Ditto to that. Curry looks like a zombie sitting under the basket. The ball gets passed in to him, and he looks at it like he’s not quite sure what is in his hands. Before he figures it out, he’s double-teamed and left with contested shots or has to pass the ball out.

In contrast, every time Garnett would get the ball down low, he instinctively pivots and goes straight to the hoop.

Its straight up pathetic.

Smush also got arrested for choking a female valet parker over a $12 bill.

Sounds like he could be the next Dolan Delinquent on the Knick block.

He’d be a perfect fit, except for the fact that he only makes $2 million a year more than the valet-in-question instead of the customary $13 million more.

I love Balkman and hate Collins.

Both types of stats suffer from the same problem, which is that we cannot say to what extent the dependent variable is causally dependent on the condition C. Maybe Balkman helps the Knicks +/- and win% with his presence on the court. Maybe Balkman is typically on the court more in situations where the Knicks’ +/- and win% is likely to be greater than usual. Without being able to discern the direction of the effect, the stat is pretty useless.

Jesus, this has to be a new low point, the main front page article of theonion is now making fun of the Knicks:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/fire_isiah_chant_breaks_out_during

My two personal favorite segments:

Even when the chants subsided, Dolan said, Thomas still experienced other forms of hostility from all 15 board members in attendance, including multiple rounds of sarcastic clapping when Thomas talked optimistically about his team’s four wins, several thrown C-cell batteries that narrowly missed Thomas’ head, and intermittent shouts of “You suck,” “My 5-year-old daughter could do a better coaching job,” and “Die.”

In addition, when Thomas defended his coaching strategy and failed to offer any suggestions as to how he could immediately make the Knicks a better basketball team, frustrated board members began a 30-second-long “asshole” chant.

True nuff, Charley exaggerates a lot – if you took his scouting reports literally, no NBA team could beat the local Sisters of Mercy squad.

Renaldo has by far the best +/- numbers on the team (except Morris and Chandler, who have played fewer than 20 minutes apiece, all season). I know that raw +/- has major limitations… but on the extreme ends, it says a lot. In this case, that the Knicks are about 15 points better, per 100 posessions, when he’s on the floor.

A few other things that jumped out..
- Lee is actually at -6.5 per 100
- Randolph is +3.7
- Marbury is +6.5 – Knicks are nearly 4 points better on defense, but a whopping 10 points worse on offense – mainly because when he’s out, Mardy Collins comes in.
- Curry is -3.1, Crawford -2.5, Jeffries -3.3, Robinson -1.8, Jones -3.8, Q +2.1, Mardy -22.7.

Those are raw #s, over just 11 games, so take them with a large grain of salt.

http://www.82games.com/0708/0708NYK.HTM