NYKMentality wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:i cant belive it takes this much to beat a bad team lol. The Miami game is gonna be hard to watch
Who knows if Miami's game will become hard to watch. But, I know our two 20 point victories over Miami was hard to watch in regards to Heat fans...
Knicks were a different team back then. they played defense and moved the ball great. They havent done that in 2 months
gunsnewing wrote:GustavBahler wrote:Don't believe its a coincidence that when Kidd's teammates stepped up he did as well.
They dont have a choice after Indiana
What motivated them to play smarter doesn't change my point.
2nd Qtr 0:27
TOR 48 NYK 51
yellowboy90 wrote:phantom foul
For Fields of all people
StarksEwing1 wrote:NYKMentality wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:i cant belive it takes this much to beat a bad team lol. The Miami game is gonna be hard to watch
Who knows if Miami's game will become hard to watch. But, I know our two 20 point victories over Miami was hard to watch in regards to Heat fans...
Knicks were a different team back then. they played defense and moved the ball great. They havent done that in 2 months
Exactly. We aren't shooting the three at that level either. Miami is also a different team, LeBron is on absolute fire and is having one of the best seasons for a perimeter player ever.
Iso Crawford leads to Iso Melo/Iso JR continuing a long Knicks history of closing out quarters, halves and games with clear outs.
TeamBall wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:phantom foul
For Fields of all people
me Earl on the same page. 
Melo gets wacked at least 2-3 times a game with no call.
That was a good 1st half for the Knicks overall. Some mistakes and laziness, but they didn't give in to that and Woody cracked the whip a bit. Effort was better tho not where it needs to be yet. Maybe they can play a perfect 2nd half.
Why didn't Novak shoot it?
Instead he gave it to Melo who was covered by 2 guys with basicaly no time on the clock.
Great play.
No call on Melo but phantom for Fields. Worst whistle in the league.
And how many times have they called a travel already? weird.
yellowboy90 wrote:No call on Melo but phantom for Fields. Worst whistle in the league.
I don't ever expect a good whistle for the Knicks anymore. We've been shafted by refs for years. Melo is NOT given the star treatment.
Too close for comfort but really appreciate the energy/effort we played with. You can tell how we're playing we lost by 34 points last game. Came out fighting at least. Defense picked up during the 2nd quarter. We've also out assisted and out rebounded Toronto there in the first half. All of this is expected against a Raptors team though. We need to win this game no matter the score. Nice to see us contain/shut down both Gay and DeRozan.
We shot good, but it's all for not. We need to cut down the turnovers. 9 turnovers during the first half is 4-5 too many. Shooting 50% but way too many mistakes.
OGkush121 wrote:Why didn't Novak shoot it?
Instead he gave it to Melo who was covered by 2 guys with basicaly no time on the clock.
Great play.
Maybe because 99% of the time melo gets the ball lol
At this point I'd rather give Copeland some of Novak's minutes and see what he can do. Maybe it will light a fire under Novak. He needs one.
nixluva wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:No call on Melo but phantom for Fields. Worst whistle in the league.
I don't ever expect a good whistle for the Knicks anymore. We've been shafted by refs for years. Melo is NOT given the star treatment.
Nah. He's not. But then again, Melo refuses to kiss the ass of these refs. I respect him for that, but he has too much pride. Treats the ref as an enemy and in return, the refs allow defenders to murder Melo off the blocks. Forget kissing the refs ass, just stop arguing with these guys.
I guess all we can hope for is that the squad shows improvement w/each game and each practice.
This is pretty much the dudes we got for the next 2-3 seasons. Positive thoughts
