Posting and Toasting - Knicks vs. Blazers~https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/29802/posting_fave.png2016-03-01T21:50:51-05:00http://www.postingandtoasting.com/rss/stream/35899872016-03-01T21:50:51-05:002016-03-01T21:50:51-05:00Blazers 104, Knicks 85: "Every loss is the same."
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<p>We are deep in the muck of the losing, and this game was more of that. There was nothing dramatic about it -- the Knicks just plopped their ass on the Garden floor and, after an okay first quarter, let it get more and more kicked until it could be kicked no more. No comebacks, fake or otherwise. They might be past that. Like Ewing's Flat Top said, it's all kinda blending together now.</p>
<p>The Blazers got their bigs easy buckets and put-backs by penetrating, but realized they didn't even have to do that with Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum in uniform. Those two only needed a pick apiece to get enough air for a pull-up jumper. They took turns stringing those jumpers together for personal scoring flurries, and eventually New York was buried. A few notes:</p>
<p>- I was not at the game, and I have had to miss a couple games in the last month, but I'm pretty sure that was the loudest and longest booing of the season, right? Because the Knicks were getting crushed and novelty-of-the-moment Jimmer Fredette wasn't playing, the boos spanned most of the fourth quarter.</p>
<p>- Kurt Rambis may be a bad coach, but at least he's working very hard to destroy Carmelo Anthony's knees!</p>
<p>- It's funny how Jerian Grant can play 7 minutes in a game and, in that stretch alone, throw more direct entry passes than the rest of the Knicks' backcourt minutes combined.</p>
<p>- (Jimmer did play, by the way. The final 3 minutes. He got that work from Lillard, too. I have no idea why Lillard was still in the game.)</p>
<p>- After Kurt Rambis remarked pre-game on his desire for Kristaps Porzingis to establish position early in possessions, Kristaps did just that on several possessions to open the game. It left in a sweet spot to turn and bank in a couple nice short jumpers. I'd still rather watch him set drag screens, but it's good to mix it up!</p>
<p>- Kristaps got frustrated and just fouled his way out of the game in the second half</p>
<p>- Melo had 23, 10, and 4, hit half his shots, and made up for iffy outside shooting with a lot of really nice two-handed finishes off drives, but all anyone will remember is this ...</p>
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<p>... and I can't really blame 'em. It was funny. Melo laughed. The rim laughed.</p>
<p>- So Phil is really *friends* with John Lightow, eh? They've now been seen together multiple times at games. Since we're in Intermville anyway, why not let Lithgow coach a game or two in <i>Cliffhanger</i> character?</p>
<p>- This seemed like it might be a Cool Rotation game, with Langston Galloway and Derrick Williams the first off the bench and Jerian Grant getting early minutes ... but then Rambis decided to end the game in the late third by submitting an all-bench lineup with Sasha Vujacic running point.</p>
<p>- Meyers Leonard slapped the shit out of Jimmer instead of letting him shoot before the final buzzer. The crowd was very upset. Everyone in the previous sentence is a hero.</p>
<p>The game was bad. The Knicks are bad. 20 more of these to go.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2016/3/1/11144224/trail-blazers-104-knicks-85-every-loss-is-the-sameSeth2015-12-13T01:38:23-05:002015-12-13T01:38:23-05:00Knicks 112, Blazers 110: "I swear that was good."
