This team is a C and a coach away from being able to beat anyone.

Crawford needs to penetrate alot more, I think he picks the ball up too early when he does penetrate, and he gets scared of being called for a charge.

The refs didn't call fouls for the Knicks at all. Ariza went up for this dunk and was clearly fouled, but no call.

T.T played awesome defense on one play when he blocked Stackhouse's reverse dunk attempt. It was nice. He just doesn't seem to be motivated and eager.

Lenny is a weak motivator. He doesn't argue with the refs at all, he just sits there and lets them run all over us. He doesn't define New York.

Moochie is horrible against zone defense. he doesn't orchestrate anything and everyone just stands there.

Sweetney had many good positions downlow, but was missed alot.

JYD played excelent defense on Dirk, but Lenny took him out at a crucial time and the Knicks were forced to used K. Thomas and Nazr to guard him, and they got burnt.

Yeah, Van Horn would've been a killer on this team. He was doing the little stuff on the knicks. Timmy needs to show up fast. We lost this game by 2 points. I think we should have won.

When the opposing team is missing two of its starters and one of its key bench players (who'd be a starter on a lot of other teams) and you still can't pull it out, missing only one starter, who is arguably the most overpaid player in the league, there is not much to be happy about. They played hard, that's good. Nazr is improving, that's good. KT is becoming more and more tradeable, that's good.

Still, this team has Marbury, who just isn't a good PG. He's a very talented player, but he can't play a lick of D, doesn't really know when to pass and when to shoot, and doesn't know how to control the floor. You see him yelling at guys? That doesn't work with most people, even if Marbs is right about their mistakes. He's still learning how to play the game! That's ridiculous. Maybe if he'd stayed in school, he would be better now. I know he WANTS to be better, but he's just not smart enough. The other players will eventually turn on him, like they've done everywhere else. Lenny is soft, everyone in Atlanta and Toronto knows this, but switching him with Suhr, who is well-hated throughout the league, or anyone else, won't make Marbury a great PG. Scott Skiles can't fix Chiacgo, nor could a tough-guy coach fix NY.

The rest of the starters don't deserve to be starters in this league (well, okay maybe in THIS league, since it has too many teams and too many players who don't yet know how to play the actual game as it was intended).

If I had Crawford, TT, KT, and Nazr coming off the bench on my team, I'd feel pretty good about it, but the fact that they're starters at the highest team salary EVER in the league, it's just insane.

Anyway, I don't post often because I always end up saying the same thing. This will continue to be a disappoitning team as long as that fat drunk Dolan owns it. I like the urgency the players seem to have this year, and they play a more exciting game than in years past, and I'm still rooting for them to be better than they should be, and yes, I'm aware that the season just started, but realistically, they'll be fortunate to finish at .500. No trade Isiah makes could possibly get this team out of the middle of the league.

Their only hope to get into the playoffs is the fact they are in the worst division in all professional sports, which I think is what Isiah is betting on. He may be a slimeball, but he's a cunning slimeball.

I don't know, maybe they should trade for Artest. I haven't been to a good fight in a long time.

here is some general weirdness: Where was Pavel Podkolzin?

Posted by martin:

here is some general weirdness: Where was Pavel Podkolzin?

Interesting question. He was going to be the #5 pick the year before if he had stayed in the draft, remember? (And wasn't it amazing to watch last night just how horrible a basketball player Shawn Bradley is?)

On a similar note, someone asked the other day what happened to "Baby Shaq?" Wasn't his name somthing like Skortsanisis? Anybody follow whatever happened to this guy who was also projected as a lottery pick and could have been ours instead of Sweetney?

btw, the possession of the game was when penny put up a 3 and crawford got the long rebound and immediately threw up another 3 with 30 on the clock and down 2. that's when you need to dribble it back out and get it in marbury's hands. if you noticed or saw a replay, marbury was on the other side of the court with a "why?" look on him. it's all good and it's growing pains. hopefully crawford will learn and mature...