Ok, if this isn't bottom I don't want to know what is. In today's early Saturday evening game at the Garden hosting the Charlotte Hornets the Knicks have been utterly dominated, the half ended with them being literally doubled up 62-31. They literally had 1 free throw.
Knicks fans it's time to say enough. I mean this is just pitiful. It's one thing losing like this to all the good teams out there like Golden State, Portland, or Toronto. It's not even a decent mid level team like Milwaukee. This is the Hornets. Is it fair to call them a bad team? Well as Parcells says: You are what you are. This is a wins and losses league and the Hornets don't win too many games.
Ok, they came into the game winning 4 games in a row but they are 13-24 on the season and had lost 5 in a row before the current win streak.
I admit it: I had no illusions about the Knicks. You go 5-34, it's more than bad luck. Still maybe I did have some illusions as I thought they might be able to at least compete today. Maybe that's why the Hornets are playing so well today. They wanted to make a statement: yeah, we're just another crummy team, but we are not the Knicks, we are just not anywhere near on that level.
There's something to that. The Hornets are just your garden variety bad team in the NBA. Every year, there will be losers as well as winners. Some teams will be also-rans in any given season. No one will remember the Hornets in the future as one of the NBA's all time worst. The Knicks though are something special in the pejorative sense. They are noteworthy for being so bad. Today's game shows you just what a laughing stock they are. Are they even an NBA team at all. There Boy Wonder coach, Derek Fisher, gave them the kind of speech you normally here a coach give to high school students not NBA pros.
In one of the Knicks' first timeouts against the Houston Rockets on Thursday, with All-Star Carmelo Anthony and other usual starters sitting, Fisher tried to rally a group comprised of young, untested players. The speech, which included, "Believe in who YOU are, you can play the game," came off exactly like a father coaching his child's bad youth team.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2324108-knicks-coach-derek-fisher-gives-team-speech-like-theyre-a-youth-team
If this is not a NBA team at all-and there is just no sign that it is-I called Fisher 'Boy Wonder' because he's not a coach, he's a player that was given this position for some inexplicable reason. I guess you need the Zen of Phil Jackson to get why you want to put him in a season like this.
Sure, they don't have Melo and Stoudimire-but they were losing with them. Look, the Jets fired their coach and GM and the Giants fired their defensive coordinator; the Knicks need to fire their owner.
As Knicks fans we need the equivalence of what Jets fans did and their 'Fire Idzk' campaign. Not so incidentally, as I write the Knicks are down 83-40-at home to one of the worst teams in the NBA.
Who do you blame? Yes, I'm tired of Jackson's Zenisms-I mean they used to say of George W. Bush that he landed on third base and thought he hit a triple. Jackson got to coach Jordan, Pippen, Kobe, and Shaw and everyone thinks he's genius.
I'm sick of Fisher already. He just looks to comfortable losing. Maybe his problem is he has the mindset of a player rather than a coach-because after all, he's a player or was so until a minute ago.
You know who is at the Garden today? Patrick Ewing, He's looking good, wearing a great suit, he's an assistant for the Hornets. The crowd applauded him and he tipped his hat to them. How fitting: he's the link to the time when the Knicks were serious playoff contenders-two finals though they lost both. Ok disappointing that they never won the title but who wouldn't go back to those days compared to the Dolan era?
UPDATE: The 3rd quarter ends and they are still being doubled up 89-44.
It starts with Dolan, he's been the constant in 13 years of losing.
I know supposedly there's a plan in place. Look I want to believe. Maybe it works. As we're paying Melo $120 million dollars so they can win 5 games with him on the bench, maybe Jackson can convince someone good in the free agent market to play with Melo. They get a big pick in the drat and you maybe have something to talk about.
We'll see. As Lupica says we've heard this song before too many times-wait till next year-where the important season is not the one they're playing.
If it fails again, then I think there is no one left to blame: James Dolan needs to go. Fans should rent jets to this effect-maybe that's better in football with an open stadium-put out fliers or buy ads, but another failure with Jackson and Dolan needs to go. Surely someone with deep pockets can institute a hostile takeover?
