Good thing the Giants distracted us for a little. Brought the morale up :p
verndogs
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Originally posted by Trancealot
Lets go for 7 in a row!! :wtf:
Good thing the Giants distracted us for a little. Brought the morale up :p
That will be the logic Dolan uses to extend Isiah's contract
verndogs
Knicks lose by 40 to the Sixers yesterday :crazy: :crazy:
Trancealot
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Originally posted by verndogs
Knicks lose by 40 to the Sixers yesterday :crazy: :crazy:
1.Go back to the sports forum where you can rant about "actual professionals play" :whip: :p
2. Did you get to see the the end of the wizards game..
By seasons end it will be a sad sight.
3. I watched the sun vs kobe I mean Laker game. Kobe is 41 as always and shaq was suprising good for his age and what not. As long as Gasol does his thing and well he did last night :eyes: the lakers are and will keep up with the best.
4. One more: I am in a youtube mood
:) :toothless
BiG MiKE
^ Stephen doesn't hear them ranting his name or what?
verndogs
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Originally posted by BiG MiKE
^ Stephen doesn't hear them ranting his name or what?
He does, but he's just ignoring them.
verndogs
This is one of the funnier articles I've read about the disaster known as the 2007-2008 Knicks season
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‘Knicks in 60’: Too Much Failure to Edit It All Out
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
With its “Knicks in 60” replay vehicle, MSG has a tool with which it can alter history. A loss doesn’t have to look so awful, a win can look a smidgen better through deft editing from two and a half hours to 60 minutes.
In an environment where Madison Square Garden tightly controls everything except what happens on the arena’s hardwood or ice (or in a federal courtroom), the temptation to turn a video debacle like the Knicks’ 124-84 loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday night into something tolerable must be immense.
If I were running MSG, I would kill “Knicks in 60” after losses, or reduce it to “Knicks in 6.” Six minutes is enough to demonstrate how this misbegotten team has failed. Is there any reason to run a 60-minute version up to four times when a 360-second recap would suffice?
To MSG’s credit, plenty of miserable moments from the Sixers’ trampling of the Knicks survived the shrinkage from live to 60 minutes.
Most importantly, with about 90 seconds left in the game at Wachovia Center, viewers heard shouts of “Fire Isiah,” which have taken on the character of Gregorian chants at the Garden. Gus Johnson, substituting as the play-by-play announcer for Mike Breen, noted the familiar sound and said, “Lots of Knick fans in attendance.”
That was not excised, which suggests the network’s credibility, frayed over the years by the way it doesn’t cover bad news about itself, is not gone.
Or perhaps the Garden’s happy warrior, James L. Dolan, was not watching.
Here are some other survivors of MSG’s editing:
¶Coach Isiah Thomas’s blank stares and icy glares.
¶Renaldo Balkman’s spectacular missed jam.
¶Walt Frazier’s rebuke of the Knicks’ “tired and uninspired” play when they were trailing, 29-15, in the first quarter, “and it’s too early for that,” and of Thomas for leaving Jamal Crawford in too long.
¶Regular reminders of the ever-increasing number of points scored by Philadelphia on Knicks turnovers. And noting when the Sixers had as many points on turnovers as the Knicks had points.
¶Genuine excitement in Johnson’s voice for several Sixers plays.
¶A montage of a great steal and jam by the Sixers’ Andre Igoudola.
¶Frazier saying “Knick fans don’t want a repeat of the fiasco in Boston and this is reminiscent of that game” — a 104-59 loss Nov. 29.
¶Johnson connecting the Sixers’ on-court verve to the contract extension given Coach Maurice Cheeks — an inadvertent mocking of the Knicks’ 3-15, end-of-season response to Thomas being similarly rewarded last year.
But by editing out a break with the Sixers ahead, 121-76, “Knicks in 60” viewers missed the misleading promo to buy tickets to Friday’s game against Toronto, at which fans can experience Knicks “passion” and “excitement.”
MSG had a big chance to fast-forward through intramural squabbling Tuesday night, but preserved for “Knicks in 60” the incident during a timeout in the Wizards game when Zach Randolph tossed water at Nate Robinson.
Yes, this is what should be done. Perhaps even Dolan knows that the evidence is so strong that the Knicks are a disaster than he cannot ordain optimism where the sun never shines. The best he can hope for is for his announcers to trumpet effort when the players break a sweat in unison. Or maybe he can’t watch his team’s games any more than many of its fans can.
Knicks’ ratings this season have slid by 26 percent to a 1.07 (or 79,094 TV households) from a 1.44 (106,084 households). The game against the Sixers found only 30,306 households willing to endure it, and when it came time for the first “Knicks in 60” at 1 a.m., only 5,913 homes tuned in.
