Effort wise this was as hard as our players could play!
The did a very good job hustling-wise, even Stoudemire didn't bitch out on defense to my surprise.
Still, our star players are just not as good as the best in the league, we don't have a Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, D-Wade, Chris Paul, Dirk Nowitzki or young Tim Duncan.
Do you still believe we are going to win a championship with this roster?
I think this game was as much of an eye-opener as everything we've seen from the Knicks this season. Not because they didn't play well, I think they played very well within their limits, but the truth is we can't beat teams like Miami, the Clippers or Oklahoma in a 7 game series, not even a Baron Davis in his prime could change that.
Melo and STAT are both top 25, top 30 players - paied and hyped like top 10 players.
In today's NBA you can't win a ring without having a top 5 or two top 15 players on your roster. The days where the Pistons won it without a true star player are over, because today defensive specialists like the 2004 Ben Wallace or Tyson Chandler in our case are getting paied so much money that it eats alot of cap space, because people know how important they are, but that makes it even more important to ONLY give a max. deal to a top 10, top 12 player.
Melo and STAT are both overpaied and that's whats killing us, because we can't sign anybody else who's decent. Look at our so called supporting cast.....that's the supporting cast of a lottery team.
On a positive note, props to the guys playing hard last night. I enjoyed watching this game and I can't criticize them for anthing last night. They played hard and that's all I ever demand, you can lose games (especially to Miami), but yu gotta play hard and that's what they did, even Amar'e came out of his closet for once. Kudos to them.