Felton, Amar'e, Chandler, Gallo, Fields has proven to be VERY good. This is basically the same formula Mike had with his 62 win team in PHX. Small highly skilled and smart rotation. IF and when we get Turiaf back, I would assume that we won't be seeing much of Timo, except against really big teams. I think an 8 man rotation is pretty much how Mike is gonna want to play it. 9 being on 2nd game of back to back. Thing is how good can this team get with this kind of roster?

orangeblobman wrote:The Knicks, the way they are now, can go to the NBA Finals this year. They have to ball hard in the playoffs, and it won't be easy, but they're there. If this were 2002, the Knicks would be representing the East in the finals, easy. Hands down. Put your hands down.

Come on... stop mixing the hard stuff with your koolaid

The Celtics, Magic, Spurs, Mavs and Lakers have zero holes in comparison to our team. Let's tone it down until we see that we can play with those teams.

orangeblobman wrote:

JohnWallace44 wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:The Knicks, the way they are now, can go to the NBA Finals this year. They have to ball hard in the playoffs, and it won't be easy, but they're there. If this were 2002, the Knicks would be representing the East in the finals, easy. Hands down. Put your hands down.

Come on... stop mixing the hard stuff with your koolaid

The Celtics, Magic, Spurs, Mavs and Lakers have zero holes in comparison to our team. Let's tone it down until we see that we can play with those teams.

You don't think the Knicks can ball with the Celtics or Magic right now? We have to realize Felton can now be considered an All-Star guard for discussion purposes.

Ball with is one thing, but unless there's an injury, we're probably not beating those teams in a 7 game series. Personally, I'm just excited enough that we're playing so well and we have a good shot at the playoffs. We're already four games up on the #9 seed, so we're not close to the outside looking in for a change. Right now we're at the #5 seed and I think the four teams ahead of us would all be very tough playoff matchups.

JohnWallace44 wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:The Knicks, the way they are now, can go to the NBA Finals this year. They have to ball hard in the playoffs, and it won't be easy, but they're there. If this were 2002, the Knicks would be representing the East in the finals, easy. Hands down. Put your hands down.

Come on... stop mixing the hard stuff with your koolaid

The Celtics, Magic, Spurs, Mavs and Lakers have zero holes in comparison to our team. Let's tone it down until we see that we can play with those teams.

I think you forgot who you're talking to.

It's the Blob. The Blob is here trolling.

orangeblobman wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:

JohnWallace44 wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:The Knicks, the way they are now, can go to the NBA Finals this year. They have to ball hard in the playoffs, and it won't be easy, but they're there. If this were 2002, the Knicks would be representing the East in the finals, easy. Hands down. Put your hands down.

Come on... stop mixing the hard stuff with your koolaid

The Celtics, Magic, Spurs, Mavs and Lakers have zero holes in comparison to our team. Let's tone it down until we see that we can play with those teams.

I think you forgot who you're talking to.

It's the Blob. The Blob is here trolling.

Great men will always be polarizing figures.

Let's go back to the year the Suns came up. Steve Nash was a mediocre guard going into the season. And boom, what did they win, like 60 games?

Coach Mike's teams, when they come together, they come together in a big way. We're reliving 2004-2005 here, but with an Amar'e in his prime, one of the most unique players in the league in Gallinari, an Ill Wilson that's bursting at the seams, and a Felton as Nash 2.0 but stronger and a better defender.

are you watching this game in high-def? am i missing something,,, maybe i need to watch in hdtv too.

orangeblobman wrote:The problem we have here is that a lot of you are looking at this team with goggles tainted by the last 3 or 4 seasons. Let's chop that off, chop it off your mental, let's live in the present.

Let's say, for example, you just woke from a coma and tuned into a Knicks game. What would you see? You would see Ill Wilson, Felton, Amar'e, and Gallinari in a fresh light, a unique light. You would see them as ballers, as winners, and the Knicks as a top 4 Eastern Conference team.

Look, 9-1 over the last 10, that has to be #1 in the entire NBA. What's up? Chop that 3-8 off and you have the best team in the league.

Dallas has won 9 in a row, so they're also 9-1 over their last 10. Not to take anything away from our achievements, but we haven't faced many teams over .500 all season (granted, the majority of the league is sub .500 right now). Everyone is encouraged, but let's not get carried away.

knicks1248 wrote:

nixluva wrote:We've often talked about the way to build a title contending team and how most of the time the title team has a certain build that involves a big 2 or 3 guys. Then we have the Pistons model, which actually is what we resemble most right now. If we can fix the Big man and PG issues we have just how good can this team be? We see that the team has a very high talent level and BB IQ level, which is one of the "Good Team" method of contender criteria. You have to have an abundance of very smart and skilled players that play the team game to perfection.

Felton, Amar'e, Chandler, Gallo, Fields has proven to be VERY good. This is basically the same formula Mike had with his 62 win team in PHX. Small highly skilled and smart rotation. IF and when we get Turiaf back, I would assume that we won't be seeing much of Timo, except against really big teams. I think an 8 man rotation is pretty much how Mike is gonna want to play it. 9 being on 2nd game of back to back. Thing is how good can this team get with this kind of roster?

the piston did not have a super star like amare on there roster..

I realize that we have Amar'e, but the makeup of the team still fits the idea. A team that doesn't have 2-3 All Stars, but instead has a lot of really good players that play a team game in order to win. Unless you add another All Star or 2, then this team wouldn't be built the way most of the title teams have been structured. My question is can we get this team so a high enough level with the right moves to fill in the holes we have right now?

Others have suggested adding a guy like Carl Landry or Mayo etc. I wonder if that would be enough to push the team over the top? My reason for saying this is cuz there's only one Super Star left that we'd have any chance of getting and that's Melo. So the chances are more in favor of a Pistons type of team. So what would it take to make that happen? Who could put this team over the top into title contention?

If Turiaf can stay healthy and Williams is the real deal we need one other guy (maybe two), such as Azubuike, Randolph, Mason, etc., to give the team another shot in the arm, and we'll be in for an exciting ride this year.