SummerKnicks vs. SummerKings Recap: Because I'm Bored
Editor's Note: Thanks to Barnesgasm for putting up this great recap of the Summer League game I missed.
Since recaps are good and our fearless leader Seth isn't watching, um, dibs on the recap.
The game started 10 minutes late. They showed "Knicks #10, Walt Frazier". I can't wait until they play that entire show. The commentary was a guy with a deep voice talking over disco music a la "Shaft" but with pictures of Clyde posing on Bentleys and highlight clips and shit. Yeah. That's good stuff.
So the SummerKnicks advanced to 3-0 with a 96-84 win against Spencer Hawes and the Kings. Hawes played decent with some very ugly jumpers, Justin Williams dominated Alex Bougeileff and the b squad, and Mustafa Shakur had 19, but the dominant force for the Kings was Pooh Jeter, who ran over the Knicks defense for large periods of time in the second and third quarters.
The game started out 2-2 and then the Knicks scored 16 straight, with Nate running the point pretty well. I think its a ploy. An interesting thing is the way Nate can tell he's not guaranteed a roster spot. He finished with 10 assists, which also opened up the lane for him to take several uncontested layups. He also got t'd up, so, it's still Nate.
Gus Johnson is so great. He manages to get excited in the first quarter of summer league games. And with the Knicks up 5 with about 10 seconds left, Nate hit a 3 with no time on the shot clock to seal the game, and Gus just muttered "Big Time" and let the clock run out.
Walt Frazier prepped for the Warriors Summer League team, and kept calling the Kings "The Warriors." He still pulled off making it the coolest thing ever. In other news, Tim McCarver was just informed what those wooden things are.
Mardy Collins started out the game on the Knicks bench and moved back about three rows by halftime to chat up some girl. Now do I go with a sexual innuendo joke about his poor shooting or his poor entry passes?
Nate passed up an open dunk to give to an unnamed interchangeable bench player a layup that the guy missed, so you can tell he was scrounging for assists.
Brian Greene airballed his first shot, but he kept fighting, spinning for rebounds he had no chance at getting, and finished with 6 points. What a trooper. Can we give him like a gold star or a sticker or something?
Malik sat in the booth in the second quarter. He wore a pink shirt, talked about Tony Parker's wedding, and spent most of the time talking to the referees. He didn't pull the chair out from under Gus Johnson, which kind of disappointed me.
I think the refs are trying to get jobs too, because they make a lot of calls, and not just your regular moving screens and walks you'd expect from guys out of basketball rhythm. They were calling clear path fouls, defensive 3 second violations, offensive 3 seconds violations, techs, I think there was a basket interference call.
Daniel Artest: Fat.
He got 3 minutes of tick, didn't touch the ball, and got beaten badly by Renaldo Balkman off the dribble. Although watching him run up and down court was funny.
The Knicks held a large lead for most of the game, so my attention wavered a lot. Towards the end, the Kings started coming back, but it was too late.
Knicks defense was impressive. Randolph Morris had two steals by virtue of having the ball being thrown into his upper chest and shoulders twice. Wilson Chandler had 4 blocks. I'd describe him as Renaldo with a good jumper and no hair, and less crazy. Renaldo, by the way, finished dunks like always, and was Renaldo.
Randolph has been taking summer classes at the Eddy Curry's Taking 6 Steps Without Dribbling University. He's got to be like a B student at least. I'm still impressed with what I'm seeing out of him, he has a nice post game most of the time, soft touch, and seems to control the boards and his man on defense.
Every Knick starter had at least ten points.
They interviewed Nate at halftime. He told Walt that he was "wishing and dishing." How do you fuck that up? The other funny thing was that before the commercial, Walt was talking about how basketball players should never say "I'm just trying to have fun out there", which is what Nate opened the interview with.
Clyde Frazier is going to the Hoover Dam tomorrow. He's pumped about it.
Spencer Hawes got Nate in the face by accident, opening up a little cut and forcing the Knicks to call timeout. Not that funny, but they kept showing Nate covering up his eyes and wincing, and pulling his jersey over his head, and then they showed the Knicks trainer putting on some hydrogen peroxide, and Nate jumped up and down on the sideline, took two steps onto the court, and then sat down and said "fuck!" I find it so hard to believe he has two kids, because, if you got rid of the expletives, that's basically what I used to do when I got an owwie.
With about two minutes left in the fourth quarter, they showed Isiah really intently eating from a large bucket of popcorn. That sums up the summer league pretty well.
I think I've had my summer league fill, because, let's face it, even if it is organized basketball, that is some boring, boring shit.
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nice
Good anal, mediocre analysis.
And you're not doing too badly in them diaries, yourself.

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