The Cleveland Cavs (11-14) come to the garden tonight to face the New York Knicks (7-17).
This is a rematch for the Knicks, who lost to the Cavs in Cleavland, 106-110, in the Knicks’ season opener on November 2nd. In that game, LeBron scored 45, pulled down 7 rebounds, dished out 7 assists and ripped 3 steals. For New York, it was Crawford and Randolph who had big scoring games with 25 and 21 respectively, and a now seldom used player named Nate Robinson contributed off the bench with 19 points and 6 rebounds in 27 minutes.
In recent days, Coach Isiah Thomas has said publicly that change is coming, and it is up to the reader to infer if he means a lineup change, or his own removal from the coaching staff. It is hard for me to envision Isiah relieving himself from coaching the Knicks, because Isiah never really volunteered to coach the Knicks to begin with; it was James Dolan’s order after Larry Brown was fired during the “show significant progress” days, which resulted in Isiah’s contract extension midway through last season.
If the Knicks are going to get back into the playoff race, they had better start winning soon–the season is going nowhere fast. The east may be weak in terms of records, but I don’t think it will be for much longer. The teams that are in playoff spots are going to fight to stay there, and the teams that were expected to make the playoffs that haven’t done so hot are going to want to cover lost ground right about now.
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One last thing, as some of our defenders have already mentioned previously, there is a knicks protest coming up on the day of the bulls game, details can be found here.
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Tomorrow the Mamba goes to Cleveland to pay King James a visit.
Let’s see if Lebron is still star struck when he plays Lord of the Rings.
Oh I almost forgot…..
IT WILL BE TELEVISED ON NATIONAL TV!!!
8 O’clock buddy on TNT.
Should be interesting to see what Kenny and Chuck have to say about that match up.
I think tomorrows game deserves a special post knicksdefense.
It’s a off night for us Knicks and it’s the best 2 players in the game matching up
against one another.
We should all watch that game and give our collective thoughts.
Maybe I’m just day dreaming…
This site is called knicksdefense but correct me if I’m wrong….we can always talk
about basketball related events.
Big win tonight and big game tomorrow.
Defenders
The effort of yesterdays game did alot to heal the bruises.
But to answer MODI’s question.
I will return to Orange and Blue when the Knicks play with the intensity they played with last night on a consistent basis.
But if the Knicks go on a tear- winning streak of over five games or a winning trend where they go 7-3 or above in a ten game period- then I’ll also return to Orange and Blue.
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