fishmike wrote:knicks1248 wrote:Cosmic wrote:AnubisADL wrote:Lets not jump to conclusions now folks but Douglas has come back to reality.
How so?
He's playing against the league's elite the past three games so of course he's going to look shaky. He's been given big minutes (about 32 a night now after only doing about 12-15 a night earlier in the year) and you've got to believe he's hitting a bit of the proverbial "rookie wall" as a result. Maybe he's even a bit nicked up and we just don't know it.
Toney Douglas was a great pick and has proven that he may be a very good player for us.
To watch you cherry pick his last two games and gleefully bash Douglas shows you have an agenda.
Sounds like your making excuses for him instead of just facing the fact that he's just not ready
he got outplayed by one of the elite PGs in the league last night. Does anyone here have a problem with that? He's a good player and he's tough and he's a guy thats going to look at tape of every possesion and figure out what he could do better to defend him next time.Getting smoked by Deron Williams doesnt sway my opinion that Douglas is a good player and a keeper.
This is why people say you cant rebuild in NY. Knick fans are incapable of watching players grow and go through growing pains. Its "he's the best" and then "no.. actually he sucks" followed by "he's the best again" followed by "at least he's a rotation guy" then "lets trade him..." you get the idea.
The only guy we have drafted and actually watched mature into a solid all star caliber player since Ewing? Yea.. Lee. And half the people here want to run him out of town for Bosh who's been ineffective since he tore his labia
I'll tell you why most knick fans flip flop, we have these young players who play good for a few games show real promise for a week or 2, then turn into pure garbage for longer stretches. Gallo is a perfect exmaple of that. Now if you take a look at some of the more consistant rookies "Like Jenneings/Collison, , they may have 2 bad games out of 6 our rookies are just the opposite your probably going to think, well they were getting consistant minutes, well there,s no way MDA is going to continue with a struggling DUHON and a eratic sergio, while he has a much better pg in TONEY sitting there, it's completey naive to even think that.
Douglas has not played consistant, and at this point he's looking like every other PG we have had, good one minute horrible the next