Crawful down the stretch
They gave it away. The Knicks played a great game until the last few possessions. Two very costly turnovers with under three minutes remaining in the basketball game, and the gap between the 8th and final playoff spot, and the New York Knicks is further widened.
You win together as a team, and you lose together as a team, but if you saw the ending of this basketball game, you had to notice the veteran point guard leadership of the recently acquired Mike Bibby, and you simultaneously had to notice the errors committed in the Knicks’ back court.
2:11 remaining in the game: Knicks are up 91-90. Crawford’s bad pass is intercepted by the Hawks.
1:20 remaining: Knicks are still up 91-90. Crawford is called for an offensive foul off some good acting by an apparently still moving Mike Bibby. Indeed a bad call, but in your home building you get those calls some times in the NBA.
0:54 remaining: Knicks are down 91-92 because Bibby threw up an alley to the impressive Josh Smith. Back on offense, the Knicks make a play that swings the ball around the perimeter to a wide open Crawford for a baseline three point shot–no good. Perhaps someone else should have taken the shot since Crawford’s shooting was off tonight. That sounds familiar to me for some reason.
0:35 remaining: Crawford buys Bibby’s pump fake out on the perimeter, Bibby hits a wide open 20 footer to make it 91-94.
The ball game was essentially over at that point.
Zach was a beast tonight with 24p 15r 1bl, but when Quentin, Lee and Crawford combine from the floor to make just 14 of 43 shots (32%), it is no wonder the team that was able to execute down the stretch came out of Atlanta with a victory tonight. The Knicks are doing a better job limiting turnovers, but this time around, the few turnovers they did commit, unfortunately came during the most crucial part of the game.
In it ’til the clock goes 00.
KFLL
Repost…Repost…
AntiNYSports,
You ask “Why do I believe in this losing the way I do?”
Anti ….why don’t you believe?
I love my Knicks Anti…and as long as there is a chance
for the payoffs …No matter how small…I will covet that chance!
Let me ask you a SERIOUS question……. would you want to be
in a Hospital that says “Fuck this person…their Dead and don’t Know it.”
Lets get the family’s consent for transplant organs!
Or would you rather have your loved ones or yourself in such a Hospital that ignores the
over whelming odds and sees Life.. not the odds. against.. even though not blinded.. you go the extra mile
and don’t quit until GOD/Allah/ Buddah/ the Supreme being decides?????
I’ve seen Miracles …and one is worth 1000 negative outcomes!
The Knicks are my Family ….. While there is life I will always hold out hope
until the END! The Knicks still have Life and you ask me why I don’t KILL THEM?
Anti ..you take the easy way out, I’ll hang on till the last point, whistle, time out!
Hypothetically speaking whom amongst us would have you if their life depended on it vs My Postion?
Damn…. I’m Glad your not responsible for people’s lives…and BTW…the Meek shall not inherit
the EARTH! The Path of least resistance is always the easyest to walk upon! I don’t choose to walk
that down that PATH!
Damn Steady,
You really Know what’s GOOD!
Anti…this is for you! I hope it answers your question!\
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcjOD9UtVY&feature=related
Hold on my Orange and Blue Heart.
Peaceman,
Post #2
Com’on man—-IT’S NOT THAT SERIOUS—I’m don’t get my kicks from watching losing basketball—i just don’t!!!!
I like winning basket ball!!! I a wannabe screenwriter and I the story I’m doing now is basketball related…I noticed that I write better when the Knicks win, I get inspired by them. Great clutch shots, smooth winnings moves in the paint, tight, lock down defense on all parts of the court. Truly inspiring!!!!
Watch the Giants this season—TRULY INSPIRING!!!!
Watching the Knicks this season—TRULY HEARTBREAKING!!!!
Remember, I didn’t break it with Knicks, by their losing, they broke it up with me.
That why my boy MJ is singing the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laqaNAsmcF8
“I’m” (insert that 4 me—thanks!!!)
Let’s get this party started!!!!
2008 Mock Draft
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“For the NUMBER ONE PICK—-THE KNICKS PICK…” David Stern
You gotta believe!!!!
Lets get this party started!!!!
http://www.nbadraft.net/
2008 Mock Draft
Get those fuckin’ sing-a-long ping pong balls outta here. (LOL)
Ah, I see I was PWI last night. Talk abouot a new meaning for posting and toasting. Well another Knick opportunity bites the dust.
Hey Anti, if you want some real inspiration for your project you should check out C-Spans re-running of the State of Black America 2008 address. Dick Gregory, for the most part, will have you dying laughing. For some of the convo you could have been talking about the “State of the New York Knicks.”
“Clyde, it seems that Isiah doesn’t plan to put Beasley in the rotation this season. At some point after you have to believe that you give your number one pick an opportunity to help you win.”
“Yes Mike the Knicks seem to be inept filled with hostility and futility this 2008-2009 season. I don’t understand the reasoning behind not giving him some seasoning.”
The Knicks continue to have problems with the “End Game.” The problem is both execution and strategic. The focus on ending quarters with Jamal playing beat the clock is much lower percentage than continuing to pass the ball for a good-better shot.
Lee had a decent line last night, but man did he have problems in the fourth quarter.
I really like watching ZBO play. I also love that whoever has the ball at the point (Jeffries, Craw, Jones, Nate) they all refuse to give him the ball at the top of the arc when he comes to the perimeter. It cracks me up that he dares to pop out there to demand the ball. Zbo may or not be in the right mix, but that boy balls all the time. I didn’t get that nonsense about ZBo playing above the rim for the first time that Kenny watched the game. Please. The man always hustles — he simply does nto move as athletically as an Artest or Carter or McGrady, but he hustles.
