1) Good analysis here. I had the same fear on Marbury. last night was a huge boost on the Marbury front.

2) Totally agree here. In fact, I just wrote an article on your Paxson point.

3) Although it is a bit radical, I could flow with Curry and crawford in the second team. They always need to be in the rotation together.

T3, you are damn right we are back to optimistic! Not because of the win so much as because it was led by Marbury. He was aggressive, yet poised. Looked for his shot, yet spread the ball around well. As goes Stephon, so goes the Knicks.

1) The Bulls really are the inverse of the Knicks in a lot of ways. Even coaching. Skiles is a taskmaster who works his players hard, and may have lost their loyalty because of his habit of airing dirty laundry in the media. He seems to be suffering from the prototypical burnout of a taskmaster coach who loses his team after working them too much for too long. In this case, the Bulls offense, which was effective the past two seasons, is slumping this year because they seem to have “zoned out” Skiles’ philosophy. The Knicks, on the other hand, are a team who coach had his players’ loyalty because he never aired dirty laundry in the press, but may have lost it recently with the Marbury debacle. That’s yet to be determined, though. Hopefully not.

2) I have no idea why Paxson hasn’t made a trade for a low post presence in the past year – Gasol, KG, even Jermaine O’Neal – could have put this team over the top. It makes even less sense when you consider that, after paying Gordon and Deng their extensions (if he re-signs them), the Bulls will be at the cap limit. Utterly wasteful. Isiah Thomas has done a far better job of managing what little assets he’s had. Draft picks for example… anyone still think the Knicks would be better off with TyThomas and Noah instead of Curry after watching this game?!?

3) I agree with your suggestion on Jared Jeffries, limiting the Curry-Randolph tandem (honestly, benching Curry, then teaming him up with Crawford on the second team, would help the Knicks defensively a lot), and on limiting the rotation (though there are a lot of role players – Fred Jones is a tremendous defensive asset, and Balkman, Lee, and Robinson all need to play, too).

Not sure if Balkman starting is the way to go, though. I love Renaldo, but he is foul heavy. His minutes need to be increased, though, and then we’ll get a better idea if he be a starter or not….

WriteOn all.

And nice demonstration how Lupica spins storoes and ALWAYS claims to be “the voice of the fans”. Spinning stories and speaking for the “true fans” are common tactics for him. Why o why didn’t I name this website “stopmikelupica”? Oh yeah, it was taken! http://www.stopmikelupica.com

If this is true—the pit bull looking dogs like Lupica,Greenberg,Lawrence and the rest—are wasting their time writing what they do. Although they will continue, b/c obviously this is what their bosses desires or wants— they pay these dogs to write these lies and rumors.

Another thing, if there’s a person out there aspiring to replace Isiah if and when he’s fired, then this person like Chris Mullen or whoever, should not allow or let their intentions known to the MSM, NYMSM, and it gets to the ears or eyes of Dolan. Because Dolan will do the opposite.

And I congratulate and encourage James Dolan to keep up the good work, what he’s doing is giving the dogs no bark. They are in fact, as they write their garbageness, just like toothless dogs that have a lot of bark, but no bite. Discerning readers are no longer fooled and mislead by their inane inks. Bring it on; they’re doing nothing but wasting their time. It makes me happy to see them not getting what they want!!!

Dolan would not make these NY Press Dogs happy by satisfying their desires. Making them win! James Dolan stays in control by not relenting to the NY Media; so by doing that, Dolan remains in control. He knows the sports reporters don’t like him. So I guess it pleases him to do the opposite of their desires. And to me that’s a good thing.
What James Dolan is in effect doing is not giving these writers a credible voice to stand on. How long have they been bashing IT, Dolan, this Knicks team? Forever, right? And where have it gotten them?
So far no where, and to me, that’s good sports related news worth reading.
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To see how bias and hateful these dogs who cover the Knicks… we don’t have to look that far for factual knowledge in their garbageness reporting.

A quick comparison we can see the difference:
After the Nets beat Sonics, Nets beat writer Julian Garcia opened up her article, “On Road, Nets Hot Stuff” with this paragraph: SEATTLE — “Just days removed from a six-game losing streak, it doesn’t matter what kind of wins the Nets get, as long as they get them.”

Wow!!! Did you read that? This NY Sports News writer is in fact not belittling the Nets win with a sarcastic or cynical remark—but instead mentioning any win is a good win.
Now take this lifetime resident dog in Anti’s Doghouse, Mike Lupica’s article on Sunday 11/25/07,”If Isiah knows hoops, Knicks’ fans know better”:“The Chicago Bulls did not have Luol Deng, a player good enough to be in trade talks about Kobe Bryant, at the Garden yesterday. Ben Gordon, somebody who usually kills the Knicks, at the Garden and everywhere else, combined with Kirk Hinrich to shoot 9-for-35 Saturday. Somehow the Bulls overcame all that and tied the Knicks at 75-75 in the fourth quarter before missing the last eight shots they looked at. You want to know who the Knicks can beat right now? That’s who.”

Now why not write what Julian wrote about her team the Nets, that every win is a good win?

Answer: This dog Mike Lupica and Head Woofer in Anti’s Doghouse is incapable of saying anything positive regarding the Knicks. That’s why.

What this Mike “pit bull” Lupica is inking is inserting a negative (Knicks beating an awful team), instead of emphasizing the positive (Knicks beat an awful team). Any win is a good win, right? In Lupica eyes, any win the Knicks win, is not good in his eyes. And he thinks he has the audacity to speak for us true Knicks’ fans when he’s write in such a way that shows he doesn’t speak for us true Knicks’ fans.
This toothless dog has lost his bite, therefore he’s inane, and forever a member of the Dog Pack and rightfully belong in my Doghouse, that includes these other NY Sports Writers as well: Mitch “the grill” Lawrence, NY Post vulture looking, Jay Greenberg, Peter “the liar” Vecsey, Frank “not so credible” Isola.

Anti-NYSportsNews is my name, and you can find me at my home base here and at the world wide web Knicks’ blog headquarters:

http://www.knicksdefense.com/.