Knicks · Other games thread.......Place to chat about games on TV not Knicks. (page 268)

Hersports85 wrote:Curry is a beast. Enough Said. If he can stay healthy, watch out!

Dude is amazing...Never seen a pg shoot the way he can shoot it. Some of these bombs he makes are either off balance, under extreme duress or with an unreal super quick release...

It's not because Denver doesn't have a star, they are simply getting out played in every sense.

Hey I thought they'd play much better but GS has everything going for them. They can't miss. Good for them young teams can prosper in this league...GSW may just have the best up and coming talent in the league. Wish we had much of their talent.

Denver Lose! It's Melo's fault.

Anyways, I don't think Dwight will sign with the Lakers, but then again I wouldn't want to build my team around him- he has such a losers mentality, it's been embarrassing to watch the past 2 seasons.

smackeddog wrote:So Dwight Howard elbowed the Spurs Center in the face in the 1st Q and only got a technical (see it on the game recap on nba.com). How come JR got a flagrant 2 and a suspension? Lame!

Anyways, I don't think Dwight will sign with the Lakers, but then again I wouldn't want to build my team around him- he has such a losers mentality, it's been embarrassing to watch the past 2 seasons.

Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, LA.

The East would be his best bet if he wanted to compete next year.

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Plus they could try to trade Horford for a shooting PF.

Then again as long as MDA is still coach, the role players will always look like the superstars, and the superstars will always look bad!

ChuckBuck wrote:I can't see Dwight back with the Lakers for some reason. Doesn't seem like the pieces fit at all in LA.

Then again as long as MDA is still coach, the role players will always look like the superstars, and the superstars will always look bad!

I dont see Dwight Howard going back to the Lakers unless he doesn't care about winning a championship. The Lakers are capped out until summer 2014.

I guess we will see how much Dwight Howard really wants to be in a major market. He is only 27.

AnubisADL wrote:

Up until that last game I would have been ok with Howard becoming a Knick. He was looking to get tossed in a deciding game and left his teammates to handle the mess. Lakers should have nothing to do with him, should never be in the same sentence as past Laker greats. On a side note that was apparently the 14th playoff loss in 15 games for D'Antoni. Too many injuries to make a splash this year but I still believe he was part of the problem, but definitely not all of it.

That whole Brandon Jennings guarantee was transparently self serving. If he wasn't about to become a restricted free agent I doubt he would have been so bold with his prediction. I think he wants to play in a major market.

Jennings doesnt want to be in Milwaukee unless he is being overpaid. He wants a large market. I see him taking the QO which means he will lose his bird rights if traded.

AnubisADL wrote:Dwight Howard is still a BEAST and I would welcome him to the Knicks. He would definitely open things up for Melo on the wings.

Jennings doesnt want to be in Milwaukee unless he is being overpaid. He wants a large market. I see him taking the QO which means he will lose his bird rights if traded.

I know what Howard can do but I also see what he can't do and that's stay with a team without throwing everyone around him under the bus. If by some fluke he became a Knick I would welcome him like I welcomed Spree, baggage and all. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

I get the feelings that Jennings made that prediction with the intention of being traded. I don't think you do that knowing that the defending champs will do everything they can to sweep and make the Bucks look bad unless you have ulterior motives. Doubt it was meant to fire up his team.

GustavBahler wrote:I know what Howard can do but I also see what he can't do and that's stay with a team without throwing everyone around him under the bus. If by some fluke he became a Knick I would welcome him like I welcomed Spree, baggage and all. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

I get the feelings that Jennings made that prediction with the intention of being traded. I don't think you do that knowing that the defending champs will do everything they can to sweep and make the Bucks look bad unless you have ulterior motives. Doubt it was meant to fire up his team.

The Bucks arent going to trade Jennings. The Bucks can have cap space and guys still wont sign there unless they are being overpaid.

Jennings best bet is to resign to a 3 year deal then leave. If he takes the QO he is screwed since any team he gets traded to wont have his bird rights. Knowing Jennings he wont care. Probably wants to play in LA when the Lakers have cap space next summer.

"At the end of the day, it has to be a collective effort and it has to jell; the system has to work for everybody," World Peace told CBS Sports Radio in an interview Saturday. "And you have to be the best team with the best coaches and the best players, and it has to make sense; it has to connect. For us, it just didn't connect. It wasn't [anybody's] fault. It just didn't happen.

"It's not necessarily about having the best names," he said. "It's about being the best team. So this year, I felt we had the most talent. It just wasn't translating and it didn't connect. We didn't connect with Coach Brown, and then Bernie [Bickerstaff] comes in we connect with Coach Bernie, and Coach D'Antoni comes in and it works for a little bit and then it doesn't work and then it works really well toward the end of the season. ... It's nobody's fault; it just didn't happen. We just did not connect."

As it turned out, the talent, reputations, pride and egos that collided when the Lakers added Nash and Howard required some tough love -- some confrontation -- in order to connect the dots. And with Brown and D'Antoni, two coaches whose positive attributes did not include the Jackson-like ability to confront and demand, the players never got that -- and they never gave the coaches a chance to give it to them.

"I feel like at times the Lakers did not let the coaches coach," World Peace said. "The players, we didn't let them do their job. So now you get the crowd's chanting, 'We want Phil, we want Phil,' and things like that, which is not a bad thing. But at the same time, you have to take some responsibility for the season. The fans can't blame Coach D'Antoni, can't blame Coach Brown for a season like this. It's a collective effort.

"Sometimes, we didn't let the coaches coach, and sometimes the coaches didn't coach," World Peace said. "So it goes both ways. Sometimes a coach can get in a tough situation where they respect these All-Stars so much that they don't want to rub people the wrong way. So sometimes I felt we should've been rubbed the wrong way. Sometimes I felt like Coach Brown could've rubbed us more the wrong way. Even Coach D'Antoni could've rubbed us the wrong way sometimes."

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/ken-be...

So, if you were the Lakers, would you amnesty Kobe. Its, cold, cold, cold, but it would save you over $76mil next season. Amnesty MWP and trade Gasol for cap space, and you can start a rebuild. I'm not sure- it's probably the right move logically (doubt he's going to play at a high level), but I don't think I could do it after everything he did for that franchise.

AnubisADL wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:I know what Howard can do but I also see what he can't do and that's stay with a team without throwing everyone around him under the bus. If by some fluke he became a Knick I would welcome him like I welcomed Spree, baggage and all. Hope it doesn't come to that though.

I get the feelings that Jennings made that prediction with the intention of being traded. I don't think you do that knowing that the defending champs will do everything they can to sweep and make the Bucks look bad unless you have ulterior motives. Doubt it was meant to fire up his team.

The Bucks arent going to trade Jennings. The Bucks can have cap space and guys still wont sign there unless they are being overpaid.

Jennings best bet is to resign to a 3 year deal then leave. If he takes the QO he is screwed since any team he gets traded to wont have his bird rights. Knowing Jennings he wont care. Probably wants to play in LA when the Lakers have cap space next summer.

They might not trade Jennings but I get the feeling Jennings wants to leave. If Jennings doesn't want to leave he has a strange way of showing it. He must have known that picking a fight with the Heat was going to end badly. Maybe its a lack of maturity and nothing else. Guess we'll find out over the summer.