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11/4/2007  11:01 PM
November 4, 2007 -- As sure as Joe Torre will follow the money, Isiah Thomas will be booed tonight during player introductions, booed hard and in many respects booed deservedly. - Marc Berman

Expect foul mood at MSG for home opener - Mitch "lynchmob" Lawrence

Fans seemed to be in a charitable mood, despite the team’s ugly summer. - Beck

What Ugly Summer? The Las Vegas edition went undefeated. Jamal healed his ankle. Zach got an orange and blue uni. Lee healed his leg. Mardy Collins almost got bacl 100%. The Mayor displayed some unexpected diversity.

Just win baby
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11/4/2007  11:11 PM
Actually summer was very entertaining...
We know drama!!!
By the way where is the Mayor?
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11/4/2007  11:34 PM
Posted by misterearl:

November 4, 2007 -- As sure as Joe Torre will follow the money, Isiah Thomas will be booed tonight during player introductions, booed hard and in many respects booed deservedly. - Marc Berman

Expect foul mood at MSG for home opener - Mitch "lynchmob" Lawrence

Fans seemed to be in a charitable mood, despite the team’s ugly summer. - Beck

What Ugly Summer? The Las Vegas edition went undefeated. Jamal healed his ankle. Zach got an orange and blue uni. Lee healed his leg. Mardy Collins almost got bacl 100%. The Mayor displayed some unexpected diversity.

Just win baby

I got to the game after intros, but I was there cheering with the rest of the Garden when it mattered most- after the final buzzer, with the Knicks victorious.
Another season, and more adversity to persevere through. We will get the job done, even BETTER than last year. GO KNICKS!
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11/4/2007  11:36 PM
Hardcore - sounded like there was more buzz with Nate and David Lee in the game.

Is it my imagination or has the game passed Quentin Richardson by?
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11/4/2007  11:38 PM
Posted by misterearl:

Hardcore - sounded like there was more buzz with Nate and David Lee in the game.

Is it my imagination or has the game passed Quentin Richardson by?

I like how Nate pushed the tempo when he was in the game. Lee, as usual, made an impact with his boards and putbacxks.

I won't pass judgement on Q until I see more of him. Now that he's had his back surgery, we'll see if he can bring more production and consistency to the table. I hope he does.
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11/4/2007  11:59 PM
I got there for the intros and there were no boos. Even some cheers for isiah (can't imagine who from). I was pretty dumbfounded.
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11/5/2007  12:36 AM
Posted by misterearl:


What Ugly Summer?

gimme a freaking break.

you can't deny the ugly off-season that merited a feature in Esquire magazine of all places, but hey at least the fans supported them this time out. I know a lot of jokes were cracked about it, but the atmosphere in the Garden last November was seriously ugly and in my opinion led to ugly play - this time the fans were pretty supportive and the team responded with a win. an ugly, sad win, but a win at least. they're going to have to play a lot better, but at least the fans didn't make things worse. though, really, they wouldn't have been in the wrong if they decided to.


[Edited by - crzymdups on 05-11-2007 12:45 AM]
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Posted by efw:

I got there for the intros and there were no boos. Even some cheers for isiah (can't imagine who from). I was pretty dumbfounded.

That's because the announcer begins to talk to the Knicks right after the incredibly long intro for the Twolves. He says "and for your NEW YORK KNICKS!!! the head coach is Isiah Thomas with assistants..." If you find yourself cheering for the "New York Knicks" part, by the time you stop cheering he's halfway done with the assistant coach lineup.
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11/5/2007  12:58 AM
Posted by mythfaze:
Posted by efw:

I got there for the intros and there were no boos. Even some cheers for isiah (can't imagine who from). I was pretty dumbfounded.

That's because the announcer begins to talk to the Knicks right after the incredibly long intro for the Twolves. He says "and for your NEW YORK KNICKS!!! the head coach is Isiah Thomas with assistants..." If you find yourself cheering for the "New York Knicks" part, by the time you stop cheering he's halfway done with the assistant coach lineup.
it couldnt just be that people didn't actually care to boo Isiah, it has to be that they were duped into cheering for the team.
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Nate is a tough little player but I don't think it is wise to start him yet. I don't know if his body in the long hall can take it. Marbs no matter what is tought and strong. His game will get better. Q is worring me now. His shooting game is off. That the good thing about having so many shooters. When one guy is off the others step up.

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11/5/2007  7:15 AM
Posted by crzymdups:
Posted by misterearl:


What Ugly Summer?

gimme a freaking break.

you can't deny the ugly off-season that merited a feature in Esquire magazine of all places, but hey at least the fans supported them this time out. I know a lot of jokes were cracked about it, but the atmosphere in the Garden last November was seriously ugly and in my opinion led to ugly play - this time the fans were pretty supportive and the team responded with a win. an ugly, sad win, but a win at least. they're going to have to play a lot better, but at least the fans didn't make things worse. though, really, they wouldn't have been in the wrong if they decided to.