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<p>Damian Lillard nearly snatched the win out of New York's clutches, but came up just short.</p> <p>The Knicks came out making some extra effort on defense and looking sharp. Perhaps sick of their reflection lately, they decided to go wrestle one away from a younger team. Age before beauty, right? The spry, somewhat inexperienced Trail Blazer team was faster to the ball and it gave the Knicks fits. A big rebound advantage helped push Portland out front by as many as 11. New York battled and got it down to one at the half, but things quickly got back to double digits in the third quarter. Fourth quarter rolled around and the Knicks blitzed the Blazers with Carmelo on the bench. Then in the final seconds a twisting three from Damian Lillard barely missed and gifted the Knicks the victory.</p>
<p>Carmelo Anthony and Robin Lopez were contesting nicely at both rims. Kyle O'Quinn got the call as the first big off the bench, and he instantly came in and shoved his way to some boards, blocks and buckets. Portland still managed to score through and over the top of New York. The Blazer guards went wherever they wanted and got quality looks. Their big guys just vacuumed up the scraps. Thankfully, the Knicks had enough juice to get the win.</p>
<p>- The real story for the Knicks was that Carmelo started off dicing up some habanero peppers and dished out some spicy pumpkin soup. It led directly to a few over-lengthy post ups, but Anthony wasn't too domineering with the ball. Hard to deny him when he basically threw the team up on his shoulder like the 80-pound bag of cement they were, and just dragged them around on both ends of the floor. On defense he was wiping shots off his windshield and moving his feet to cut off driving angles. Then he went the other way and caramelized Portland's defense en route to 37 points on 21 shots. He was cooking.</p>
<p>- Rough night for Kristaps Porzingis. After his third foul sent him to the bench in the early going, Clyde Frazier offered this gem: "All the hoopla and pageantry surprounding Porzingis now, and his game is really suffering." Kristaps Kristapserson wasn't really able to get much going. He did get some time at center, which is exciting in its way. Couldn't get it going though, and did not enter the game in the fourth quarter. Two steals is good. Nothing else worth speaking on.</p>
<p>- Robin Lopez worked his way into a nice rhythm on those sweeping post hook shots. He was one of the few that was able to get up to Melo's intensity level. Wound up with 14 points and 7 rebounds. Despite not having any blocks, his contests shook some things out of their respective trees. He also did a great job battling on the boards and burrowing into position. Not everything went his way, but simply putting forth the effort makes all the difference. His crowning achievement was a miraculous offensive rebound in a huge crowd and a Statue of Liberty put-back layup in the closing moments of the game.</p>
<p>- Lance Thomas' jumper looks just much too much like a Chuck Hayes free throw for me to trust it. I don't know how he does it, but that guy is shooting 44% from the field, 36% from three and 86% from the foul line. Tonight he completely neglected to miss. Lance never has any other counting stats, but hedging and recovering and just generally hounding on defense is paramount to quality basketball. He was guarding some guy named Damian Lillard late in the closing minutes of the game and did pretty well. Of course he ran over Lillard on a three-point attempt with two seconds left and a four point lead. That kind of takes away. A win is a win, all the same.</p>
<p>- The Blazers have two guards who I've never heard of. The aforementioned Lillard and some Jello jiggler named CJ McCollum. Although, if you ask Clyde, it could be "MacCallum" or "Mccullough" or "MacGyver". Those shot-popping demons squirreled all over the place and netted 51 of Portland's 110 points. Toss in Allen Crabbe's (household name) 17 and you have a menacing trio. It took them too many shots to do it, but they were worrisome. Arron Afflalo and Jose Calderon were unable to guard people. Any people.</p>
<p>- My main man Kyle O'Quinn gave us a smattering of basically everything he does. Mirrored Lopez's numbers with 14 points and 7 rebounds. Add in 2 pretty assists, a block and a technical for slamming the ball and being frightening. His only miss was a crumby three-point try. His only turnover was a slippery pass that went directly into the Knick bench. A huge two-handed lumbering dunk punctuated his excellent night.</p>
<p>- Derrick Williams looks to be rounding into his pre-season form.</p>
<p>- Jerian Grant played the same amount of minutes as Tim Hardaway Jr has played this season. That's discouraging, but I'll wait for it to be a trend before I get upset.</p>
