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newly signed knick Allan Houston in the 1994 dunk contest. not much vert even as a young lion but at least he got out there and tried.
…think he can still dunk now with the knees? i’m 99.99% sure his shot will still be there, but athletically, we’ll see where he is in the preseason.
Man, I am glad to see you guys poppin’ your collars on the blogosphere.
Now that we have been spread out into the blog diaspora by our inability to appreciate each others distinct views and different (but equally snarky) styles, it is hard for me to get a sense of what the Knicks blogging community is going to be like this season. As much as writing about Isiah and Stephon and the wacky world of the Knicks was fun, the real fun has been reading and fellowshipping with the community.
Truth is I don’t really give a fu*k about Walsh’s approach to the Knicks in terms of how much I will enjoy the season or not. I’ve gotten through the last two years of craziness with my friends, I can get through another messed up year.
But this is what I need to know; if I did a roll call, would I hear an echo or a chorus?
Yep, I’m trying to figure out how I’m scrolling (and how much) this season.
Holler.
My D’Antoni joint will be here (and about) by October 3rd before the first pre-season game.
KD, this layout is very nice.
Peace.
A couple of Heat notes and I should be out for the day:
From the Miami Herald
Dwyane Wade disputed a report in Newsday (N.Y.) that he would love to play for the Knicks and said he has a hunch he will remain with the Heat after he can opt out of his contract in summer 2010. ”That’s my goal,” Wade said, indicating he would love to retire as a Heat player.
The Newsday story ”was reported wrong,” Wade said Friday. “When they asked me about [Knicks coach] Mike D’Antoni, I said when I played with him in the Olympics, if it was between him and Nate McMillan, I love being on the court with him. Miami is where I want to be. If I say I like a city, people will say I want to be playing in that city. And that doesn’t mean that at all.”
Pat Riley consults Wade on personnel and Wade said, “I appreciate thatt’s his and Micky Arison’s team, and he doesn’t have to. To have that relationship with him means a lot.”
and
Spoelstra said he wants defense foremost from his starting point guard and then to ”organize the offense.” Who’s the best defender among Marcus Banks, Mario Chalmers and Chris Quinn? ”Marcus,” James Jones said.
Quinn, who’s proficient at setting up the offense and shot 40.3 percent from three-point range, said, “There is still a level of underestimation [of me] because of the way I look.”
Marbury playing defense in Miami?
lives,
don’t know about everyone else but i will still be active here, on hahn’s and jamal’s respective blogs.
check this out:
NBA power ranking over the past six years. can you predict where the Knicks fall in 30 teams?
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&page=PowerRankings0208
walsh had cancer surgery four days after the 2008 draft.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09282008/sports/knicks/knicks_prez_had_cancer_surgery_soon_afte_131041.htm
could he have been preoccupied leading up to the draft?
i’d really like to see gallinari play first before writing him off as a bust.
are people calling oden a bust right about now? he sat out the entire rookie season because he got off the couch wrong. gallo went toe-to-toe with tractor traylor, a guy that has threatened the career of a handful of nba players including all-star Tracy McGrady.
If he has back problems at 19……..that’s scary.He is turning into Q-Rich early.And now the D-League?Should have picked Gordon.
The NY Post:
“The chances of the Knicks’ first-round pick, Danilo Gallinari, making the rotation this season has been drastically reduced with official news the Italian Stallion could miss the entire preseason schedule.
Gallinari, still experiencing back pain, won’t participate in the weeklong training camp in Saratoga Springs featuring two-a-days, according to coach Mike D’Antoni. He said Gallinari could be “100 percent” late in camp, but probably will need time to get into playing shape.
“The way we play, a guy sitting for two months without running, I don’t want to do that to him,” D’Antoni said.
Gallinari could be a candidate for the Developmental League.”
KnicksD,
I too am enjoying this lay-out.Great job.Easy to read and follow the latest post.
Looking good!It’s good to have a place where you can skip rocks across the water instead of taking aim with them.Here’s a ripple for today.
