Game Thread: New York Knicks @ Washington Wizards 7:00pm 10/31/2015

Melo was ballin no clue what Sasha was doing on the floor in crunch time besides shooting airballs but a win is a win. Fish still trying to figure out his rotation but he needs to give our young backcourt more PT. Still a quality win hush my mouth this team ain't that bad

Mafra, I know we've been talking about the rookies, KAT was the first teenager ever to put up a double double his first two NBA games with a 28/14 game yesterday. Might have changed the whole dynamic for the Knicks if we could have drafted him at one. Wouldn't have had to overpay for Rolo and had a starting C at rookie scale for 4 years preserving about 8M/yr in cap space for 2016. Zinger is OK but he's no KAT, KAT looking like a stud after 2 games.

Broadway said:

Good game from Melo but probably bigger impact Galloway. He made some huge shots and hustle plays.

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Melo who? The Washington Bullets/Wizards game last night were the best stats Melo had as a Knicks, and this is Melo 6th season as a Knicks. The morning sports page on the Knicks are PHONEY ...
"Anthony's 37 points lead Knicks to 117-110 win over Wizards" PHONEY!

Our last 6 games vs the Wizards they beat us badly in all 6 games do to Melo's poor leadership, and Melo's poor decision making in the final quarter.
This game was different .. In the forth-quarter Fisher finally put our win-win 3 guard offensive lineup on the court "Grant GALLOWAY and Sasha" to produce STOPS on the Wiz offensive trio weapons "Wall, Beal, Porter" to out-score the Wizards 30-20 in the 4th quarter for the WIN. Knicks Defense Won the game.

You know Clyde said in one of those pre-season games that the team wouldn't score much more than the 91ppg they scored last season. I said he was wrong, but even a guy that bleeds O&B like Clyde can be wrong.

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Tiger .. Clyde was right! If Fisher let Melo control the offense then the Knicks would never PUSH the ball.
Melo ONLY knows how to play half-court offense, fast-break hustle points are not in Melo's b.ball talent.
Its our 2nd unit that push the ball to give us 30 pts in a quarter to score above 100 pts a game when the bench players are averaging 50 or more points, plus our bench are out-playing our starters on the defensive-end of the court is being notice, their defensive-STOPS contribute to Knicks WINS.

I dont know who is more shook n scared the most from our starter bigs Lopez or KP because in every first-quarter Lopez n KP look lost on both side of the court, until O'Quinn come off the bench n show them what a dominating BIG does on offense n defense to opposing bigs. In the 2nd half of the game Lopez n KP perform like they just stepped out of a phone-booth lol
The Spurs coach Pop and David Robinson were very wise to let a NBA-Ready Star rookie Tim Duncan live in David Robinson house throughout his rookie season, so Tim Duncan could be 100% ready to be a starter his rookie season.
KP does not have any of the resources Tim Duncan had as a rookie to be a starter in the NBA as a rookie.
Phil & Fisher know KP is way over his head as a NBA starter yet they are putting KP in danger-zone (of catching a injury) as the Knicks starter for the season by never putting Lopez and O'Quinn in a lineup together in the past 3 games played.
O'Quinn has only been Lopez backup.

tiger0330 said:

Mafra, I know we've been talking about the rookies, KAT was the first teenager ever to put up a double double his first two NBA games with a 28/14 game yesterday. Might have changed the whole dynamic for the Knicks if we could have drafted him at one. Wouldn't have had to overpay for Rolo and had a starting C at rookie scale for 4 years preserving about 8M/yr in cap space for 2016. Zinger is OK but he's no KAT, KAT looking like a stud after 2 games.

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Yeah, Towns is a monster and by the time the draft rolled around, I think many, many people had come around to the idea that no one but him should have even been considered at the #1 pick. Long story short, we missed out thanks to the ping pong balls, but don't worry, Minnesota will screw up with him somehow.

I would have been OK with the ping pong balls if we had gotten the worst record but to get those 2 meaningless wins so late in the season will always make me think what if we didn't win those 2 games and wound up with the worst record.

Zinger still has time to develop but he's hardly been a guy that has come storming out of the gate like KAT.

tiger0330 said:

Mafra, I know we've been talking about the rookies, KAT was the first teenager ever to put up a double double his first two NBA games with a 28/14 game yesterday. Might have changed the whole dynamic for the Knicks if we could have drafted him at one. Wouldn't have had to overpay for Rolo and had a starting C at rookie scale for 4 years preserving about 8M/yr in cap space for 2016. Zinger is OK but he's no KAT, KAT looking like a stud after 2 games.

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Porzingis will have a better career than KAT when its all said and done. Everything happens for a reason, KP is where he needs to be and KAT is where he needs to be.

tiger0330 said:

Mafra, I know we've been talking about the rookies, KAT was the first teenager ever to put up a double double his first two NBA games with a 28/14 game yesterday. Might have changed the whole dynamic for the Knicks if we could have drafted him at one. Wouldn't have had to overpay for Rolo and had a starting C at rookie scale for 4 years preserving about 8M/yr in cap space for 2016. Zinger is OK but he's no KAT, KAT looking like a stud after 2 games.

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The only thing that made the losing bearable last season was realizing we were getting a "once in a generation" big man (Towns or Okafor). However, the trepidation remained b/c, with NYK luck, we would take the bust... While the other guy turned out to be a HOF stud. Still, I was gonna be happy with either one. But, given the local nature and natural defensive instincts, and outside shooting, I was hoping for KAT.

oh we'll... It's still a gamble, roll of the dice, and health factors into the equation, as well as system-coaching-organization... We were just lucky enough this was a deep class... I think KAT, Okafor, Mudiay, Porz will be very good players. I think there will be others too, and when we look back this will be one of the better draft classes in recent memory.

but... As a NYK fan... We were flying high on whiskey and went to bed with a KAT-like prospect, only to wake up sober looking at a snoring Porzingis.

We're 2-2 against playoff teams ... that makes me feel good inside