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jgmack wrote:Inconsiderate and disrespectful of Lin to be playing so well during Black History Month. He should have waited until March.

baffled wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

baffled wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

baffled wrote:He looked lost playing for the Warriors last year. The fans always cheered like he was Michael Jordan, but he didn't show much promise.

He made a few mistakes in the second half when the Mavericks upped the pressure, but he's also logging 38 minutes on average (and I think he played something like 44 today), so some of that's probably fatigue.

Not a huge NBA fan, but Amare didn't do much, and it looked like most of their squad was bench players. Loved their hustle though.

Yeah, I spotted the reanimated corpse of Mike Bibby on the sidelines looking fairly entertained.

They've got a strange dynamic in NY right now. Amare's played well, but his knees are bad to the point the Knicks couldn't get him insured and I think he was a little out of shape to start the season. Tyson Chandler's playing a bit better with Lin in the lineup, Landry Fields is a good ball player and can fit in on any team, but if he's your starting 2, you need a scoring small forward and point guard to bring it together and Shumpert's got some growing to do. Steve Novak can shoot the lights out though.

Otherwise, they've got Baron Davis rehabbing a bad back, sure to be out of shape and overweight and not a lot else. But in that system, they score and are entertaining and the NBA is better off when the Knicks are relevant.

I'm a proponent of two or three really good teams being best for the NBA. If you can have teams from LA and NY being good, and then a couple others from any other market around, I think the league is good. Parity is for pussies.

Don't they have the same coach they had in Phoenix for all those big years? If so, he knows how to use an intelligent immigrant point guard.

What tripped me out were the Blake Griffin commercials-- nothing against Griffin, but those things are creepy.

D'Antoni had been getting some comparisons to Paul Westhead lately. The coach who was at Loyola Marymount when Hank Gathers died and Bo Kimble shot freethrows with his left hand as a tribute of sorts. Westhead went a couple spots, won a WNBA title, and is coaching the Oregon Women's Team now.

High tempo, fast break offense that works for flashes but may not be enough to get it all done on a championship level.

You're right though, that the system is aided by the point guard, and the point guard is often aided by the system. Nash is still, at 38, one of the best PGs in the league. Phoenix plays uptempo, but not like they did under D'Antoni.

It's funny you say that about Griffin's commercials. It seems like people think they're either creepy or funny.

The Ginger Beard Man wrote:

baffled wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

baffled wrote:

Turdacious wrote:

baffled wrote:He looked lost playing for the Warriors last year. The fans always cheered like he was Michael Jordan, but he didn't show much promise.

He made a few mistakes in the second half when the Mavericks upped the pressure, but he's also logging 38 minutes on average (and I think he played something like 44 today), so some of that's probably fatigue.

Not a huge NBA fan, but Amare didn't do much, and it looked like most of their squad was bench players. Loved their hustle though.

Yeah, I spotted the reanimated corpse of Mike Bibby on the sidelines looking fairly entertained.

They've got a strange dynamic in NY right now. Amare's played well, but his knees are bad to the point the Knicks couldn't get him insured and I think he was a little out of shape to start the season. Tyson Chandler's playing a bit better with Lin in the lineup, Landry Fields is a good ball player and can fit in on any team, but if he's your starting 2, you need a scoring small forward and point guard to bring it together and Shumpert's got some growing to do. Steve Novak can shoot the lights out though.

Otherwise, they've got Baron Davis rehabbing a bad back, sure to be out of shape and overweight and not a lot else. But in that system, they score and are entertaining and the NBA is better off when the Knicks are relevant.

I'm a proponent of two or three really good teams being best for the NBA. If you can have teams from LA and NY being good, and then a couple others from any other market around, I think the league is good. Parity is for pussies.

Don't they have the same coach they had in Phoenix for all those big years? If so, he knows how to use an intelligent immigrant point guard.

What tripped me out were the Blake Griffin commercials-- nothing against Griffin, but those things are creepy.

D'Antoni had been getting some comparisons to Paul Westhead lately. The coach who was at Loyola Marymount when Hank Gathers died and Bo Kimble shot freethrows with his left hand as a tribute of sorts. Westhead went a couple spots, won a WNBA title, and is coaching the Oregon Women's Team now.

High tempo, fast break offense that works for flashes but may not be enough to get it all done on a championship level.

You're right though, that the system is aided by the point guard, and the point guard is often aided by the system. Nash is still, at 38, one of the best PGs in the league. Phoenix plays uptempo, but not like they did under D'Antoni.

It's funny you say that about Griffin's commercials. It seems like people think they're either creepy or funny.

The sportswriters here were lobbying to get D'Antoni fired early in the season. Lin saved his job for now.
I really don't like basketball, but everybody here is talking about the Knicks, and that hasn't been the case for ten years or so.

Turdacious wrote:Probably the same guys who were calling for Coughlin's head a few months before.