what rookie said

"Nate, Curry, Jeffries and Gallinari need to get healthy."

Walsh has some major moves to ponder before New Years Day

It is a long season.

Hey misterearl, how about that effort from Harrington. While he couldn't hit the jumper in the first half, he found another way to score by taking it to the basket and getting to the foul line. The picture of him at the end of the game sitting on the bench with his legs all cramped up and smiling with the coach standing next to him giving him the 'attaboy' said it all to me. That was 25 points of pure effort. It might not have been pretty, but this guy found a way to score when his jump shot wasn't going down . I like the Harrington for Crawford trade. This guy brings it.

misterearl
Couldn't let a tsunami in his backyard make him admit the barbeque was ruined.
Stay up there buddy! Positive energy!

This team is horrible until proven otherwise. Gave up on the season 11 games in--pretty much never been done in sports when you were seconds from being 7-3. We didnt use Marbury from game 1 when he showed he can be very cooperative and productive in pre-season. I think you only tank if you sck after 25-30 games and mathematically not a reality. Were not going to tank--we'll just be horrible. We couldve tried to try hard to win this season--why not---the alternative is watching terrible basketball for 70 games+++ and then the same idiots who have screwed up the draft will do it a again. Now we have to watch one of the most over-rated players in basketball Al Harrington shoot 9-25 along with his 3-13 partner Q Rich. I think we panic traded Randolph and Crawford when there was no pressing need to do so at this time.

One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward

"This team is horrible until proven otherwise... I think we panic traded Randolph and Crawford when there was no pressing need to do so at this time." - Briggs

(cough)

News Flash

The New New York Knicks are NOT horrible. On the contrary, I am developing a sense of pride in how the seven have played recently. Even in Atlanta, they withstood run after run by a young and telanted team, only to fall one good look short of overtime.

As opposed to offering up another "panic trade" du jour for Chris Duhon, I would offer that the Walsh "real-time" acquistion of Al Harrington and Tim Thomas is proving to be a visionary one.
Harrington is embracing both being home and the leadership role. Tim Thomas was actually spotted making a move towards the hoop. The defense is more cohesive and will improve as the players gain trust.

"We couldve tried to try hard to win this season--why not---the alternative is watching terrible basketball for 70 games+++ and then the same idiots who have screwed up the draft will do it a again."

Walsh is no more an idiot than any wanna-be self-appointed, self-annointed, self-righteous, faux baseball-bubble-gum-card trading, thumb-sucking, rotissiere-league types, who only offer a second-guess in place of scholarly and scientific hoops analysis.

I like our seven.

I like the fact they are competing short-handed and have moved on without the (cough) "very cooperative and productive" Marbury. I like Duhon hitting Lee with the bounce pass and The Mayor finding his voice by draining a clutch three-pointer. I even like Quentin using his big butt to his advantage at guard. I can suffer the setbacks without running to RealGM for arbitrary answers to imaginary negotiations.

Unfortunately, the games (and transactions) are not conducted on a keyboard.

This franchise is on the right track.

Martin - did you say defense?

No one mentioned the hard charge that Jeffries absorbed, barely two games into his rehab. No one mentioned David Lee's 19 rebounds. No one mentioned the way Al Harrington chased
'Sheed around like he stole something.

D'Antoni is not the smiling stereotype that the press has been spoon feeding us. He is a hard-working, take-no-nonsense, "I'll play your butt 48 minutes if that's what it takes to get a win" type of dude.

I like him a lot.

Cosmic - The Walsh masterstroke of exchanging the extra-large playing personality/ego of Crawford and Randolph leaves room for the remaining players to grow into new roles. It allows D'Antoni to creatively refine the roles.

The cameo of Chandler at the two is an indication of things to come. Even big butt Quentin Richardson is a better fit at guard.

Now let's really fantasize for a moment...

If somehow, someway Gallinari can heal enough to run and jump for 20 minutes, by February no one will be shedding any post-partum tears for Zach Randolph.

Posted by martin:

^ yeah man, completely agreed. The ball was flowing in the Detroit game and I have seen stretches of team defense (in multiple games), defense that somehow magically showed up cause we all know that MDA doesn't stress it in practice.

The movement on defense in the first half yesterday and in spurts in the 2nd half was the best that I've seen from the Knicks in about 7 years.