[Edited by - crzymdups on 05-11-2007 12:45 AM]

crzymdups - you have had your freaking break to talk about everything ouside of basketball. I could give a ratt's butt about Esquire magazine. I care more about Nate, Zach and David Lee.

There is nothing sad or ugly about a "W"

The only thing ugly and sad is the perpetual hunt for the negative angle

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11/5/2007  7:17 AM
Posted by Papabear:

Papabear says

Nate is a tough little player but I don't think it is wise to start him yet. I don't know if his body in the long hall can take it. Marbs no matter what is tought and strong. His game will get better. Q is worring me now. His shooting game is off. That the good thing about having so many shooters. When one guy is off the others step up.

Papabear

bear - it's not Richardson's shot that bugs me. he simply can't match size with size, no matter how tough he plays, with too many of the new school three's.

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11/5/2007  7:29 AM
Cesspool of Slime?

Was Dolan happy Thomas stuck with a short bench? Forget that, was he even on speaking terms with his coach? Was he embarrassed that a federal jury last month found him and Thomas guilty of sexually harassing a female executive, awarding Anucha Browne Sanders $11.6 million and exposing the Garden as a cesspool of slime?

It's a pity Knicks players have to delicately curl their way around questions about their coach and president's behavior, but that's the hole the Garden dug for them. Here's the strategy now: Toss cute kids on the court during timeouts, and hope the fans are distracted by potential.

Look, here come Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph, erasing a lack of grace with bruising baskets. There goes Robinson, his Oscar-worthy histrionics delightful as long as they end with the ball slipping through the twine. And don't take your eyes off Jamal Crawford's fourth-quarter heroics, or David Lee's steady presence, or Renaldo Balkman's manic defense.

"It's only one game and it might sound crazy, but I think the sky's the limit," said Crawford, after his 24 points topped the scoring charts. "I mean as far as we want to go."

That's a heady claim for a team that hasn't made the playoffs since 2004. But after weathering their bosses' scandals, Crawford and his teammates deserve a few fantasies of their own.

lisa olson - nydailynews.com


What Nate histrionics is she talking about?

For the record, Zach Randolph is extremely graceful.
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11/6/2007  2:09 PM
Prime time to let Knicks hear boos
- Steve Adamek NJ Media Group
Tuesday, November 6, 2007

When you cover the sporting equivalent of the old Soviet Union, you come to expect the way they introduce Isiah Thomas to the Garden fans these days.

It's as if that old fast-talking guy from the commercials was at the mike: "HeadcoachoftheKnicksIsiahThomasasssitedbyHerbWilliams ..." et al.

It gives folks who might want to express their displeasure about the verdict against him in the Anucha Browne Sanders lawsuit, the state of his rebuilding program or anything else scant time to even purse their lips for the "b" in "boo."

But tonight, when Isiah's Knicks play Denver for the first time since Dec. 16 -- when the teams produced, arguably, the ugliest basketball night in the nearly four-decade history of this Garden -- that shouldn't matter.

If fans are going to boo him any night, tonight's the night.

Forget that Thomas escaped commissioner David Stern's wrath for his role in the brawl.

Lip-readers who saw him "advising" Carmelo Anthony not to go into the lane in the final seconds of Denver's eventual 123-100 blowout victory, plus people long tired of his "surviving the West Side of Chicago" stories and who know his "us against them" mentality realize he wasn't blameless.

So, if the fans believe he's complicit in an episode that sullied the reputation of a hallowed franchise that's been further sullied in the 10½ months since, they should boo tonight.

Boo loud and long for how the Knicks have been dragged through the mud and into late-night TV monologues not only by Dec. 16, but the Anucha suit, Stephon Marbury inviting an intern into his SUV, "significant progress" and so much more.

Or fans can cheer -- but not without first pulling their heads out of the sand.
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11/6/2007  2:45 PM
Posted by misterearl:

If fans are going to boo him any night, tonight's the night.

Forget that Thomas escaped commissioner David Stern's wrath for his role in the brawl.

Lip-readers who saw him "advising" Carmelo Anthony not to go into the lane in the final seconds of Denver's eventual 123-100 blowout victory, plus people long tired of his "surviving the West Side of Chicago" stories and who know his "us against them" mentality realize he wasn't blameless.

Isiah is getting a bad rap.

It should be pointed out that we only saw the edited version of Isiah's advice to Carmelo. In the full version he said "I don't think it's right for anyone to run up the score on us, but it would be worse if a white guy did it."

So lay off of Isiah. He's innocent. He's very, very innocent.
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11/6/2007  4:03 PM
Boo Creepy Reporter

If fans want to "boo" it is totally within their rights to voice displeasure. Since when did the "knowledgaeable" NY fans need a daily reminder from the press to set their collective alarm clocks?

Hooray Knicks (Beat Denver)



[Edited by - misterearl on 11-06-2007 4:05 PM]
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