By BART HUBBUCH


November 21, 2007 -- Zach Randolph was as upset with the Garden crowd last night as the crowd was with the Knicks.
The boos started during pregame introductions and continued to rain down on the Knicks throughout their 108-82 blowout loss to the Warriors.

They picked up intensity with each turnover and bricked shot until reaching a crescendo midway through the fourth quarter. That's when the fans turned on embattled president/coach Isiah Thomas, who was serenaded with a deafening "Fire Isiah!" chant.

The pleas for Thomas' job didn't go over well with Randolph, the veteran power forward Thomas brought in from Portland over the summer.

"I didn't like that," Randolph said. "I ain't never heard nothing like that. Coming from Portland, I ain't never heard the fans do something like that. It was surprising."

Randolph said the crowd's animosity toward Thomas pained him.

"It's hard on me because Isiah brought me here, and he's a good coach," Randolph said. "We ain't winning right now, but [the fans need to understand] it's early in the season and I'm new. We just have to work it out."

Randolph, whose 15 points and 16 rebounds were marred by seven turnovers, was a rarity in the Knicks locker room when it came to responding to the crowd's ugly mood.

Most of his teammates appeared to shrug off the boos and the Thomas chant, saying they expected nothing less from city that demands excellence no matter the sport.

"The name of the game in New York is winning, and we didn't get that accomplished," forward David Lee said. "I know the fans were frustrated, as we were. They pay their price to come to the game, so they're entitled to yell what they want. I just tried to block it out and play ball."

Stephon Marbury, making his first Garden appearance since leaving the team briefly in Phoenix last week, shrugged off the boos directed both at him and the team.

"Boos or no boos, we didn't play well," said Marbury. "You can never control how somebody feels."

The boos can't help but be a distraction, forward Quentin Richardson said.

The answer? "Start playing well," Richardson said. "That's always the answer in New York. When we play well, none of this stuff happens."

bhubbuch@nypost.com

Fishmike the title of this thread is a little misleading. Anyone especially a player not from not NY would be shocked to hear their home crowd booing the hell out of his teammate and coach.

^ Unfortunately he will probably be on the injured reserve list next week.

Posted by bitty41:

Fishmike the title of this thread is a little misleading. Anyone especially a player not from not NY would be shocked to hear their home crowd booing the hell out of his teammate and coach.

fair enough... but it was the title of the article. I didnt make it up

Meanwhile, Randolphs "FIRES" another brick off the back rim!

Bip the funny part of that story is that the guy who threw the battery at the Center(I'm assuming Travis Knight?) was probably Calhoun lol.

Someone needs to get Zach some paint thinner to get the glue off his hands

Don't we have to give up a pick for Marbs one of these years too? God this is such a disaster team.

WHEW when I saw the title I thought Zach was hanging out with his boys at the strip bar.

Posted by bitty41:

Fishmike the title of this thread is a little misleading. Anyone especially a player not from not NY would be shocked to hear their home crowd booing the hell out of his teammate and coach.

the title of this thread is actually the title of the article. fish doesn't have that type of creativity. his thread titles would be something like "zach's a douchebag".

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by bitty41:

Fishmike the title of this thread is a little misleading. Anyone especially a player not from not NY would be shocked to hear their home crowd booing the hell out of his teammate and coach.

the title of this thread is actually the title of the article. fish doesn't have that type of creativity. his thread titles would be something like "zach's a douchebag".

I have such creative influences!