Allanfan20 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:I was for resigning him in the offseason because I thought it would be impossible to replace his production, given our cap situation. Whoops. The guy - as an individual - sucks. I never really concerned him as someone from the burbs and now I hate him more because of his faux tough guy act

There are plenty of people who are tough but from the suburban neighborhoods. That is irrelevant IMO. He is not one of those tough people though.

oh I agree but he certainly isn't a tough guy who's had to fight for what he's got. The way he acts you'd think he's from the Newark projects. I grew up in the suburbs and knew tough guys and new guys who wanted everyone to think they were tough. JR is in the latter category and frankly I don't have respect for anyone in that group

I don't really respect that either. Tough people don't need to put it on display for everyone to see. I consider Iman Shumpert, Amar'e Stoudemire and even Melo to be tough.

+1

as the writer said.. the knicks deserve him!!

fishmike wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:I disagree with both of you. For less than half these antics, zbo and nate were traded from the knicks and not offered any multi year deals.

are they CAA clients? Im guessing not

i dont know.

Smith's always loved to play the part of a tough city kid, but truth be told, he's a soft, spoiled, suburban jump-shooter.

smackeddog wrote:I think articles like this cross the line- I get annoyed at his attitude basketball wise, but on the grand scheme of things, untying someone's shoe laces, playing with room service and smoking weed doesn't make you evil or a modern day monster.

After his release from prison four years ago, Smith sat inside a New Jersey country club, and told me how the death of his close friend, caused by Smith's recklessness behind the wheel, had changed his life. From the guilt over the death, to a summer in a prison cell, to wanting his young daughter to never have to keep reading about his misdeeds, Smith vowed to be a changed man.

“I think I was a follower to an extent,” Smith told me. “If someone would ask me to do something that was on the borderline, more than likely I’d say, ‘OK, let’s go.’ Now, I think I see the bigger picture finally …I think I need to mature and understand what I say before I say it, and what I do before I do it."

He can make it sound so sincere, but the con never ends. J.R. Smith was raised in a suburban, middle-class home with two good parents and access to an excellent education

JR's situation with being in prison and learning from that should draw no parallels to what he's done on the court this season. In the grand scheme of things, untying someones shoe is not that bad.

smackeddog wrote:I think articles like this cross the line- I get annoyed at his attitude basketball wise, but on the grand scheme of things, untying someone's shoe laces, playing with room service and smoking weed doesn't make you evil or a modern day monster.

doesn't matter what pampered, leafy suburb he grew up in-- he is a lowlife. he either lacks values or simply does not possess them. tats, gang signs, all his shenanigans... all add up to this.

and yes these things that can and do show up on the court. too bad dolan is also a lowlife. like attracts like.

Allanfan20 wrote:

SupremeCommander wrote:I was for resigning him in the offseason because I thought it would be impossible to replace his production, given our cap situation. Whoops. The guy - as an individual - sucks. I never really concerned him as someone from the burbs and now I hate him more because of his faux tough guy act

There are plenty of people who are tough but from the suburban neighborhoods. That is irrelevant IMO. He is not one of those tough people though.

Allanfan20 wrote:There were people on this board, on their hands and knees, BEGGING the Knicks to sign this child. Absolutely begging. Some of those same people begged just as hard to re-sign him this past offseason. I feel those people shouldn't be taken serious when it comes to them giving their basketball opinion.

First and foremost, I really didn't have that strong of an opinion either way, but with that said, why shouldn't people who wanted to resign JR coming off a 6th man of the year award, carrying the Knicks offensively while Melo was out and showing some of his best behavior in years, have a future basketball opinion taking serious? So, have you all of your sports opinions been dead on? This post reeks of a typical, I was right and you was wrong....

Uptown wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:There were people on this board, on their hands and knees, BEGGING the Knicks to sign this child. Absolutely begging. Some of those same people begged just as hard to re-sign him this past offseason. I feel those people shouldn't be taken serious when it comes to them giving their basketball opinion.

First and foremost, I really didn't have that strong of an opinion either way, but with that said, why shouldn't people who wanted to resign JR coming off a 6th man of the year award, carrying the Knicks offensively while Melo was out and showing some of his best behavior in years, have a future basketball opinion taking serious? So, have you all of your sports opinions been dead on? This post reeks of a typical, I was right and you was wrong....Or I told you So...