Half way through the season defenders and I won’t lie to you: it has been a tough season for the orange and blue. I want to know how everyone sees this going down, check out this survey and please take the time to be honest about these knicks.
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1999…the world said we would lose in the first round!!!!!
Did we????
BTW ..Jamison has 30 on whoever he wants!
If we would defend the perimeter and our coach set our rotation to match up with their starters, the Magic would not beat us. But that’s the problem: we don’t defend the perimeter and our coach does not match up our players against our opponents.
The versatility of our bench should be our greatest asset. We can play big, play small, play power game, play a spread offense, play a pick-pop. Against Orlando, Jeffries and Balkman should defend Lewis/European guy. But we don’t. We play Q against every 3, go down by 15, then have to recover. EVERY GAME.
He didn’t score 30 tonight.
I hear you Harlem In md…
but we don’t have the Horse’s to match Howard and Lewis!
We can’t play with the Pistons…who I believe are the most dangerous team
in the league come playoff time! We need to upgrade or go down in flames!
We will beat the 76′s, Pacers, Nets, Bobcats, Heats, Bucks, ATL’s
which will bring us a playoff seed…. thats a start!
Build from there! Why wait??? For What?
Why not?
I’d play Jeffries/Balkman against Lewis
I’d play Curry/James against Howard (yep, James)
I’d play Quentin against Maurice Evans
We are not getting scoring from Q. We are fooling nobody with his “deep shot” ability. We should go with the better defensive players. Our scorers are Crawford and Zach, with Curry as a 3rd option.
We should alter our lineup against the great teams EVERY NIGHT. The idea of having a set starting case is old and played out. NO ONE ON THIS TEAM DESERVES GUARANTEED STARTER’S ROLE.
Peace, are you serious? Atlanta? Milwaukee? 76ers made us look like trash two nights in a row! Atlanta has serious talent at every position! Bobcats guard (Felton) is a very good PG! The Nets will improve when the center returns (can’t remember his name). MIKE DUNLEAVY scored 36 on us!!
Flexible starting lineup (hot players and matchup according to opponent) and the best 5 that night finishes the game. Like high school.
That’s how we should play in the second half.
Harlem….The Nets are more done than Britney Spears geting
her own talk show!!!! We suck! What is so hard to understand we need a change while
we have 41 games left????? CURRY AND JAMES???? You have got to be fucking kidding me!!!!!
They couldn’t guard the LIBERTY!!!!!!!
Against Howard, they would not have to do much other than keeping their bodies on him when the ball goes up. Keep him off the boards. Hack-a-Howard. 11 fouls (6 for James).
That style of play got Chicago their championships.
As long as the Nets have Kidd, they have a chance.
Speaking of LIBERTY Peaceman,are you at liberty to divulge this pertinent piece of 411??? If not,when will this event occur approximately???
I would most definitely make a trade this season and not necessarily for a playoff berth. We have to see what these guys can do before next season so that we don’t start out like we did this season. If the Knicks had gotten Zach at last year’s trade deadline we would have saw that it would not have worked out with Curry and we could have fixed that in the offseason instead of having Curry get hurt during the preseason and him never getting to run with Zach until the first few real games. Also it would keep fan interest the rest of the way.
I don’t think that trades will screw up our nice draft position because it’ll take a while to wipe this lazy-no defense culture from this team. I say get Dalembert, a veteran point and Artest if he comes cheap (if not wait until he ops out and go for a sign and trade) and then draft a young point to lead us into the future. What will happen is the new guys combined with the holdovers will get some burn together and go into the offseason motivated to not be a loser next season. This would remove the getting to know you phase, like Zach was when the season started, see him now and you can tell he’s thinking “I’m not having this losing shit” and I’m sure he knows who the dogs are. That takes time, we can’t afford a messy transition to begin next season.
