jrodmc wrote:I liked not making the playoffs!
I enjoyed watching Stat break down after half a season of carrying the team on his aching, creaking knees!
I wish basketball could return to the '70's, when you could sit back and watch teams run the weave!
Who wants to watch last second heroics, and some overpaid, unpure scorer continually just happen to be on a team that improves in record and playoff results each year?

I love to just beeyatch and moan!

I liked building the Knicks the right way.
I didn't like seeing Stoudemire going one-on-three and driving himself into the ground. "carrying" is nonsense and it was not necessary.
I wish ballplayers actually demonstrated respect for the fans by coming to the season in supreme shape, who actually work on footwork and ballhandling and other fundamentals instead of one on one moves that are made easier because the rules around palming and traveling have been drastically loosened, as well as the hand check abolished.
I like genuine playoff players and playoff teams not also rans who merely reach the first round especially since the first round rewards mediocrity and falsely gilds a mediocre player's resume'.

jrodmc wrote:

dk7th wrote:

jrodmc wrote:I liked not making the playoffs!
I enjoyed watching Stat break down after half a season of carrying the team on his aching, creaking knees!
I wish basketball could return to the '70's, when you could sit back and watch teams run the weave!
Who wants to watch last second heroics, and some overpaid, unpure scorer continually just happen to be on a team that improves in record and playoff results each year?

I love to just beeyatch and moan!

I liked building the Knicks the right way.
I didn't like seeing Stoudemire going one-on-three and driving himself into the ground. "carrying" is nonsense and it was not necessary.
I wish ballplayers actually demonstrated respect for the fans by coming to the season in supreme shape, who actually work on footwork and ballhandling and other fundamentals instead of one on one moves that are made easier because the rules around palming and traveling have been drastically loosened, as well as the hand check abolished.
I like genuine playoff players and playoff teams not also rans who merely reach the first round especially since the first round rewards mediocrity and falsely gilds a mediocre player's resume'.

"right" "genuine" "supreme"

I suppose not making the playoffs and living in the lottery gives you all of what you need. Too bad for you. What will you say about "mediocre gilding" when we make the ECF?

Sad...

but what will you say should they not make it?

knickscity wrote:

jrodmc wrote:

dk7th wrote:

jrodmc wrote:I liked not making the playoffs!
I enjoyed watching Stat break down after half a season of carrying the team on his aching, creaking knees!
I wish basketball could return to the '70's, when you could sit back and watch teams run the weave!
Who wants to watch last second heroics, and some overpaid, unpure scorer continually just happen to be on a team that improves in record and playoff results each year?

I love to just beeyatch and moan!

I liked building the Knicks the right way.
I didn't like seeing Stoudemire going one-on-three and driving himself into the ground. "carrying" is nonsense and it was not necessary.
I wish ballplayers actually demonstrated respect for the fans by coming to the season in supreme shape, who actually work on footwork and ballhandling and other fundamentals instead of one on one moves that are made easier because the rules around palming and traveling have been drastically loosened, as well as the hand check abolished.
I like genuine playoff players and playoff teams not also rans who merely reach the first round especially since the first round rewards mediocrity and falsely gilds a mediocre player's resume'.

"right" "genuine" "supreme"

I suppose not making the playoffs and living in the lottery gives you all of what you need. Too bad for you. What will you say about "mediocre gilding" when we make the ECF?

Sad...

Personally I would say "It's about damn time".

but what will you say should they not make it?

See, right there is the difference. When making the ECF, I'll be saying, "Bring me the Heat Heads!"

If they don't make it, I'll say, "Nice run fellas. This still sure beats the living sheet out of Marbles versus IT and Larry at the Drive-thru."
See how that works? Being a Knicks fan is really not that difficult. And it leaves you with less angst and indigestion than all this anti-homer-at-all-costs tough-guy negativity.

DurzoBlint wrote:I will even set the bar slightly lower. During those epic battles with Chicago, even though we lost, I enjoyed it and in my mind at the time, that WAS the finals. Everything afterwards seem anticlimactic. I would have loved to have won it all at least once during the Ewing era but, not ONCE did I ever hate on them for falling short.

difference was, that team left it out on the floor. had guys you could root for.. wasn't slapped together like this team was.... that knick team was easy to root for as you know when they lost those cats left it all on the floor...