It seems to me that given the thrilling line-up of late night programming at MSG (How many reruns of “sportsdesk” does one need between 1am and 7am anyway?), that it wouldn’t kill Dolan to rerun the entire Knick/Ranger game. Or cut out halftime and 15 mins worth of commercials to runa two-hour version (which I believe was their MO before some programming/pr genius came up with the “Knicks/Rangers in 60″ idea — possibly the same cat who told Dolan it was a good idea to wear that nifty fedora when JD and the Straight Shot are rockin’ [and speaking of which, does it seem strange to anyone that Dolan's band's name is a reference to booze, and his band's website is splattered with alcohol/bar imagery -- this coming from a recovericng ALCOHOLIC?? Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah...]). The “highlights” shown in Knicks in 60 are random, the games are edited to make NO sense, has almost as many commercials as the actual game, and they seem to feel the need to show HALFTIME. Ugly. They’d be better served by having Al Trautwig sitting in a “masterpiece theater” style drawing room, in a smoking jacket, holding a snifter of brandy and reading the stat=sheet from a faux leather-bound volume.

(NB: Has Al Trautwig seemed to age 10 years this off season? His teeth seem gnarled, he’s stopped dyeing his hair and he’s got soom serious basset-houndish jowls developing. Not that Al was George Clooney to begin with, but he’s really let himself go. Has being MSG/Dolan’s unwitting flack/dupe for all these years finally caught up with him? Does Thomas have some strange, magical, Doran Grey portrait of Trautwig, that he defames if Al doesn’t shill for the glory of the Knicks? Did Marv Albert personally groom Al pre-show in the glory days — only NOW, 2 years later. we’re seeing the effects? Just a theory…We’ve seen stranger things here in Knick-ville)

And man…the only thing I took away from the game was that Knicks in 60 is an awful, awful program.

Who the hell came up with the idea of haphazardly fastforwarding in time?

Curry looks like he has 2 left feet defending the paint(Jackie butler and Nazr where are you?)

Although another positive is that the Knicks blew out the Nets – which is what you’re suppose to do to a team with two key injuries. That’s a step up from last year.

Certainly Isiah DID have a vision for this team and the players he has picked. Since his offense doesn’t rely so much on a pure PG and everyone is involved in making the right pass, it really makes the players he has picked make more sense together. Guys like Jared, Balkman, Lee, QRich or even Francis who can rebound and push the ball. I really love the way he has this team passing more and dribbling less. Their fastbreak passing is much improved. I just want to see them keep it up and continue to improve and jell