martin wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

fishmike wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Great quotes from Beasely.

“If Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself — those are four guys that can score 25 points per game. Then you add in Lance Thomas, Kyle O’Quinn and Joakim Noah, let’s not forget about that All-Star,” Beasley said. “Whatever happened last year is what happened. But I’m here now and I’m going to do everything I can to get everyone on the same page even if that page is beating me up every day in practice. Whatever I have to do to get us to come together on the floor is what I’m going to do. Do I see us better than a 30-win team in Vegas? Listen, I don’t even go to Vegas. So yeah I do. I think we’ve got a position to be not only a playoff team but a five-, six-seed team if we do it right.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/confident-michael-beasley-knicks-no-5-no-6-east-article-1.3506515

He also mentioned if given the minutes he still feels he could be an all star. And Rose thought we would be a super team last year. Seeing is believing but yea man, I do share in ANY optimism that can plough through the noise of Briggs trying to explain that its not him being racist, its the blacks that fault being bad people. We need optimism.

Ah fishmike--If you want to lie go ahead--give me a break. Im not going to get into back and forth

Its stupid even to debate this. The majority Of white people--Asians Europeans are scared of the inner cities--period. No discussion --everyone knows it. You want to BS--thats fine. I never said white people are scared of black people--that is Knickstime taking my words and changing them again. I said inner city AA. White people are NOT safe in the inner city projects--no way--no how. Its just truth and it really needs no discussion. How to fix this issue--it will take a LONG period of time but it has to come from all parties.

Lie.

Knickoftime wrote:So there isn't any racism. The big problem is black people are complainers, hateful, violent and scary, and they're on their own to "fix" it.

Got it.

BRIGGS wrote:Yes Knicks--I think AA need to curb propensity towards violence as a whole--its embedded on TV every single night. You want straight talk and discourse or just complain ? You want problem to start getting solved--then you have to hear from both sides. You think you are dead right that Im a racist and so is every white guy right? AA for the most part have great hatred towards whites? and on the other hand white people along with Asian and European are fearful of AA. So we need to do something about that--we need change. Again you just have a self righteous view. You are seeing one side. If AA feels slighted form racism today--can you explain how that is today? How exactly did racism effect your life? A white guy do something to you? A Chinese guy do something bad to you? Dont tell me about 19060 tell me about 2017. I see AA President and every other position. A great deal of fairness exist. People from 1960 must laugh at people today talking about racism--they experienced it--you dont.

SMDH! These statements tell us all we need to know.

back to basketball guys, thanks.

Not a fan of the lying.

Knickoftime wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I like it when guys talk their **** but you have to back it up. that's the problem with opening your mouth. Beasley has as incredible opportunity here. He can really reinvent himself or simply realize his full potential. We're gonna find out really fast. He's in top shape right now entering training camp. That shows me that he is well aware of his opportunities. Exciting **** man. Everyone loves a good story.

I could be wrong, but the instances of a player reinventing himself as a defensive player are likely rare if nonexistent.

You added that. I didn't say he was going to turn into a defensive player.

martin wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I like it when guys talk their **** but you have to back it up. that's the problem with opening your mouth. Beasley has as incredible opportunity here. He can really reinvent himself or simply realize his full potential. We're gonna find out really fast. He's in top shape right now entering training camp. That shows me that he is well aware of his opportunities. Exciting **** man. Everyone loves a good story.

I could be wrong, but the instances of a player reinventing himself as a defensive player are likely rare if nonexistent.

Definitely not nonexistent, Bruce Bowen comes to mind

Was Bowen awful defensively once?

BRIGGS wrote:

martin wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I like it when guys talk their **** but you have to back it up. that's the problem with opening your mouth. Beasley has as incredible opportunity here. He can really reinvent himself or simply realize his full potential. We're gonna find out really fast. He's in top shape right now entering training camp. That shows me that he is well aware of his opportunities. Exciting **** man. Everyone loves a good story.

I could be wrong, but the instances of a player reinventing himself as a defensive player are likely rare if nonexistent.

Definitely not nonexistent, Bruce Bowen comes to mind

Bruce Bowen can be a good example of a player who at 29-30 years old took his game from C to A. I like Beasley he has a lot of talent hes got great size and could easily avg 18-20 points a game if given 30-35 minutes. The whole gig is he going to give you the plus minus game that makes teams win? From what I watched last year--I do NOT in any way think Beasley is a defensive sieve--if anything he played WELL defensively last year AND he has lost 20 pounds. This is HIS time and I think we walked into this player(IF he can stay healthy) that can be a god send of a help to this team for 1mm $. It can take one really good player and the right scheme to change a 30 win team into a 45 win team. At this point Id rather keep Carmelo as a sixth man--start Beasley and try to win. The one BIG think we lack is a player who can make plays with the basketball --but we have firepower and more size and length on defense. The Knicks will have to win this year using waves of depth where the play dOES NOT fall off--hence why I like Carmelo at 6th man and bringing Willy off as well. Let KP be the main man and give Beasley the shot to start PF. BUt I do think Beasley is potentially a gold mine for this club.

Still curious as to why you called the Knicks a 25-win team at best because of their point guard situation.

Still curious as to why you won't answer this question?

Knickoftime wrote:

martin wrote:

Knickoftime wrote:

EnySpree wrote:I like it when guys talk their **** but you have to back it up. that's the problem with opening your mouth. Beasley has as incredible opportunity here. He can really reinvent himself or simply realize his full potential. We're gonna find out really fast. He's in top shape right now entering training camp. That shows me that he is well aware of his opportunities. Exciting **** man. Everyone loves a good story.

I could be wrong, but the instances of a player reinventing himself as a defensive player are likely rare if nonexistent.

Definitely not nonexistent, Bruce Bowen comes to mind

Was Bowen awful defensively once?

definitely reinvented himself as a defensive player

Lets be real, when has an NBA player that has not fulfilled his draft status not said good things. Derrick Williams, ROse, ANthony Rudolph....Etc.

Here is the truth:

"Shyt, I played in freaking china last year, Im grateful for the opportunity to get minutes with a bad team and prove my game is still with me and maybe earn some damn money going forward! Yeah, Rambis was very instrumental in me being here. He feels guilty as hell for job he did an screwed me over!!! Dude was awful in Minny and we punked him every night!! We were young and stupid. Now we just stupid! Put me on the bench and let me do my thing!!!. NYC, this is gonna be a great party this year!!!"

The kid has talent, and he says all the right things just like a whole long list of former lotto players. We even had Darko here!! At least he was honest that he was just here for money and lacked heart.

I root for his knick success!

nixluva wrote:I will say again that Beasley has a better TS% and DRating than Melo. 58.4% vs 53.5% for Melo. DRating of 109 vs 113 for Melo. IMO there's a very legit chance Beasley can be a good addition to this team. If he's motivated and BUYS IN. This is a great opportunity for him to carve out a bigger role.

He was overweight the last few years. Man he looks great now. He's ripped. Face is sunken in