Knicks 114, Kings 92: This isn't really a recap.
by Seth on Jan 1, 2012 6:09 PM EST
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PrintSo, because my little brother gobbed my DVR up with his stupid-butt "House" recordings, my tape of the Knicks game got cut off and I only saw the first half. And what a first half it was! With Amar'e Stoudemire out and Josh Harrellson starting, the Knicks' three-point shooting came rushing back all at once. Toney Douglas was hot early, Harrellson got rowdy from downtown, and the Knicks jumped out to a massive lead. Their defense in that quarter was better than it had been, but I'd attribute most of the Kings' empty possessions to their own troubles. (Although that doesn't go for Josh Harrellson. He's not prone to the rookie error of over-committing and biting on fakes, and he did a superb job of staying in front of DeMarcus Cousins without fouling. He also got his hands on EVERY loose ball. I love Jorts.)
When the shooting fell out in the second quarter, the Kings came quite a way back. Then in the second half...I guess the Knicks got it together? I need some help here! How did Tyson Chandler get all those points!? Did the defense pick up? How'd Landry Fields look after playing like his 2010 self in the first half? I've only seen highlights of that part! RECAP FOR ME!
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bison stopped fouling, started bounding, and got thrown oops from melo and td
landry kept landrying throughout the second half and completrly took over the game when playing w/ scrubs. i like aggressive landry.
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by DangerZone on Jan 1, 2012 6:23 PM EST via Android app reply actions
Landry's spacing and awareness of when to be aggressive were MUCH improved
He picked his spots, and when he drove, he did great. He did that thing he does when he’s confident where he’s on the perimeter, gets the ball, and uses a crazy quick first step, two dribbles, a spin, and is somehow hitting a layup in a flash
Yea, I would have commented further on just how landry his game was
but that comment was done on my phone while on the shitter.
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Um...
We beat the Kings so bad that Demarcus Cousins demanded a trade…
http://www.nba.com/kings/news/westphal_statement_2012_01_01.html
yea... i think that was a long time coming.
you should see his post game press conference.
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I hope he goes to DC, that'd make for some exciting basketball
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Demarcus needs to go to a team with either a
coach or fellow player (a combo would be nice) who would put him in check. The kids talented but pretty much crazy.
Well, he has chemistry and friendship with John Wall, so maybe he could exert some level of control over him.
And Flip Saunders seems to seem like a guy with some gravitas. He kept Rasheed in check, I believe, and KG
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I'm predicting
that Jorts will experience more wins in his NBA career than Cousins will. To DeMarcus, it will always be someone else’s fault. I bet he used to make fun of jorts when they were at UK, now gets outplayed by him and demands a trade. Red flag.
Get The Frickin' Rebound
Yeah it's definitely mental with Cousins
Let’s be honest, he has much more talent than Josh Harrellson, but got out-played and out-hustled by Jorts.
Granted, Cousins is only like 20, but that dude needs to grow up and put it together, cause he has alot of talent
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I still think he can be better in a better situation
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He should go to Minnesota
Rubio radiates happiness if you’re a scorer and Adelman would raise him like a son. You know Kahn would take that chance, too. I’m giddy now.
TYBG
I don't like the idea of putting him and michael beasly on the same team
They might become the Ricky Davis allstars and cause kevin love to commit suicide
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This is simply unacceptable Seth
I expect better from you :)
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by seton hall and steelers on Jan 1, 2012 7:30 PM EST reply actions
tyson kept getting to the line
i think he was 10-10. he was just too active for cousins, and too tall for hayes.
i think toney is realizing that tyson can go up higher than almost anyone he’s ever played with, so he is maybe starting to see the passing lane for him. plus the whole team just got into the habit of good ball movement.
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I don't understand why Hayes is starting over Hickson?
Hayes is good but….is he that good? Or maybe Hickson is that bad, although he looked pretty good while on the cavs
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by Lord Smackington on Jan 1, 2012 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
well
the kings struggle with the fundamentals. as much talent as they got, they can’t manage to box out consistently and i’m sure chuck hayes is just more easy to coach. i doubt that they look at chuck hayes as the starting pf/c of the future, but probably he complements hickson’s and/or cousins’ skillsets.
and then- cousins is more talented than hickson. but hickson should get planty of minutes soon. cousins demanded a trade.
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Yea, Hickson's kinda a really good player
I was shocked to see so little of him
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This is right on
It was like a lightbulb went on in Toney’s head: this guy is tall, the guy guarding him is shorter, maybe I should just pass it up high to him near the rim and see what happens. And it worked, to the tune of easy buckets and free throws, over and over.
So with that being said...
who wants to trade Jared Jeffries for Demarcus? Trollolol
There always trying to do stuff like that
I hate to troll on Jersey but there never going to be on par with us especially when they move to Brooklyn.
never is a long time
and the game changes with the seasons.
sreh ladien e' ta janjia
by Lord Smackington on Jan 1, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Truth, but not especially
Brooklyn is moving up in the world from New Jersey
But they’re still our Clippers
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In the long term
at least right now, they look better. They may not be better but If the two teams were stocks, I’d sooner buy in on the Clips than the Lakers right now if all things remained the same.
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by Lord Smackington on Jan 2, 2012 2:08 PM EST up reply actions
I would not. They're still owned by Donald Sterling
In 2 years Blake and CP3 could leave. I’m not saying they will, I’m just saying they might like to be able to shower after the game without being leered at.
