Posts Tagged ‘New York Knicks’

The circus that is the 2009 off-season continues.

I’m not Mr. Knicks or anything, and I’m definitely not like a certain NBA beat writer for a major New York City tabloid that things everything sucks all the time, but I’m really starting to wonder what Donnie Walsh’s plan is. I know the major component of [...]

Jordan Hill was not the pick with Holiday and Derozan still on the board. Last time the Knicks took a big from Arizona this early in the draft, the guy ended being able to do little other than make an uncovered 15-foot jumper. That isn’t Hill’s game and, to be honest, I don’t [...]

Dude is gonna fill it up in Nellie’s run-n-gun offense. I don’t know that Golden State really needed more firepower but that’s what they just got in Curry. I was hoping Curry was going to be Gotham bound, as did most of the fans at The Garden, but that’s not going to happen. [...]

I think it’s pretty tough to draw any sort of meaningful conclusion from the first couple days of training camp in any sport, but it might be even more pointless when it comes to NBA preseason training and games. With the regular season lasting an interminable six months and 82 games, training camp is [...]

Shades of Frederic Weis anyone?

Not in these case since Gallinari bounced back so well that Couch, who admits to being skeptical about Danilo, wrote that “(he) looks like he could be a player.”

Obviously it’s going to take more than a decent second half in a Summer League game to convince Knicks fans that Gallinari could be a player but it’s a start.

We know he’s being replaced and that he’s played his last game as a Knickerbocker but the real question is where does he go?

It should come as no surprise that Walsh and D’Antoni have been trying to rid themselves of Marbury since minute one of their new jobs. And it should come as no surprise that they have found no takers for Starbury. That a player with his natural gifts can’t find a single team willing to take a risk on him shows what a monumental headcase Marbury is.

That Donnie Walsh, Mike D’Antoni and the rest of the Knicks braintrust wanted to hear lots of boos because they picked Italian forward Danilo Gallinari. I don’t know much about Gallinari’s game but I do know that he’s got to have a brass pair and Rambo-like guts to sit there with Steven A. Smith, [...]

Given the mess at MSG, even with Munster-looking Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni on the job, it really shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that the New York Knickerbockers shit the bed when it came to the NBA draft lottery. With a 137 out of a 1,000 chance of snaring the first pick, New York ended up the 6th overall pick, which wouldn’t be so bad but for the fact that the Knicks finished in the bottom four of the league last year and have pretty much nothing to show for it.

This is one of those NBA drafts where just about everybody agrees on who the top two players are, in this case it’s exhilarating point guard Derrick Rose and studly forward Michael Beasley, but the rest of the draft, while filled with talent and potential, is void of consensus.

So how’s about it, Coach? Let’s get your boys on a side in one of NYC’s many soccer rec leagues. Certainly, few teams in the NBA need to learn how to read a game and “let the ball do the work” for them as much as the Knicks.

I’m even willing to captain the side and suit and up play keeper behind this notoriously defensively disinterested group.

Let’s think about this. Under the clueless Zeke, who ran his point guard off the team last season, the Knicks finished a miserable 23-59. Good for dead last in the awful Atlantic Division; 14th in the pedestrian Eastern Conference; and tied for 27th in the NBA with the LA Clippers.

Given that “performance” and the fact just about everybody’s saying D’Antoni can’t do shit with this roster, what constitutes a successful 2008-09 season for the Knickerbockers in the eyes of their fans?

My guess is that it’d take about 10 more wins and the teams playing competitive, entertaining ball for the vast majority of the season. Is that doable? Even with guys like Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph around? Fuck yeah, it’s doable.

fter an entire season of finding, well, excuses so as not to go to MSG and give “Guitar” James “Jowls” Dolan a single penny of my not quite so hard-earned scratch, I finally caved when my girlfriend suggested we take her nephews there for their birthday. Since she was buying, I had no reason to say no. Although, after 48 minutes of pick-up ball O and mind-boggingly random substitutions from Zeke, I wish would’ve been nowhere near the Garden tonight.

New Orleans’ 100-88 win over the Knicks tonight bore as much resemblance to a real NBA scrap as the American Pie flicks do to a Coen brothers film.