Game Thread: Knicks vs. Raptors- 2/20/08
by Seth on Feb 20, 2009 6:20 PM EST
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Good evening urrybody. Tonight marks the first matchup between the Knicks and Raptors this season. In preparation, I traded a few answers and questions with Romy of HoopHeadsNorth.com. You can check out my answers to his questions over there.
P&T: Do you expect the Raptors to let Shawn Marion's contract expire at the end of this year, or might Colangelo see him as a long-term fit? What would you do if it were up to you?
HHN: I think it's pretty much a risk free move as you have the options. You see how Marion plays for the rest of the season, and if you like what you see with him playing with Bosh-Calderon-Bargnani, you sign him for longer. Trading for Marion gave the Raptors so many options and will still have enough money to sign another mid-level player. I like really like Marion as a player and think he can do much more than Jermaine O'Neal would have done. If it was me, I personally would keep Marion in the long-term and then sign a good F-C player to come off of the bench.
P&T: This Jay Triano fellow seems like a friendly enough coach. Do you think he's strictly interim, or is Triano full-time material?
HHN: Personally, I like Triano and had high hopes for him as he's a Canadian product and would like to see him do well. Unfortunately, just the way the Raptors' season has gone this year, Triano had stepped into a pile of doo-doo and was forced to try and turn it around. The Raps poor play will unjustly reflect on him when I believe other factors have contributed to the Raps horrid season. If he had walked in fresh into a new season, I think things would be different. I personally think Triano will be here until season's end and then Colangelo will shop around for a new coach.
I must say though, he is pretty friendly and if you ever watch a post-game interview, even if the raptors play horrible, he never sells out the players. It's nice but can be hard to watch sometimes especially when it's the players who just didn't show any effort.
P&T: The Raptors have perhaps the coolest guy in the NBA in Nathan Jawai, an indigenous Australian who's built like Shaq and got his first NBA points the other night. Can we expect more minutes for this living legend?
HHN: I think so, I think he was supposed to go to the D-League a while back but when J.O. got injured, they kept him on the roster. I want him to do well but his skills are so raw, it would be good for him to go to the D-League and actually play. He'll get garbage time minutes with the Raps but I think that'll be about it.
I like him though. No matter what, he's always smiling on the bench, even when the Raps are down 30+ and playing like crap, he's on the bench having a good time.
P&T: If alien life forms observed mankind, but took only the Toronto Raptors bench as their sample, they'd get a pretty ridiculous idea of what humans look like. I guess you could say that about any professional sports team, but I feel like Kris Humphries, Roko Ukic, Joey Graham, and Jake Voskuhl are enough to give aliens an especially warped idea of our species. I guess that's not really a question.
Haha, yeah. The bench is ugly. Any way you look at it, they're ugly but....Roko Ukic is growing on the fans. Three reasons: 1. He looks like he's 12, 2. His name is Roko and 3. The kid has no fear, if he has the ball in the closing minutes down 2, he has no problem in trying to score under pressure.
Get psyched, y'all. Tommy Dee says neither Chris Wilcox nor Larry Hughes will suit up tonight, which is a shame. Hopefully they'll do fine, though, because every win counts these days. Especially at home. Stop on by for comments. Let's hope the temporarily depleted Knicks can get shit done.
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wilcox
chris wilcox…black thought?
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hell yeah!
part of the reason i posted it.
i loved damon stoudamire.
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Back when he was beasting it in Toronto and later Portland
Back when Scottie Pippen started, and their sixth man was Detlef Schrempf!
i don't know
i actually know somebody with an old school #20 stoudamire jersey. so fresh.
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they're real cheap, by the way
this girl i know just copped a stoudemire jersey for under 20 bucks. she doesn’t know who he is, but she likes the jersey, so that’s cool.
look up a knicks jersey on ebay
oakley is like 80 mason is around there too. i’m lucky enough to have a mason jersey.
interesting
hughes is wearing 0
wilcox is wearing 9
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must've
last knick to wear 0?
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we did this when we got fred jones i think
or maybe it was taurean green, and i think we decided it was walter mccarty.
yup
wasn’t 0 on the knicks
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you should probably take a break from p&t
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wilcox is in uniform
but just for shits and giggles, it sounds.
