Who are you favourite / least favourite Knicks writers ? Could you add the paper/website name for those who might not know where to find the guy's articles ?

Allanfan20 wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:Marc Berman is clearly the best Knicks writer, Alan Hahn a distant second. Beck is weak.

I hope you're kidding. Marc Berman wrote a somewhat decent article on Stoudemire and his mom maybe a week ago. It was just decent and that was his BEST work. It was hardly impressive. The misleading headlines the post editors write make it worse. Everything about that newspaper is bad, so I guess it's fitting that Berman works for them.

Yea but who stirs things up the way Marc Berman does? He cuts through the mamby pamby stuff and spears you straight through your heart. You bleed, from your heart, and it feels so good to be alive, you're dying but you're alive when you read his writing, it's such an awesome feeling to read his articles.

Many years ago he was pretty good. When you become a part-time observer--you may not even know it yourself--you become out of the loop so to speak and while the casual fan may not notice--a hardcore fan can. The guys who follow the team--they all try but some of them sck namely the guy from the Daily news who obviously BS more than he tells the truth.

orangeblobman wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:Marc Berman is clearly the best Knicks writer, Alan Hahn a distant second. Beck is weak.

I hope you're kidding. Marc Berman wrote a somewhat decent article on Stoudemire and his mom maybe a week ago. It was just decent and that was his BEST work. It was hardly impressive. The misleading headlines the post editors write make it worse. Everything about that newspaper is bad, so I guess it's fitting that Berman works for them.

Yea but who stirs things up the way Marc Berman does? He cuts through the mamby pamby stuff and spears you straight through your heart. You bleed, from your heart, and it feels so good to be alive, you're dying but you're alive when you read his writing, it's such an awesome feeling to read his articles.

Isola isn't even worth talking about- he hates the team and thinks the fans are idiots for following them. He clearly hates his job and his readers, so I don't know why anyone would bother reading his cr*p these days. I don't like Mitch Lawrence's writings either

Marc Berman killed any credibility he may have had with his inexplicable love affair with Marbury, that went on for years and crossed continents. I don't really value his opinion- I remember over summer he criticised the Mosgov signing before seeing him play (fair enough- a fair few of us did that too), but then when Mosgov played well in preseason (so long ago!), he wrote an article saying what a good signing it was despite "some people" questioning the move initially- man, at least stand by your opinions, instead of pretending you never had them. Also he wrote that ridiculous piece after one or two pre-season games this year, that basically said we were screwed and that we would never improve or get better after the 2nd game of pre-season (most of us waited until at least the 6 game losing street before plunging into dispair!) and that anyone explaining the poor play on the fact it was essentially a new team and players had to get comfortable, were just making excuses.

Still, now we're doing well, Berman isn't as bad a read as he was during the hopeless years

martin wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Isola isn't even worth talking about- he hates the team and thinks the fans are idiots for following them. He clearly hates his job and his readers, so I don't know why anyone would bother reading his cr*p these days.

that is the one thing I will never understand about Isola. There was some obvious tension between him and the NYK organization, but Isola feels the need to vent his frustration to his readers. Why? As a fan, I don't care if MSG brass makes his life hell or if something got FUBAR'ed during his tenure watching and writing about the Knicks, I just care about what he can report about and what information and insight he can provide about the team and the players.

It's like he forgot he was supposed to be a professional and do his job, rather, he now feels like it is important for him to complain about his job everyone once in a while to a public audience that really shouldn't care and probably doesn't care. It's a weird gray area to cross over into as a journalist. When I read the newspaper and read sports articles online, I am not sure I have ever come across that type of scenario.

i dont consider new york sports writers journalists. we dont really have good ones allan hahn is ok, but for a city like new york that has a lot of basketball going on from highschool to nba. you would think we would have something better than ok. im hoping a new nba ball club in brooklyn brings new blood to local basketball coverage.

orangeblobman wrote:

cheers wrote:

martin wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Isola isn't even worth talking about- he hates the team and thinks the fans are idiots for following them. He clearly hates his job and his readers, so I don't know why anyone would bother reading his cr*p these days.

that is the one thing I will never understand about Isola. There was some obvious tension between him and the NYK organization, but Isola feels the need to vent his frustration to his readers. Why? As a fan, I don't care if MSG brass makes his life hell or if something got FUBAR'ed during his tenure watching and writing about the Knicks, I just care about what he can report about and what information and insight he can provide about the team and the players.

It's like he forgot he was supposed to be a professional and do his job, rather, he now feels like it is important for him to complain about his job everyone once in a while to a public audience that really shouldn't care and probably doesn't care. It's a weird gray area to cross over into as a journalist. When I read the newspaper and read sports articles online, I am not sure I have ever come across that type of scenario.

i dont consider new york sports writers journalists. we dont really have good ones allan hahn is ok, but for a city like new york that has a lot of basketball going on from highschool to nba. you would think we would have something better than ok. im hoping a new nba ball club in brooklyn brings new blood to local basketball coverage.

Who is Seth Rosenthal? I read a good little piece by him on nymag.com

isnt that the dude that does posting and toasting?

http://www.postingandtoasting.com

I think none of the knicks writers are consistant, most are lazy and seem like they watch there game from the living rooms and send in a story anyone of us could right.