Marc and Jay talk about Chris Smith joining the Knicks, preseason, the Gortat for Okafor trade, opening day lineups and more
Jay’s 2013 Eastern Conference Preview
Jay’s 2013 Eastern Conference Preview
The Riggin’ For Wiggins Bracket
15. Philadelphia 76’ers – How excited are you if you’re a Philly fan that your team gutted its roster for a 25% chance at getting supposed first pick in next year’s NBA draft, Andrew Wiggins. Highlights of the season will be game 1 when Allen Iverson will have his retirement ceremony (remember he retired, it clearly was not that he couldn’t find a job) and the last few weeks of the season when they could be serious challengers for worst record of all time.
14. Charlotte Bobcats – The soon to be Hornets have had 8 top 10 draft picks in 9 years and have never drafted an all-star. Every year their strategy seems to be ‘tank and get a high draft pick’ yet they suck at drafting. Well congrats Charlotte, the acquisition of Al Jefferson will probably boost your record just enough so that you won’t get the number one pick, guaranteeing you’ll screw up whatever pick you do get.
The We Suck But Not As Hard As The Last Bracket Bracket
13. Toronto Raptors – After trying to give away Andrea Bargnani last season, the Raptors managed to get two players who are even less effective in Tyler Hansbrough and Steve Novak. At least they have a bunch of inefficient ball stoppers. Continue reading
Episode 214: Final Roster Spots
We talk about preseason, who will make the final roster spots, top 5 things Marc and Jay are afraid of, listener questions and more
Episode 213 Part 2: The Draft Continues
Marc finally gets to draft a player again after waiting for over an hour, another teams auto-draft goes berzerk, we cut the recording once everyone was only able to spend $1 per player
Episode 213 Part 1: Longest Draft Ever
This is part 1 of our live fantasy draft. We will definitely be going back to 14 teams next season.
It’s Only Preseason
“Its only the preseason” is the claim that many will make regarding the perfect shift Iman Shumpert put in during the Knicks opening preseason game versus Boston on Wednesday night. For those of us who have been watching Knicks basketball for years, it was confirmation of what we have been whispering for over a year. Iman Shumpert is ready to take the next step into stardom in the NBA.
Shump was flawless from the field, going 7-7 including 3 from behind the arc. The most encouraging improvement is his shot selection. There were many times early in the game when a younger Shumpert would have forced a shot or had one of those pointless drives into the paint. On Wednesday night, Shumpert drove and created, making plays happen for his teammates. How many years has it been since the Knicks has possessed a player with a solid combination speed and scoring ability?
Optimism and the Knicks
Optimism, defined as:
“A tendency to expect the best possible outcome or dwell on the most hopeful aspects of a situation”
Of course this word has strayed from the dictionary of Knicks fans in recent years, but you can’t deny the last three years have offered more cause for optimism than any other in the post-Ewing era. I suppose to a certain extent then we should feel lucky that what was a consistently sinking ship of a team year upon year under the direction of Isiah Thomas has now turned into what is expected of a New York franchise; big players, big results, and most importantly of all, big ambitions. Furthermore, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the last two years of the Melo trade have been disappointing given the reasonably swift post-season exits, because when it’s all said and done, there has been improvement. In 2011-12 the Knicks achieved a .545 regular season win percentage, and in 2012-13 a .659 win percentage; the improvement is clear to see, losing in five games to the current NBA champions Miami Heat is hardly an embarrassment, and even losing to the Pacers in the conference semi’s is understandable given Roy Hibbert’s inexplicably high level of play against a banged up Tyson Chandler and a makeshift center in Kenyon Martin.
More of the same please Shump
he point I am trying to make, is that this year, more than any other year, we have reason to be optimistic about the Knicks. Continue reading
Episode 212: Preseason
Marc and Jay talk about who will make the final cut, injury reports, a visit from Derrick Rose, Mr. Positive and Mr. Negative, top 10 all time most hated Knicks, 2 PG lineups vs a more traditional lineup and more
Knicks Player Tweet of the Week
Just like the NBA landscape not much is going on in the twitter universe this week either. Metta gets another entry in our tweet of the week:
Michael (@delacmi1) scours twitter all week to find our Knicks player Tweet of the Week every Monday morning.
Government Cheese and Andrea Bargnani
How is it that a team can enter the NBA Playoffs as the Eastern Conference Number 2 Seed and not seal up the obvious weaknesses on the roster? If you are a lifetime fan of the New York Knicks, you have seen the offseason become a series of laughable blunders year after year. Large, pointless contracts to shockingly bad players and more-than-questionable free agent signings leaving the roster the only NBA team in history to equal the average age of the Golden Girls cast, have been the norm. This season, the Knicks ownership went another direction, bringing in Andrea Bargnani to bolster the roster in ways that not even the most basketball-savvy Knicks fan can understand. Somewhere in the New York Knicks mission statement is a sentence stating a hatred for 1st Round Draft Picks.
How did Nate Robinson grab that rebound over you?
In the latest edition of “Let’s Refuse to Make Sensible Moves”, the “wow” move made by the Knicks brass was bringing in Andrea Bargnani in exchange for two role players, a sign-and-trade player, a first round pick in 2016, and the second round picks in 2014 and 2017. All this for a player that his present team would have taken a trade involving three slices of government cheese, an RC Cola and Lavor Postell just to unload him. Being one that would rather hear the bad news first, lets look at what positivity could come from this trade. Continue reading
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