Posted by misterearl:

bippity - at least you are honest.

Watching the Knicks in 2007 from Section 404 will be the most fun for djsu since the magical run in the abbreviated1999 magic carpet ride.

I can't wait for his Pulitzer Prize winning reports to start.

Book it Dano

Posted by misterearl:

bippity - the second third of last season was bringing some noise until the injury outbreak

the point being, judging by the number of new threads and new postage, there is as much, if not more, eager anticipation for the upcoming season - and its new skill sets of yoot combinations - than any year since Patrick Ewing's finger roll rimmed out against Indiana

most people will never admit it though

I think most people are excited about the young players and not so excited about the vets. It's a fair view. I think they are also excited about fighting for playoff spots but not overly excited about the overall upside of the team in the long-term. Again, fair and not anymore irrational than someone who thinks the team has a lot of upside. It's just opinion. It's just that if someone doesn't beleive that the team has a huge upside they are shouted down and called negative. If someone says the team can win a title they are shouted down and called a lover. In the end those doing the shouting kill the site. All I ask is that no matter what your opinion is, back it up with something besides "because I think so"

[Edited by - bippity10 on 10-08-2007 3:05 PM]

Posted by EnySpree:

anyway, this thread us idiotic. I dunno why I can't stay out of it like silver said.

Posted by misterearl:

You don't separate players into individual compartments because basketball, unlike baseball and football, demands a more synchronized dance that five guys can cohere to.

Basketball is jazz.

While people spend countless hours kvetching over Eddy Curry's inability or unwillingness to play defense or rebound, or Zach Randolph's "selfishness" they are missing the fact that their skills will be affected by the other three cats on the bandstand.

You don't separate solo basketball acts from the context of the band any more than you separate John Coltrane from Elvin Jones or McCoy Tyner.

It's the combinations that matter most

Not the individual.

Team baby

TEAM

You're a weird dude. When I make preditions about the team I take the team as a unit. This is why yours and my prediction will be nearly the same. When I am talking about individual players and my exitement level of individual players I take them separately.

Here's what I know-Q, Balk, DLee, Jared will give me 100% effort on both sides of the ball
The rookies, will probably give me effort on both sides of the ball. I'm Confident they will but only time will tell. Marbs, Curry, ZaCh, Jamal I have no idea what to expeCt from them and Cannot get exCited about them until they prove it on the floor.

Maybe you Can, and that's great. But I Cannot. The vets have to prove it to me before I give them Credit for anything. HOw is that unfair?


[Edited by - bippity10 on 10-08-2007 3:40 PM]

Posted by RemBee76:

Could it be that "talent" isn't all you need, that every team, even one packed with all-stars, needs time to gel, time to form a team system and identity? Its a fact that most anyone would acknowledge save the self-proclaimed "realists" of the UK Mafia, who describe this only as a "let-down".

Posted by Andrew:

Posted by djsunyc:


with that said...the live from reports were fun to do...but...well, there may be something else on the horizon...stay tuned...

www.LiveFromAirCanada.com?