Shut up and play ball
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- September
- 29
Isiah Thomas used to hang all kinds of motivational notes in lockers, mostly the kind of team nonsense that plays big in Corporate America.
Rarely did it translate.
In one breath yesterday, Jamal Crawford succeeded where his former coach failed, authoring the kind of quote that’s worthy of a t-shirt. There’s no doubt it would sell. Crawford summed up exactly what a lot of the Knicks faithful are thinking.
“I don’t want to put any predictions out there, like we’re going to be in the playoffs and all that,” he said. “We have to go out there and work hard and be exciting. That’s all we really can do. The fans are tired of hearing different things. We’re tired of saying different things. We just have to go out there and do it. Shut up and play ball.”
How good was that?
Welcome to the Garden. Shut up and play ball.
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on Monday, September 29th, 2008 at 7:07 pm by Mike Dougherty.
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Jamal Crawford may be NY’s best player. I think he could have a breakout season under D’Antoni.
JC’s statement “shut up and play” only details half the equation. Perhaps it is time that the NY media shuts up and lets the Knicks play… too many writers all trying to fill too many pages with drama, you guys create issues with the Knicks in order to sell papers. Let them play before you tear them apart.
So the Knicks players might shut up and play.
but the Knicks media needs to shut up and watch.
Bring on 2008/2009
Let’s stop blaming the media for the ills of the Knicks. Should McDonalds carry the blame for obesity in this country? The Knicks have been a train wreck, and when a train wreck occurs in your back yard, you stop to look and then call all your friends. It’s not the media.
What we, as Knick fans, want more than anything else to watch the team develop on the floor. We’d all love it if we never heard a word about anything these guys do off the floor. Personally, I don’t care. I don’t know any of these guys, they’re not my friends or my family. But if they step outside the law, or make their workplace untenable for members of the opposite sex, that is news, and should be duly reported by the media. It is the media’s resposnibility to hold them accountable.