Back to work
So the Knicks are getting taped up and stretched out right now, getting ready for practice following a day off.
It seems a little unusual that Isiah Thomas allowed the day of rest. He often practiced after back-to-back sets early on last season, but with the heavy minutes the starters are piling up right now, more time off is required.
Spent most of my down time being lazy except for a couple of chores around the house. I did happen to see half a dozen replays of Eddy Curry blocking Deron Williams.
Why is the knockdown such a surprise?
“I don’t know, man,” Curry said. “That’s not the first block of my career.”
Honestly, it’s because he was only a role player in the biggest win of the season. And here’s the good new on that front, the forever developing middleman was looking to make a little noise. Maybe he is no longer happy about being a shrinking violet.
“Definitely,” Curry said. “I wasn’t able to really leave my mark on the game on offense, so I just wanted to somehow, someway get something going on the defensive end. Plays like that really get me amped up and gets the team going and it feels good.”
More coming after practice. Check back.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I wanted to weigh in on the last couple of threads:
Mike,
That’s a great quote from Jason Hart. Nice Job, thanks.
On the coaches as failures thread: I don’t think Riley or Van Gundy (or Ewing) were failures for not winning a championship. Those teams were so limited offensively, I think they pushed them as far as they could and did it with defense. Another guard might have bettered Starks’ 3 for 18 in 1994 game 7 but may not have done the job defensively. They were close throughout that game, despite the brutal shooting.
The whole Ewing era I thirsted for the kind of players we have now. People who can do something athletic and put the ball in the basket. We see, though that the one extreme (all D) is probably better than the other (all O). Ewing and Riley won alot, hence, not failures. Isaiah Thomas, Marbury, Curry, not so far.
November 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Sorry Dan, you hit a never. I’ve always wanted to know why Riley didn’t go with Rolando Blackman when Starks was misfiring. I once heard Riley interviewed and he said that was his biggest mistake, he should have gone with Blackman. For those that don’t remember, Blackman was a very good shooting guard at the end of his career. For that season he was a 8 min. a game kind of player but for one game in a championship series when Starks was so obviously screwed in the head. I still remember yelling at the TV.