Comments on: Unsung Knick History – Four and a Half Davids Beat a Goliath (Named David)

By: massive

massive — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:23:53 +0000

@14,

Apparently he injured it in a win against France earlier this month, and he’s dying to play. I hope he can play, experience at the international level should help develop his game.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:36 +0000

Did anyone see this?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/basketball/canada-limping-to-world-championships/article1685442/

“Rautins will announce his world roster Friday and there’s a chance it won’t include his son, the team’s starting point guard. Rautins injured his surgically-repaired left knee earlier this month.”

By: DS

DS — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:01:31 +0000

@12 – Yep. And Jerome Jordan signed w/ a Serbian team:
http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68856/20100826/jordan_signs_with_kk_hemofarm_vrsac/el/

By: adrenaline98

adrenaline98 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:57:36 +0000

No news about it on front page so I figure I’d point out that the Knicks signed Fields today.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68857/20100826/knicks_sign_fields_to_contract/

Not surprising after his summer league performances. Fields tweeted it himself.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:08:19 +0000

even if this game lacked the historical importance of some of the other Unsung columns.

Just to not give a false impression, this column has always intended to feature memorable games as well as events and decisions (I even say “games, events and decisions” in the opening). I probably should have gone to a game earlier to not give people the wrong idea!

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:12:41 +0000

This game plus winning in Seattle in OT in January were the highlights of the Don Nelson Era.

One thing that sucks about living in Miami and not having DirecTV (have Comcast instead) is that I obviously dont have the MSG network and cant see all these great old-school Knicks stuff like was mentioned above. Thankfully I have been able to find and download a bunch of Knicks playoff games from the 90′s on the internet and when Im bored I just watch them since I have many of them saved on my laptop. Great memories obviously plus the biggest thing as someone mentioned above is the atmosphere in the Garden during these games plus just the overall intensity is something I truly miss.

By: Robert Silverman

Robert Silverman — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:01:42 +0000

I saw the Nix-Pacers in 60 show too. The thing is, the mid-90′s ‘Bockers are always being held up as an example of pro basketball at it’s nadir — clutching, grabbing, ugly shots, etc.

But to echo what’s been said above, while the style of play wasn’t aesthetically pretty, I can’t imagine a casual fan not loving the intensity of play, all-out hustle, and pure drama

By: Z

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:15:05 +0000

“Cage was coming off of his epic 1987-88 rebounds-per-game title over Charles Oakley of the Chicago Bulls (Cage averaged 13.0277778 rebounds per game in 72 games while the Oak Man averaged precisely 13 per game in 82 games)”

That was epic. And since you bring it up, you should probably mention how Cage got .02 rebounds more than Oak. In order to win the rebounding title he needed 29 rebounds in the last game. He got 30.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198804240LAC.html

By: Z

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:11:12 +0000

Nelson actually had a better winning% that season than Van Gundy did. He was just suffering from what Riley saw coming– an aging roster that hadn’t been upgraded. He tried to make them more offensively oriented after the grind-it-out Riley years. The roster wasn’t able to perform that way, though. Van Gundy re-instituted Riley’s philosophy, and though the results weren’t any better, he had the fortune of beating the historically great Bulls by 32 points for his first career win, then went on to sweep a pathetic Cavs team, and lose a respectable series to the Bulls. Then Grunfeld upgraded the roster, and Van Gundy was able to reap all the rewards that Nelson didn’t last long enough to enjoy…

By: Z

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:06:11 +0000

Great read Brian– even if this game lacked the historical importance of some of the other Unsung columns. Anyway to tie it in to events that happened later in the season? Like the game pumped up Herb Williams’ trade value so he could be dealt to the Raptors with Doug Christie, freeing up enough salary to sign Allan Houston? Or maybe San Antonio realized they needed even MORE size, and traded for Charles Smith a few weeks later, allowing the Knicks to absorb Larry Johnson’s contract?