Posted by codeunknown:

Posted by misterearl:

Posted by Marv:

Posted by misterearl:

Marv - if you look at the regular season games after the Denver scuffle, I don't remember many instances where the team mailed it in. Sometimes, it still just comes back to available talent. There were some important Knicks players missing in March.

I have a revolutionary idea. Let's cheer Nate's development.

earl, i'll cheer nate's game last night. i'll hardly cheer his "development."

against philly: 1-8 fg. 0-3 3's. 1 assist. 3 TO's

against boston: 0-4 fg. 0-3 3's. 0 assists. 1 TO.

against nj: 0-8 fg. 0-3 3's. 1 assist. 1 TO.

Here's the choice: You can either decide to be supportive of a young Knicks player, no matter how problemmatic he has been in the past. Or you can continue the convenient route of celebrating each and every flaw with the patented, "I told you he was crap" routine.

Earl, are you sure thats the choice? Surely you can grace us with some better insight than this "be supportive of a Knicks player, no matter how problemmatic he's been in the past" crap. You do realize that being a "Knick fan" doesn't necessitate you rabidly "supporting" every player, right?

Nate is an incredibly flawed role player. Can you show us evidence of his marked improvement? Atleast Marv gave us superficial stats. You gave us superficial and irrelevant conjecture.

Posted by toodarkmark:

Im looking for the Knicks to play consistent all year! I mean look at all the consistencies. Isiah's coaching! Always knows what to do with his players, and the proper rotations to put them in. Hence his playoff success in Indiana.

Eddy Curry has always been consistent. Turnover prone, no defense, and no rebounds.
Zach Randolph. 20 and 10 in ever loss.
Stephon. Jamal Crawford. All proven to be winners in the past right? oh wait a minute. Whatever team they get traded from starts to become winners.

No. THIS IS the year it all turns around right. A merry band of bad news bears. After one pre-season victory they show signs of an identity. By playing hard against a team that blew them out by 40 on their home turf, in the pre-season. Yeah.

Posted by misterearl:

This is a Knicks roster dominated by yoots.(under 27)

Why can't focus and determination, tempered by the media cauldron, gradually take shape and express itself in a new team identity?

“Life is one of those precious fleeting gifts, and everything can change in a heartbeat.”

Posted by misterearl:

Here I go again

“Don't fear change, embrace it.”

Posted by misterearl:

Marv - if you are without hope, why subject yourself to the inevitable pain?

It's a game dude. A game!

Posted by misterearl:

Posted by toodarkmark:

Im looking for the Knicks to play consistent all year! I mean look at all the consistencies. Isiah's coaching! Always knows what to do with his players, and the proper rotations to put them in. Hence his playoff success in Indiana.

Eddy Curry has always been consistent. Turnover prone, no defense, and no rebounds.
Zach Randolph. 20 and 10 in ever loss.
Stephon. Jamal Crawford. All proven to be winners in the past right? oh wait a minute. Whatever team they get traded from starts to become winners.

No. THIS IS the year it all turns around right. A merry band of bad news bears. After one pre-season victory they show signs of an identity. By playing hard against a team that blew them out by 40 on their home turf, in the pre-season. Yeah.

toodark - who is your favorite NBA team?

what quality makes that team your favorite?


[Edited by - misterearl on 10-23-2007 10:54 PM]

Posted by toodarkmark:

Misterearl:

My favorite NBA team is the NY Knicks. And it comes from loving them for 20 years. And when you love a team and see it being crapped on, you cant help but hate the people crapping on it.

Posted by ActionJackson:

Posted by islesfan:


"Wahhh, I'm in such a rush to identify this collection of stiffs with anything successful, that I had the audacity to mention former Knick warriors and imply that this bunch could be like them. And then Isles had to call me out and make me look like an idiot...again."

Sheesh

Whatever

I dont want to tell Earl how to "hate" on you but I think he's missing an obvious angle of attack, which is clearly you are the type of revisionist history "fan" ( & i use that term very lightly) who probably booed Starks every time he touched the ball & wanted to know why Grunfeld was recruiting grocery baggers out of the CBA. If UK was around then I'm sure you would posted incessantly about Mason's evening activities at the China Club and wanted him put underneath the jail for soiling the sanctity of the Knickerbocker uniform. Lastly, were you really cheering oak's hustle or foaming at the mouth about his padding of his rebound stats after he missed lay-up after lay-up???

Oh how quickly we forget the old in our rush to condemn the new...Hip-Hop will never be Be-Bop just like Jazz will never be the Blues but it dont mean they all cant be funky.

Action - 'member how loudly The Garden "faithful" groaned each and every time Oak raised up for a jump shot?

You have hit on another valid point of view. Basketball is more like jazz than most will admit. Much of the improvisation, especially on offense, is a nightly work of progressions and responses to different stimuli. All that matters is that guys learn how to pick each other up when things go South. My sense is this squad is starting to care about things that we cannot predict.

Things like trust.

Confidence, sans the chest-bumping... or the post-game prayer circles.

No one can predict what kind of music will be played. No one knows what the 2007-08 season has in store. Too many unexpected turns, bends and dips in the road.

Make my funk the P Funk