Comments on: Great Regular Season Knick Wins of the Past Decade

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:00:27 +0000

It probably worked out for the best, as they got Tim Thomas AND Nazr Mohammed for him, but man, it was really nice watching Marbury and Van Horn working together for that short period of time.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:59:21 +0000

my favorite game of all time was acutally lenny wilkens’ first game. at the time, it seemed like a new, wonderful era of knicks basketball was beginning. they destroyed the sonics by like 20 and marbury and kvh had fantastic games.

By: rady

rady — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:01:55 +0000

With Houston’s 53 against the Lakers i can’t forget his following performance against the Bucks on March 16..
Houston scored 50 and the Knicks won 120-111

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:05:55 +0000

Ha! Thanks, Plexxx.

Man, it is nice to look back when Ewing HIT game-winning shots.

Remember the 99 season? What did he miss, something crazy like five possible game-winning shots, right?

By: Plexxxx

Plexxxx — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:56:53 +0000

Also, for those who like to reminisce about better times, here’s the story on the aforementioned ’96 demolition of the supposedly “greatest team of all time” by JVG’s Knicks.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores96/96070/96070366.htm

By: Plexxxx

Plexxxx — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:52:19 +0000

I can think of a couple of games from that great ’97 season. The one where the Knicks went into L.A. and knocked off the Lakers in Double OT. Elden Campbell (Elden Campbell???) went off for 40 in Shaq’s absence. They tried to give a double digit lead away but Ewing had a huge 2nd OT and also had 25 boards. Also, the huge Sunday night win over the Bulls at MSG where Ewing hit the game clincher with a few secs left and then taunted the Bulls bench.

Here’s the link to the Lakers game

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores97/97054/97054329.htm

Here’s the Bulls game

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores97/97068/97068357.htm

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:00:10 +0000

I remember being irked at the time because I pretty much had to concede that a Knick player was a total jerk, which annoyed me to no end when talking to my friends (a good deal of which were bandwagon Bulls fans at the time).

And oh man, I am now remembering how I tried to convince myself that Brad Lohaus could be an important part of the team…hahaha.

By: David Crockett

David Crockett — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:01:57 +0000

KB,

thanks for posting those links.

I’d completely forgotten that Derek Harper was on that team. I loved Harp because he always played so well against Penny Hardaway, back when Penny was great. He’d just take the ball from Penny on D and drove past him with impunity offensively.

Anyway, what was weird about the game was that someone from Phoenix had taken a hard foul on a Knick earlier in the game, closer to the end of the floor on which I sat. One of the Knick players hit the floor as I recall. The ref missed it. I don’t recall if it was Green who committed the foul.

Um. Reid overreacted just a skosh. Like the article says, virtually no one recognized what had happened until well after the fact.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:34:48 +0000

That was a great story, Martin. Thanks for sharing.

And LostMyKnickers, I, too, was talking to a friend during the Lakers/Knicks OT game, and I, too, figured the Knicks would blow it! Ha!

By: MartinJ

MartinJ — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:46:09 +0000

The first truly memorable Knicks-Bulls game I recall was during the end of the Championship era. For some reason, the Van Lier-Sloan-Walker-Love Bulls usually beat the Knicks. One theory circulated around the Windy City (which is where I grew up) was that the Bulls got physical with the Knicks and the Knicks didn’t hit back. Well, they did one night in early 1974. I recall Sloan and DeBusschere nearly having to be separated more than once. I think Red sent Gianelli in with the instructions to behead Walker. The score after the first quarter was something like 14-12. Tempers settled down in the second half but throughout the game both teams played defense so tenaciously you’d have thought a trip to the Finals rode on the result. Instead it was just two very good teams nearing the end of their runs. The Knicks won 89-80.

-MJ