i’m not sure if he came in before the whole curry-is-devastating debate, but that’s when i recall noticing him because he seemed about the only one willing (besides me) to object to that “devastating” characterization. and he did so fiercely and with pretty good humour which at times i publicly backed/cheered. it was some pretty good back and forthing and he gave as good as he got (if not more).

there were some guys who piped in with a middle road opinion, but after a while the argument began to go too sour and even attempts by lgm to come partway were met with stinging rebuke by the opposition. by this time i pulled back from that pit b/c the vitriol was getting too amped.

if you care to look, i DID at one point tell lgm that one of his comments was out of line (and i think he then apologized). but i’m not the least bit surprised that African doesn’t remember that because it doesn’t fit his fixation. *shrugs* wottayagonnado.

was lgm a troll? at first i didn’t think so. however by the time that poll rolled around i wasn’t so sure (so i didn’t vote at all). no question, he did get pretty nasty but if you’re being honest, you know it something that by and large you guys egged him into. some guys can let the testosterone get the better of them. i think that’s part of your ‘testing’ methodology, to push guys, keep raising the level of venom, attacks on manhood etc to the point where a guy goes over the edge — then you get to point your finger in toldyaso glee, “seeee! troll! msm! rats!”

to my recollection, he started off in a kinda firm-but-fair mode and from there it started to take weird turns, even after he agreed with LINJLNY on some points.

anyway, back to me. again, my point re the utah jazz wasn’t so much about “oh we’re gonna looooose!!” it was to say, hey, it’s (highly) unlikely that we’ll win this one, let’s save our big rah-rah for the lots of other teams we know we should be able to beat. i said it in my original comment that anything can happen, sure, but the “possible” isn’t “probable” here. go back and re-read it. it’s not greek, it’s not doublespeak. open your minds to the possibility (nay, probability) that i’m not in fact the enemy as “cautious” as i am. Lives summed it up in saying it’s basically my way of coping.

as far as the folly-the-fairy stuff, hey, let’s put it this way, african: who do you think is more sensitive, the guy who cries “foul!” when hit with the worst insult or the guy who uses the worst insult at the drop of a hat? i’ll borrow tinkerbell’s wand, tap it on your loose anus, and wait for your usual reply.

i’m finding this pool is too much crack for me to handle. i’m hooked and i need to scale back. i think i’ll try checking in only once or twice a day (after work?) instead of having this thing open in a browser tab all day. i needs me some KD methodone. now where’s a good dallas cowboys blog? (oh no he di-int! lol )

peace of mind and spirit to all

CF

p.s. oh and for the record, i was called msm well before the lgm chapter began.

KFLL

Another point about Q is your assessment of his slow feet thereby negating his value on D. I see Q playing D a couple of ways. In fact, Balkman takes the same approach. Recall we say here: Don’t start none, won’t be none? Well, I see Q and Balkman playing D in such a manner that denies their man the ball. They run down the O-player through hell and highwater until there are about 6 seconds left on the shot clock. If their man ends up with the ball, his options are either shoot or pass down low if that team has a Post-up-Player. Chiding Q about foot speed is relevant if he’s guarding your driving 2-guard or a slashing SF. Usually Stephon or JCraw has that assignment. I submit here that Q is the prototype for help defense should the rest of the fellas get on da program.

Hey Statesman/Harlem/Defenders, did you folks notice that baby triangular trap the NYK were putting on Deron at spurts? I liked that. It requires legs and a motor as displayed by our Lil Big Man (N8 da Gr8). That was the Nasty part of our NYK Nice-n-Nasty. It worked and placed a lot of pressure on their PG. Rondo will buckle under that pressure and he will be waiving to Doc for blow. That pressing D is the new D set that was just installed and more is to come. IT is rolling it out in waves and prolly (a la ChuckFM) expects the team to be gellin’/hummin’ by February. So I agree Peaceman, I feel a mini-run coming on.

Statesman,
You have JChuck starting at the 2-guard. Me, I have JChuck on the bench because he is a liability as JCrawful. Now if his shot is on, then you have JCraw on your hands, I say he’s as good as advertised and rivals those OTPs coveted by certain community members here. By the way, I’ve got nothing but love (metro) for JCraw. It’s his awful cousin JChuck who boils my blood. JChuck be palmin’, skippin’, loafin’, slippin, not husslin’ and just missin’ on all cylinders. My love for JCraw began before the 52-pts. beauty. I can’t understand nor will I accept that the lone guy who drew the HOF ABS’ praise in the MSM was JCraw for his D is now incapable of staying in front of his man or D’ing up. We all have seen his penchant for running below the screen/pick instead of above it or through it. He should sit for that. We have seen him palm and skip carry the ball. He was told about it in the pre-season when refs were using his video clippings to demonstrate the infraction to the rest of the league. He should sit for that. He has a nasty handle that can still break down Ds and ankles and thus create lanes for drive-bys, pull-up Js or easy oops for the bigs. He should sit when he stops being that type of creator. I am convinced that JCraw can play D like Stephon has demonstrated because JCraw’s long arms enables him to get pokes and negate entry passes to the post. I suspect that he’s consumed/overwhelmed looking to put all his arsenal together considering the shots are not yet falling. Hell, they’re not falling for anyone. Zach would have a couple of 40-pts nights if the shots were all falling in the hoop.