No matter how you look at it, it's his mess. Maybe he should spend more time on his other hobbies.
Knicks fans it's time to say enough. I mean this is just pitiful. It's one thing losing like this to all the good teams out there like Golden State, Portland, or Toronto. It's not even a decent mid level team like Milwaukee. This is the Hornets. Is it fair to call them a bad team? Well as Parcells says: You are what you are. This is a wins and losses league and the Hornets don't win too many games.
Ok, they came into the game winning 4 games in a row but they are 13-24 on the season and had lost 5 in a row before the current win streak.
I admit it: I had no illusions about the Knicks. You go 5-34, it's more than bad luck. Still maybe I did have some illusions as I thought they might be able to at least compete today. Maybe that's why the Hornets are playing so well today. They wanted to make a statement: yeah, we're just another crummy team, but we are not the Knicks, we are just not anywhere near on that level.
There's something to that. The Hornets are just your garden variety bad team in the NBA. Every year, there will be losers as well as winners. Some teams will be also-rans in any given season. No one will remember the Hornets in the future as one of the NBA's all time worst. The Knicks though are something special in the pejorative sense. They are noteworthy for being so bad. Today's game shows you just what a laughing stock they are. Are they even an NBA team at all. There Boy Wonder coach, Derek Fisher, gave them the kind of speech you normally here a coach give to high school students not NBA pros.
In one of the Knicks' first timeouts against the Houston Rockets on Thursday, with All-Star Carmelo Anthony and other usual starters sitting, Fisher tried to rally a group comprised of young, untested players. The speech, which included, "Believe in who YOU are, you can play the game," came off exactly like a father coaching his child's bad youth team.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2324108-knicks-coach-derek-fisher-gives-team-speech-like-theyre-a-youth-team
If this is not a NBA team at all-and there is just no sign that it is-I called Fisher 'Boy Wonder' because he's not a coach, he's a player that was given this position for some inexplicable reason. I guess you need the Zen of Phil Jackson to get why you want to put him in a season like this.
Sure, they don't have Melo and Stoudimire-but they were losing with them. Look, the Jets fired their coach and GM and the Giants fired their defensive coordinator; the Knicks need to fire their owner.
As Knicks fans we need the equivalence of what Jets fans did and their 'Fire Idzk' campaign. Not so incidentally, as I write the Knicks are down 83-40-at home to one of the worst teams in the NBA.
Who do you blame? Yes, I'm tired of Jackson's Zenisms-I mean they used to say of George W. Bush that he landed on third base and thought he hit a triple. Jackson got to coach Jordan, Pippen, Kobe, and Shaw and everyone thinks he's genius.
I'm sick of Fisher already. He just looks to comfortable losing. Maybe his problem is he has the mindset of a player rather than a coach-because after all, he's a player or was so until a minute ago.
You know who is at the Garden today? Patrick Ewing, He's looking good, wearing a great suit, he's an assistant for the Hornets. The crowd applauded him and he tipped his hat to them. How fitting: he's the link to the time when the Knicks were serious playoff contenders-two finals though they lost both. Ok disappointing that they never won the title but who wouldn't go back to those days compared to the Dolan era?
UPDATE: The 3rd quarter ends and they are still being doubled up 89-44.
It starts with Dolan, he's been the constant in 13 years of losing.
I know supposedly there's a plan in place. Look I want to believe. Maybe it works. As we're paying Melo $120 million dollars so they can win 5 games with him on the bench, maybe Jackson can convince someone good in the free agent market to play with Melo. They get a big pick in the drat and you maybe have something to talk about.
We'll see. As Lupica says we've heard this song before too many times-wait till next year-where the important season is not the one they're playing.
If it fails again, then I think there is no one left to blame: James Dolan needs to go. Fans should rent jets to this effect-maybe that's better in football with an open stadium-put out fliers or buy ads, but another failure with Jackson and Dolan needs to go. Surely someone with deep pockets can institute a hostile takeover?
No matter how you look at it, it's his mess. Maybe he should spend more time on his other hobbies.
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