<p>I'll take it! The game thread was basically one huge gasp near the end, but I thought King Henry put it right for the headline quote. I could have sworn that was good too! Headed home, but with a lot of work to do. The schedule is about to get super ugly. I don't know if I can watch... <iframe frameborder="0" height="600" width="600" src="https://vine.co/v/iZPweabKWMW/embed/simple"></iframe></p>
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https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/12/13/10021740/knicks-112-trail-blazers-110-i-swear-that-was-goodJonathan Schulman2015-12-13T00:56:15-05:002015-12-13T00:56:15-05:00 Scenes from a relieving, petrifying victory
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<p>Everybody on Earth knew this was going in:</p>
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<p>I still kinda think it is. After a really impressive Knicks comeback, some dumb plays and weird calls put New York in a position to blow the win on that very shot, but after Damian Lillard drew a foul shooting a three, hit the first two free throws, intentionally missed the third, then pulled the rebound out to the arc perfectly for a game-winning attempt ... he came up short. There is mercy in this world.</p>
<p>And it really was an impressive comeback to seal a big, big, big, big win that we and the Knicks desperately needed to finish this dismal road trip. Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks with 37 points in 21 shots -- his first efficiently dominant performance in a while. Melo got his buckets with help from Robin Lopez ...</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/carmeloanthony">@carmeloanthony</a> knocks down a pair of jumpers but the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Knicks?src=hash">#Knicks</a> trail 16-9 with 6:10 to play in Q1. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYKvsPOR?src=hash">#NYKvsPOR</a> <a href="https://t.co/DxydZqiOX9">pic.twitter.com/DxydZqiOX9</a></p>
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/nyknicks/status/675878267031822336">December 13, 2015</a>
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<p>... and he bullied weaker Blazers on his own ...</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/carmeloanthony">@carmeloanthony</a> reaches 20 points to cut the Blazers' lead to one at the half. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYKvsPOR?src=hash">#NYKvsPOR</a> <a href="https://t.co/ebrDoClCeK">pic.twitter.com/ebrDoClCeK</a></p>
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/nyknicks/status/675891604150992896">December 13, 2015</a>
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<p>... and made helpful passes when the Blazers threw help at him:</p>
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<p>Melo was terrific, but it was the Knicks bench's energetic play(!) that brought them back from a double-digit deficit. They actually pushed and got quick buckets off stops ...</p>
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<p>... and mostly kept the Blazers to singular, difficult shots in the second half. Lance Thomas and Kyle O'Quinn were instrumental.</p>
<p>Down the stretch, the Knicks forced Portland off the three-point line very nicely, but they got buckets anyway. The Knicks generated a couple nice three-point looks, but missed 'em anyway. The decisive play, perhaps, was this foul Melo drew on Mason Plumlee:</p>
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<p>Close call, but sooooo much better than Melo setting for a fadeaway after he'd gotten the mismatch he wanted. He hit both free throws even after some ref tomfoolery (they basically tried to steal a point by zoning out and neglecting to execute a Portland sub before giving Melo the ball. It was really bad.), and kept hitting his given free throws the rest of the way.</p>
<p>Portland grabbed some critical second chances late in the game and nearly stabbed themselves in the heart on that final play, but it was not to be. I am so thankful it was not to be. Good job, Knicks.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/12/13/10021664/knicks-112-blazers-100-scenes-from-a-relieving-petrifying-victorySeth2015-12-12T17:55:56-05:002015-12-12T17:55:56-05:00Knicks at Trail Blazers
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<p>Good evening! The Knicks don't play til 10 EST, but I'm putting this up now anyway because I'm an adult and I can do whatever I want!!!</p>
<p>Tonight brings us the last stop on what has been a bad road trip, and the Knicks' last game in a tight stretch of them before a three-day break. The Blazers have the same record as the Knicks (Eh-Eh). They started the year hot, then had a huge losing streak, and have been up and down ever since. They measure up near New York in almost every category, except they shoot more, better threes, and also commit more turnovers. If the Knicks cease sucking for ~40 minutes, they could win. If they don't, they will absolutely lose again. Badly!</p>