And BTW Defenders, I’ve seen this thought expressed here before. If I’m JDolan, I don’t spend a dime on another Coach and ride IT hard like a mechanical bull. Zeke has the dream job Parcells always talked about–he bought the groceries so now he gets to cook the meal. I’ve said it to this community before that Hanners did a bang-up job this summer. Still, this team is to be coached by Herb after Marbury leaves the team (barring any firings by the owner) and/or if IT wins a ship before that. Whatever the stress may be from doing both jobs, IT should just suck it. St_George could tell ya’ll about being from the EC and “havin’ tree jobs mon” (head, chief cook, and bottle washer). IT is getting paid beaucoup bucks in the No. 1 market and should just suck it up. Riley the Control Freak is doing it in MIA and so can Zeke.

KFLL

Will try to get it out by tommorrow morning.

Good dreaming my Brother from another mother!

2. Simple there is a saying that the Pot should not call the kettle black.

Hmmm how many in the land of ink and paper spilling vitriol all clamoured about Me-burry’s lack of professional for not working within the rules that his boss and or bosses agent- Isiah as GM and Coach– had set out for Me-Burry following the Knick’s loss to the Miami Heat. The new rule being that Marbury must sit for his lackluster play.

Interesting how instead of seeing the MSG media policy as a set of rules that set the parameters in which these media hacks, who dare to call themselves “journalist,” should attempt to creatively explore there craft, these hacks merely cry and whine like the ABSs and cheap ho’s we at Knicksdefense all Know them to be.

Moreover they compound the problem by taking on a totally unprofessional attitude about the challenge and situation they’ve been cast in. For as John Koblin’s “Life in Knikcs Hell” article points out the highly unprofessional Frank Asswhola responds to his challenges in teh following manner.

FI: ‘“You can get stale on the beat,” he continued. “I shouldn’t be doing it anymore after 12 years. If everything was status quo and if everything was great, I probably would be the wrong guy to have on it. But now I’m the right guy to have on it because they’re trying to screw me over, and by trying to screw me over, it kind of lights a fire in you a little bit. It makes you more motivated to find stuff out and expose what’s going on here.”’

JK: I told him it sounded as if he was sticking around out of spite.

FI: ‘“Absolutely,” he said.”

Now theirs an example of unprofessional behavior.

WELCOME TO THE POTS CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK NYMSM!

KFLL

1. From the article mentioned earlier by BARF “Life in Knicks Hell!” Mike Vaccaro’s spew the following venom!

‘”[]… The Knicks? They inspire something else. They inspire anger. They inspire hatred. … There is an unmitigated loathing for this team, for the men who run the operation. … Knicks fans hate these Knicks. HATE them.”

But in the SI article from Ian Thomsen “Looks Can Be Decieving,” Mr. Thomsen writes the followin about his observation of the Knicks v. Utah Jazz game this past Monday:

“Of course, it helped that the Knicks led for most of the night. Had they been trailing, there might have been some nastiness. But the lead never felt safe, there was plenty to criticize and most of it went unnoticed. In other words, this is no dungeon of torture. If the fans were so upset with Isiah, they would be looking for any reason to boo him.”

What does that point counter-point contrast show me? Basically that some fat slob with the aid of some vision correction contraption firmly in place before his very eyes, is nonetheless so outrageously hell bent with hatred against a team he is suppose to cover that he comes off as so far off of the actual pulse of most average Knick fans. Not only does he get it wrong with his the Knicks are a despised team rant but he shows how little touch he has on the pulse of the city’s team he purports to have a “handle” on.

Is it possible that such incompetence is rewarded with a paycheck?

Heck even that Same “Life in Knicks Hell” article pointed out the following which well shoots Vaccaro’s blind rant in the foot.

“Knicks fans, however, are a resilient bunch. Six of the first seven games this year were sellouts, and in a victory against the first-place Utah Jazz on Nov. 26, they actually stood and cheered at the end.”

Again Ian Thomsen appropriately begs the question. If Thomas and the Knicks are so despised then the “fans” would have had and found plenty of reasons to boo Thomas and the Team. I didn’t hear such booing, although we came close as the lead slipped dangerously close away in teh 4th quarter of that game.

KFLL