T-Mobile Player of the Week: 3/1/10
by Seth on Mar 1, 2010 10:54 AM EST
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We've seen the Knicks play four times in the past week, with wildly mixed results. There was the blowout loss to Milwaukee, in which no single Knick actually played well. Then we an ugggggly win in Washington sandwiched between two spirited but ill-fated efforts against Boston and Memphis. It might sting for me to say this, but the only consistent bright spot in those last three games was none other than Mr. Albert Harrington. Al's game off the bench was the usual fare: catch-and-shoot threes, fade-away twos, and head-first gallops towards the rim. The difference? Those shots were falling. Harrington went 6-10 on Tuesday, 12-21 on Friday, and 11-18 on Saturday, sinking 14 combined three-pointers along the way.
Did he still make some mistakes? Yes. Did he freeze out some younger teammates who desperately need to get back on track? You bet. Was he oddly effective in doing all that? It's hard to deny.
For all that, Al Harrington is your T-Mobile Player of the Week. (Note: I nearly made it Toney Douglas based on like two plays in the Memphis game, but I anticipate that he's got better weeks to come. DWTDD.)
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yeah
based on your caption for the picture, i feel like i have to support this.
al is painful to watch
but also inexplicably effective. (sometimes)
by nba refs: man up on Mar 1, 2010 12:30 PM EST reply actions
I think we need to accept that...
The Knicks are not interested in developing young players. They trade all their draft picks (If they could, i bet they wouldnt have any picks till like 2039). Plus they got rid of Jordan Hill, right when he was starting to get minutes.
They got rid of Frye in a heartbeat, and now Robinson is a memory. T Duggs doesnt even get minutes…and he’s fuckin TONEY DOUGLAS.
The Knicks are about winning right now (except they don’t), and i think once we buy half of the free agent market (crossing fingers) Al could be an excellent facilitator off the bench.
Another thing, he WANTS to be here. I read a story that when Donnie first got onboard, Al saw him in the street and told him that he wanted to be a Knick (can someone confirm that with an article?). We need guys like that.
Feel free to disagree…but politely, i know you Al haters can get feisty :P
lmfao
Resign Al?! I wouldn’t resign him, if he paid to be on the team…he’s a selfish player with low basketball iq (some would argue low iq in general) and dominates the ball when we play…he wants to be a star but has the talent of a sixth man @ best…I think it would be horrible to keep him around, even if we don’t get the top 5 free agents..his demand for the ball takes away from gallos and wills shots
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by zlander on Mar 1, 2010 1:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
only reason i would possibly keep him is desperation
say we completely strike out in FA on our the big targets(unlikely), and rather than overpaying some middle-rung guys, we wait til next year for melo and paul. Al might be useful on a 1-year deal to come off the bench if the offense is officially dead and give it a shot in the arm. Any other situation than that, he is not worth giving minutes to.
Al is welcome to stay in the NY metro area
the Nets will be looking for a scoring punch at PF.
I wish we’d been able to move him for Tyrus… damn Bobcats.
Can we cancel this award now?
"Dishin' and swishin' in transition"
by Serious Garbage Time on Mar 1, 2010 1:49 PM EST reply actions
Sigh
Watching Al Harrington, the guy is maddening because he seems to do stupid stuff, or not do smart stuff. And fora 6’9" 260 pound guy, he doesn’t seem to be able to play defense or rebound well enough. But then, I have to give it to him, he’s one of the guys on this team (the other being David Lee) that pretty consistently can make a basket or draw a foul at crunch time.
I know a lot of people are asking why he’s even playing with the playoffs out of reach and their young guys needing experience. And I think the reason is that they need his size. You’ve got Lee at the 5 and Chandler at the 4. Who comes in to relieve them? It’s got to be Harrington. Gallo and Chandler are still getting plenty of minutes. So the question is – is Bender a better option than Al? Because if he isn’t, you can’t replace him with DWTDD or Walker because those guys can’t play in the front court at all. They could try Gallo at the 4, but if he reinjured his back doing that, it would suck. So they might as well let Al play out the string.
His minutes will probably decrease a bit if Curry can come back and McGrady can play more as the season lurches to a close. And hopefully, we’ll see more of what Toney do and less of what Eddie House do. What Eddie House do is OK, but I think what Toney do is going to be better…. if Toney can get a player of the week by the time this season’s in the books, That’ll be a bright spot.
T-Mac Wants YOU!
I find it amusing that McGrady is “recruiting” LeBron James via text messaging. Is T-Mac even going to be a Knick next season? Probably not, and neither will LeBron.
If he leaves...
Knicks will be the first team in his career where he hasn’t left on unhappy terms.
Toronto, Orlando, Houston… Left all those teams on a sour note.
i like Al Harrington...
…mainly because he looks like a canary. yea the stuff he does makes me cringe, but shit man, when his shots fall you can’t help but feel relieved. Relieved not only that it went in, but relieved also for the fact that someone other than David Lee is capable of making a basket. i haven’t been to a game yet, so i dont know if i can hear them yelling or not, but Wil and Gallo gotta demand for the ball. a guy with hot hands isn’t supposed to stand and wait in the corner. look at eddie house! 3 games in and i’ve seen him get more touches than Gallo when they’re both on the floor. and it’s a damn shame the Knicks live and die by their perimeter shooting, because what Chandler does in the paint is instant highlight reel footage every time.
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