playoffs? could you imagine?

Meanwhile, the Bulls, 7th, have won as many games as we have over the past ten (6) and in that we have not gained on them at all. This is something you look at. The Bobcats have won 5 over 10 so we gained 1 game over them but we face them Friday and that is a MUST WIN game against a team that is known to give us a lot of trouble.

Overall you do not look at games behind, you don't look at the teams you are chasing, but you look at the teams that are also along side you chasing the same goal and most important you look at a win total you expect to give any team a playoff birth.

That win total is about 38 games right about now. That means we must play .500 ball the rest of the way. While we are playing quite well our schedule is also at it's weakest point. That is another thing you look at. Our schedule gets increasingly more difficult as time goes forward. How we respond to that will dictate whether or not we are in a playoff hunt.

You start to think playoffs in March which coincides with our toughest month of the season.

You don't look today. You don't beat the Bobcats on Friday and say "Okay, we're 8th, we're playoff bound! Stop the season! GO KNICKS!!!"

For if you do then you're just one of those fans that lives and dies by every win and loss. You win, you're the best team in the league, you lose, you're the worst team in the league.

Quite a bad way to be a fan IMO.

Stand back, enjoy that we've hit a winning streak here, and then watch and hope they carry that winning spirit into the teeth of a really horrible March schedule.

MDA has Chandler playing much closer to the basket and thats been huge also. If we can keep Duhon's booze filled legs fresh and continue to get good play from Nate Knicks have some weapons. Hopefully Gallo continues to develop and we keep getting better. Its been fun to watch

Moonangie wrote:

nixluva wrote:Yeah I never thought i'd get to the point where I felt the Bobcats/Knicks was a rivalry, but it's getting to that point with them. That team always gives us trouble and I love nothing more than to beat them. We're staring the Bulls, B Cats and Bucks square in the eyes right now and we'll see who blinks 1st. This is gonna be fun.

I am taking my family to the Bobcats game this week. I hope that rivalry shows up and that the Knicks put the smack down on those confederates. It's time for us to step up and show our chutzpah, and to maintain it for the rest of the season, get into the playoffs and do well. Then we can take a bow as we will have completed our final audition for the King. And if we somehow get to face the Cavs in the playoffs, oh hell yeah. Would make this the best year for NY hoops in a decade.

Is there anybody who doesn't see the direction for our team is up up and away?

I can name several deluded jerk-faces on this forum alone. Check the Berman comment section for more.

Some people are just haters by nature, they hate their life, their children, the teams they root for. Everything.

And about the bobkitten rivalry, hey, as long as we have a rivalry again. This could be the new Knicks/Pacers. Both teams are coming up together it seems. The bobkittens are playing the best ball in franchise history and for us, well, it sure feels that way for the younger fans.

The Bobcats are going to be a tough team to jump because I can see them around .500 for the rest of the season.