I’ve heard it before
“It’s uncanny how he shoots the basketball,” D’Antoni said. “It’s ridiculous. Everything that goes up, you know it’s going in.”
He’s talking about Allan Houston. The last person to speak of Houston with such glow? Rudy T. when he was coaching the 2000 Team USA that brought home the gold (same team with Vince Carter jumping over 7′2″ Fred Weis).
The difference of course being that Houston has leg problems now at 37 that he did not have at 29 on Team USA. Those must have been great times for Houston, going from the Finals appearance in 1999 to the gold medal in 2000. I believe he had a child shortly after the Olympics as well.
If D’Antoni is bright enough he may be able to use Houston the way some of these career spot-up shooters like Craig Hodges, Steve Kerr, Dennis Scott were able to contribute in such a one-dimensional way.
knicks getting metropolitan under the influence of italians mike d’antoni and danilo gallinari, going as a team for coffee.
http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/125206/knicks-sighting-in-downtown-saratoga/Default.aspx
http://iptv.nyknicks.com/nyknicks/console?type=fvod&id=543&catid=4
since when is David Lee a center?. As far as I know, he’s in between a small forward and a power forward.
I really, really hope Alan Houston makes the team.There’s a real feel good moment for Jimmy D, his friend, and the thousands of over the hill geezers like myself who like to dream, “If only it were me!”.After all why give a young guy like Roberson who’s busted his ass for several years to get this opportunity his chance.After all, realistically speaking, where is this team going?If we win 5 to 10 more games we’ll be a giant freakin’ success story, so why not add on a Mr. Feel Good chapter for a gullible public that is willing to buy the return of Patrick Ewing be it in a younger smaller less talented package.It seems to have worked out well for the Dolans?While we’re beating this drum,someone needs to remind me why we sent one of our hardest running, defensive minded forwards to Denver when our objective is to run more.Is filling a lane that complicated?Let’s sum this up: you want to sign a 37 year old shooter who might last one more year to replace a young gun with 3 years of solid NBA experience, you traded away a 3 year player, Balkman, who’s sin was to hustle every play on both ends of the floor for a rookie with the right last name, no experience and a narrow skills set and then you drafted a Euro in the 1st round with a back that may probably need surgury.Oh yeah, and last, the nice chubby guy you were counting on and you asked to lose a few pounds apparently blew you off.What other tricks you have in the hat, silly wabbit?LGK
Roberson had a few good games in Vegas. Besides the summer pro league, I didn’t know of the guy. I know he DID NOT run the point in Vegas for the Knicks. He didn’t even show any ability to pass or bring the ball up in any capacity despite being closer to the size of a nba point guard than that of a legit shooting guard.
If this is a young man’s game (obviously it is) then Roberson might be more valuable now and down the road.
But if you’re talking about needing an outside threat in a system that features outside threats, Allan Houston was and probably still is one of the best in the business.
Can Allan Houston play a lick of defense? No. Not at 37, not at any juncture in his career. But unfortunately, Mike D does not seem to put much stock in defense in the first place, so it is in fact a coin toss between he and roberson.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/sports/basketball/02knicks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Roberson looks like Starks but when you watch him play you only wish we had Starks.
He can shoot the ball but he also shots mad blanks as vegas drew to a close.
A message to David Lee and Mr.Balkman, exiled to Denver,
” Dwight Howard worked hard this summer — first at the Olympics with Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer and later in Orlando with assistant coach Patrick Ewing — on adding a turn-around jumper and a short, faceup shot to his offensive repertoire.
And Howard wasted little time showing off his offseason work, hitting a couple of midrange shots in Tuesday’s first practice to the surprise of his teammates and coaches.
“I’ve just got to keep shooting them and know that I’m going to miss some and make some,” Howard said. “During the real games, I’ve got to shoot them, too. Even during a real game, even if I miss 20, I’ve got to shoot them.
“There’s a lot of stuff that I’ve in my game had for a long time, but sometimes I just want to tear the rim down with dunks. But one day I’m not going to be 22. I’ve got to work on my game and come up with some other stuff.”
“You guys paying attention?
Tman
Priceless posting!
It’s a shame we don’t have Patrick Ewing Senior here motivating the woefully undermotivated Curry to step his game up. But at this juncture I see Curry as a player who hides from challenges. Could have stepped up last year to contribute rebouding, shotblocking, and a defensive/enforcer presence. Ran from that boat and regressed. This year a system that will tax a player physically by requiring that they condition themselves into on court gazelles, yet Curry is still not in game shape and probrably is missing the boat on immersing himself in the democratic free for all that is the chance to be a starting or prominent rotation player in the Mike D’antoi era.
What a freakin waste!
On another note this is cut and past from the Fanatics where I am replying to one of your other gems Tman.
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Sorry I’m on a roll, …
I agree with Tman regardin Z-Bo the hero and Starbury. If both of these two players come into this season positively motivated, whatever be that source, and can contribute… I say they should play and get significant minutes.
Why?
Well if the teams performance is gravates towards the flow of the system and what it can provide to all involved a negative personality might better be isolated from contaminating the rest of the team on the court. To that end it, while it might be a good marketing strategy to get Steph and Zach burn on the regular to showcase them for future trade possibilities, it might not be a good idea to have those two same strong personalities on the floor together for any long duration of time. Such a pairing during difficult moments in a game might represent a problem to the system oriented approach that this team should gear itself towards.
OBTW fellas I checked out the debate.
Here is my take.
A couple a days ago in the presence of our gracious co-admin Lives, an interesting dicusssion occurred with regards to how Obama avoided a certain type of definitive and aggressive debating even during points where he might have been able to exploit gaps, nuances, or contradictions in his opponents statements.
One theory why this happened is b/c as a strategical consideration it perhaps was not considered to be a good strategy to present a candidate of color, specifically of Obama’s percieved ethnic origin, to take such a tactic as it might cut against a more favorable image to cast upon Obama as a a measured statesman. (not our Statesman 1,2,3 mind you).
With regard to what many pundit stiffs are annoncing as a surprise and possible debate victory for Palin. That result IMHO is the result of a clever use of smoke and mirrors.
Point A.
Biden, might have taken the reserved and measued approach so as not to come off as a bully against majority model minority A WHITE GIRL!
HOWEVER! Where an Obama must not come off looking loud but rather statesmanly so as not to offend middle american sensibilities… a percievedly DUMB FRAGILE “White Girld” FROM THE BOONIES would be well suited to take on an aggressive debating posture. Off course it comes off better if it is cast in the cloak of chipper fiesty enthusiam rather than sharp, bitter contrarianism.
To wit Pale Face Palin was preped re preped and preped some more, the strategy was to make this seemingly “vulnerable” and “ill prepared” WHITE GIRL seem chipper fiesty enthusiastic all the while basically doing a McSame Infomercial at every speaking opportunity given. McShame’s a Maverick, he’s great, he’s a uniter. Add that infomercial aspect with the mixed in touch of wholehearted evasivness, where Palin joins the chorus against “Corporate America,” and speaks in unspecific generalities of how two Mavericks will usher in change without ever laying out for an instance what that change will look like be premised on or include in its structural or conceptual schematics.
IMHO… IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUY THAT EMPTY PRE PACKAGED INFOMERCIAL THEN I WILL HOPE IN AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE!
Just bloggin boyz!
I MEANT TO SAY I WILL LOSE ALL HOPE IN AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE!