Seems like we have some defenders representing at the knicks games lately with African at the Wizards game and DVJ attending tonight’s game in Jersey against the Nets. DVJ has informed us that he’ll be sitting directly behind the knicks bench–sweet seats man, how’d you score them? We’ll be looking for you–perhaps you could help us out and hold up a Knicksdefense sign during the timeouts to let us know it is you.
Last time we played this team they didn’t have Kidd and we took them for a victory. Now that Kidd is back, we don’t have Marbury–not necessarily a bad thing depending on how you interpret the team’s season-high two game winning streak coming into tonight’s battle for the Hudson River.
This Knicks team moved the ball and had an impressive collective assist to turnover ratio at 26:9. I don’t want to get overly excited about a two-game win streak, but if the Knicks keep that up for the rest of the season, we won’t be talking about being in the lottery come April.
Jamal was 6-7 from three point land and had 29 points on the night. That’s great production, hope he keeps up with the good shooting percentages.
Nate continues to impress me this month and I especially like the improved passing and decision making with the basketball. Now if we can get him to read those passing lanes and use his superior quickness to steal the basketball, we’ll see more dunks from Nate then he amassed in two NBA dunk contest finals.
That reverse dunk from David Lee in the fourth was sick like the flu (C. Mack).
Q had a dunk!! also, Q was on fire in the first half and eventually shot 50% through the game finishing with 13 and 7. Nice to see Q rediscover his touch and hope he can continue to give us that kind of production at the small forward position. Just think how good the Knicks would be if Q were in that kind of form all season long?
Randolph Morris saw daylight during the last minute of the game and committed a foul. David Lee jokingly came over to congratulate him for getting a mark on the stat sheet. What can I say, the guy should be in the d-league learning and getting good exercise.
No minutes for our unsung hero Wilson Chandler.
Caron reminds me of Artest in some ways. He’s a hell of a ball player.
Did you see Jeffries getting those consecutive blocks? Reminded me of charles Smith in the playoffs except he was scottie pippen and they were the knicks! Jeffries is my favorite Knick this year. Last year it was Mardy and Balkman. Speaking of Mardy he played 40 seconds and got an assist.
Zach might not be the problem at all, I concede, but we have to be careful not to blame this entirely on Stephon’s absence from the team. I’m not going to stick up for Stephon, however, I do think Isiah is finally making the changes that have been so obvious to some of us in terms of who should play (Nate, Lee, Balk, Jeffries) and who deserves to sit, depending on the players’ performances and not on their salary level or veteran status. Bottom line? If your best lineup last night is Nate, Crawford, Balkman, Jeffries and Lee, those guys should see minutes every night and should not rot on the bench as they have during stretches this season.
This is what I took from the Isiah post-game interview. Without naming names, he blamed this season’s poor performance on the player’s attitude. He said the losses were due to trying to manage some of the personalities on the team who care more for the name on the back of the jersey instead of the name on the front of the jersey. He could have been talking about Curry or Randolph, both players have been called selfish at times in their careers, but from watching the post game interview, it seems Isiah is “going though the process” to make sure certain people “fall by the wayside.” Anyone come to mind?
Should the knicks get a “W” tonight in Jersey, I might consider his point of view as plausible. As of right now, it seems to me Isiah is just now playing the players he should have been playing when the ball first went up in November. Just blogging.
And another reason I’m glad they won: I was beginning to think Kenny Smith calling Knicks games was a jinx for this team.
As far as tonight, you know when you play the Nets it is the big three you have to be concerned with: Carter, Kidd, Jefferson. Kidd especially because he was out last time. They dislike us, and we dislike them. But they haven’t played very well this year relatively speaking, so can the Knicks make it three in a row? Depends on how much energy I see from the orange and blue in the first couple minutes of the basketball game. You’ll know by then if this Knick team wants to do what it takes to continue to win, or if they’re content with winning a couple before going back to sleep at the wheel.
