It is precisely the fact that Isiah drafted two additional, very competent small forwards (Chandler, Nichols) that makes me think the Knicks have some reservations about Q’s back surgery recovery. It can be said that Isiah likes roster redundancy, but this is absurd–how many SF’s on one squad could possibly be needed? Again, I hope Q is 100% recovered and ready for a big season in NYC.
I know what I saw last year, and I stand by Jared Jeffries as a true knick warrior that I like on this team. maybe if we make the playoffs this year he’ll change your mind. whatever.
…And this first taste of pre-pre-season haterade is brought to you from an unlikely source–the usually neutral New York Times’ Howard Beck.
An article about Stephon that implies that something is mentally wrong with Stephon. Highlights from Stephon’s popular summer interviews are cited in support of this theory. Sure, Beck mentions Stephon’s recent good deeds, to show you that he’s “fair and balanced,” but I didn’t care for the overall tone of the piece, which was your average everyday Isola hater. I’d expect a little more than that from the New York Times, but I know how lazy some of the Knicks beat writers have become lately. This article is basically yesterday’s news–if not last month’s.
I don’t know, I don’t really respect these guys any more. They just seem like old scrubs. You can’t convince me that all of these writers know much more about the knicks than some of the fantastic bloggers online–yourselves included. I for one would prefer to read the words of someone who regards my team in the same light as I do. I’m not blind, I know the knicks have problems, but they aren’t the worst team in the league, as they would have you believe. They may be hopefully over the cap but how often is a major market team under the cap?
When it comes to the Knicks, the Times is usually about as opinionated as college algebra textbook, so I guess I’m asking too much for them to report on knick affairs as if there were local Knicks fans buying their newspaper.
Alan, thus far, I think you and Ken Berger do a fantastic job of covering the Knicks with fresh style and class. Marbury messed up again, and you broke the story. That’s fine, he said what he said. I knew it would be a fiasco. I know you may not appreciate me talking smack about your colleagues (they are, incidentally the competition as well), but I’m glad we have Newsday, because I simply refuse to buy their newspapers anymore. I don’t think they’re doing a good job, quite frankly. I’m pretty sick of the toxic negativity they engulf the team with. It probably does stem from Dolan, but what can we do about it? We certainly don’t want to read about it on a daily basis, as is the case at the Daily News. Berman, the grill, Isola, now Beck. If you’ve read one of them, you’ve read them all.
I have lived in other NBA towns with worse teams that were more loved by their local writers (Namely Orlando, but I’m certain there’s more love in some of those other towns). Its a shame, the last blog I frequented before bailing, there was a guy who’s handle was Anti-NY-Sports-Media, so you know there are readers out there that feel the same way.
I guess these writers just feel there is no market for these readers.