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shutout y'all
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who's our goat now?
jeffries? i need somebody to direct my spite towards.
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it's gotta be
though i personally hate Curry because of his contract/laziness. problem is that the poor guy is going through a lot so i feel like a dick being mad at him.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on Feb 20, 2009 7:48 PM EST up reply actions
he was already our goat.
co-goat. which is ironic, because when he hits a jumper, the victim is frequently a hapless mountain goat.
looks like Duhon is going to feed Lee all night so far
Does anyone on the Raptors know how to defend?
touché
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nh
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he's making him hear it tonight
nh
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andrea bargnani has been in the league three years
nobody’s had the balls to tell clyde frazier his name isn’t “bargnarni” yet, though.
renaldo borkman
too
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kapono
fuck. steve novak redux.
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jewish grandmas favorite player in the league.
she thinks he’s everybody else’s favorite player too, makes it for passover seders and whatnot, but nobody under the age of 65 has ever touched that shit.
ive never actually had borscht
my grandmothers are both american-born and awful cooks. thoughts, anybody?
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nate ROBINSON.
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good god
nate
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what a quarter
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Nate
Whoaa way to end the quarter. pretty pleased I just traded for Nate in my fantasy team as well.
david lee
going for 64, 24 and 8
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I am watching Gamecast.
Who has been covering Bosh?
You all did love him once. - The New York Knicks.
lee a little
jeffries now. both doing a solid job.
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WILL EDDY CURRY SEE MINUTES TONIGHT????????????????????????
You all did love him once. - The New York Knicks.
i feel weird saying this, as a knicks fan in recent years
but the raptors don’t look able to hang with this team in any facet of the game right now.
never thought about this until tonight
since i never think of david lee’s origins, but tonight clyde won’t shut up about how he’s from st. louis, which brings to mind the question: is david lee long-lost brothers with murphy lee, the second most popular member of the st. lunatics?
come to think of it
why don’t we call him david “country grammar” lee?
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i was just trying to explain the nene deal
to a friend who hasn’t been following basketball for long, and he’s in disbelief.
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NATE ROBINSON.
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not a typo
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this is silly
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wilcox maybe?
i don’t see why not. i figure he wouldn’t be in uniform if he hadn’t passed a physical.
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is Toronto as bad as Washington at this point?
i’m starting to think so…
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on Feb 20, 2009 8:36 PM EST reply actions
well
like washington, they have all the talent. they’re just completely flat. it’s ridiculous.
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paul simon
is gradually becoming woody allen
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god you're right
he’s become neurotic and strange. Are they sure they didn’t get him confused with Woody?
Jill Martin did not get any of those jokes Paul gave her at all
I’ll bet she’s a Backstreet Boys fan.
what's your guys feelingsn the deadline?
overall i’d give it a B. i would’ve liked to either package Nate or Lee with Curry, but i’m not sure if any team was willing to take on his contract. i’m not sure why people seem upset that the Nate/Jeffries to Kings deal didn’t go through. i’m sure someone else will take JJ off Donnie’s hands next year at some point.
if they couldn’t do better than Kenny Thomas (and couldn’t squeeze a pick out of it), i’m glad they didn’t trade Nate. what sucks is that i think there’s a 0% chance that he’s a Knick next year.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on Feb 20, 2009 8:49 PM EST reply actions
i love the deadline deals
and am going to have a really hard time parting with nate this summer
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not pc enough for the main page
but kenny atkinson= simple jack
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nathan jawai!!
everybodys favorite indigenous australian shaq clone
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chandler and q are balling
i guess. i imagine we’ll see more of him in the fourth if this lead holds up.
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COCKKKK
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wilson chandler
dunks, looks fairly disappointed
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probably resting his ankle
given that it’s garbage time
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there he is
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whoa
that girl. not wearing clothes.
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Just got home and saw the box score
Three words:
1) Ho.
1b) Lee.
2) Shit.
Was this game as awesome as it appears?
by twincitiesknick on Feb 20, 2009 9:45 PM EST reply actions
it's been a joke
since about 7:45. very relieving.
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goaltending!
credit danilo gallinari with the basket, y’all
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