Posted by King1:

You say that Randolph isnt a 5 then the fans will have a problem all year. The knicks will rotate Lee, Randolph, and Curry for these two positions most of they year. Last year Lee guarded Ming and Duncan so they could protect Curry. Not many teams have a true center in the East so I think losing Curry hurts but you have a guy that can start in Lee. If Q or Crawford gets hurt you dont have a backup with as much experience

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by BigC:

Posted by King1:

You say that Randolph isnt a 5 then the fans will have a problem all year. The knicks will rotate Lee, Randolph, and Curry for these two positions most of they year. Last year Lee guarded Ming and Duncan so they could protect Curry. Not many teams have a true center in the East so I think losing Curry hurts but you have a guy that can start in Lee. If Q or Crawford gets hurt you dont have a backup with as much experience

I was think that Malik might get the start. Morris also needs to get his feet wet.

If Isiah starts Malik instead of Lee, I'm gonna sue him for $11.6 mil!!!

Posted by nixluva:

Randolph: Watch us closely. We're not going to talk a lot, we are just going to come out and play solid basketball, and we are going to shock a lot of people.

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by Marv:

Posted by nixluva:

Randolph: Watch us closely. We're not going to talk a lot, we are just going to come out and play solid basketball, and we are going to shock a lot of people.

that's called talking.

He did say "We're not going to talk a lot". The key word being "lot", which is not the same as saying nothing at all. I don't mind if the team expresses confidence. So long as they do most of their talking on the court. Steph and Nate are the most vocal players. Other than them, this team doesn't do a lot of talking. As usual the media tends to make it seem like it's the whole team when it's clearly not. Just like they make it seem as if the team has a lot of bad guys, when that's not true either.

Posted by Allanfan20:

Anything with the word tear should never just take a couple of weeks, especially in pre season. Curry needs to take his time and just work hard in rehab. The Knicks rushing Curry to win extra games at the beginning of the season spells Glen Rice, Ewing, McDyess, Houston and possibly Marbury. Not good.

Posted by RemBee76:

Posted by bigbeast:

So the center of our team, gets hurt, thus hindering the opportunity for Curry and Zach to gain on the court chemistry, and instead of the majority of us saying "Hope he gets back soon," we resort to "No excuses." Nice.

Beast, you have to understand where these guys are coming from. The thing they are looking towards the most is being able to say "told ya so" and continuing to bash the team and its head coach/GM, not Eddy Curry getting back and having success alongside Randolph. You want good wishes from a bunch that wanted Curry "executed" by the end of his best pro season?

So now they trot out the "No Excuses" line as though any team in the league should be able to bounce right back from losing its starting center and, probably, 2nd best scorer, no matter if they are a bubble team still establishing themselves. They don't want their "fun" to be spoiled by any sense of reality. Funny thing is this same group will happily point to Kristic's injury as the reason for the Nets nearly stumbling out of the playoffs last year, but for the Knicks it’s just an "excuse".

It is far too early for this kind of talk. I don't think missing two weeks of playing together in the pre-season is going to have wide ramifications for the outcome of the season. I hold a healthily skeptical view that the two will work together well anyway, that doesn't change now.

It’s a good sign that last night Randolph was scoring at will from the outside. He is going to get good looks when Eddy returns. Question now is if he is going to get enough touches. You just have to hope that while dropping 20 lbs this off-season he was also practicing passing out of the double.