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Donald Racist Ratfucker Sterling*
forgot my own rule there for a minute
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How many years has it taken them to rival the Lakers in even the slightest bit?
And it took massive abuses of power by the league to get them there
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true...I also dislike him as an owner but...
he finally stumbled into talent that can at least rival and compete with them both on the floor and in the ticket booth.
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by Lord Smackington on Jan 2, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
i'm just going from memory, this could be totally wrong
early 3rd: Melo gets to the line at will, scores like ~11 straight points.
late 3rd, early-mid fourth?: Bison feasts on the pick-and roll from Toney, over and over again. and he might have picked up an offensive board or a wide-open dunk once or twice. this all pretty much happened against Chuck Hayes, since Bison is like ten feet taller than him.
late 4th, pre-scrubs: Knicks run a nice action where Landry loops around under the basket and posts up a tiny guard a foot from the rim. This worked three times in a row, but I don’t think Landry posted the same dude all three times. I think he definitely burned Jimmer once though.
i wouldn’t say that the defense really picked up, it’s more that the Kings pretty much stopped penetrating. maybe Bison intimidated them, maybe they just wanted to chuck. who the hell knows with that team.
and also, i think this was more prevalent in the first half, but Jimmer was awful! burned relentlessly on defense, dumb chucker on offense. and he’s also a douchebag for pounding his chest after hitting a trey when the Kings were down 20. but this is just me editorializing.
by latrell chokewell on Jan 1, 2012 9:39 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
this seems about right.
I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."
good memory
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by semsemma on Jan 1, 2012 10:29 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
a chest pound when you are down by twenty
and you are shooting 1 -11 is pretty douchbaggy
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Er, I think you made up the early 3rd part
Melo only scored 4 points in the quarter: 2 FTs early, a jumper late. Early 3rd was more about Landry being awesome (a FT, a jumper, and a sweet drive and layup) and JORTS hitting another 3 from way downtown. Then the Bison took over.
was that in a different quarter?
there was definitely a part where Melo was beasting, right? or am i just hallucinating?
by latrell chokewell on Jan 2, 2012 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, end of the 1st half
The offense kind of stalled in the last 6 minutes of the 2nd quarter, and he helped us maintain a good lead with his typical array of attacks, inside, outside, from the stripe.
I gotta say, most of the time, body language is everything. Show an opponent your pouty face or poor body language
and your showing them you’re ripe for the picking. Santonio Holmes today with his super dud of a game (I can’t believe he helped lead my team to a SB win), and Cousins yesterday. 1st quarter alone and he was already showing poor body language. How can you lead a team like that? You can’t. I wouldn’t want him or a player like that on my team. People can mock Melo’s smiley face, but I’ll take that any day. Keep your poker face on just keep playing. Cousins got worked by jorts and quit on his team. I feel bad for Sac cuz they probably should be better and may be better trading him at the 1st opportunity. On the bright side I am so thankful this is not the Knicks problem.
Marbury used to do that shit
I agree. It’s death to a team. It’s awesome that the Knicks don’t have any guys like that.
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Seth, is this pretty much how the DVR fiasco went?
Just with the first half in place of the campaign video and House in place of Darth George Michael?
Harrelson's face is a source of constant hilarity
I like his post defense though. and it’s nice that he gained some confidence on offense. in the previous two games, I"d seen him airball:
1. an open three
2. a tip-in at the basket
Nice to know he can hit some shots. dude plays hard too.
I also noticed that
he can stop on a dime and change directions very quickly. He may not be the fastest guy but he’s not ‘lumbering’ at all.
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Seth!!! HOUSE is a fantastic show
but i too would be upset if that happened to me. But HOUSE new episodes air Mondays at 9pm, what was your brother watching??? Oh Chandler was getting to the line and Landry was in early 2010 mode. The highlight was that with 4 min. to go we were able to put in our garbage min. players!!! Really the second half was just Melo doing what Melo does and what i said above. Balkman shot another 3, which doesn’t upset me because it looked good for a second but rimmed out.
TD
I think a lot of people missed the key to this game. Toney Douglas was consistently driving into the lane keeping his dribble and finding open looks for his teammates when the defense collapsed on him. He actually ran the point like a point is supposed to run a team. If he keeps doing that we will be OK.
by Kingbee24 on Jan 2, 2012 9:28 AM EST via mobile reply actions
ding ding ding!
I also think TD had a real nice point guard game. He still forced shots at times that didn’t fall, but it was an improvement.
I also felt like Jorts and Chandler really committed themselves to rebounding, something that had been lacking in every game of this young season.
I think Chandler got a lot of his buckets rolling off of picks and second chance points. go figure.
Did anybody catch the icy exchange between jorts and cousins at the start? Me thinks they didn’t get along very well at KU together.
Billy Skywalker also had another solid game. He’s really blossomed into a solid contributor off the pine this year.
But it was really all about the ball movement. It was beautiful. it looked like a d’antoni offense. there was no ball stopping, as clyde pointed out, even when Carm got the ball it didn’t stop. there was just always a lot of movement. Long live this knicks team. down with the squad that forces 20 contested jumpers with 18 still on the shot clock.
Not to be picky but
its UK not KU. KU is Kansas. Jorts had to go against Cousins in every practice and then against Enes Kanter last year. Opportunity sure knocked for him and he is making the most of it.
I am all for people expressing their opinions, as long as they back them up with facts.
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