-The New York Knicks 2012-2013 Season Thread-

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  1. displacedfan

    displacedfan Well-Known Member

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    I didn't say when the series will take place, I just said a playoff series. That's not too unrealistic. We made the playoffs last year nad the year before, without injuries we should make it again
     
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    Btw Lakers lost to the 4-17 Cavs tonight...Post game conference, Dantoni got mad at the reporter haha

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    lol, you're talking about the Nets right???

    In what universe is there any doubt whatsoever the Knicks are making the playoffs this year
     
  4. displacedfan

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    Deathstar said keep calm? I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility this is a playoff matchup. Before the season I thought it would be a 4-5 or 3-6 Nets with the better seed, maybe the other way around now.
     
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    The only question is where in the conference top four the Knicks will finish. Heat probably ends up on top but Knicks have a shot at that spot. I think most likely is 2nd seed
     
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    I think Miami 1, Knicks 2

    Nets will be 3-5 I imagine
     
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    Okay that first picture had me dying. Awesome pic.

    Poor D'antoni. He's in a bad situation again and it's not really his fault.
     
  8. GordonGecko

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    He signed the contract, right? If he were smarter he would have waited to coach a crappy team like the Wizards where he has upside potential or in a dead media market like portland
     
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    No coach prefers to go to a losing team. D'antoni is tired of losing. The Knicks dragged him through the ringer rebuilding the team for 4 years straight. He wants to win, and what better a place, than the rebuilt LA Lakers with his favorite and best PG he's ever worked with and a big defensive brute center. Teams don't magically click when you put big superstars together. Even with the Heat it took well over a year to get the chemistry rolling. Same with the Knicks. The Lakers will be really good next year. They are still learning D'antoni's system right now so you can expect bumps and bruises along the way. Wait until Nash comes back and they get a good half season under their belts.
     
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    Regardless of hindsight, the Knicks DID give up too much. It took them a solid year and a half to recover from that. They were so thin during that time and had no bench or depth at all. Bill Walker was starting for goodness sake. It took 2 off seasons and 2 drafts for the team to recover and get their depth back. Now I agree that the trade did eventually work out, but looking back and claiming that we actually didn't give too much is absurd. We over payed, plain and simple. And it's not because of Mozgov... It was because of Raymond Felton. When he left, our last bit of ball movement left. We brought in Billups for Felton, which should have never happened. Keep them out of the trade, and maybe throw in fields, but that killed us. Billups is a stop and popper, not a distributor. We played a solid year and a half without a good starting PG that can distribute the ball, besides a slight tease from Jeremy Lin. Baron Davis was well past his prime and Mike Bibby was below average at best. Toney Douglass was the longest tenured Knick for a while and he was garbage. Now that we have Felton back, we're looking very promising again. Kidd and Pirgioni are a big part of it as well. If we had kept him, who knows, Felton would probably have more chemistry with everybody, but then again maybe he plays well and then we can't afford to resign him. Who knows. Everything's easy in hindsight, but the trade was definitely lopsided and the Nuggets had better post seasons than we did both of the first 2 years.
     
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    I disagree, the trade was the right move and we didn't give up too much. Who knows what occurs with Felton, he could have gone CHA/POR on us and been a waste. Billups was a good steady hand. We also lost out starting PG and starting PF in the first playoff series and starting PG, SG, PF against the Heat. Not really fair judgements. The trade absolute benefited us. Only 1 team in recent years has won without "that" guy, and that was the Pistons. Besides that, you need that guy, and Melo is that guy. The Melo trade also led to Chandler. We did not overpay at all, we made a solid trade to get a star. Our main problem, as we see now, when we first got Melo was Melo was at the 3 and D'Antoni couldn't connect with him. Woodson connected to JR and Melo much better than D'Antoni.

    Side note, I like D'Antoni and felt bad that he had to leave, but he just didn't fit. What Melo is doing now, is what D'Antoni had Melo doing in London and trying to turn Melo into.
     
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    Felton drives me crazy.
     
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    'Antoni couldn't even look Woodson in the eye as he shook hands in a microsecond. Class asshole all the way. Fucking loser of a failed coach getting exactly what he deserves
     
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    Knicks have like 32 more 3s made than turnovers this season.

    That has never been done over the course of a season in NBA history.

    I doubt the Knicks pull it off either, but a pretty impressive stat considering it's mid-December.
     
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    35-11 under Woodson, 20-1 at MSG.

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    caption this
     
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    Nice Poe....
     
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    Shoots way too much, forces shots left and right...3 for 12, 9 for 30, 9 for 26
     
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    LOL...too skinny though...
     

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