Knicks Progress Report

Mike

With regard to my lottery plan, I hear your concerns and note them. But I tend to think that truly bad teams shouldn’t be denied picks to teams that are on the cusp of the playoffs. I guess that’s why I wouldn’t do an inverse order. But I hear you about rewarding competitiveness. To that end perhaps an inverse alotment of the ping pong balls I would have taken away from the notoriously excessive tank jobs. Maybe they could be alloted in an inverse order to the teams that were on the cusps of the playoffs. Hence the penalty would penalize excesive losing, losing streak of over 10, or notorious losing, streak of blowout losses, and would alot the ping pong balls penalized to teams that made a hard and honest effort to make the playoffs. Heck if your going to lose out on the big bag of ping pong balls to fall short of the playoffs, that team should be rewarded.

So in conclusion I like aspects of your inverse allotment idea. But I’d like to balance punishment for tanking and reward for playoff cusp competitiveness.

So here it is.

All items stated in my anti tanking bit remain.

The mercy rule remains, but is refined to provide relief to OT games that are competitive.

Ping Pong Balls taken from teams penalized, are alloted in an inverse order to the teams that competed and fell short of the playoff mark.

Plus there are ways to avoid losing ping pong balls enumerated in my plan.

Thanks Mike for your feedback.

You know there are so many ways to skin an Ainge, whoops I meant cat!

LOL!

Hey Jay Bee

Your bit and the Whiny Mark Sperman was classic and spoken like a true Defender.

Here’s an article you might like that puts the whole, I’ve been roughed up New York Roast Story in Perspective. It’s from Old Man Adamek’s Knicks Knacks Blog.

I got to give him props for his perspective and levity on Berman’s shenanigans. I’m actually starting the respect Adameck a bit- of course Hahn screwed that respect between blogger and beat writer thing up real bad.

January 23, 2008
Spies? Who knew?
Larry Brown accuses the Knicks of spying on him. Lindbergh baby kidnapped.

Film at 11.

Geez, in this You Tube/TMZ world, who doesn’t have spies?

It only seems like yesterday, but it was more than seven years ago when a reporter new to covering the team on the New Jersey side of the Hudson (that the mere mention of makes some Knick Knacks readers ill) scheduled a preseason one-on-one sitdown with their new coach, Byron Scott.

And as the reporter was called into Scott’s office, a now-departed Nets PR director strolled in behind him, closed the door and sat down.

The temptation to ask, “What the bleep are you doing here?” was resisted, primarily because of the influence of mass quantities of Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus.

But folks, there’s virtually no such thing as a “one-on-one” any more because there are people employed not only by the Knicks and other teams but other businesses to prevent that from happening, to make sure someone hears (or in the case if the Knicks, records on those personal “you’re never out of touch” devices) what their people say.

And to make sure it isn’t taken out of context, misquoted, etc.

It’s the way of the tabloid/paparazzi world and it’s understandable why it exists because of the lengths to which some in this business stretch or misrepresent the truth.

But it also paints everyone in the business with the same level of distrust and guess what that distrust breeds? More distrust.

And that can, inevitably, unconsciously color some of what you read.

It breeds things such as the tabloid writer’s column Wednesday about how he got roughed up by Garden security personnel. My guess is the people who read it (here’s a link to it if you need a good laugh: http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232008/sports/knicks/security_thugs_went_sic_o_on_me_279002.htm) might defend the Knicks spying on reporters and coaches and their other employees.

Including players, who hate it because they hate the distrust and because there are actually some players who, rather than being told in media training that all reporters want them to fail, actually trust them and don’t mind engaging in an actual dialogue with some of us _ sometimes about life, not sports.

But that isn’t allowed in too many places any more. Privacy in the public world is as past-tense as those Beta VCRs.

Like Larry Brown, we may be old-school here, but these days, as long as one of us can’t be trusted, then all of us aren’t, whether we like it or not.

Posted on January 23, 2008 at 03:40 PM | Permalink

Note: Philadelphia is 2-12 so far in 2008. Along the way getting drilled by Boston by 27 and the Lakers by 31. No press beatdowns over those though. Mostly competitive games but they seem to come up short in the end. Beware Philadelphia, objects in rear view mirror are closer than they appear.

We win this game and we’ll be one back of Philly. LGK!! GTWs!!

Check this out: http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf

Black and Blue – awesome post. This dysfucntional relationship between press & corporate policy hurts one entity more than any other: the fans.

Recognize who the enemy really is, rather than toss it to the mastubatory “MSM” fantasies fed to the sheeple.

I’m trying to show everyone that I’m no better then Larry Brown. Am I accomplishing that?