Defenders,
So far, it’s ALL on IT+Zeke=Monty folks. He’s the F’n CULPRIT. He brought in all the players and now he’s mis-managing their time and not developing their skills (FREE CHANDLER/MARDY/MORRIS). Everyone in the gym knows what we run. Z-bo on the high left post. Puffy on the DL post. JChuck mano a mano, and Q for a J from time to time–mostly off. Biff (from Long Island with that sweater tied around his neck) knows the play every single time. Marbury challenged that predictability and Monty said, “I did it my way” and “since you never did it (win a ship) then you can sit”. So Steph comes up with bone spurs and a bruised ego. The latter gets him bought out or leavin’ on the midnight train to Georgia/Italy/wherevuh. Those so willing to throw Steph under the bus, train or out of NY saying that “Marbury is a cancer” should check their closets for the Veil of Hypocrates. It will be ironic to see the Marbury redux and glorified revisionism a la the Big Fella in 10 years. (Keen observation Modi MD)
I’m not a Starburyfan and the Starbury Snapple never made it to the shelves. I’m Steady and I read and recall. The culprit shall sit. Being made to lose make you eat your innards. Marbury was useful in the fight against the HOF ABS backstabber. He’s no longer Monty’s pawn or rook in the MSG corporate politrix. Monty appears to be winning this round too. At the end of the day, God hates ugly and judges all. He will reveal to us all FANS and Defenders for once and for all, that the culprit shall sit. And when you walk into that gym, if you start out coveting the other team’s 6’10 stud that can finish with authority and block shots like a warrior with war paint, then as a throwback, I say you should have stayed on the team bus and listen to the radio play-by-play. You go to war with what you’ve got. In the end, Steady as IT goes and we don’t achieve the playoffs (deep), then I will state through my fanhood that Monty is the culprit and shall sit on another team’s charter or go back to poppin’ corn.
JUST BLOGGIN’
KFLL
George M, Don’t be an asshole!
411???? WTF? Lives in Jersey met this insider, at a Knick game with me!
I can’t divulge shit, becuase I wasn’t told shit! I was just updated on the Skinny
of speculation coming from an inside source, inside MSG!!!!!
Steady,
Marbury was the worst defense witness since Mark Furman!
He laughed and boasted of his conquest of an intern, while being a married man!
If that was usefull, Baggdad Bob won the Iraq war!!!!! Saddam is in hideing!!!
Easy Peaceman,I hear ya.I hope this is Artest coming to us on the cheap!!!!!!!!
Peaceman,
I’m convinced that you’re a thinkin’ man and a NYer no doubt. Do you think that Marbury was the only married man who did that NY Knicks intern? By “did” I mean have consensual sex, falatio, etc. Just bloggin’.
How would you rate Marbury’s testimony compared to JimmyD’s and/or IT’s? Who got the most flack from the MSMs/public opinion? Wo/Men have been doing interns (though not condoning it by any means) since time memorial. In the grand scheme of things, that whole experience was useless and a travesty of justice. The intern was a victim of her judgement and ABS.
I know what happened to Saddam after he was painted as a villain and linked (disingenuously) to 9/11. The Veil of Hypocrates unfurled because those painting him villain considered him useful once and even helped him rise to power. So if the same fate should happen to Marbury through the same reasoning and link you make here (considering that I strecthed to connect your pieces of logic) then it will be what it will be. And me, I will always be Steady–no more, no less.
KFLL
Randolph Morris is a stiff. He’s Jackie Butler Lite and will be playing overseas next year, if he can even make a club in Tel Aviv or Athens or Istanbul. Please, stop mentioning him as a potential asset in trade talks or as a potential rotation player. Isiah had nothing to lose by signing him, i like the aggressiveness or due diligence of the gamble, but the party is over. Please, everyone, just stop.
The one part of the Shaq analysis that got no play (and i know us DEFENDERS have squeezed almost all the juice over this fantasy over OTP) is that Isiah is far more likely to make a short-term, short-sighted move NOW than ever before. He needs to save his job NOW, not look good in hindsight three years from now when he is unemployed. That is what scares me, which i know is the setiment behind HarleminMD’s comment “Why make a trade now?”. Of course the knee jerk reaction to the rhetorical question is: How many losing seasons in a row should we suffer through before making a deal? Eight? Ten? Twenty? How bad do things have to get around here before the continuity and chemistry part of the equation pale in comparison to simply swapping out the collection of stiffz, suckaz and never-were’s for a new collection of misfits? (you know, kinda like zeke did with layden’s motley crew?)
