The whole player introduction sequence was way over the top, with smoke. I liked the video presentation celebrating the great moments in franchise history.
Needless to say, they stopped with Larry Johnson’s dramatic playoff four-point play.
There was a nice montage of the current players looking all serious, then a Go New York Go rap from Q-Tip, which actually had the fans sitting in silence. And when I say loud … Stephon Marbury was sticking his fingers in his ears.
James Dolan is on the baseline. He’s sitting up straight for the moment.
The fans were generally very enthusiastic, but forgot one golden rule. I don’t care who it happens to be, the best player on the visiting team should always get booed the loudest. The fans cheered loudly for Dwyane Wade.
At the other end, Marbury was introduced first with the reserves. Eddy Curry got booed. David Lee was the first starer brought onto the floor, and Mike D’Antoni was introduced last to the loudest ovation.
Here we go.
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The way it should be. Double digit lead at halftime, and still no sign of Marbury or Curry.
I’m extremely impressed with how they look tonight. What a difference already.
Knicks looked good tonight. Big win to start tonight. This is the the way you wanna see the play, because they didn’t do anything spectacularly but did all the important things well enough. And this is the way they’re going to play in most of their wins.
Not happy with the lead they blew. But I can live with that. It’s pretty hard to maintain any big lead in the NBA. (Daequan Cook, another in a long of mediocre bench players who kill the Knicks I guess)
Philly and Milwaukee are winnable games coming up. This win is definitely cause for some (tempered) optimism. Gotta build on this win.
[Seeing Wilson Chandler get heavy minutes this year is going to be a thrill]
I agree. Very positive game tonight, and I loved Chandler’s heavy minutes. This was an important game for the fans, and the Knicks did not let us down!b
as much as i hate eddy curry i felt bad when they booed him like that
I don’t. I understand that Eddy was sick for a week during pre-season, but he still came in out of shape! The guy knew for a long time that he’d HAVE to be in tip top once D’Antoni was hired.
He Deserved it!
Whew!
I thought they were going to blow it there for a minute – especially when Nate had his crazy dribble there before being fouled for the second time in the waning moments.
But this is what winning teams do – they figure out a way to win, doesn’t matter how.
For all of the LB teams that lost on the final possession because no one but Penny could in-bound the ball or set up a final shot, and for all of the Isiah teams that would have mad-dashes of their own to make it interesting in the 4th, but come up short – hoorah for this win!
But, then again, it was over a Miami team that only won 15 games last year. So happy for today, but definitely need to focus on the whole ‘one game at at time’ thing.