From Lupica, Daily News,
“She, A.B.S., was asked about David Stern, the commissioner of the NBA who finally got Dolan in a chokehold and told him to pay Browne Sanders the money the jury had awarded her, the $6 million for a hostile work environment and the $5.6 million because Browne Sanders was fired after complaining about that work environment. The Garden was liable for $8.6 million of that and James L. Dolan was on the hook for the other $3 million, on the single most shameful day the place has ever had.
The question about Stern was this: In the year since had he ever contacted Browne Sanders, or done anything to indicate that he wanted her to get her career in the NBA back?
Anucha Browne Sanders laughed hard over the telephone and then said, “To do that, he’d have to actually admit that anybody did anything wrong at the Garden. He wasn’t interested in justice. He just wanted this to go away. He was just protecting his brand.”
It’s hard to believe Stern actually did civil rights work (Teaneck, NJ) early in his career and sending the NBA to China, a regime that echos chilling totalitarian principles (just loved the 2008 goose stepping storm troopers,!)was more than just a little “troubling”.Ask your wife David.Maybe putting down your contracts book and picking up the Better Book might bring on a little sanity.
Luke 11:45-52
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe to you.”
Luke 10:25-37
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
And who can forget good old, Genesis 2:15 stating The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden (Garden-sic) of Eden to work it and keep it.
Carry on big D.
Curry is in bad shape:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/sports/knicks/knicks_need_cheer_131197.htm
Knicks Sense Positive Change in the Air with D’Antoni in Charge
By Mike Slane, NYKnicks.com
A busy offseason has ended, and the New York Knicks are ready to run as they begin their first training camp under Head Coach Mike D’Antoni this morning in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
While their roster remains pretty much the same from last season, the Knicks are entering the 2008-09 campaign with the up-tempo offense that D’Antoni used to help his former team become one of the highest-scoring squads in the NBA over the past four seasons.
“I think we can do what we did in Phoenix — that same style but with different players,” said D’Antoni, whose Suns averaged 58 wins since 2004-05.
D’Antoni’s offensive system, which usually results in a shot in eight seconds or less, often leaves the opposition exhausted but can also wear out his own players. However, everyone from the established vets to the rookies has spent the summer preparing for the fast-paced game, and all of the Knicks are excited to be part of something new in New York.
Stephon Marbury, who was limited to just 24 games last season, claims to be in the best shape of his life as he enters camp under 200 pounds for the first time since high school.
“I knew what D’Antoni wanted,” said Marbury. “I knew his style. I knew he’s big on body weight and how heavy you are. In order to play this up-and-down style you have to be in shape, you have to be ready.
“It’s not going to be grinding it out, throwing the ball in the post. It’s going to be up and down, so physically I had to come into camp in shape.”
D’Antoni’s offense will allow every player on the court to touch the ball more and will prevent players from standing around and watching the play develop. It will also keep the younger players from thinking too much on the floor.
“The thing about the system is it gives you confidence because it doesn’t let you think about your mistakes,” said veteran guard Allan Houston, “so that’s why a lot of these guys will hopefully be able to thrive.”
One player who is expected to shine under D’Antoni is David Lee. The 6-foot-9 forward is often undersized in the four and five spots — despite averaging 8.9 rebounds off the bench last season — but he believes he can become a player similar to All-Stars Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion, who both excelled outside of their natural positions under D’Antoni.
“Did they play the four or five? Before they got Shaq you never knew that Amare was a four,” Lee said.
Lee spent the summer working out at the Knicks’ practice facility and has extended his shooting range to around 17 feet in order to better fit the offense.
“David’s jump shot has improved a lot,” said Houston, one of the best long-range shooters in Knicks history. “He has more consistency and confidence in his jumper, so you’ll see him pull the trigger a lot quicker this year — I’m going to make him if he doesn’t.”
Shooting guard Jamal Crawford, who led the team in scoring last season, dreamed about playing D’Antoni-style ball and hasn’t looked forward for a season this much since he entered training camp with the Bulls as a rookie in 2000.
