Wednesday Caucasian Toads
by Seth on Feb 8, 2012 3:53 PM EST
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Good afternoon, ribeyes. On this sort of gloomy (weather-wise, not mood-wise, I hope) Wednesday afternoon, I've got a bunch of links (including quite a few Lin-ks) to share with y'all. Take the jump to look at and/or click on them.
- Toads are pretty gross, and Caucasian toads are no exception.
- First order of business: You might not be able to see the Fanpost section right now. It's related to whatever was causing the 503 errors before, and it'll be fixed eventually. Not by me.
- Roughly seven thousand things have been written about Jeremy Lin in the last 48 hours or so. My favorite, predictably, was the one on The Basketball Jones blog by Chris Gethard, who is both excellent and a Knicks fan. It's as much about US as it is about Jeremy.
- Oh, and there's a rap video for him (found via Peter Casey). I'm sure there are like twenty, but this one, via Peter Casey, is remarkably informative without any lyrical slippage. Admirable.
- A t-shirt, too.
- Alan Hahn says the Knicks' starting lineup tonight and until the stars return will be the same one that started the second half on Monday.
- UM GUYS, were we aware that Michael K. Williams, the man who plays Omar Little and Chalky White, is a Knicks fan? I was not aware and would like to craft a joke about "sparring with the puppies" but I'm too sleepy.
- LINCEPTION.
- Jerome James is tryin gto make his comeback in the D-League, which I hope goes well for him. I miss that guy. I don't, like, want him back on the Knicks or anything. He was just always a cool guy.
- Any of y'all Rangers fans? What the hell got Al Trautwig so worked up? Tip of the hat to Brother Soldano.
That is all. Knicks-Wizards is at 7 tonight, and the game thread should be up not long before that. Take extra special care of yourselves, and especially your face and your genitals, between now and then.
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Lin, Fields, Walker,Jeffries, and Tyson
With Shump doing triple duty backing up all 3 perimeter spots. and Novak and Jordan Backing up the Bigs. In theory we should get absolutely raped tonight, but then again…. Let’s just see.
can novak play sf at all?
i guess my real question is, even against the wizards, how bad is his defense?
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He's a tweener on D
At least, that’s the impression I’ve got. Not strong enough to handle Millsap-esque 4’s, not athletic enough to handle most 3’s. Blatche might be a bad matchup for him at the 4. I mean Blatche doesn’t have a fully-functioning brain, but he has a decent jumper and is strong and reasonably athletic.
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
That would be a worse matchup
On the other hand, Novak’s offense is much needed.
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
It's the Wizards
They’ll screw it up somehow. Is Andray Blatche back yet? I think him being injured is helping them a lot. If only they could amnesty him.
Rose decides not to go 1-on-2 and I was thinking, "what are you doing?! You've got the numbers!" -Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live
that was hilariously awesome
but it was the correct call. he could’ve stopped sooner if he wanted to. instead he chose to screen and hope for the worst.
Linderella
That was awesome.
That said, I’m not sure I agree with Gethard about Knick fans. I don’t think the Shump reaction was nearly the same thing as the Lin reaction.
Knick fans may be impatient and ornery, but we know the subtleties of basketball better than most fans. We also know point guard play when we see it – and how rare it is to find. We saw Shump was good and clamored for him to start at the point because we knew TD wasn’t doing it right. Then he did, but while we still liked Shump, we were unimpressed by his pointguardage. Lin, on the other hand, we can see that he’s an actual point guard and that is what is driving us nuts. Because the idea that we could find one of those on the NBA’s scrap heap is truly remarkable and miraculous.
Sure, once we get used to it, he’ll be subject to criticism like any Knick point guard unless he actually plays better than Clyde did.
Get The Frickin' Rebound
just watched a baron davis interview on knicks now
http://www.nba.com/knicks/video/2012/02/07/pregamedavis020612mov-1992509
i dunno… the guy seems pretty down. i’m scurred for him.
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About Lin
This is such a rare thing. Here is a benchwarmer. Probably going to get cut. Has already been cut by two teams. He’s from Harvard, a school that has produced more presidents than NBA players. And yes, he’s Asian-American, an ethinicity traditionally represented much more in the population than in the NBA.
And he comes from nowwhere to have two great (not good, these were way better than average) performances. Now, obviously the NYC thing affected it, but this is a fascinating story even if it happens in Minnesota.
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
yea exactly that has no comparison to shump
a rookie who of course NY fans boo’d at the draft, got in games and showed some potential which fans liked
I feel competitive disdain for that Linception pic. LoHud should hire me.
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
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