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Game Thread: Knicks at Bucks- 11/21/08

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Well, friends, the floor just fell out from under the 2008-2009 New York Knicks. They showed some promise, but "some promise" ain't Donnie Walsh's business. No, we've got bigger plans. Such plans call for patience, though, and patience begins tonight. The Knicks will face the Bucks with a sparse lineup that wouldn't even be helped that much by the incoming players. Writing a game thread now feels a little like Drew Carey introducing Whose Line Is It Anyway?-  "Welcome to the New York Knicks: The team where half the players are guests and the points don't count!" Going into night one of limbo, I've got some questions:

- Stephon Marbury has been activated, meaning the Knicks have 9 healthy bodies for tonight's game. Will Steph play? On a scale from "1" to "Glen Rice's entire New York tenure", how awkward might that be?

- Who starts? Lee will surely step in for Randolph, but who gets Crawford's spot? Does Quentin Richardson slide down? Does Marbury, of all people, start? I bet Robinson gets the go at 2, but look for Anthony Roberson to get actual minutes.

- Dammit, I wish Danilo Gallinari was healthy right now. Can someone set Il Gallo up with a back transplant? I'll give him mine, I swear.

Last time the Knicks played the Bucks, Andrew Bogut and Charlie Villanueva beasted all over the undersized frontline. The frontcourt just got even more undersizeder, so get psyched for more beatdowns to come. The rest of this season's going to be an offensive lovefest with little defense to be seen. The Wait begins tonight.

Upon attempting to finish this post, I realized we may have to retire my signature game thread phrase. Zach Randolph was the inventor of "Get them W's", and it doesn't feel right to use it without him. Thoughts on a new line to punctuate my threads?

Tipoff's at 8:30. Check out Brew Hoop for all your Milwaukee coverage of tonight's matchup.

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so...

we should root for them to lose, right?

it’ll be like the last two months of last season all over again.

Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!

by Anthony Masons Haircut on Nov 21, 2008 7:00 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

nah

i don’t think they even need us.

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 7:25 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

starters

du (playing with a stiff back), nate, q, wil, and dlee at the 5.

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 8:40 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

so as i understand it

only four players are under contract through 2010:
Curry/JJ ($18M combined), and Gallo/Chandler on their rookie deals (about $5.5M combined).

i still have a feeling that Curry is the last piece to go, and that the Knicks will almost have to package Lee (assuming Chandler is untouchable) with him for any team to take that trade.

Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!

by Anthony Masons Haircut on Nov 21, 2008 8:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

that may be the case

i can’t imagine anyone willingly taking curry by himself. jerome james has a player option in ‘10. i’m not quite sure how that works.

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 8:45 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

that's what i thought too

but all the articles i’ve seen have said the Knicks have gotten down to four players.

as a side note, NBA.com is saying that the Clips threw in a future 2nd round pick in the Z-Bo deal as well. have you heard anything about that?

Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!

by Anthony Masons Haircut on Nov 21, 2008 8:49 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

hadn't heard that

that’d be very nice. i’ll check with my sources (aka read the same articles you’re looking at)

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 8:50 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

also

chicago has our second rounder this year, so it’d be great to get that back from somebody.

oh, is there a game going on right now?

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 9:18 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Man...

..the Knicks just don’t have scorers anymore. Al Harrington and Cuttino Mobley ain’t gonna change that too much either.

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 8:56 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

down 23

malik just bricked a 3. i think i’m going to turn this off.

by Seth on Nov 21, 2008 10:27 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I was about to say

something smarmy, like “WELCM 2 REBULIDNG LOLZ”.

But this game is really an aberration. I think that we’ll stay relatively competative over the next two years , by which I mean I’d be surprised if we had 20 win seasons., Harrington’ll fit in well and Mobley won’t be too shabby either.

Tonight was incredibly undermined, and I wouldn’t read much into this game as a microcosm of the next two years.

by twincitiesknick on Nov 22, 2008 1:01 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

on it...

Loozapalooza about to happen.

Cya Wraith

by wraith on Nov 22, 2008 5:17 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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