<p>Please cease sucking, Knicks. It'd be so much better to live the next three game-less days in the wake of a bounce-back win, not a five-game slide.</p>
<p>Lineups and health stuffs are the same tonight. Despite all our (and reporters') hubbub about changes, Derek Fisher has himself has only semi-hinted at that possibility, and that was several days ago. We had (and have) no reason to expect experimentation on that front until he says so.</p>
<p>Tip-off is at 10 PM on MSG. This is your game thread. This is <a href="http://www.blazersedge.com/" target="_blank">Blazer's Edge</a>. Please don't post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams in the thread, and please treat everyone kindly. Go the Knicks! I know you can do it. Do it.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2015/12/12/10006010/game-thread-knicks-at-trail-blazers-12-12-15Seth2014-12-28T23:25:56-05:002014-12-28T23:25:56-05:00Knicks lose; Melo sits out second half
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<p>Melo sat for a while. Nice.</p> <p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">New York Knicks</a> made some serious progress on Sunday night in Portland. Did they win? Helllll no. They did something for more important -- they finally sat their hobbled superstar forward, <span>Carmelo Anthony</span>, for the entire second half of a 101-79 loss to the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blazersedge.com/">Trail Blazers</a>.</p>
<p>The Knicks have now lost __ games in a row. Ten? Thirty? I'm not going to look it up. The important thing is that they keep it up. And sitting Melo was a good start.</p>
<p>So good hustle, guys. I look forward to many more Melo benchings to come. Please do not disappoint me.</p>
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<p>- The hook shot was not working for <span>Cole Aldrich</span>, who finished with 12 points on 16 shots. While that is far from ideal, he did fill up the stat sheet in other areas, with two assists, four steals, one block and 19 rebounds. <span>Derek Fisher</span> removed him with two minutes remaining and 20 boards within reach. In a related note, Derek Fisher is the goddamn devil.</p>
<p>- <span>Pablo Prigioni</span> just doesn't care anymore, which is simultaneously sad and understandable. He was launching threes from roughly half court towards the end of the game, which I have no real problem with.</p>
<p>- Nor did I have a problem with Quincy Acy chucking threes -- he took two and made them both. Acy is now 3-5 from beyond the arc this season. He's shooting 60 percent! That would be the best single-season three-point shooting performance in league history, as long as he starts taking about 10 triples a game from now until the end of the season in order to qualify. I'm rooting for Quincy to break J.R. Smith's team record for threes in a game on Wednesday against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.clipsnation.com/">Clippers</a>.</p>
<p>- I got bored during the game and tried to put together a Quincy Acy diss track on Twitter:</p>
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<p>"They call me Quincy, but I'm not the M.D. Bustas recognize we got more wins than Philly." -Quincy Acy diss track</p>
— Joseph Flynn (@ChinaJoeFlynn) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChinaJoeFlynn/status/549394802572541952">December 29, 2014</a>
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<p>"You can block my jumper but you can't block the streets, I drop the rhymes and <span>Jason Smith</span> drops the beats." -<span>Quincy Acy's</span> diss track</p>
— Joseph Flynn (@ChinaJoeFlynn) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChinaJoeFlynn/status/549395607245561856">December 29, 2014</a>
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<p>"I'm the NBA's number-one beard styler ...who once got traded for <span>Jeremy Tyler</span>." Quincy Acy diss track K, I'm done now. Sorry everyone.</p>
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<p>I stand by my work.</p>
<p>- Tim Hardaway fell down a great deal on defense -- getting leveled on screens, chasing after <span>Wesley Matthews</span>, etc. I guess that means he's trying harder???</p>
<p>- The Knicks gave up only 12 free throws to Portland. That was good, as it made the game go by quicker.</p>
<p>New York will play another West Coast game on Wednesday. As Walt Clyde Phraser so eloquently put it, there are 1000 ways the Knicks can (and will) lose out there. You can watch them play if you'd like; it's a free country.</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2014/12/28/7459243/blazers-101-knicks-79-1000-ways-to-lose-in-the-westJoe Flynn2014-12-07T22:10:20-05:002014-12-07T22:10:20-05:00Final Score: Blazers 103, Knicks 99