The night before, the legitimately thrilling overtime win over the Wizards generated a .95 rating. Not great, but closer to the season average.
Regular failure sends whole households fleeing. But success is rewarded: for the first time in at least a dozen years, MSG says, the Rangers’ rating (a 1.1, with 81,310 TV homes) exceeds the Knicks’. Of course, the Rangers are a winning team and the Knicks trailed Wednesday night, 102-57.
CABLE UNREADY The N.B.A. All-Star Game is so heavily hyped by the league and by TNT that it may lead you to believe that viewers are flocking to watch the midseason extravaganza.
But since the game fled from its broadcast home at NBC to its cable perch at TNT, viewership has fallen 52 percent, from 13.1 million in 2002 to 6.3 million last Sunday from New Orleans.
A comparison: the shift of the N.F.L.’s Pro Bowl to a broadcast network rotation increased viewership from 5.9 million on ESPN in 2006, to 6.9 million on CBS last year, to 9.9 million earlier this month on Fox.
everytime the knicks are made fun of too much they win
:p
I am sticking with Playoffs or game over for isiah.
trade deadline gone and deadline to make playoffs is near.
Its like right now Knicks are at their bottom with the record shown, the way they treat each other past few games. Only can get better right? except for the heat :nervous:
Trancealot
Well who ever wanted one wish to come true for the knicks..
PS. If he does leave and goes to another team add it long long and sad list of get the money and run people over the past 10 years.
Knicks instead of a bball team they could be the best homeless shelter in the land. They love giving away tons and tons of money so thats key and well their court is never used during the playoffs so open free space withering away on the off season:toothless
Playoffs or get rid of Isaish. 2nd on wish list
chanman7483
We shoudln't even be thinking about the playoffs. Get a top 3 draft pick and turn the franchise around. If we can somehow get Beasley, it's going to turn this franchise around. Well, we'd have to get rid of Curry first, but yeah.
verndogs
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Originally posted by chanman7483
We shoudln't even be thinking about the playoffs. Get a top 3 draft pick and turn the franchise around. If we can somehow get Beasley, it's going to turn this franchise around. Well, we'd have to get rid of Curry first, but yeah.
It ain't going to turn around until Isiah is gone (even if Kiki gets the GM position, Isiah still sucks even if he focused his full time duties as a head coach)and Dolan realizes he shouldn't meddle in a sport he has absolutely no clue about.
verndogs
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NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks will turn their basketball operations over to Donnie Walsh on Wednesday.
The Knicks will announce the hiring of Walsh as their new president at a news conference, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been made official yet. The press conference is at 1 p.m. at Madison Square Garden.
Walsh, the longtime Indiana Pacers executive, will replace Isiah Thomas as president. Thomas is also the Knicks' coach.
Thomas' future remains unclear. He has repeatedly said he expects to be with the Knicks next season, but that likely will be up to Walsh -- who hired Thomas to coach the Pacers in 2000.
The Knicks fell to 20-54 with a 119-115 overtime loss at Milwaukee on Tuesday. They continue their five-game road trip Wednesday at Memphis.
Donnie Walsh
Walsh
Word of Walsh's hiring came long after the loss to the Bucks, but Thomas was asked following the game if he would have any regrets if his tenure as coach was ending.
"No, I look back and I look at what we started with and where we're going and I think we have a very bright future," Thomas said.
Walsh recently announced he was leaving the Pacers after 24 years with the organization. He joined the Pacers' front office as general manager in 1986, became team president in 1988 and CEO in 2003. He helped the franchise rise from NBA laughingstock to title contender.
Indiana reached the Eastern Conference finals six times and won the Central Division four times during Walsh's stay as an executive. The Pacers reached the NBA Finals in 2000, when they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers, and had the league's best record in 2004.
"I've often, when I needed some basketball advice, he's on a short list of people that I pick up the phone and call around the league for just basketball matters," NBA commissioner David Stern said last week. "And he works and works and works."
Walsh has had a lesser role in recent years since the Pacers hired Larry Bird as their president in 2003. Walsh had previously said he wouldn't reveal any plans about his future until after the season.
The Knicks haven't won a playoff game since Thomas arrived as president in December 2003 and could be headed for the first 60-loss season in franchise history. Still, Madison Square Garden chairman James Dolan has remained loyal to Thomas, though he has not spoken to the media since rewarding him with a multiyear contract extension last March.
Reports surfaced late last month that Dolan had preliminary talks with Walsh. Negotiations moved quickly, with the Knicks apparently not even interviewing anyone else for the job.