“I can’t stop smiling,” Crawford said. “I always said that if I went to Phoenix I thought I’d be able to do some pretty special things. I guess in a way Phoenix came to me.”
Quentin Richardson is the only player on the Knicks’ roster who has played for D’Antoni in the past. He averaged 14.9 points with the Suns during the 2004-05 season and has seen first-hand how the offense will instantly help each player succeed.
“If we all share the ball, then we’ll have a chance to be good,” Richardson said. “If everybody touches the ball and is a part of the play, then everybody will feel good about themselves.”
Jerome James Lives!
Danilo Gallinari took the usual Jerome James posistion on the first day of training camp: courtside on a stationary bike. Meanwhile, Jerome ran the floor like he was chasing after the $12.8 million he stood to lose if he didn’t show up here ready to play.
“When it’s my time to hang it up, it’s my time to hang it up,” Jerome said after the morning workout. “But I just felt it wasn’t my time yet. When that time comes I’m going to do that, but right now it’s not my time.”
It was close. The 7-1 James admitted that he ballooned to as much as 347 pounds this summer. He attributed it to not being able to run from March until August. And that if he just looks at a Krispy Kreme . . .
“The body I got, if I work out, I lose weight like anything,” he said. “But if I take any time off it just pounces back on me.”
Thirty pounds of it pounced back off him since August, which means he’s still well over 300 but at least he can participate in actual drills. James looked good getting up and down in different up-tempo drills during the two-hour morning conditioning session. And despite his lumbering body, he feels like he can contribute in Mike D’Antoni’s high-octane system.
“It’s the same way we played in Seattle,” James said. “Whatever it took to get Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis open, I ran the floor and set picks. Block shots, defense.”
Speaking of Seattle, James said he has “something to prove to the people of New York. I want to let them know I am the Jerome James that played in Seattle and took care of business out there. I mean, I did my thing in Seattle.”
As for the injury problems that plagued his Knicks career: “I’m tired of getting hurt. So if I stay healthy, I’m going to play.”
He also might tear down a rim here at Skidmore College before the week is over. These are the type that shatter pretty easily.
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* – While James was the biggest early surprise of camp (literally), the first concern comes with the other Knicks big man who has had conditioning issues: Eddy Curry. He sat out the morning session because he’s battling with a virus that revealed itself with a fever on Monday night. D’Antoni admitted he was disappointed that Curry already missed a day, but then he added, “You know what, I heard he was throwing up and everything, so, it’s a great way to lose weight.”
* – One thing you immediately notice about Allan Houston is he doesn’t run with the gimp he had in his gait during his short comeback attempt last season. He runs fluidly, though doesn’t have a great burst of speed nor can he stop and pop on a dime. But he can shoot it. I don’t recall seeing him miss in the drills this morning.
* – Danny Grunfeld looks so much like his dad it’s amazing. I said to him, ‘Danny, all you need to do is grow the mustache.” He replied, “You want to hear something funny? I can’t grow one. It just doesn’t come in.”
Don’t mean to cut into the cumbaya over here but since I’ve been away from the bloggosphere due to a combination of maintenance on my laptop and work obligations, I didn’t want KnickD’s retort to me to go unanswered.
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A few weeks ago I put this comment up
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Somebody drinking too much hater aide.
Just let the damn past go!
By Orange and Blue on Sep 19, 2008 at 8:24 pm
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My comment was in response to KnicksD’s commentary on one of Lives post regarding an article about Isiah Thomas.
Although I understood the article posted by Lives as being an innocous post mortem and sumpathetic overture to Thomas the person as opposed to the Carictature that had been created over the course of the individuals tenure with the NY Knicks, KnicksD’s response while not directly stating so belied a hostility to former members of our now broadly dispersed blog family which IMHO was uncalled for. To that end my comment was merely an overture for KnicksD to let that ugly past between him and former fellow bloggers go. KnicksD seemed to take it as a challenge and perhaps understood my comments as being another one of the endless pro Isiah defenses that he might be apt to sweep with a broad brush to all who disagree with his interpretation of the prior regime.