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<p>The Knicks are Charlie Brown, and Lucy, and the football. This start to December has been impressive:</p>
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<p>Good team? Bad team? Doesn't matter. The Knicks will meet you on the basketball court and match exactly 98% of your output.</p>
<p>This is more impressive:</p>
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<p>Knicks have now lost *13* consecutive games that were separated by 5 pts or less heading into the final 5 mins of play. Thats unreal.</p>
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<p>The Knicks have the refined hand of a master artist with these losses. They get right up to the peak, then launch themselves backward into the abyss. They are both an artist and a mountain climber. Mmhmm.</p>
<p>Every time. What I like more about these losses than some of this year's previous losses (YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT I'M TEASING APART THE DETAILS OF LOSSES. I'VE DRUNK SO MANY LOSSES I CAN TASTE THE ACIDIC AFTERTASTE AND TOP NOTES OF MORAL VICTORY) is that the Knicks are getting themselves increasingly decent, increasingly Triangular looks at key moments in games. The lineups seem to be chosen randomly, but they're not behaving randomly. If I can't have an actual winning team, that's all I want. And I want Karl Towns.</p>
<p>So yeah, again, at some point the Knicks could really use a win or three before things turn so sour that they start clawing and biting one another. Those shots need to fall at some point. But...I think I'm seeing things. Maybe I'm just projecting. Maybe I've lost my mind. Whatever. Christian's recap will be up later. Be well!</p>
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<p>Good evening! I hope you had a pleasant weekend. The Knicks play host to the 15-4 Blazers tonight. Maybe they'll win! I'm just saying...like, one time I hit a baseball really far. I've swung a baseball bat hundreds of times in my life, and this one time I hit the ball REALLY far. So things can happen. That's all I'm saying.</p>
<p>Derek Fisher's going back to the Dalembert-less lineup he used the other night against Cleveland:</p>
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<p>Fisher says Calderon, Shumpert, Anthony, Acy and Stoudemire will start tonight. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Knicks?src=hash">#Knicks</a></p>
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<p>Sure, whatever. I just want to see the Knicks make some stuff happen on offense (<a href="https://twitter.com/HerringWSJ/status/541727302267453440" target="_blank">whatever you want to call that offense</a>). I think that lineup can do that.</p>
<p>Tonight's game tips off at 7:30. This is your thread. <a href="http://www.blazersedge.com/" target="_blank">This is Blazer's Edge</a>. Please don't post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams in the thread. New thread after the final buzzer, recap from Christian later tonight. Go the Knicks!</p>
https://www.postingandtoasting.com/2014/12/7/7349997/game-thread-knicks-vs-blazers-12-7-14Seth2014-02-06T02:49:31-05:002014-02-06T02:49:31-05:00Recap: Blazers 94, Knicks 90
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<p>Three straight losses. Oh well.</p> <p><a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a> games feel like random events at this point. Days after floundering against a shorthanded version of the worst team in the NBA, the gave the extremely good Blazers a real game. Why? Did they try harder? Did Mike Woodson coach the team better? Did guys perform better? Did the Blazers struggle? Is it just the cycle of the moon, the changing of the tides? Is any of this even real?</p>
<p>Answers, in my estimation: Yes, I think they tried harder than they did against the <a href="https://www.brewhoop.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Bucks</a>. Yes, Woodson at least made the long-awaited and obvious move to turn to <span>Pablo Prigioni</span>, not <span>Raymond Felton</span> down the stretch. Yeah, some guys played well. <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> fell off hard following a hot start and the rest of the starters were silent and/or bad as scorers, but <span>J.R. Smith</span> created as much as Prigioni did while hitting some big shots of his own and Amar'e Stoudemire played a nice, efficient offensive game off the bench. Yes, the typically composed Blazers got weirdly sloppy with the ball in the fourth quarter and, as several teams have before, just failed to attack the Knicks in the most obvious ways. FARTDOG can't help you if you won't help yourself, ya know? Yes, I think lunar cycles have as much influence on all of the above as anything. No, none of this is real. We are all floating in pods of conductive fluid having "Knicks games" zapped into our brains by cruel overlords.</p>
