has in a decade. We play defense again! While shooting the effing hell out of the basket! 52% from THREE!!! If you have a problem with threads about pride and happiness, why do you bother to post here?
A majority of posts from the UK Somber Six amount to what reads like the lancing of mental boils. Homer hate. Rants against positivism. Inner psychoses that Melo has seemed to dredge up. Maybe some cornrowed phenom beat the sheehit out of you during middle school tryouts or at hoops camp one summer. Whatever, maybe it's just the city cool attitude; liking your team has to involve a certain amount of love/hate. I get that. Nobody really wants to be labeled a homer. It's so Bushian, indelicate and not very sophisticated. Homerism always seems to smack of bible thumping fundamentalism, and face it, nobody's thinking "cool" when they think of Billy Graham. Atheists always seem to come off as so cool, intellectual, fact-filled, clear-eyed afficianados of "real" life.
I still like being a Knicks fan. No matter how much we suhuck when we truly suhuck. Or no matter how long we play .750 ball. 
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jrodmc - you captured the essence of being a Knicks fan in 2012-13 in one paragraph. This is a roster (in process of becoming a team) that is fun to watch grow.
Take this team for what they are; a deep bench team that's going to possibly wear down during the course of a long season. That also may get a mid-season boost from two of it's best players. The future looks much brighter than it has in a decade. We play defense again! While shooting the effing hell out of the basket! 52% from THREE!!! If you have a problem with threads about pride and happiness, why do you bother to post here?
Even sportswriters, who are given free seats and paid to direct our thinking, question why we shoot three's too much. All of a sudden Mike Woodson is under suspicion for something that is WORKING. Imagine if we were our standard slow-starting 3-9. The Somber Six, who are not happy unless they are unhappy, would be blowing up the phone lines. There would be angry protests in the streets.
The Answer Man bleeds orange and blue, rain or shine, and he never waits to see how things will turn out before he gets on board.
One more thing. Beat East Rutherford... I mean Newark... I mean Uniondale... I mean Brooklyn.
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) Think about it, we are 8-3 have already played against the Heat, @ Spurs, @ Grizz, @ Philly, @ Dal and Hous. Things will even out eventually and I think we will be fine.