KnicksD
As a fellow blogger who has sojourned with me and many others as blogfugees and who was gracious enought to provide many of us with an alternative- the first hit knicks indyblog project- I hold a good deal of respect for you. But with that said I was amongst many who felt a bit at odds with the schism that hit what I and many hoped would be a larger stronger community. Sadly for reasons best left unsaid between you and your rivals at the time that larger community wouldn’t last.
Many chose one blog or another, regretably. And some of us such as Lives, and myself have frequented both sides of the larger community of Knicksfans on both sides of the indyblog divide with the hopes of strengthening both blogs and hopefully putting past differences aside whatever they may be.
Yet some how I get the sense, and you may correct me if I’m wrong, that you still cling to some ill will for those who you agree to disagree with in a more civil manner.
Really that’s all well and good by why stink up your blog by references to people you percieve as rivals. It reduces the quality of your blog and you come across looking as if you are intolerant of bloggers who keep active tiees on both sides of the divide.
I believe you ought to be better than that.
Again, as a guest and fellow blogger I am gracious for the forum and the degree of effort you put into the enterprise-going as far as setting up a forum, which sadly goes underused- but I really think it’s time to put the past behind you.
Next submission will be a basketball related item.
Ciao!
DLT
Quotes from the article you put up.
It will also keep the younger players from thinking too much on the floor.
“The thing about the system is it gives you confidence because it doesn’t let you think about your mistakes,” said veteran guard Allan Houston, “so that’s why a lot of these guys will hopefully be able to thrive.”
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Interesting how much columnist and other spoke of how Danilo being a more cerebal high IQ player was perfect for this system, while Balkman who couldn’t think the game quickly enough would not have fit into the D’antoni system. So much F’n bullshyt.
Now the new system doesn’t require people to think to hard or long, as a matter of facts it doesn’t let one linger in thought. Actually that is perfect b/c any activity that is inculcated throught routine in which all members of the team commit to will likely build the chemistry that failed to exist last year that resulted from broken plays and pound the ball isos. But again IMHO Balkman was just a casualty of an unimaginative GM.
Watch out for my article on 2010 over at the democratic rebloglic of Fanatics!
O&B
Thanks for your words, but I’m going to be straight up with you, since you were straight up with me. Always feel free not to post here if you don’t like what is being written.
I will keep the link to the fanatics because i do from time to time read and admire (have always admired) some of the bloggers that post there.
And I have great appreciation for the people that choose to read and/or contribute to this blog. Comment #’s are valued, but unlike the newspaper blogs, I’m not in sales here. I’m also interested in expressing my own thoughts. That’s what we paid for when we bought our little website, our freedom to express. Check the record, the first thing I said on here was for everybody to get their own blog. I’m going to continue to speak my mind in my house. This is the reason most people start a blog to begin with.
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
–Bill Cosby
One way or another, I’ll see you around, O&B.
By the way, Isiah sucks and even Dolan finally realized it by bringing in Walsh and D’Antoni. A great number of Knicks fans rejoiced at that time, and for the record I was one of them. It feels good to write that, even if it alienates some of the readers. Isiah Thomas sucks and I’m glad he’s finally gone.
KnicksD
“By the way, Isiah sucks and even Dolan finally realized it by bringing in Walsh and D’Antoni. A great number of Knicks fans rejoiced at that time, and for the record I was one of them. It feels good to write that, even if it alienates some of the readers. Isiah Thomas sucks and I’m glad he’s finally gone.”
Boo hoo hoo… you really hurt my feelings. As if I care what you think about Zeke. But just to make it clear I’m indifferent over the whole Zeke tenure at this time. I try to look at it objectively, and acknowledges all his faults from my vantage point as much as I acknowledges his few meritorious decisions- drafting Lee and Thrill Will, and perhaps if Nilo develops having had a say in that episode.
Strangely enough familiarity with cherished voices is a force of habit. The houses we choose to abide have a spirit all their own perhaps stronger than their very makers.
Peace and Blessings