Peace, i know it had to kill you to agree with me on a post, so i will get back to fisticuffs and throw a jab out there…..i think it is wrong to criticize Marbs for his truck testimony when you would almost certainly criticize him just as harshly for perjury. He told the truth….a banal truth that exposed him further as a style over substance man, but the truth nonetheless.
i tried telling y’all that paying a guy $20M to shepherd a non-contender and provide salary cap relief 12 months later simply DON’T PLAY in Philly. They will not do it. That’s rich people thinking. “Salary cap relief” is a term which applies when the player is already in his expiring year, not the season BEFORE the expiring year. Not all owners are as insane as Dolan & Paul Allen! Besides, Philly would absolutely insist that the Knicks 1st rounder be included in the deal – not a swap of picks, they won’t send one back, they’d just be jackin the pick for a guy who simply makes a LOT of dumb decisions between the lines. Nice enough guy, good attitude, but he plays hoops like a passionate volleyball player, he has little to no feel for the game other than blocking shots.
Besides, buzz around here (yeah, i live down near Philly now – Jersey side of course) is that they are NOT shopping Dalembert. There are only a handful of shotblockers in the league, it sure ain’t easy to find one. Sure isn’t one in free agency this offseason, or in the draft. Look at the Knicks if you don’t believe me – in the past twenty years, who have we had that could block shots besides our franchise player & Marcus Camby? No one.
Steady, Saddam didn’t need no painting…..he was a bad Muslim and a bad man. Fake ass gangsta. Better analogies out there for Steph than that. Full disclosure: i never supported the war in Iraq, but that’s what happens when you elect evangelicals who believe in the End of Days (any day now, honest!) to the highest office in the land.
i am extremely excited that we will explore Nate’s potential though. We need to figure out one way or the other….wheat, or chaff? This excitement almost equals my sincere disappointment in the continuing mystery surrounding the potential of David Lee and Renaldo Balkman. We will enter next season just not knowing yet whether they are legit NBA starters, or just high energy guys who skated by on a horrible team their first couple years in the bigs, before anyone truly gave a shit or scouted or gameplanned against them. That is a sin. Chandler? let him sit. It’s good for scorers to sit their first year, it tempers their steel a bit and whets their appetite for hard work. i bet Chandler works HARD this offseason!
George, Artest and cheap have been in the same sentence for too long. The man is looking at his last real contract, and he wants to make up for being underpaid for the sum total of his career. i can’t say i blame him, either. i can’t say i blame the Maloofs for not dealing him, either…..sometimes when you get offered ten cents on the dollar and there are no other offers out there, the best thing to do is to swallow hard and raise your middle finger in spite. Plus, they retain the rights to a sign and trade, when i bet the offers start to flow a little better than they are now.
Marzak, great post, but i think we will go into next season with a messy transition. i think we will stand pat, but i don’t think we’ll know much more about our guys than we do right at this very moment (except for Nate, who will either Blossom or Be Exposed As A Gimmick).
Harlem, “best matchup against an opponent” is so subjective though when we have such one dimensional players. Do you start Fred Jones over Nate against Boston to “D” up Ray Allen better, or start N8 & Jamal to make Jesus Shuttlesworth play some defense? Do you play Curry against Ilgauskas because he can match size, or Lee & Z-Bo because they will be more active? It’s al in the eyes of the beholder…..i do have a soft spot for the Knicks teams from the early 80′s because that’s when i became a fan of the Knicks. i didn’t care about W’s and L’s back then, i just wanted to see if my boys would play well or play poorly. i wish i could rediscover that mindset, but it is hard for me. Others in this blog acheive that way of thinking rather gracefully, and i commend you for having gentle and relatively tranquil souls for it.
Midterm exam: Questions facing every NBA team
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/7709580?CMP=OTC-K9B140813162&ATT=73
SECURITY THUGS WENT SIC-O ON ME
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232008/sports/knicks/security_thugs_went_sic_o_on_me_279002.htm
Eddy Curry is a happy man…
See why:http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=6056012&ch=4226713&src=news
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@ Steady and Paulnoize,
I believe that jury which sat in on the ABS trial was predominately female!
