It's all about the team and doing what the team needs.

misterearl wrote:Life am good.

Uptown wrote:Great Thread, Earl.

Uptown, Anji and SupremeComm - as one who treats his writing and his Knicks as an art form, let me state for the record, that your dap means a lot. As The Answer Man may be internationally known, regionally respected and locally accepted, but he never forgets that the most important thing is friendship and family. This band of virtual brothers may only meet in digital space but the camaraderie and banter is a welcome break from the chaos of a normal day. Youse guys are never dull.

So, thank you for the acknowledgement. It is humbling and made me smile. Dap means even more on a day when my daughter was accepted into college on her first application, and rewarded with a four-year academic scholarship (valued at nearly $80K, sheesh).

Yes, we know pain and suffering. My boy Chip Stern once said, "to be a Knicks fan is to suffer." After decades of falling in and out (and back again with Raymond Felton) of love with Qyntel Woods, Zach Randolph, Keith Van Horn, Anthony Randolph, Stephon Marbury, The Mayor, Shawne Williams, Jonathan Bender, Timofey Mozgov, Toney Douglas, Nate Robinson, David Lee, Danilo Gallinari and even Jeremy Lin... guess what?...

We finally have something to cheer about without feeling the rug will be pulled from under us by a bunch of impostors. Notice how there are not too many TRADE threads these days? Know why that is? We are good. Dese guys may never do nuttin' da easy way, but they have made us proud to be Knicks fans again. What could be better than that?

Well said bro....

Raymond Felton.
Pablo Prigioni.

Jason Kidd.
J.R Smith.
Iman Shumpert.

Carmelo Anthony.
Steve Novak.
Ronnie Brewer.

Amar'e Stoudemire.
Rasheed Wallace.
Kurt Thomas.

Tyson Chandler.
Marcus Camby.

13 deep. Have been a Knicks fan for well over 20 years now, and have never once seen an NBA team, let alone a Knicks team as deep as this one in regards to overall talent, depth, veteran leadership ability etc, etc. We've built something very special and I really hope the rest of our team can remain healthy, because when Shumpert, Stoudemire and Camby return it's over for the likes of the Miami Heat (very thin outside of their big 3).

We've truthfully built a machine...

mrKnickShot wrote:I still have a gut (disgusting) feeling that JR 3-15 will rear its ugly head in the playoffs

The Answer Man has a warm (positive) feeling that JR will duplicate his efficient 7-15 in a game that matters and the crowd will love it. Why? Because the message of Mike Woodson is being reinforced with trust. Woodson has allowed JR to play through shooting slumps and suspect decisions. JR has rewarded Coach with focused defense. Smith's effort in the second half, despite taking a nasty fall, was huge. JR got up and limped back up the court in apparent pain. That is the second brutal fall he has absorbed in two games. Tough.

Woodson is more than a coach to JR Smith. He is a role model. There is no reason for JR to regress.

Shots can run hot and cold. Defensive effort, and rebounding, is forever.

misterearl wrote:Learning Curve

mrKnickShot wrote:I still have a gut (disgusting) feeling that JR 3-15 will rear its ugly head in the playoffs

The Answer Man has a warm (positive) feeling that JR will duplicate his efficient 7-15 in a game that matters and the crowd will love it. Why? Because the message of Mike Woodson is being reinforced with trust. Woodson has allowed JR to play through shooting slumps and suspect decisions. JR has rewarded Coach with focused defense. Smith's effort in the second half, despite takin a nasty fall, was huge.

Woodson is more than a coach to JR Smith. He is a role model. There is no reason for JR to regress.

Shots can run hot and cold. Defensive effort, and rebounding, is forever.

I would love to have 20 percent of your optimism. Unfortunately, thought I agree that Woody is doing a great job and has a(n impossible) JR Smith plan, he might be the guy who kills us in the playoffs. hopefully, we are deem enough to sit him if he stinks.

ChuckBuck wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

misterearl wrote:Learning Curve

mrKnickShot wrote:I still have a gut (disgusting) feeling that JR 3-15 will rear its ugly head in the playoffs

The Answer Man has a warm (positive) feeling that JR will duplicate his efficient 7-15 in a game that matters and the crowd will love it. Why? Because the message of Mike Woodson is being reinforced with trust. Woodson has allowed JR to play through shooting slumps and suspect decisions. JR has rewarded Coach with focused defense. Smith's effort in the second half, despite takin a nasty fall, was huge.

Woodson is more than a coach to JR Smith. He is a role model. There is no reason for JR to regress.

Shots can run hot and cold. Defensive effort, and rebounding, is forever.

I would love to have 20 percent of your optimism. Unfortunately, thought I agree that Woody is doing a great job and has a(n impossible) JR Smith plan, he might be the guy who kills us in the playoffs. hopefully, we are deem enough to sit him if he stinks.

Shumpert should be healthy by then.

I hope. However, Shumpert may even be worse offensively than JR

mrKnickShot wrote:
I would love to have 20 percent of your optimism. Unfortunately, thought I agree that Woody is doing a great job and has a(n impossible) JR Smith plan, he might be the guy who kills us in the playoffs. hopefully, we are deem enough to sit him if he stinks.

Dude, the playoffs are months away. Months. There will be plenty of blood before then.

Woodson said before the game that he told Smith to "keep shooting" and he did just that, going 7-for-15 from the floor for 16 points.

Mike Woodson knows what he is doing. He knows more than we who are pounding on keyboards worrying about JR Smith missing a few shots like the Knicks entire world depended on it. My Grandmother once said, "Worry only makes you sick."

Keep shooting.

Beat LA.

mrKnickShot wrote:
JR went grew up in my town. I like him. I root for him. He is just a horrible shot selector.

I have come to trust in Woody and know that its possible that he is executing a plan that even us genius fans might not get. Hopefully that is the case.

JR's shot selection tonight was perfect. The problem with elite athletes is that some of the shots that do not conform to The Queen's Rules Of Order (like the "step back" game winner in Charlotte) actually drop.

Hence, the dilemma.

He can do it again.

misterearl wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:
I would love to have 20 percent of your optimism. Unfortunately, thought I agree that Woody is doing a great job and has a(n impossible) JR Smith plan, he might be the guy who kills us in the playoffs. hopefully, we are deem enough to sit him if he stinks.

Dude, the playoffs are months away. Months. There will be plenty of blood before then.

Woodson said before the game that he told Smith to "keep shooting" and he did just that, going 7-for-15 from the floor for 16 points.

Mike Woodson knows what he is doing. He knows more than we who are pounding on keyboards worrying about JR Smith missing a few shots like the Knicks entire world depended on it. My Grandmother once said, "Worry only makes you sick."

Keep shooting.

Beat LA.

Keep shooting SMART shots!

Not dumb deflater's