The Knicks follow Charlie Sheen’s Motto

If not for those 2 horrible losses to the Cavs this team plus Carmelo has been awesome. Tonight they crushed the Jazz. By midway into the third quarter Charlie Sheen had a better chance of being named father of the year than the Jazz had of winning.

  • The only negative tonight was that Al Jefferson looked like a hall of famer tonight. He was unstoppable and obviously the Knicks need to figure out how to defend a big man like this. He did a great impression of JJ Hickson vs. Knicks.
  • Jared Jeffries scored zero but he was a hero (I am a poet). He may have only had 6 rebounds but he did all the little things on D and looked great.  I especially liked how he hustled and saved a couple of balls going out of bounds by throwing the ball off the jazz players.
  • Watching Carmelo and Amare pass to each other and work the pick and roll made my nipples hard. If they can play unselfish and continue to look for one another they are going to be tough to contain. I also love the fact that Carmelo can take the ball up court on occasion taking some pressure off the pg and giving a different look to the offense.
  • Toney Douglas’s message tonight was hey Chauncey, take your time recovering.
  • Shelden Williams has 13 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds…nope, not a misprint.
  • Newly acquired Derek Brown played 12 minutes and had 3 great thrown downs, I wonder if this guy will get another shot to play any time soon.
  • Andy Rautins actually looked decent in his five minutes, including hitting a nice jumper.
  • Roger Mason has now played 50 minutes in the last two games. I would have predicted the overthrow of Egypt before I would have predicted this.

For those of you who missed Chris Bosh’s post-game interview from last night, here it is

You can really tell these Heat players care about winning.

Carmelo’s first two weeks

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704504404576184872802943538.html?KEYWORDS=kevin+clark

"There are a couple guys crying in the locker room right now,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It’s not a question of want."

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/03/heat-coach-couple-of-guys-are-crying-in-locker-room.html

I do not think I could make a joke funnier than the actual story here.

Unlike the Heat, the Knicks can beat playoff teams

Fantasy Draft Results

Episode 43 – All Time Knicks Fantasy Draft

Be sure to check out out post on podcast where we did our all time (post 1990) Knicks team draft and vote on who has the better team (in the poll on the top of the main page). And, not to influence your voting but Jay’s team would make this current team look like a defensive juggernaut.

The Knicks really came together today and rebounded from an awful, atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable (you get the picture) loss on Friday against the Cavs. This team has really looked pretty good except when playing the NBA’s bad news bears squads.

  • Roger Mason Jr. had played in 11 games for a total of just under 8 minutes up to this point in the season. Mason tonight went for 25 minutes, played a +25, hit a big 3 from the corner and even blocked 2 shots. Maybe he heard our podcast and this is his answer for why he should not have been released.
  • The Knicks actually played some defense tonight. They held the Hawks to 79 points tonight which about what most teams are averaging against the Knicks in the first 3 quarters.
  • Anthony Carter proved me wrong tonight as well. I had said he would not start in the d-league and he actually looked pretty good and even hit some clutch treys.
  • Amazingly, Billups did not play and Carmelo had a vintage Allen Iverson shooting night and the Knicks still won.
  • Amare had another good game and Landry looked awesome as always (my mancrush on him only grows each game).

The NBA Schedules a Losing Streak for Lebron & Co.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2011030614

Well at least the Heat play well against the teams they ARE NOT going to face in the playoffs. It has to be tough to be Lebron and realize that you actually had a better chance to win a title with last year’s Cavs.  And, their new addition Bibby played 11 minutes and scored zero points. I guess he will be the difference maker for this club. It is going to be real tough for the Heatles to do anything in the playoffs with a bench that makes the Knicks bench look like the dream team.

Results for All-Time Knicks Draft

OK, so we did our all-time (1990-2011) New York Knicks fantasy draft.  Now we need your help deciding who ended up with the better team.  Below is the results, take a look and vote who you think has the better team (Poll is on the right of the front page):

Knicks Draft Results

Episode 43: All-time Knicks Fantasy Draft

We give our comments on the Cavs game.  Marc quizzes me on some all time Knicks stats.  We do our all-time Knicks (1990-2011) fantasy draft.  The results are on http://www.thenewyorkknickspodcast.com  Vote who you think ended up with the better team.  Download Episode 43

Spurs Crush Heatles, Life is good

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/5006/heat-put-up-little-fight-against-spurs

The Knicks may have hit rock bottom last night but at least the Lebron & Co. are looking like a worse and worse experiment every day. It seems like Lebron at this point would have had a better shot at a title if he just resigned with Cleveland.

Cavs beat Knicks and I do my best to hold back the little girl tears

What an awful awful awful game. I went to this game and can attest that it looked even worse in person.

  • For some reason D’Antoni played Jeffries and Anthony “I would not start in the D-league” Carter instead of Douglas and Fields.
  • The isolation happy offense looked slow, boring and waiting to lose
  • I am fine with calling the flying knee a foul against Carmelo
  • If I only judged JJ Hickson by how he plays against the Knicks I would say he is a lock for the hall of fame.