At least Marbury could of been a better Nothing But Actor and at least showed some
remorse instead of laughing and being arrogent! This was a guy who was susposed to
repent because he found God!!!!!!
from Hoopsworld.Com:
“Isiah And The Knicks: There is no logical explanation for the Knicks – or for Isiah Thomas for that matter. At least four Knicks players confided off the record how much they really liked Isiah as a coach, and they were shocked at how badly he’s been villianized in the press. This was asked off the record in an attempt to get an honest answer, and even after some “Come on, you’re kidding” jokes, away from the watchful eyes of Knicks staffers, the answer stayed the same. Sure the Knicks stink on the floor, but it seems that Isiah is keeping his job because several players have lobbied for him to stay on – that’s shocking isn’t it? The word from inside the team is James Dolan has finally arrived at the same conclusion the rest of us did more than two months ago – Isiah has got to go – but again there seems to be no urgency in making that happen. An informed source near the Knicks said several weeks ago that the 20 loss mark would be when changes would be seriously considered – that mark was reached last week. The Knicks would have to go 32-15 in their remaining 47 games to reach .500 and make the playoffs. That just doesn’t seem in the realm of possibility. The holdup according to a league source is simply that the Dolans are shelling out millions upon millions to fired and paid off employees and players that the team simply doesn’t see how eating Isiah’s deal and paying someone to replace him makes the team better- almost as if to say “if we’re gonna suck, why pay for it…” There may be some truth there. “
@Paulnoize…27-13 will get a 7 or 8th seed in the East!
Hell, this year maybe a 37 win team will get in?????
Isiah Thomas still has faith Knicks can reach the playoffs Thursday
January 24, 2008
BY STEVE ADAMEKSTAFF WRITER GREENBURGH, N.Y.
Amid all the Big Blue Super Bowl hullabaloo, it might take the spies Larry Brown accuses the Knicks of siccing on him to unearth the following fact:
Isiah Thomas’ Knicks are about to embark on the second half of their season after going 13-28 the first half amid a hullabaloo of a different sort — a plethora of off-court issues involving Anucha Browne Sanders, Stephon Marbury and Thomas’ job status, to name just three.
Against that backdrop, Brown’s soon-to-be-published accusations that the Knicks spied on him during his one-season tenure seemed routine Wednesday, with Thomas tap-dancing around questions about them.
“I don’t think we need to revisit any of that,” the Knicks’ president-coach said — with the same public relations sidekick alongside him who used to shadow Brown during his lone, 23-59 season in New York.
Thomas did revisit his notion that this season is still about winning games and making a playoff run, not developing players for the future.
Considering how short his future with the Knicks might be, it’s probably the only philosophy he can espouse to save that future.
Yet, for what might be called the Knicks A.M (After Marbury) Era, he’s clearly hammered two statistics into his players that support the contention that they can still salvage this season:
They’ve won five of their last seven. Plus, only five games in the loss column separated them from the East’s final playoff spot as play began Wednesday.
“The East is so wide-open,” Jamal Crawford said. “If we were in the West, we [might] be in trouble.”
The math says that if the .452 winning percentage with which Indiana owned the East’s eighth spot entering Wednesday is good enough to make the playoffs, then winning 37 games will do it.
To win 37, the Knicks must go 24-17 in the second half — with 23 games left on the road (where they’re 4-14 and make a five-game Western trip next week) compared to just 18 home games.
For the record, too, 36 victories were good enough for Boston to make the postseason in 2004, the last time the Knicks made it (with 39).
Thomas cited his 2000-01 season coaching Indiana as an example of what could happen, how the Pacers produced a seven-game winning streak (part of an 8-1 finishing kick) to make the playoffs — although he didn’t say they made it by five games.
“We’ve fought hard to try to get back in the race a little bit for a playoff position,” he said. “If [we] keep playing the way [we're] playing and keep fighting the way [we're] fighting, you never know what’s going to happen.”
However, making it also means leapfrogging the five teams ahead of the Knicks that aren’t in the East’s top eight, including Friday’s opponent, Philadelphia, which swept a home-and-home set earlier this season.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Amid all the Big Blue Super Bowl hullabaloo, it might take the spies Larry Brown accuses the Knicks of siccing on him to unearth the following fact:
Isiah Thomas’ Knicks are about to embark on the second half of their season after going 13-28 the first half amid a hullabaloo of a different sort — a plethora of off-court issues involving Anucha Browne Sanders, Stephon Marbury and Thomas’ job status, to name just three.
Against that backdrop, Brown’s soon-to-be-published accusations that the Knicks spied on him during his one-season tenure seemed routine Wednesday, with Thomas tap-dancing around questions about them.
