team A is much faster than team B and seems as if their goal is to get to the hoop every play. the speed of the teams is very evident

team a is coordinated on both sides of the ball team b is not way to much isolation on offense

not 1 player stood out to me on the knicks during this game mike sweetney's put back jam was nice, best play of game for knicks

i knew this game was over in thie first few minutes regardless of score anyone who watched the game very close at the arena that NJ is just so much faster almost like watching duke play someone like st johns. st johns may stay with them for a few minutes but the team speed and athletiscm is way to much

going to the game opened my eyes even more to why we shouldve rebuilt the team NJ is a younger faster team. i dont see how we will get players to overtake them. the players we have are slow and play pourous D. It says a lot that we want to rely so heavily on 33 Penny hardaway who seemed to me looked like the knicks best player after the first Q and we cry about 33 YO H2O

guess what those guys are OLD for the NBA we will NEVER win with those guys EVER.

this team does not resemble anything close to a knicks team in the past--it was the nets laying the smack down like oakley did. we dont have a good roster, we might have some good players but this is not a good team and wont be agood team. watching this game, i dont know how the knicks will win even 1 theyll be lucky to keep a game close. NJ is just to fast and many of their shots are right at the rim. i saw kerry kittles jump over marburys head for an alley oop like marbury was a shrimp.
we paid WAY to much for marbury, we still need to rebuild this team we took the WRONG route in what we did and I cant stress it enough. i thought this wasnt going to workout now i know that barring miracle moves with the guys we have, were not even CLOSE to teams like NJ indiana and detroit complete different level and this is after taking on 150mm in salaries. this business plan is a bad one--we need high draft picks and good mle purchases

Dolan is just happy that the Knicks are in the Playoffs. I, for one, wanted the team to rebuild also due to the fact that they needed to get younger, but when they traded away the first round draft pick, I had to root for them to make the playoffs, as did a lot of other people. We had no choice. Make the playoffs or don't and suffer a non-first round draft pick.

Isiah said that we're not going to win this year necessarily. The Knicks were not a playoff team. They might not even get out of the first round, but they are in the playoffs. That was the first step. If you expected the Knicks to be elite or a great team, then you're mistaken. If you watch the games in the season, the Knicks were sporadic. Maybe the Knicks can beat the Nets at their game and find a secret weapon...or maybe not. We have to see. It's been one game and all I see is people saying, "We suck", etc. We do not suck. We just do not have any other star players like Marbury. We have role players, but not SOLID contributors.

A key to this series is Kurt Thomas. He needs to get his act together. He needed to start scoring because this is sad with the way he is playing. It really is horrible. So my advice is hang in there man. It really does suck and I am depressed too, but let's just see what happens.

"I cant stress it enough." Believe me, you do stress it enough.

The Knicks went cold in the second half, the Nets were on fire.

To say its all over becuase the Knicks have a few old players is ridiculous. Penny is old, Shandon stinks.

We've already been over the way garbage like Nazr and Kurt can be parlayed into younger, athletic, talented players like Curry, Crawford, Murray, etc.

You can't rebuild a team in one year. It's a work in progress. Johnson showed me signs yesterday he can play. Give him an offseason, the guy broke his next 12 months ago, he'll get stronger and better defensively and we'll have an athletic and long SF, your wet dream.

Sweetney has shown he's a rebound machine and is developing offensive moves. Only bad coaching (not letting him play over Kurt Thomas, who in the last 3 months has lost his jumper and his defense) is holding him back.

Marbury played 81 games this year; Kidd played 67. His body is breaking down. To compare the two is ridiculous. Kidd's surrounded by All Stars and Olympians. I only see ex-All Stars and ex-Olympians on the Knicks squad.

"guess what those guys are OLD for the NBA we will NEVER win with those guys EVER." Karl Malone is 40, Payton's 38, Shaq is in his 30s. They'll roll over everybody this year. Becuase the Knicks have old players doesn't mean they'll never win championship ever again.

So stop complaining about all of this, I get upset reading all of this propoganda about how the Knicks should've rebuilt. They are better then they were in the beginning of the season and they are better than they were last year. I believe in progress, not going backwards. To say they won't get better because they have old guys on their team when they have such pieces as an athletic, 22YO swingman, a beast downlow who is 23, a top NBA PG who is 28, a fiery PG backup who is 23 is stupid.

Yeah, the Nets are better. You've tried to make it that becuase the Nets are better, the Knicks shouldn't've traded for Marbury and they should've rebuilt. They are in the playoffs!!!!!

And the Nets aren't going to the win the Finals, heck, they might not win the East. When are they going to rebuild? I don't hear Rod Thorn saying "OK, we are clearly not as good as any Western Conference team. Trade Jason, trade Richard, trade Kenyon."


Didn't your mother ever tell you that patience is virtue? Relax man, it takes a while. It took the Knicks several years to get pieces around Ewing; a few years to get Pippen next to Jordan; Karl Malone and John Stockton ran the best pick-and-roll ever for 18 years, they won no titles. I never heard anybody calling for them to be rebuilt. Please calm down.

are u forgetting about that Houston game that Chaney coached and the whole Knick orginization was embarrassed by Sprewell because of Chaney's stupidiness? or benching Ward at the start of the season when he was playing great only to try to get Howard Eisely going who couldn't even play ahead of Barbosa in PHX? if Chaney was coach he would've found a way for us to finished in 9th place.

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 04/18/2004 17:01:35]

I agree with you Briggs, give Isiah two more years to implement what he wants on this franchise. Then we live with the Marbury trade.

NO WAY Chaney gets this squad to the playoffs. He was lost.

Stockton and Malone took it to the next level, sometimes great players get in the way of great teams (so I guess that's what greatness is.)

I'm all for Araujo and Smith.