<p>The Knicks almost stole a win. Or the Blazers almost blew it. I feel better than I would have had the Knicks been throttled. But really I feel nothing, because with a team that decides whether or not to play like a team as if by coin-flip, it's hard to feel much. One game has no bearing on the next. Time does not exist.</p>
<p>NOTES:</p>
<p>- <span>Tyson Chandler</span> is fully in I'm-not-playing-help-defense-for-you-assholes mode, which sucks, and stands in contrast to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techniart.com/pt/JT-block.gif">vigorous arm-swinging</a> of a guy like <span>Jeremy Tyler</span>, but Tyson did do a pretty nice job catching <span>LaMarcus Aldridge</span> early in possessions, keeping him around the perimeter, and contesting his jumpers. Or LaMarcus just wanted to hang out there. He hit the jumper that sealed the game with Chandler's hand right in his face.</p>
<p>- Melo shot a soupy 6-7 in the first quarter, which means he shot [mathmathmath] 5-21 in the latter three quarters. YUCK, man. The catch-and-shoot stuff just stopped falling, and the rim turned heel, denying Melo friendly rolls and accessible caroms and stuff. You can only carry a team so far, I guess.</p>
<p>- J.R. Smith got pretty cold himself down the stretch-- save for one big three to chip into Portland's late lead-- but man, did he have a lovely game creating off the dribble. Even with a bit of traffic ahead of him, J.R. repeatedly gained separation, drew some help, and tossed a perfect pass to either the trailing big man or the guy cutting baseline from the weak side. Amar'e Stoudemire and Jeremy Tyler both finished his set-ups. Here are a couple nice'uns via Ruka35:</p>
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<p>- Pablo fully deserved to play the whole fourth quarter over Felton, and he came up with some kick-outs and an important steal that brought the Knicks close. These grouchily cocksure Felton comments afterward sure are something:</p>
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<p>Felton on critics: "I can care less what people say. I'm a strong-minded person. They can say what they want but they cant dictate my life."</p>
— Ian Begley (@IanBegley) <a href="https://twitter.com/IanBegley/statuses/431290565418708993">February 6, 2014</a>
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<p>Felton, on why he didn't talk after the Milwaukee loss: "Nobody asked to talk." Told that ppl did ask 4 him, says "Speak louder next time."</p>
— Chris Herring (@HerringWSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerringWSJ/statuses/431279509967765504">February 6, 2014</a>
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<p>Although, to be fair:</p>
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<p>Felton, on not going back in the game in the 4th: "Pablo was playing well. What's the point of me going back in the game?"</p>
— Chris Herring (@HerringWSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerringWSJ/statuses/431278563657281537">February 6, 2014</a>
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<p>Pablo's just better at this point. He's not locking anyone down, but he's still pesky on defense. He seems to be regaining the rhythms necessary to make useful passes. He's much more likely to hit an open jumper. I like them together, but if I have to pick one, I'm picking Pablo. I was happy to see Woodson make that choice over an important stretch for what felt like the first time ever. I have no idea if he'll do it again.</p>
<p>- <span>Iman Shumpert</span> may as well not exist. He doesn't want to shoot good shots. He doesn't want to stay involved on defense. He just floats from place to place. I so miss that stretch right after the new year when he looked engaged for a moment. It made the Knicks a lot better.</p>
<p>- Tim Hardaway Jr. hit that very deep, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techniart.com/pt/THJr-pumped.gif">very pump-up</a> (and very dumb) three in the final minute and threw down that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.techniart.com/pt/THJr.gif">massive transition slam</a>. He's also 2-13 from downtown over the last two games, so this would be the gap between the streaks for a streaky shooter.</p>
<p>- Opponent DNP Pilfering: Give us <span>C.J. McCollum</span>, please. Give us <span>Thomas Robinson</span>, please. Shit, give us <span>Earl Watson</span>, please.</p>
<p>- I am totally willing to entertain the notion that Amar'e's trimmed hair contributed to his fleetness of foot and aerodynamism. It's like how I can dunk when I have a buzzcut.</p>
<p>Good effort, Knicks. Or bad effort, Blazers. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters, like 40yearsinthedesert said.<a target="_blank" href="http://www.fws.gov/midwest/marquette/images/Marquette_setting_2.jpg" style="background-color: #ffffff;"> Here's a lamprey</a>.</p>
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