misterearl wrote:Old thinking - "Ugh. Felton rejected, tie game... and one. There goes the dreams of .500."

New Thinking: "STAT!"

Posters will catch on eventually! This team is not the team of the last decade and they want to win. You can see the pride of the players on this team and the way they fight when things are tough. They have a new identity and it feels great.

BlueSeats wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:Felton, 23 and 13 all star numbers

And those late game consecutive penetration buckets were daggers.

yep...don't stop know, were 3 games back of 1st in the east

knicks1248 wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Our bench played big today.

one night it's chandler, the next TD, throw in BW....very nice

Once the players believe they're a good team it makes all the difference in the world. They start to expect to win even in close games.

Man, I love Amar'e Stoudemire. Such a beast!! David Lee couldn't get 6 blocks in a game against 5 of us!! But STAT calling out the team to the media about changing this losing culture and not accepting losing pretty much saved the season.

And Raymond Felton is not Steve Nash but he's a warrior!!

Very happy right now!!

huge game for felton

Huge blocks for amare

chandler witha bounce back game..

gallo a subpar offensive game but not a bad job defensively guarding jackson.

fields was fields.. solid on the boards with 10.. he and gallo combined for 17 boards

Bench was huge with TD and walker hitting shots. moz with 3 blocks..

gritty win..

8-8

CrushAlot wrote:Great game. Felton and Stat were amazing. Amare with 6 blocks? WTF. Great win. Clutch play in the fourth. Fields is a man child.

word... great to see our 2 captains stepping up when their team needs them to... that last block by Amare was HUGE & Felton was running all over the Bobcats, he was on a mission to show his hometown friends & family he's got game.

5 game winning streak is a nice bounceback after that 6 game losing streak.

loweyecue wrote:It's a road win against a well coached team with some good players which should have won more games than they have. And we got it with one of our key players having an off night on offense. Our paint defense looked much better with the shot blocking but we need to do a better job of cleaning up after the blocks. On one possession we had two successive blocks on the same possession and still gave up the bucket. Also we should try to get Mozgov involved in a couple of alley-oops each game. TD needs to look for him more.

We had over and over stops against them and nobody got the rebound or they got a lucky bounce. This team would not bow down. But it could have been a blow out at one point. I'm liking this teams upside.

nixluva wrote:

BlueSeats wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:They are well coached.

Really? There was a rare P&R or fed cutter, but mostly they were all one-on-one and didn't do much of a job of protecting the paint or perimeter. I was not impressed.

There's no comparison between Mike's offensive coaching and LB. LB has never been a great offensive coach. As we know he wins with a slow pace and defense. Thing is if he doesn't have smart and talented defenders it just doesn't work as well.

Gerald Wallace also seems to be in a slump. But they just looked out of sync both games. Low intensity.