I had the weirdest dream last night. The Knicks were playing beautiful, fluid basketball. They were brimming with confidence, led by young Gallo but everyone else followed suit. Everyone was raving about the former Wizards and how we needed to resign them to larger contracts at the end of the season… all the while we were handily crushing Nash and Amare’s team in the Garden.

And we were all happy.

What a great dream.

Darko hasn’t gotten any burn since his “Michael fucking Jordan” comment to the Post…not sure there’s any correlation there.

I was rather disappointed not to see our dreaded savior get into this blowout, oh well.–what a pun.

huzzah theyre usually less good at being bad defensively as us.

“Re: Lee – for all his flaws, I don’t think there’s a player in the NBA that is as adept with both hands as him. It’s not just layups, he tosses in bank shots from 3-4 feet with his right hand.”

Lee is fully ambidextrous. He broke his left (dominant) arm and learned to play with his right.

I mostly agree on Hill. Some playing time SHOULD take away most of the jitters and SOME of the rawness. He slows down and makes a couple of those close shots and it was a completely different game for him scoring wise: 4-7 for 8 points. The defensive rawness stuck out to me, though. Out of position quite a bit in a short stretch. The block (and maybe another play or two, don’t really remember) did show us the potential. He was physically overmatched on a few plays by Robin Lopez. Lopez is a legit NBA 5 in terms of size and athleticism, but I just hate being reminded that Hill is not a 5. Lopez was the one who looked raw against the Knicks starters, but about when Hill came in he started to assert himself a little.
You’re probably right about him getting minutes later in the season. And he does seem to fight hard and fly around, which you can’t help but like. Between the block, the almost there post moves, 3 rebounds in 6 minutes (including a pure hustle offensive board), and the sweet mid-range J… I’m excited about his future.

Jon, you are right that D’Antoni has the team playing a lot better the last few games. Most of those games, anyway.

here’s my amazing stat of the night: five of NY’s last six games have been against the NBA elite: Boston, @LAL, @Denver, Orlando, Phoenix, and they’ve scored exactly as many points as they’ve given up in those games thanks to tonight’s blowout and a couple of close losses. I don’t really think Phoenix is on the level of those other four, but they did have the best record in the league coming into tonight.

I just think it was an insult to put him in with the scrubs. D’Antoni seems so set on alienating Nate and knocking him down a peg at every opportunity. Since camp he’s been ripping into him publically. It may have been a bit of a signal after Nate went one-on-one the whole 4th Q last game… He made almost everything, but it wasn’t a sustainable offensive game plan.

Who knows, maybe Nate is still not 100% after missing a few games.