Excellent rant.
I’m thinking 1800 words. Could be more.
All I could manage after the game was, “fuckers.”
And then looked for the next game on the schedule.

This is one of those games you forget. Forever. Like walling away Fortunato.
“Requiescat In Pace!”

Bring Kidd, Smith, Prigioni, Novak/Amare and Copeland off the bench. Our current starting lineup is ranked 16th out of 20 in FG% differential.

Our best lineup is Ray Felton, JKidd, Steve Novak, Carmelo and Tyson. This was clearly being impacted by those heady months in the fall where Kidd could do no wrong. So let’s use that lineup and replace Kidd with Shump. FWIW, Shump at SF is just retarded.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/2013/lineups/

17 road 14 home
17 above .500 14 under .500
18 against projected playoff teams 9 of them on the road
8 back to backs
I’m thinking there are 15 losses here at a minimum playing as they are right now. I can see a possibility of 18 losses. But that’s just me projecting this current style of play over the remainer of the season. Perhaps one of Woodson’s pep talks will turn everything around. I’d love to see that. Really I would because I do not think 45-46 wins will get you the Atlantic.

Unfortunately he has a similar effect on the offense.

I really think that either Cope or JR should be starting at the 3 and Kidd needs to go to the bench. Let him bring some order to the 2nd unit for 15 min/game — limit the damage.

ruruland: Yes, the Knicks will go 13-18 the rest of the season.

Look at the schedule; it could happen.

Move Kidd to the bench. Move Shump to the 2. Put Cope in the starting lineup. Or freaking put JR in the starting lineup.

I try not to overreact to losses, but everyone knew this was a measuring stick game. And boy did we get measured. I don’t mind losing to Indy on the road, but I do mind this team looking like D-League team. And like ruru said, I don’t think this was an effort loss. This was just an ass-kicking.

Overall our guards are really a problem. It’s literally like they all forgot how to shoot at once. And since they still can’t guard anyone… shooting and guarding are basically like the whole game, aren’t they?

I will take one – just one – positive from this game. I sorta feel like Shump is rounding into form a little bit on the defensive end. He still looks like he’s afraid of the ball on offense, but other than losing George on a baseline cut on one play, I thought he played well defensively. baby steps.

BigBlueAL: Does it speak poorly of me that I had to look up the definition of anhedonic??

Not at all. I learned it deep into my (now) favorite novel, Infinite Jest back in September or so. An easy word to miss in regular usage…

Brian Cronin:
The best thing about the Houston trade is that Phoenix ended up with Morris without giving up a player, so they have too many players. O’Neal might just get cut! You better believe that the Knicks would be all over that, right? The only problem would be other teams below the Knicks in the standings making a claim on him first.

Knowing Morey that’s probably something he considered when making the trade lol. Jermaine O’Neal on either the Rockets for the stretch run makes a lot of sense, especially since I’m hearing rumors the Thomas Robinson trade was a precursor for something else, which is good because I haven’t seen anything about Thomas that makes me think he’s going to be better than Carl Landry a few years back

I know that this actual Knicks team hasn’t won anything, but all of the players on it have either won a championship or have seriously contended for one (except the rookies). Even when the Knicks were winning, Tyson Chandler has played intense defense so sporadically that it’s exciting when he goes back to his DPOY level of last year. All the nice rotation players that made the Knicks bench early in the season (Brewer, Sheed, Thomas, Kidd, Prigs) are either injured, out of the rotation, or only in the rotation because there aren’t enough bodies on to put on the floor.

I don’t see them as the clearcut second best team in the east anymore, but I still think they’re at least even money with anyone but Miami and a properly healthy Chicago (which I don’t think we’ll see) Indiana has had terrible stretches like the Knicks too, it’s just theirs didn’t happen recently and thus doesn’t seem to matter to people for some reason. In fact, I’ll have to search for the article but I know I’ve read a statistical piece that made a strong case that it was a team’s early season work that was most predictive of post season success. It makes sense when you think about it, early in the season everyone is fresh and healthy, they’re excited about getting up for each game, their opponents aren’t tanking yet…