Knicks in the playoff hunt.

[Rollie_Fingaz]

Tonight the Bulls lost, Bucks lost, Bobcats lost, Pacers lost..Nets are winning in Portland..

..meanwhile the Knicks have reeled off 3 straight and are a half game out of a playoff spot. They have been playing some good ball, and that Larry Hughes pickup was big.

Walsh has done a good job trying to rebuild the fuck up that Layden and Isiah has caused. Even if they don't make the playoffs they had a big season. I'd like to know the b-ball heads thoughts on this.

I think they REALLY needed and an upgrade at the point and a backup bigman.

 

[djkidrich]

Keeping hope alive man...

 

[Winchesta Heat]

I think they REALLY needed and an upgrade at the point and a backup bigman.

Agreed.

 

[YH Dafirm Diplomat]

2010......

L Boogie keeps playing gud, and we get sum gud pieces, a gud big man, and sum more solidity, we will be a perennial playoff team. thank god for mike d'antoni and mr. walsh.

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

2010......

L Boogie keeps playing gud, and we get sum gud pieces, a gud big man, and sum more solidity, we will be a perennial playoff team. thank god for mike d'antoni and mr. walsh.

You know that people will be saying that because Steph is not there anymore the Knicks are playing better. That being said, I like L Boogie because he's the perimeter defender the Knicks need. Now if the Knicks can pry Bosh away from the Raptors...

BTW-Nate has a legit shot at the sixth man award.

 

[fourth_retired]

they have a chance but will they Iam not sure. ill def buy tickets.

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

Nets lose..

 

[YH Dafirm Diplomat]

You know that people will be saying that because Steph is not there anymore the Knicks are playing better. That being said, I like L Boogie because he's the perimeter defender the Knicks need. Now if the Knicks can pry Bosh away from the Raptors...

BTW-Nate has a legit shot at the sixth man award.

i would love for bosh to come here, but he said chicago is his first choice. fuck em.

give me amare, please and thank you. and um, lebron

nate deserves it, hands down.

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

i would love for bosh to come here, but he said chicago is his first choice. fuck em.

give me amare, please and thank you. and um, lebron

nate deserves it, hands down.

Main priority is resigning Nate and Lee. Curry said he would take the buyout, so get him out of there.

D'antoni likes to go no more than 9-10 deep in the rotation, so the Knicks are going to have to lose some people. (He already started tightening his rotation on this road trip.) Deciding who should go is going to be a problem.

 

[D-TOWN REP]

Main priority is resigning Nate and Lee. Curry said he would take the buyout, so get him out of there.

D'antoni likes to go no more than 9-10 deep in the rotation, so the Knicks are going to have to lose some people. (He already started tightening his rotation on this road trip.) Deciding who should go is going to be a problem.

Curry>>>Dampier

 

[RunawaySlave]

Have said this before and I'll say it again. This is the same EXACT Knicks team as last year. Maybe even a little worse. Harrington brings nothing to the table that Randolph couldn't provide except maybe a tad more athleticism. The difference between the Knicks of the past 3 seasons and the Knicks of 2009 is that STEPHON MARBURY is not running around doing whatever he pleases and still playing big minutes. He was still doing what he pleased, but he was NOT playing at all this year. Therefore, players saw that management is more serious about winning.

Had Isiah Thomas suspended Marbury and stuck to it in game 3 last year the way this current regime did this season, he would have gotten similar results. He suspended Marbury for one game and the very next night he played him for 35 minutes. Knicks wew 2-0 at the time and these were the 3rd and 4th games of the season. Marbury showed his ass when Isiah tryed to bring him off the bench (the way D'Antoni tried to do and how Doc Rivers is doing right now). That slap on the wrist set the tone for the rest of the season. Just as D'Antoni PUBLICLY benching of Marbury set the tone for this one.


Also, the bottom playoff teams are so BAD that anybody who wins a few games in a row is going to move up rapidly in the standings. Walsh and D'Antoni ain't doing nothing special. The Knicks look awful for 3 quarters each and every night just like last year. Difference is Marbury is not playing in the 4th quarter

 

[Game Plan]

I wrote this season off. If they make the playoff that's whats up but I see them really doing something when the big players are up for grabs...James, Bosh, Amare, Wade. I'm surprised that they are in the race but if they don't make it I can't be mad about it cause I don't feel that they can hang w/ the top teams in the east anyway.

I like how Nate has been balling over the last month or two.

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

Curry>>>Dampier

This isn't the exact article, give me a second to look for it. But dude needs money NOW. He tried to get an advance on his contract from money issues already.

New York Post
Saturday, March 14, 2009

CURRY: I'D SUPPORT TRADE FROM KNICKS

By MARC BERMAN

March 9, 2009
Posted: 4:00 am

Eddy Curry, back practicing with the Knicks, said in his first interview in a month he'd support getting traded if it meant the best for the Knicks' future.

Knicks brass will shop his contract this summer in an attempt to get further under the 2010 salary cap.

"I've been here a long time," Curry said before the Knicks lost 106-101 to the Nets last night at Izod Center. "I want to see us get better. If it takes my contract to do it, then I would hate to leave, [but] if it results in the Knicks getting better, I'm all for that."

Curry probably sees the writing on the wall and isn't fighting it. Curry also said he is eligible to opt out of his contract after next season, something the Knicks would love him to do.

But that would seem improbable the way Curry's career has plummeted to rock bottom. Curry would leave $11.2 million on the table.

However, it is further motivation for the Knicks to get Curry going. Curry has played just 2 minutes, 38 seconds this season. He returned to practice Friday after sitting out another two months. D'Antoni said Curry is out of the rotation unless he earns it.

Curry plans on earning it.

"I have a lot of respect for Coach D'Antoni and respect for my teammates," Curry said. "I don't expect him to just throw me out there in front of somebody if I don't earn it. I plan on showing him though practice and hard work I can help us win."

With Jared Jeffries out with a bruised knee, missing his third straight game last night, there could be room for Curry amidst this current stretch of five straight road games. But Curry said he does hope to play on the upcoming four-game Rust Belt trip.

"Right now, honestly, I'm so happy to be back," said Curry, who dressed the past two games. "Somehow I'll get my wind back in a timely fashion and I can help the team, get in a game on the road."

 

[Rollie_Fingaz]

Knicks (predictably) lose a close one in Cleveland..up next NJ Nets.

 

[963852]

Don't see it happening. From the Knicks games I have seen, they are still a bad team. The schedule still has Orland twice, Denver, New Orleans, and Utah. I see all those as strait up losses. Coupled with some more loses to other .500 type teams, the Knicks chances look bleak.

They have been bad for a while, mostly due to Isiah, I see Steve Kerr is about to follow his steps in Phoenix lol. Anyways the Knicks brought in D'Antoni so they started playing the fast paced style and it gave the look that they were playing better because of how that style inflated the numbers. The Knicks will get better under D'Antoni but no NBA title anywhere in the near future. They will be plenty of hope when D'Antoni puts his pieces in place and turns they into the Phoenix Knicks but no rings. The games will be fun to watch though so thats a plus.