When I saw the realgm headline “Chandler for Okafor almost complete” I was shocked and elated for a second: I thought Donnie Walsh had done something with defensive rationale behind it for the first time.
Of course, the deal that is about to go down is actually Tyson Chandler for Emeka Okafor, two defensive players in exchange for one another, and not our Wilson Chandler, who, relatively speaking, is a defensive player on our New York Knicks but not when compared with Emeka Okafor.
We need an Emeka Okafor on this team.
But we don’t care about D. That’s Mike D’Antoni’s reputation, deservedly or not. It was no different with Thomas in my opinion. With players like Stephon, Crawford, Lee, and Curry, we can see that isn’t entirely untrue. Players like Jeffries, Q and Balkman were defensive minded, but they had their own respective shortcomings that made them undesirable in the long run.
TD seems like he might play both sides of the floor well, and he doesn’t have the height disadvantage of Nate. Hughes, I remember when Hughes played on the Sixers with Iverson he was a defensive factor. His big issue obviously have been health, so you can’t count on him to play 82 games, because he never has come close.
Al can play defense. Al is a good player, but is he in the long-term plans? I doubt it.
The latest rumor I read online had Johnathan Bender coming back from retirement to play for the Knicks, imagine that craziness.
Walsh, as much as I like a feel good comeback story, is that all you got? Instead of Allan Houston trying to get back into the league, you change the headline to your Indiana guy? Why don’t we instead see if Oak Tree will come back, he wouldn’t dis us the way Kidd, Nash and Grant Hill just did.
Nash, I lost all respect for you when you chose to resign with Steve Kerr.
Just bloggin’
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According to Isola, D’Antoni wants Sessions but Walsh is talking to Tinsley…
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2009/07/28/2009-07-28_knicks_to_meet_with_tinsley.html
Wow Emeka for Will the thrill….hmmmm a nice dream
I like that TD plays both ends of the court and he wants to do it.
Hopefully his attitude will catch on.
Curry perhaps since he has lost weight and maybe in better shape.. he wont be so lazy on D
Oak could teach these young ones a lot.
I think even clyde could teach the guards… something
I never really followed Tinsley….do not have an opinion
Nash seems like he’s running out of gas so i’m not to broken up about his
re-up in the desert.
“Broolyn’s Tinsley” the media is trying to sell us again.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2009/07/29/2009-07-29_brooklyns_jamaal_tinsley.html
but if you ask any ny knick fan right now, they’ll tell you:
sessions > tinsley
just bloggin
sessions has more potential
Duhon will start. He knows the system and played well in the beginning of last season. That is obvious.
Sessions will get a ton of time and probably get some starts at the end of the year when Duhon faded.
Sessions plays little defense.
Also – the Nash comment was absurd. Finally a veteran didn’t sell out and try and win a championship like Shaq is desparately trying (also, Malone and Payton). Nash re-upped in a situation he was comfortable in – running the point as a Sun. Lost respect? That’s nuts. He won two MVP’s and had his chances for championships. His window has closed so he isn’t trying to crawl in other people’s windows.
I did want Nash to come to New York and help bring them back from the dead, so the “lost respect” comment was as much new found disappointment as it was anything else. I don’t think Nash is done, and he could have came here and contributed significantly, first with his play, and secondly with his clout to attract others next season.
His resigning in the land of the setting sun was a big disappointment for me. He has said during several interviews that if it didn’t work out in Phoenix that he’d first and foremost consider New York.
I know Nash is a New Yorker and also is probably the best point guard for Mike D’s system, so yeah, I do think signing with an cocky idiot like Steve Kerr (yes I know he has rings, but to me he’s no different than a Dennis Scott) was detrimental to his career, and I did lose respect for him for staying with a team that is headed for nowhere and has done everything it possibly could to erase the direction that had taken them so far in such a short period of time.
Also the “just bloggin” that immediately followed my “lost respect” comment was admitting that I may be letting my personal bias in the Knicks best interest affect my perception of the individual player.
I felt the same damn way when Kobe resigned after his comments.
I felt the same damn way when Phil Jackson resigned after his comments.
I felt the same damn way when Kidd toyed with the Knicks and stayed with Dallas.
I laughed when Grant Hill, who is at this point in his career a downgrade from Wilson Chandler, used and abused us to no avail during his free agency flirtation with the Knicks.
Basically, I know who can play, and Nash can play, but if you’re not wearing orange and blue, I do admire/respect you much less regardless and even more so if you recently passed up a chance to wear the orange and blue after having flirted with the idea so publicly as so many of these players have, Nash included.
So yes, I will boo his ass when I see him next at the garden. I’ll go back to admiring him once he’s inducted in the hall of fame.