Knicks at Sixers
Check out the picture of Eddy Curry on the Knicks home page and tell me, that was the best they could do? That photo is very harsh.
The five guys that played outstanding team basketball last night: Nate Robinson, Jamal Crawford, Zach Randolph, Quentin Richardson (keep it up!), David Lee. that sounds like a starting five in the east to me, but with Eddy Curry reportedly on the market, look for Lee to continue to come off the bench since his production is basically independent of starting or coming off the bench.
Apparently nothing more happened between Nate and Zach after the drink/towel-throwing incident on the bench–winning can have that healing effect on a team.
I think Zach is starting to play better defense. He’s not going to block many shots, but he’s at least staying with his man and sometimes even forcing steals. Now if the knicks could just improve their zone… I won’t say it. There are 29 games left to play, and the Knicks are 16-37. just take it one game at a time.
D L T,
Desculpame, es mi nombre. You can always count on me to be steady and check me when/if I’m not.
KFLL
El chico que chupamos esta noche. ¡El llamamiento Ron Artest!!! ¡Vuelva a casa Hijo!
tuff nite ..
The San Antonio Spurs have reached agreement with the SuperSonics that will bring them center Kurt Thomas in exchange for guard Brent Barry, center Francisco Elson and a 2009 first-round draft pick, league sources said Wednesday
Defenders,
Tonight’s effort (or the lack thereof) smells funny to me. Sumnspicious going on tonite.
KFLL
did…umm…did Balkman just actually miss the rim – on a dunk attempt? looked like it caught all glass, he heard some boos while on his ass, i’m off to the kitchen to grab some Bass. =)
Kurt Thomas
WTF happened!!!??????
Somebody HELP us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m getting drunk tonight. How ’bout you?
KOBE VS SHAQ on Now!
Chupa para sernos esta noche! ¡Vivimos para luchar otro día! ¡Espero ASNO de Kobe de bustos de Shaq!
With the nature of this loss, I would assume that Monty fenna make a card trick. Just bloggin’ (unless I’m right).
KFLL
Actually, what i liked was a cutaway shot of Balkman sheepishly laughing while on his duff for a sec, ruefully shaking his head in the manner of a man who had a few too many last night, or was up till all hours of the morning with some strange, or who frankly just wasn’t quite focusing for a minute and screwed up, very publicly.
The nice thing was that it had a aspect of surprise to it, of foreignness, like he is not used to letting himself down. He then bounced up and grinned wolfishly and i think to myself – yet again – this guy is the key to the turnaround, he will improve MUCH faster if we play him in real NBA games, we have pissed away his development largely through Isiah panicking and giving the MLE to Jared Jeffries (i am still chuckling at the “giraffe on rollerskates” description of JJ, thanks to the OP, whoever that was).
well – that and his irrational committment to Q-Rich, NBA STARTING SMALL FORWARD.
next game fri .. Raptors at MSG …
The Sisters shoulda bottled what they drank tonite. Someone check the rims in Philly–56.5% form the field 46.2% from the 3pt line & 73.1% from the charity stripe. UNFNBELIEVABLE.
KFLL
Sixers had a real good nite …Knicks played a bad game.
Lives,
I’m the knucklehead that called O&P “Opie”….he knows why!!…
You can still come to Maryland if you like….we’ll throw back a few…lol
Nah Steady…
The Sisters had a heapin’ helpin’ of “no D” by our New York Knicks, and it’s already been bottled and passed around the league for all to enjoy…smh.
3:00pm tomorrow! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/19/AR2008021902548.html
Hey KD – you know what this blog needs? A Wiki! i’d love to check out the wiki page for ABS.
I’m in Germany for a week next month, did you know that the definitive German book of etiquette is the Knigge – (you pronounce the ‘k’)?
Why do i picture Peaceman in a Contintenal library, relaxing with a tiny porcelain cuppa tea in a casual grip, saying to his disapproving host, “Knigge? Please….”
tough loss. I thought we figured out how to beat this team but it turns out the one time we did beat them was a fluke. if it is a matter of them being tired from the OT last night, conditioning should not be a concern for this team 50 games into the season. the sixers also played last night…
just take it one game at a time. like syd said next game is friday. chandler did get to play a little.
watching the kansas state versus nebraska game right now.
not much happening so far, beasley is just starting to get going. he’s not impressing me the way that kevin durant impressed me this time last year. that guy was a force in college. maybe beasley will turn it on. he had 35 and 12 against this same team in november.
@ 121… Blogga Please! LOL
Hey Bronx, LMAO. If you buy the first round, I’ll let you convince me why “Opie” was appropriate for OB. But since I consider both you and O&B my boys, I’ll leave it alone after I buy the next two rounds. By then Opie won’t look so bad. You could have called him “Aunt Bee.” Plus didn’t Opie win a couple of Oscars and make that classic movie “Cocoon.”
Shoot. I’m checkin’ my schedule and I see that we’re not in DC anymore this year. I wish they would sneak into the playoffs, but it is extremely unlikely that they would ever see the Wizards even if both made it. So I guess I’ll have to check out the Force MDs at some other event.
Hey Steady, are you suggesting that they played like somebody is being traded tomorrow?
paulnoize, that sounds like an interesting project, let me know if you decide to make it.
Knicks really gotta learn to make their teammates better..they don’t move the ball enough.
Funny….Cheeks get an extension, and his team plays inspired ball….
Zeke gets an extension, and we lose 9 of the next 11….
Go figure…
Concur with post 105….this game had a strange feel from the beginning. Example….
At the point he would’ve taken Curry out for his uninspired play, he kept him in as if to illustrate the rationale behind his decision to sit him.
Don’t get me wrong..I’m not pinning this solely on Curry..that was just one example of the weirdness.
Tonite’s performance was a total team effort, or lack thereof.
GSW vs Celtics @ 10:30PM
Don’t hurt them too bad GSW!
Peace….good lookin’ out on that GS/Celts matchup.
Gonna definitely check that one out.
And I had a nap, too….shyt!!!!
haha – Shaq just juked three guys off the line on a free throw – this immediately after having a lane violation called on his free throw!
Hubie Brown with some good commentary on Raja Bell’s defense, that he plays very physical defense and challenges the refs on a nightly basis to call the fouls – and by extension, to call the fouls on both ends with relatively equal bias.
i been calling on Isiah to initiate a similar campaign on behalf of Eddy Curry & calls in the paint. Clearly Eddy, as an individual, has had a disproportionately HUGE NUMBER of bad calls on both ends of the floor this season, both home and away. Some significant minority percentage of his dropoff this season is attributable to this referee bias (not that i am endorsing the more extreme “O & B” method of evaluating refs, just sayin’), a fact that is rarely weighed during vitriolic anti-Eddy posts here on KD.
The thing is, if Isiah is permitted the freedom to MARKET things, presumably in a less restrictive work environment with looser MEDIA POLICIES, he could probably get a little story spun on ESPN, maybe even design a little graphic with room for updating stats for how many times Curry has fouled out in the first half, surrounded by alternating videos – call and response – showing Curry picking up ticky-tack fouls on one end, but getting mauled on the other on a very similar looking play with no foul called.
Such a campaign, even if shortlived, would likely integrate itself into the following season’s annual referee review process, and i suspect every call against Curry would be analyzed, and aggregate reports drawn. i think those reports would have pithy, straightforward recommendations. Maybe it’s only laying groundwork for the next man at this point, but Isiah needs to do this for the good of the franchise and the good of the kid.
This of course has to be coupled with shared promises between Isiah and Eddy that Eddy will play heavy minutes. Would such a promise earn any kind of additional commitment from “the Kid”? Any level of physical effort that Zeke hasn’t touched yet?
Is Isiah fired yet?
Steven A Smith just said to put the Carter and the 3 team proposal to bed.
He said he spoke with Thorn this afternoon and he said
“we haven’t even spoke to those teams”
Is that a lie?
Wasn’t it reported that there were discussions involving Zach and Carter?
I know for sure the Net’s have spoke to the Nets recently as every team or
almost every team has spoke to each other.
Wow….these guys lie right to the media’s face LOL.
I guess that’s what you got to do.
Great game for us tonight. Keep getting closer to that good draft position.
I’m watching Beasley now also knicksdefense.
I meant to say I’m sure the Nets have spoke to the Knicks.
Checking out Ron Artest. He just battled Al Horford for a rebound, ripped Acie Law and shot a 3-pointer. Not too many guys in the NBA can do that.
Give up Lee dammit!!!!!!!!!!!!!
are the knicks trying out for the CBA?
oh i forgot, ‘u know who’ ran the CBA to the ground.
D-league Finals here we come
Ron just ripped Joe Johnson.
I have no idea if the knicks are serious about making any trades before tomorrow’s deadline, but I’m going to make a guess that if somebody does get moved tomorrow it would be Curry or Lee. Probably nothing is going to happen though.
Just bloggin’
@ #135
Are you gettin’ in the truck or what?
Lives,
The Force MDs may make a special encore performance sans Bball. There’s an interesting debate/conference being organized at one of the flagship HBCUs to discuss the need to maintain/fund the HBCUs in the future. A couple of the MDs are proud graduates of the nation’s HBCU system and are invited to attend and to share their knowledge with the audience. If that activity strikes your fancy (though the HBCUs are mostly below the Mason-Dixon line), we can make sure you get the memo/script.
And yes, from my perspective, all the boys played with pre-trade jitters. Hell, this was a game in which IT should have begged an ejection early and pass the stick to Herb. Those tricks are reserved for the old school types (Nellie, Sloan, Riley, Knight, JVG).
KFLL
lakers phoenix game is a good one.
shaq showing signs of life after being declared dead in miami.
kobe and gasol playing very well together.
the west is going to be a dogfight now that all the strong teams have added another key player.
bell just got knocked out it seems.
shaq elbowed his own man in the head on accident. bell awoke and looked like he had a golf ball sticking out of his skull.
Kobe blocked Shaq’s shot????? I’m watching gamecast; can’t see the game.
Damn.
Steady,
What school is that?
Philadelphia 76ers crush sloppy New York Knicks 124-84
Sixers squash Knicks by whopping 40-point margin
Recap: Philadelphia vs. New York
76ers lay a beating on lowly Knicks
Re. #143–Howard U. Bronx went to Del State. Cooleyhigh was in school with Rick Mahorn (I believe). Let’s see if the schedules and lives intersect fopr those times and dates.
KFLL
Defense is just bloggin. Isiah’s just chucklin. Thomas is the enemy of Knicks fans.
He’s too lazy and unintelligent to accomplish anything, so he’s just loving force-feeding this to New York fans. Up the wrong hole.
He knows he’ll never have any success, so what the hell? He’ll settle for notoriety.
Steady,
The HBCU event might be something I can handle as a day trip. I love multi-tasking so the trip would serve several wonderful purposes for me, the most significant of which is to check you guys out. However, I have a very strong community and familial connection to the HCBU’s as my father was a Morehouse man, Mom attended Alcorn, my an aunt starred at Spelman, one of my Brothers graduated from Howard and a couple of my sisters blessed Fisk and Wilberforce. (Additionally, most of my High School friends were directed to Grambling and my interns have included a couple of Hampton Grads). And my life continues to be blessed by the HCBU’s, so one might say I am KNEE-DEEP in the history and system. Plus, if circumstances permit, I might turn it into a weekend family road trip since we have plenty of other friends in the area who deserve my wife’s and my personal attention. So give me a date or two. I will contact you offline, so we can make it happen. I look forward to it.
Hmmmmm, Boston losses 2 in a row. Veryyy, interesting.
Toronto beat up on Orlando. Are we next?
We dropped a game behind Philly and Jersey. We’re now at 8 back and fading.
Toronto wants both of these wins so they can avoid Cleveland in the first round. They would most certainly prefer Arenas and Jamison in the playoffs.
Philly is faking the funk, but with that kind of youth, they may overachieve. Marcus Williams wants the job and Thorn wanted to give it to him since last year. Devin Harris is a very nice addition, but why do I feel like he will not be a Net for very long. Maybe a Harris/Williams backcourt is a fantastic and scary combination. Maybe.
Wow, the Knicks look like Starbury was back in the vicinity. (LOL)(Hahaha).
Funny to see that the Spurs probably could’ve had Artest rather than Kurt Thomas for the same package of expiring contracts and a first round pick that pried Kurt loose. They chose Kurt over Ron Ron, and they must be right because they have won multiple championships. That boggles my mind.