Andrea Bargnani, the Raptors’ 7-foot center and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2006 draft, showed he is finding his rhythm off the bench. He scored 11 points and grabbed 5 rebounds, including his defensive rebound off a missed Quentin Richardson 3-pointer that could have tied the score with 42.9 seconds left.

Richardson also missed a 3-pointer with 1:24 to play and the Knicks trailing, 97-96.

“If I make those shots, I feel like it’s a different story,” Richardson said. “This one, I take the blame for.”

Qrich rips down 16 boards (14 defensive), scores 16 points (double double) and keeps us in the game in the opening stanza all by his lonesome and still takes the loss on his back.

He's the man, him and curry have come to play, Crawford had 9 assists (9points), francis had 8 assists (5 points).

Marbury 15/4, but lee and nate pretty much non existent...there is no doubt we need frye and jeffries back. (14 feet of players)

[Edited by - babyknicks on 12-03-2006 09:32 AM]

I agree with the Balkman comments. He is clearly our best shotblocker. His ability to wait until the last second and then do a quick jump to get a piece of the ball is above-average for a small forward. However, Jeffries is a more experienced defender and from what I have seen of him, he will probably have a bigger impact than Balkman because he can play defense and make the post entry passes that Curry's needs. Dare I say that Jeffries might be the missing piece that gets this team over the hump. They are really close.

Posted by babyKnicks:

Andrea Bargnani, the Raptors’ 7-foot center and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2006 draft, showed he is finding his rhythm off the bench. He scored 11 points and grabbed 5 rebounds, including his defensive rebound off a missed Quentin Richardson 3-pointer that could have tied the score with 42.9 seconds left.

Richardson also missed a 3-pointer with 1:24 to play and the Knicks trailing, 97-96.

“If I make those shots, I feel like it’s a different story,” Richardson said. “This one, I take the blame for.”

Strangely, I saw two offensive rebounds that the Raptors got with about 3 or 4 minutes remaining that if Curry had boxed out, the game could have easily been the Knicks'. Q is covering for Curry, and they both know it too.

Posted by martin:

Posted by babyKnicks:

Andrea Bargnani, the Raptors’ 7-foot center and the No. 1 overall pick in the 2006 draft, showed he is finding his rhythm off the bench. He scored 11 points and grabbed 5 rebounds, including his defensive rebound off a missed Quentin Richardson 3-pointer that could have tied the score with 42.9 seconds left.

Richardson also missed a 3-pointer with 1:24 to play and the Knicks trailing, 97-96.

“If I make those shots, I feel like it’s a different story,” Richardson said. “This one, I take the blame for.”

Strangely, I saw two offensive rebounds that the Raptors got with about 3 or 4 minutes remaining that if Curry had boxed out, the game could have easily been the Knicks'. Q is covering for Curry, and they both know it too.

3 or 4 minutes is still a lot of basketball to be played. Q had the ball in the air with less than 20 seconds to play which would have tied the game. Q had a good game, but if that shot falls we most likely go to over time. Putting all the blmae on Curry for a missed rebound or 2 is unfair. Where was Lee? Where was Q? Hell, where was the whole team?