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On a day where the Knicks saw their rookie spend a successful morning under the knife, one where he is expected to be pain free, the team saw another rookie knife through their defense at will.
Derrick Rose, the number one pick in this year’s draft shredded the Knicks, as he has the rest [...]

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When a team plays so well for three quarters it’s tough to want them to lose even if it does affect their lottery status.
Mike D’Antoni said the other day that they are trying to win and you wouldn’t expect him to say otherwise.
So when they come out like they did in Toronto inspired [...]

Interesting that D’Antoni rejected an idea of “evaluating” players like Courtney Sims, Joe Crawford and even Eddy Curry by giving them looks as the season winds down. D’Antoni believes the guys who are being evaluated are the guys getting the most minutes now.

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The Knicks slept walked through another first half in Denver allow for the Nuggets to shoot 70 percent from the field before, again, snapping out of it and making it a game.
Appropriate, isn’t it, that the team  forced itself to hike uphill in the Rocky Mountains only to suck wind and come up [...]

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Execute: to perform properly or skillfully the fundamentals of a sport or of a particular play.
“I’ve never had a team execute better” — Bobby Knight
Once again, the Knicks proved down the stretch that they don’t have the wherewithal to execute down the stretch when games are won [...]

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Not sure if anyone watched this game with the Elite Eight games, but the Knicks dropped yet another game tonight against the playoff hunting Bobcats.  I have said it before, but the Bobcats did a good job of remaking their roster to fit the needs of Larry Brown.  That team looks like a true [...]

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“This is a defensive effort we have not seen against the lower echelon teams…” -Mike Breen
The Knicks went toe-to-toe with the Hornets tonight and with a rare fire defensively they came away with a 10-point victory and snapped a 6-game losing streak.
Al Harrington’s 9 third quarter points and solid Knick D allowed the [...]

As I said last night, I was at the game and Mike Dunleavy totally called the tech. The official who made that call was right next to the Clippers coach and couldn’t see that Al Thorton was under Al Harrington for a brief second. He was 30 feet away. The other two officials, both with [...]