Comments on: Knicks 107 Lakers 106

By: confucius

confucius — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:04:45 +0000

The way the Knicks lost that game stumped me. Isiah’s rotation, the Knicks lack of intensity both on offense and defense, blew me away.

No matter what Isiah says there has to be a trade coming.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:37:59 +0000

Isiah only guaranteed James until the Break.

I presume/hope this is the end of that ridiculous experiment.

I mean, even if the idea was to pump up his trade value, it doesn’t exactly work that way when (as in the LA game) you pull the guy from the game ASAP, then never use him again!

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:22:39 +0000

GS’s starters outscored ours 95-36.

By: Dan Panorama

Dan Panorama — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:09:38 +0000

I feel like this back-to-back problem has been the case not just this season but for several seasons. This I find extremely weird – so many of our players are young athletic energy guys and we can draw on a 10-deep rotation if we need to in order to give them some relief minutewise. If any team should be able to play through tired legs its the Knicks. Contrast that with Phoenix who play just seven guys at all every game at breakneck speeds (and a couple of them are older vets) and yet have managed to string long winning streaks that include wins on the second half of back-to-backs. I don’t get it. There’s no reason we should lose this badly so often.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:08:42 +0000

good call, Ben, nicely researched.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:58:24 +0000

It’s a back to back. We have yet to win both sides and have gone 3-9 on the second half of back to backs. We always seem to start them out flat. Some of our worse losses were on back to backs:

11/18 Loss to Boston at home after two huge blowout victories vs Washington and Miami

11/25 Loss to Chicago at home while they were struggling and were 3-9 which started their 10 game win streak

12/2 Loss to Toronto at home to begin our six game homestand with a loss

12/16 Blowout loss to Denver at home that resulted in the brawl

12/23 Blowout loss to Phily after winning three great games vs. Utah, Cha, and Chi

1/31 Blowout loss to Charlotte

2/14 Blowout loss to Golden State where we let them get up by 31

Luckily we have only have seven back to backs left. They really seem to be why this team cannot go on a long run. We win a couple of games and then lose to a bad team on the second half of a back to back.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:41:06 +0000

“Did this game remind anyone else of the early games of the season?”

yeah, I thought of that too.

dreadful game by Isiah, this Jerome James stupidity has to end now, and to follow it up with Malik is absurd. start David Lee already, for crying out loud.

By: KnickerBlogger

KnickerBlogger — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:34:35 +0000

Did this game remind anyone else of the early games of the season? The starters would fall behind by 20+, and the bench would score & bring them back within striking distance. Robinson, Lee & Balkman provided a good amount of energy, albeit Nate got a little too hyper. He needs to get the rest of the offense involved more. He’s a good passer, had a few nice ones tonight, but too often looks to jack it up, especially when he’s hit a few. It was nice to see Balkman – not his best game by far, but he was quietly active. Poking the ball away on a few plays, running in transition, a few boards, playing fine help defense, etc.

Again Frye disappointed me. He easily missed 3 or 4 wide open jumpers during the Knicks’ ressurgence.

On another note, the Knicks seemed to still run their offense down 15+ with under a 20 seconds left. What’s Nate doing? Doesn’t he remember the Denver game?

By: villainx

villainx — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:30:58 +0000

After the got the game within 9 or so, with about 7 minutes to go, Isiah doesn’t do any substitution to bring some of the regulars back in. I can understand going with the team that got you within striking range, but well, my problem is that I don’t think Isiah considered the move, rather than not making the move.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:22:44 +0000

and now Q gets tossed, way to keep your self-control.

unless something drastically changes in the second half, this is the lamest effort of the season (along with that Charlotte blowout), and exhibit #1 in why there’s no chance we’re making the playoffs this year. so goddamn frustrating.