“I don’t think we need to revisit any of that,” the Knicks’ president-coach said — with the same public relations sidekick alongside him who used to shadow Brown during his lone, 23-59 season in New York.
Thomas did revisit his notion that this season is still about winning games and making a playoff run, not developing players for the future.
Considering how short his future with the Knicks might be, it’s probably the only philosophy he can espouse to save that future.
Yet, for what might be called the Knicks A.M (After Marbury) Era, he’s clearly hammered two statistics into his players that support the contention that they can still salvage this season:
They’ve won five of their last seven. Plus, only five games in the loss column separated them from the East’s final playoff spot as play began Wednesday.
“The East is so wide-open,” Jamal Crawford said. “If we were in the West, we [might] be in trouble.”
The math says that if the .452 winning percentage with which Indiana owned the East’s eighth spot entering Wednesday is good enough to make the playoffs, then winning 37 games will do it.
To win 37, the Knicks must go 24-17 in the second half — with 23 games left on the road (where they’re 4-14 and make a five-game Western trip next week) compared to just 18 home games.
For the record, too, 36 victories were good enough for Boston to make the postseason in 2004, the last time the Knicks made it (with 39).
Thomas cited his 2000-01 season coaching Indiana as an example of what could happen, how the Pacers produced a seven-game winning streak (part of an 8-1 finishing kick) to make the playoffs — although he didn’t say they made it by five games.
“We’ve fought hard to try to get back in the race a little bit for a playoff position,” he said. “If [we] keep playing the way [we're] playing and keep fighting the way [we're] fighting, you never know what’s going to happen.”
However, making it also means leapfrogging the five teams ahead of the Knicks that aren’t in the East’s top eight, including Friday’s opponent, Philadelphia, which swept a home-and-home set earlier this season.
Paulnoize
If a blowup means that Grunwald will run the asylum and trade whatever young player on the Knicks that still have value and potential to be part of a contender down the line for garbage, then I say fuck that.
No problems with trading Curry even if we get less for him but hopefully the contracts in return are short.
Same goes with Marbury, and Malik’s expiring contracts, which still might net us some player of value in return, since the will be on their last year come the off season.
PaulNoize,
Why PaulNoize, some noteworthy news right, buddy! Thanks and a quick read at that. Right now I reading(danx Syd) some of the old reads from the NY Times on the Giants road to the Super Bowl. Nice read—if your guys get the time. It’s nice to read the articles as it progressed to bigger and better games—and now the SUPER BOWL!!!!
I’m Jazzed, man!!!!
Let GO Giants!!!
Favre and Randy Moss better know what team they facing and be ready, because these Giants are for Real!!!
According to this funny man from Africa—he Knew the Giants would beat the Packers, because he said it!
Sorry, not you African!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=izArWUVtMC4
berman got jumped by MSG security. reporters no longer allowed in MSG rotunda.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232008/sports/knicks/security_thugs_went_sic_o_on_me_279002.htm
James Dolan thinks he’s Napoleon. Nobody can tell the dork anything, he answers to no one.
Steady, @65…..
Not in a million years will Marbury be revered here like Ewing. Not a prayer of that happening. What has Marbury brought to this team besides a scowel and a bad attitude ? He will not resurect his career on someone elses dime after this contract. I thought coming home would finally be the thing that puts it all together for Steph. He doesn’t get the “TEAM” concept and he just never will.
I liked the idea of Berman getting jumped. I don’t think he actually got jumped however. It seemed more like he was physically restrained from giving another wannabe his 15 minutes of fame for heckling.
Now Berman getting stomped out by MSG security? That’s a video I would pay to see. Pay per view baybeeeeee!!!
For 300+ million you don’t have to answer to anyone in your building KD. If it were me spending that kind of money on a team, I’d have a bottomless pit like on the movie 300 to kick reporters, Joeyvworks attention seekers and hecklers into.
Good Afternoon Defenders
Does anyone have Ron Artest’s cell number?
If so, please tell him to get his butt to New York for the game Friday(we will work out the details later)
Zeke is STILL talking playoffs.So we need his help.
PLAYOFFS?…….don’t talk to me about PLAYOFFS…..PLAYOFFS are you kidding me?PLAYOFFS?
