I’m a big enough person to give credit where it’s due. For one half last the Knicks looked really, really good in their win against the Los Angeles Clippers. David Lee’s outstanding game aside, a few numbers stood out to me. 1.Chris Duhon’s play: After clocking 87 minutes in the last previous two games against [...]
Archive for December 2009
Credit Where it’s Due Leave a comment
The Knicks: From Surging to Struggling 1 comment
Is D’Antoni the Problem? 3 comments
In my previous post I said the Charlotte would be a measuring stick of the Knicks’ actual improvement. I said they’d run into a string of teams they should have beaten because of injury or fatigue. I also gave them credit for shooting the ball better. But two nights ago the winning ways came to [...]
Ridiculous Donnie Walsh Quote 1 comment
“He used to be able to get to the basket on one dribble from halfcourt.” Donnie Walsh talking about Jonathon Bender
Surging Knicks? 1 comment
The movement to restore the New York Knicks’ good name and legitimize them as a playoff contender is officially afoot. ESPN’s John Hollinger has written a “case for Knicks” (you need to be an Insider to read it) and posted a poll question on his Daily Dime column asking if New York will make the [...]
Center of Attention Leave a comment
Last night I think I may have watched Portland center Greg Oden play his final NBA game. Forgive me for sounding melodramatic, but when Oden went down I got a chill through my body. I don’t know if you’ve ever had a similar feeling, but I felt as though I had just witnessed an event [...]
Weekend Observations 1 comment
On Friday night a friend of mine explained the concept behind NFL Redzone: it’s a show that airs once a week and is solely dedicated to going to whichever game features a team on the verge of scoring. The concept sounded amazing, sort of what ESPN’s NBA Fastbreak and NBA TV’s Gametime aspire to be [...]
CDR: Casualty of Confusion 4 comments
When Chris Douglas-Roberts fell into the New Jersey Nets’ lap two summers ago I didn’t know how to feel. As a Nets fan, I felt like I’d just gotten away with a victimless crime—a little guilty, a little giddy. As a fan of the game, I felt a little disturbed. I’d watched the previous season [...]
The Newark Nets? Leave a comment
If you live anywhere in the New York metropolitan area you’re probably at least tangentially aware of the Atlantic Yards feud between the developer Forest City Ratner and Brooklyn residents who don’t want the New Jersey Nets to ruin their quaint ‘hood. These are earlier gentrifiers who want to draw the line against further development [...]
What A.I. Can Learn from Old Goats Leave a comment
Pedro Martinez is an “old goat.” The 38-year-old pitcher said it himself before pitching Game 6 of the World Series this year for the Phillies against the Yankees’ 37-year-old southpaw Andy Petitte: “I look at this situation as a blessing,” he said of his chance to pitch once more on his sport’s biggest of stages, [...]
“That’s our game. We’re not going to go away from it. We’re going to keep shooting it. If we’re open, we shoot it.” Chris Duhon following a game in which the Knicks shot 16-47 from three Forty-seven three-point shots? Are you kidding me? The Knicks only took a total of 86 shots against the Bulls [...]