I could mention that Isiah Thomas might have considered putting Jared Jeffries on Dunleavy once he started doing the best Reggie Miller impersonation I've seen in a while. After all, what the hell is Jeffries for, if not to cool off the hot perimeter shooting of the other team? Certainly not for rebounding or offense!
But rather than to focus on that, let's take a step back and watch a few of these "Where Amazing Happens" spoofs featuring the Knicks. Here's a short one that last around 30 seconds that captures some of the ups and downs of being a Knick fan right now:
And here's a longer one, lasting a bit too much, at 2 minutes, but again capturing the ups and downs:
Here are the game notes on yesterday's Pacers-Knicks game from Slam Online. The keys in the game: Indiana brought in the Knicks' Kryptonite, namely a shot-blocking center, Jeff Foster, in the second quarter. The Knicks went 0-20 on FGs after Foster checked in. The Pacers were +22 when Foster was on the floor, and +27 when Danny Granger (2 blocks, including a stuff of Curry) was on the floor. The Knicks can't score when the big men are getting stuffed, and move away from them too quickly. Zach Randolph's had 22 point in the first half, and quick basket to start the third, and from that point on barely touched the ball.
By the way, Zach is shooting (and draining) threes now. He's turning into Rasheed Wallace/Antoine Walker right before our eyes, and I'm not sure this is going to end well, either.
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You know what's rather sad? I think Bernard King's the only charismatic scorer NY has had in the last 20 years. I was wondering the other day why Knick fans like Bernard so much still--I think it's because since then, they haven't had an athletic scoring forward. I mean, Allen Houston was a good shooter, Sprewell a slashing scorer, but nothing like Bernard. Am I completely ignorant on this? Just wondering.
Well, MCBias, I think you got most of it!
I would say this about King: He was the most explosive scorer we've ever had, period. He could drop 50 points at any time. Big men like Ewing aren't explosive... they do it slowly, and wear down. In fact, few big men have had 50+ games in the past 20 years, save for David Robinson's 71 point explosion. Compare that to guards/SF who have had 50 points... Crawford did it last year, for example.
Secondly, King was aggressive. I loved Allan Houston's smooth jumper - it was beautiful. The most textbook jumper ever. But Houston was a coach's son all the way, and he never had that mentality of "must take over the game, must impose will"; he was always looking to make the team better. Bottom line: he was never the alpha dog that King was. You give King the ball, he's going to look to score.
And score he could. Nobody I've seen was more explosive than King in his prime. I wouldn't ever say something silly like King was better than Jordan - that's not even close. But when it came to pure scoring, King in his prime was the closest thing you'll come to a Jordan-like scorer. Someone who could light it up from anywhere, and could score 30 points a season without much difficulty.
He scored 26+ ppg in '84, on 57% shooting; he upped it to 32+ppg in '85, on 53% shooting. From a 6'7 guy, those are hard to top numbers....
I simply cannot understand Isiah's coaching. Don't get it. I was thinking the exact same thing about Jeffries last night.
Anyway, I loved those video. They were well done and I could appreciate that. Thanks for the BK clip. Bernard is my favorite all-time Knick...