Nate Robinson will have his season debut tonight against the team he loved to play for, the New York Knicks.
Tracy McGrady is listed as probably for tonight’s game, despite having banged knees during last night’s game and asking to come out of the game.
The Knicks are 0-2 since the trade deadline, lets see if playing on the road makes any difference… I won’t hold my breath.
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Sergio is a good defender. Billy walker is more above the rim than wilson chandler.
missed the game…hope they pickup a shotblocker/changer..at least they did lots better on the boards
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/The_Baseline/entry/view/56965/the_knicks_the_cap_space_team_or_a_team_with_cap_space
cap space doesn’t matter because players can get more money to stay with their original teams. They can get one additional year in their contact and 2.5% more money per year as part of the collective bargaining agreement. So if a player leaves his team it is because he doesn’t like the direction the team is going, it won’t come down to money because original teams can give better contracts, that is unless they are cheap.
Miami is not NEW YORK.
That scrub coach in MIAMI is not Mike D’Antoni.
Cleaveland is obviously not NEW YORK.
What’s his face, the coach in Cleavland, is not Mike D’Antoni.
Listen, you either believe or you don’t.
I always believe, that’s why the Knicks keep making money off of me. I’ll never change teams, I’ll never start being a fan of the team that gets the calls.
July 1st. The next knicks date of 2010 to listen to.
think about shaq before he left orlando. now think about the six key guys that are in need of a new contract. not all six are going to stay. some are coming to new york.
So lebron is going to leave a team that can make the finals for a team that can’t make the playoffs and aren’t even committed to keeping David Lee their only marketable player. Lebron can make 2.5% more money and get one additional year if he stays in Cleveland. Why would he come here. Maybe the Knicks can get Wade if Miami doesn’t sign an all star to complement him. And being Mike D’Antoni is as good thing? He looks pretty bad so far as coach of the Knicks. Meanwhile, Miami and Cleveland keep winning. Take your rose colored glasses off the Knicks have been a disaster franchise. They made a good move getting McGrady and Sergio, but getting lebron is a long shot considering that fact that Cleveland is so good and because the the collective bargaining deal Cleveland can give Lebron a better contact then any other team can
don’t judge d’antoni until he has HIS PLAYERS. isiah thomas had HIS PLAYERS. thomas remade the roster 3 times over.
mike d’antoni has been given table scraps until this summer. there haven’t been any big splashes only stopgaps (Duhon, Tmac, House, Harrington) until this summer. Isiah was splashing and splashing but only knew how to drown deeper into the abyss.
Walsh and D’Antoni have only been treading the shallow end of the pool. after this summer is when i’ll hit the panic button, not until i see what happens then.
until then i support my team and if i see you in the street you’re going to have a problem with me if you are talking about my coach that way.
I mostly agree that Dantoni shouldn’t be judged until he and Walsh get to put their own team together. He may be a good coach yet, but it seems that he has proven that he is not a GREAT coach. A great coach gets his team to play hard every night, even if they’re not great players.
The Knicks chances of landing a superstar increased enormously when they gained the capacity to get two superstars. What happened to the Celtics can happen here, though the Celtics already had an elite player in Paul Pierce. I really hope DW and Dantoni don’t think McGrady is their Paul Pierce.
“What happened to the Celtics can happen here,”
excellent point.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/sports/Tracy-McGrady-Trade-Already-a-Winner-for-the-Knicks-85385427.html
thabeet sent to the d-league? wow. he was the number 2 pick in the 09 draft, if I’m not mistaken.
D’Antoni referring (loosely) to defense as “energy” is an old act to me. His rotations have been rickety….his endgame X’s and O’s have been downright pathetic.
If he & Walsh can deliver a top-notch Batman & Robin duo in the summer of 2010, then we should salute them as the Greatest Front Office of All Time!
If they deliver ANYTHING less this summer, then they are abysmal rejects and they BOTH deserve to be fired before the season starts. A bag of hammers could have been GM AND coach and waited for the Z-bo / Jamal / Jeffries / Eddy contracts to expire after 2010-11, yielding enough cap room to sign TWOMAX free agents (and have additional LOTTERY draft picks, plural, to boot)!
Oh – and for real, if you see me in the street and have a problem with that….go for what you know. =)
P.S. If we replace Z-Bo and Jamal with Amare and Joe Johnson – at the cost of two seasons of abject losing – are we any better off?
Allow me to answer my own hypothetical question: no.
On the plus side, those two lost seasons have seen greater usage rates & player development for Chandler & Gallo. Lee has also benefitted from assuming the Z-bo role in running the offense through him. But Chandler’s focus on developing a midrange game – something all Knicks fans desperately wanted to see – has also stifled Gallo’s development. Danilo seems to be content to move the ball around and play some defense, where he has made some surprising strides. But he is still a well below-par defender, and we simply cannot justify playing him 30-25 minutes a night if he is only gonna take 6-8 shots.
Lee’s development as a scorer and facilitator of the offense has been wondrous….but he’s become so important for offensive production that he is scared to play any semblance of “D” at all, for fear of fouling out (i suppose, unless it is sheer laziness). He’s taken one giant step forward….and one giant step backwards. If he continues his Stonehenge impersonation on defense, i am not even sure he’s worth Paul Millsap money!
Yes paul Gallo seems to not want to assert himself.
Maybe somebody to Lee that he needed to imitate the Lady Liberty pose.He needs to play on both ends…w ith his hops he could be a decent shotblocker. Even if the Knicks dont sign quality free agents…sign and trades are A possibilty because of their under the cap status
KD I was suprised to hear about Thabeet…
Hopefully they show up tonite.
It is about time that D’Antoni goes to David Lee in the clutch instead of to Gallinari or Al Harrington.
T-Mac sat out the later parts of the game but had 23 points.
Lee’s all-star year (despite what Stephen Jackson says Lee deserves to be there) has an asterick to it because D’Antoni rarely goes to lee down the stretch, opting for chandler or gallinari. Any other option besides Lee down the stetch is statistically less likely to occur. Lee has the field goal percentage, both from inside and now this year, outside.
Glad they won…hope they are developing more chemistry..