O’k. I’m done yackin’ for the day. I was hoping for a win last night. I didn’t get it, but I still enjoyed my evening so it’s all good. I liked what I saw with Curry. He had a little of his dominance back. I hope he is around (on the court enough) to hack-up Minnie Mouse’s one dimensional dunk master. LGK.
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Lives,
Dick Gregory is funny and you know the book he wrote about his life called the “N” word!!!
He’s a deep comedian!!!! Very!!!!
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First off, no one should feel too defensive about believing good things will come from the Knicks this season. It’s an admirable quality/trait to continue to believe in the positive in the face of overwhelming negative “reality.”
It’s all good
). Expecting a string of wins (hell, expecting any win) from the Knicks, at this stage of their development, is hardly calling on the four horsemen.
There is rational belief and irrational belief. If it’s over something that doesn’t really affect your day-to-day life, I don’t think it matters a great deal which kind of belief it is (rational or otherwise) if it’s about something positive (we will ignore the annoying conundrum that wishing “positive” for the knicks will necessarily mean “negativity” for their opponents
Is it “rational” for someone stricken with a particularly deadly form of cancer to belieeve s/he’s gonna beat it? Possibly not, but who’s it gonna hurt? If it works out, the person gets to live! Nothin wrong with that.
So irrational belief in Knicks success this season is not a big deal, it’s not hurting anyone. Mebbe it’s like the kind of belief a mother might have in her troubled multiple-offender son, that he can work it out and be somethin one day. Nevermind that the odds say he’s likely to end up living out his life behind bars (and if he’s Black, the odds are scary enough as it is, just comin outta mama’s chute). No, nevermind them daunting odds, she is gonna BELIEVE that he will wind up a positive contributor some day anyway. Can’t hate her for that.
Sometimes you beat the nearly-100%-fatal cancer, sometimes the badass child winds up the famed civil rights lawyer. More often you wind up the losing side of the Alamo.
But at the end of the day, mebbe the real difference between the “they can still win it” camp and the rest lies in the idea of control/influence.
The mother crying over her wayward child might still have some influence over the behaviour. The deadly-cancer-stricken person has no choice, if he wants to live, but to believe he can win b/c the alternative is DEATH (setting aside the very real data that suggests mindset can have an effect on serious illness).
barkley and jordan in their playing days had a lot of control over what they did during a basketball game. But there is a very good reason why they are no where near as successful in gambling as they were in their basketball careers, despite their very confident, positive outlook on life. It is the reason why you have insurance for yourself and your family because belief that things will work out in the end is not always enough.
Lottos aside, strong and firm belief in positive outcomes is necessary to success, but it is not always sufficient. I’m not sure that belief in oneself should translate to belief in things/people/events over which you have little or zero control. There might be something to the “collective will/belief” idea but I’m not convinced it works all the time. Especially not when you’re dealing with an extremely stubbon owner and general manager/coach. Interventions don’t always work.
Froma Knicks fan perspective, we have little control over this gaggle of fragile egos. They have shown us time and time and time again that, collectively, taht they do not have the stuff this season to win more often than they lose. One game it’s a crawford brickfest, the next it’s a bad pass by Lee, in another it’s Curry’s lack of defensive jump, in some others it’s zeke’s coaching; sometimes it’s all those things, but it’s always somethin. The boat has too many little leaks and not enough fingers to plug them.
Now if you choose to ignore that “reality” and believe til the math lops off all possibility, that the Knicks can/will turn the ship around, then there’s nothin wrong with that. It just shouldn’t be the attitude that defines fandom.
Oprah has this one line that always stuck with me: whenever someone shows you who they are, believe them.
The Knicks and Obama are showing you who they are. BELIEVE THEM.
As always, jus’ bloggin. Good morning all.
p.s. i believe oprah got that line from maya angelou. credit where credit is due.
Interesting article, http://bleacherreport.com/articles/11101–Does_the_NBA_Really_Have_Playoffs_-260208
Here’s an interesting quote from Curry via Isola:
Curry was more direct about identifying the source of the Knicks’ problems; he blamed the media.
“The season could’ve gone very easily the other way if we stayed together a little bit and not let the media tear us apart,” Curry said. “I think we’re doing a good job right now of, keep fighting.”
Peaceman,
Re: # 3–I see it the same way you do in #2. You could have considered it a given because I am Steady.
ChuckFM,
Useful post. Great use of Dr. Angelou’s quote. The missing ingredient from your expose or “mini LAP” is EFFORT. The Bible calls it “Faith without works”. Very useful.
KFLL
Say…could someone look up the MSG schedule come around playoffs time? Blogzilla, here’s an assignment for ya: When is the Dog Show coming to town? What about Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey doing their schtick in da NYC? Following Lives’ Logic–Marketing Outpaces Player Moves–we can know how far off Monty and Magic were in their playoff card or is it Stern and Dolan who are really on-to-it or is it intuit? (ChuckFm might bite).
KFLL
yes Steady, I forgot to add “fighting spirit” (or effort) to go along with the right mindset. don’t think it changes my general gist, but i agree being a suck/wuss severely curtails the degree of success.
p.s. i’ve finally given up trying to figure out dolan. the man’s inscrutable.