Isaih needs to bite the bullet and start Nate, Jamal, Q, Lee, and Rose. Whenenver these guys get on the court together, there’s energy and the knicks actually look like they’re in the game. The knicks problem is that they get off to bad starts, then have to depend on this unit to come in and get them back in the game, which they usually do. If you look at last nights game, they lost it in the first quarter. They got outscored by 11 in the first and tied/outscored san an the other 3 quarters. Start these five, then start subbing in the usual starters when the other teams are starting to bring in their subs. I think it could work. Either that, or the knicks totally suck and i’m grasping at straws.

“But remember Curry is still young and Yao himself did not start to get it together until late last year right before his injury, and Yao is over two years older than Curry. ”

This is a false statement. Yao’s PER as a 22 year old rookie was a healthy 20.6. (Since then it’s steadily risen to 25.7) So it’s not that Yao just started ‘to get it together’ last year – he’s been pretty good since day 1. Eddy Curry, despite being 23 years old (24 in another month) hasn’t had a PER anywhere near 20. His best was 17.5 his second year.

Curry’s excuse against Yao is that Yao’s size is too much for Eddy. What’s Curry’s excuse against Camby & Nene in Denver the other night? How about Tim Duncan yesterday?

This team makes me ashamed to be a Knicks fan.

“Blind leading the Blind” is the Knicks. This is not about the the stat line in game six or even the score but the QUALITY of and the level of basketball that the Knicks are performing.

Their record is 2-4 it could have easliy been 0-6 . Their play in the last quarters of their wins was reckless, nothing to be proud of!!

Quality Teams win because they:

* Play defense throughout the game
* have chemistry
* have excellent ball movement
* play will a passion
* make the clutch plays consistently that create turning points
* earn their salaries in the 4th quarter

2006 Knicks do not seem to be a quality basketball team.

I see little consistency and feel little enjoyment in watching our “stars’ turn the ballover in crtical moments, falling behind by 10+ and rallying to lose or our “all star” centeror point guard being humiliated.

New York deserves a Quality team and coach that can use his players to develop that capacity.

Isiah kept trying to stop Yao one on one with Curry, Cato, Frye, Lee and even Rose. They all failed miserably. It was not until the fourth quarter when he doubled and tripled Yao that we were able to slow him down. This helped even though it did lead to some open threes.

Curry had a terrible game but I do not believe it was really his fault. I liked that on offense he kept trying to go at Yao but unfortunatly Yao was too big and too strong for Curry to overpower and since the refs refused to call a foul on Yao (no PFs till 4th quarter) Curry had no real chance. This was kind of a strange situation for Curry, Yao and Shaq are the only players (that get meaningful minutes) that Curry cannot overpower with his size and agility. Curry learned a tough lesson that he needs to develop a couple of crafty finesse moves to combine with his strengh moves. But remember Curry is still young and Yao himself did not start to get it together until late last year right before his injury, and Yao is over two years older than Curry.