"Cause we're old as s---," said the 34-year-old Bryant when asked why a lack of energy has been a problem for L.A. all season. "What do you want? We just got to figure out how to play when we don't have that energy. We got to change things up a little bit defensively. We got to figure out what we want to do offensively, figure out what we want to do on nights when we don't have those legs or have that energy."

"You just saw an old damn team," Bryant continued. "I don't know how else to put it to you. We're just slow. You saw a team over there that was just younger and just had fresher legs and just played with more energy, and we were just stuck in the mud. I think individually we all have to figure out how to get ourselves ready each and every game to have a high level of energy. That's all that is."

Thankfully the voice of reason Metta World War cleared things up:

"That's no excuse, the Knicks are playing great, so that's no excuse," World Peace said. "You can't use it as an excuse for us. Thank you. Thanks for trying."

Even with our uneven play recently, Knicks all-AARP team are atop the Atlantic and 2nd in the conference:

Having an older roster hasn't stopped the Knicks from starting the season with a 21-10 record, good enough for the second-best mark in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks started the season with an average player age of 32 years and 240 days, the oldest in NBA history, according to STATS, LLC.

James Worthy called it disgusting and can't believe that MDA allowed Kobe to take such ridiculous shots.

Lets hope Stat and Shump can breath new life into us.

Nalod wrote:3-5 in last 8 games.

Lets hope Stat and Shump can breath new life into us.

Prigioni (as a starter who can set pace)
Kidd (the rudder)
Copeland (young legs)
Carmelo
Chandler

smackeddog wrote:

Nalod wrote:3-5 in last 8 games.

Lets hope Stat and Shump can breath new life into us.

I hope you're wrong- those two realistically need at least a month to get back in the swing of things!

It's not so much the record that bothers me, but the way we've been playing- outside of Melo, JR and Cope, it seems everyone elses play has been going slowly down the toilet. Except for Tyson who seems to have adopted JR's feast/famine tendancies.

fishmike wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Nalod wrote:3-5 in last 8 games.

Lets hope Stat and Shump can breath new life into us.

I hope you're wrong- those two realistically need at least a month to get back in the swing of things!

It's not so much the record that bothers me, but the way we've been playing- outside of Melo, JR and Cope, it seems everyone elses play has been going slowly down the toilet. Except for Tyson who seems to have adopted JR's feast/famine tendancies.

the longer the season goes on the less and less we get from the old guys

solidfying the comments of our haters saying will the knicks be able to keep up this pace.

But when you have suspect pg play mostly everyone (who can't create there own shot) looks bad..

kidd is shooting 32% in his last 8 games, novak missing shots, no sheed, melo in and out of the line up..practicing with 60% of the roster when you bearly have pratice at all..

knicks1248 wrote:

fishmike wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

Nalod wrote:3-5 in last 8 games.

Lets hope Stat and Shump can breath new life into us.

I hope you're wrong- those two realistically need at least a month to get back in the swing of things!

It's not so much the record that bothers me, but the way we've been playing- outside of Melo, JR and Cope, it seems everyone elses play has been going slowly down the toilet. Except for Tyson who seems to have adopted JR's feast/famine tendancies.

the longer the season goes on the less and less we get from the old guys

solidfying the comments of our haters saying will the knicks be able to keep up this pace.

But when you have suspect pg play mostly everyone (who can't create there own shot) looks bad..

kidd is shooting 32% in his last 8 games, novak missing shots, no sheed, melo in and out of the line up..practicing with 60% of the roster when you bearly have pratice at all..

Funny.. there were lots of Lin is garbage threads first couple of weeks. Now the Rockets are playing well, 7-3 over their last 10 and people around here are saying suspect PG play makes everyone look bad. Stupid Knicks.

There's Jordan and then there's not another player close to him.

Kobe is an overall failure of what he could have been, Kobe had the ability and physical tools to be the greatest unfortunately he's an incredibly gifted spoiled brat primadonna douchebag

Kobe doesn't crack my Top 10 All-Time and this is exhibit Z File A-399 as the reason why.

I have a friend out in LA and he's convinced Kobe is nuttier than Ron.