Peaceman,
Now I know what Les Brown is doing. Did you say 27-13!!! Brown is Blogging under the Peaceman moniker.
Your optimism is admirable. I wish the guys on the team Believed and had the Will to obtain 27-13, I doubt that they do.
Peace & Blessings
Andre Iguodala:”I want to make an impact on both ends of the court”. Article
We can’t get EC to impact ONE end.
Peace:
Which end of the Eddie/Calvin slide does Nate reside on?
Ready to eat some stewed crow?
That was meant for Statesman. Not Peaceman.
I have a sure fire way to make Eddie and even (sit down for this one) Jerome James more active on the glass !!!! Paint a donut or burger on the ball and then EChunky and Big Snaxx will go up and get it. I don’t mind a few teeth marks on the rock as long as we get the rebound. Problem solved !!!!
#83 @ JayBee, I like the sound of the That…… Reporters are nothing other than selective gossip columnist … creating stories and calling our team names ‘titanic’ for one (ny post)…. Yet not one ever called for the firing of Larry Brown, even though he took our team to a new low.
AF-RI-CAN
Peace & Blessings
N8 the Shoot-First point guard, over the last 5 games, has averaged 13.2 shots/game in 29 minutes.
Step is probably going, WTF?
N8′s Gunslinger approach reminds me of Earl Boykins, not Calvin Murphy.
N8′s INABILITY to FEED the Post, makes him a liability for this team.as HarlemMD pointed
out against the Wiz & other games, “The Bigs Posted, but N8 Hosted”-Clyde
You say Zach stops the Offense, I say N8 has one offensive play,-”His”
Your man N8 on a Winning team is a 10-15 minute guy. Not the Point-Guard for the Future.
Peace & Blessings
AF-RI-CAN,
Are you ready to eat CROW on saying Curry reminds you of Shaq? Or will you continue to HIDE behind
the I never said that LIE?
You can ALWAYS cover yourself w/ a NUANCE. State that you were referring to this Year’s version
of Shaq. Or you can say it depends on your definition of “REMINDS”?
Always have a “NUANCE” to fall back on. You never know WHEN it may be needed.
Peace & Blessings
Just bloggin’ covers us all Statesman.
Glad to see you’ve reunited Peace and Blessings.
KFLL
New Poll!
The idiot posting on the last Blog as Zeke is:
A. Drossman
B. Mak
C. Mark
D. Darren
Please get your votes in!
I vote “C”. It’s definitely that queer Mark.
BTW,I’ve noticed that we’ve won 5 of our last 7 games and the jokes about our team is increasing.Hmmmmmm????? Strange.I wonder if we would 10 in a row would there be even more jokes???
LOL George M.
Black & Blue–I agree with your feeling, that tanking is a problem. But penalizing teams simply for losing may not be the way to go. Sometimes teams just suck. I don’t think Riles is trying to lose right now. Hell, on this plan, you might have some teams owing ping pong balls back to the mixer. I think making the lottery flat–no difference between last in the league and just out of the playoffs–or, making the odds inverse. In other words, out of the fifteen lottery teams, the worst team has the 15th-best chance to land the top pick, the second-worst has the 14th-best chance, and so on. The team that just barely misses the playoffs has the best lottery chance. This rewards teams for trying to make the playoffs, and doesn’t involve the subjective problem of teams just sucking and losing many in a row, versus a team trying to tank.
Hey Peaceman: good to see you have a sense of humor.I read on another blog that J.Crawford was on ESPN telling people to strap their belts on because we’re going to the playoffs.Wishful thinking on my part but,Coach Fudd still doesn’t seem to want to break up Z-Bo/Edwina combo.I mean for 10 min a game in the right small ball situation,absolutely.However,these 2 lowpost scorers need new frontcourt mates in my opinion.So as an optimistic fan,I’m still a bit pessimistic.Coach Fudd’s rotation and substitution patterns have made me this way even though we’ve won 5 of our last 7.We still have half a season to go and the deadline is a month away,I hope your insider Peaceman knows what’s good!!!!
Mike,
Re. #98–Logical and sensible. This approach even deals with the NB Actor phenomenon. Not sure it does anything to shirk the Lone Rogue Ref. Just Bloggin.
Still, useful post.
KFLL
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