It will be hilarious if Kobe sees this Lin kid getting some shine, so he takes it personally and just goes and DESTROYS him defensively. Plus, Lin is the only guy producing, other than Tyson Chandler playing the janitor role. Lin will need counseling if Kobe treats him like a white chick from CO…

This year’s all-star snubs:

Josh Smith….that is all

Honorable mention: Kyle Lowry

“knicks and the point guard search”

Okay guys, I’m on my laptop, and I finished doing some research through some articles on DIME. I will be completely honest. I found a ton of people saying the knicks need a point guard to be right. I also found some interesting stuff on people saying how reuniting nash with diantoni in NY would help the offense (in my opinion, nash would help any offense). So I will shamefully say I was wrong in that aspect.

However, I also did find, in what seems to be a contradicting show of opinion, just as many people saying to trade guys away, that the combination of chandler, amare and melo was stupid, how knicks fans were delusional and that diantoni must go. The only reason that I say that this is contradicting is because if those same people really believed a good PG was the solution, why would their be a call for their demise?

One of the more interesting quotes i found was Big Island calling dantoni the “mike martz of the nba” (whatever that means, don’t really know the guy). but my point, guys shouldn’t have bashed the stars of the knicks if they truly believed the arrival of a point guard would reverse the struggles. it’s like making a pot of chicken soup, where the cook tastes it, and doesn’t like it cuz it’s missing something (salt), but throws the entire thing out, instead of waiting for his assistant to get some salt from the store. if the missing salt was truly believed to be the problem, there would be no need to be calling for the garbage man to take out the entire pot, rather, wait for the salt and make a fab chicken soup.

one weird quote i found, weird in that i can’t tell if he believed having a good pg would make a difference, was by yoda: “as long as they have mike no D as coach, PF who has no idea what word defense means and has no desire to rebound and their best player is backpeddaling lil bitch, they will go nowhere.”

basically, i found only a handful (in comparison to the people actually claiming a good pg would in fact help) of people saying mike dantoni should be fired. it confused me because mike d has showed what a good pg can do, especially when guys on this site said the crew in phx was “made” by a good pg.

once again, making it clear, i am pleasantly surprised how many people were saying a good pg would help, but also equally confused as to the same amount of comments i found of people still, for example, giving up on the personnel in ny by saying trade melo away for that type of pg, chandler is overrated, didnt deserve his contract, amare can’t play with melo so there aint no solution. it’s confusing cuz i always believed any good pg can fix deficiencies. so while i was WRONG in thinking very little of the population here preached a good pg would turn things around, guys still shitted on the roster.

one quote that i did find that stuck out to me was by chicagorilla.

like i said, i was wrong about claiming guys weren’t buying into a pg fixing things in ny, i still found a handful amount of guys saying a pg wouldn’t do much. it was so little in comparison to guys saying a pg would in fact fix things, that i am okay with saying i was wrong.

but anyway here is one of those rare quotes that i found that blatantly claims a pg won’t do anything:

chicagorilla: “you mention how terrible Amare, Melo and the other knicks have been on defense. Then you “wish to God” that they trade for Steve Nash?
Steve Nash won’t help the Knicks because thats not really their problem. Their problem is defense and their star players don’t mix well.
Tyson Chandler can’t shoot mid-range jumpers so he has to be around the basket on offense (which also helps with his offensive rebounding).
Carmelo is their best post up player. So he needs to spend a chunk of his time on the low block.
Which then pushes Amare away from the baseline/low block post ups and keeps him 18ft away from the rim. Sure Amare can shoot, but with your PF so far away from the rim, how’s he supposed to rebound?
Bottom line, D’Antoni an idiot. He’s not a great offensive coach, all he does is let players free lance and jack up ill-advised shots. If he was a great offensive coach he’d be able to easily fix this offense and stop having people whining able bringing in a PG.”
http://dimemag.com/2011/12/kevin-durant-rips-the-heart-out-of-the-mavs-kobe-bryant-demoralizes-the-knicks/#comment-629720

bottom line is…i was wrong

but the good thing is knowing you guys semi-believed in the power of what a decent point guard (by definition) would do for the guys on the ny roster. kinda makes me warm up to you guys just a tad bit.

just thinking…as i am watching this lakers celts game….wondering if nba coaches, when casting their votes for all star reserves, had it in mind to leave pau off the team in order to reduce his trade value. most, if not all coaches fear orlando, knowing la is hesitant to give away bynum, would settle for pau, but with a higher price tag of other pieces along with him. i wouldn’t be surprised if opposing team owners were in their coach’s ear to slight pau and in result, the lakers’ trade stance.

lol. learn to not give a crap more.

lakers stole one in boston. big and tall vs old and small. its been a long time but celtics still feeling perk’s absence inside.

@ shitface..tru dat.

jballer: i got mind control over deebo. he be like shut the fuck up! i be quiet… but when he leave, i be talking again.

hakasan: “point taken that lin makes his team better, but i also think that the team has to be assembled in a fashion to be made better… which is where the coach comes in… ”
Not really. Team assembly is the GM’s job.

“p&r is the most basic play in basketball, but wizards can barely get it right…”
Again, this has little to do with the head coach. The pick n roll decisions are made by the PG. Wall spent his summer playing streetball doing one-on-one moves. The blame for the Wizards’ failure to execute the P&R falls mostly on John Wall’s shoulders; not the head coach.

“you can say that chandler knows how to do it right playing with kidd last year,”
Chandler… PERFECT example of the point I’m trying to make. He played with Paul and they executed the P&R to perfection. Then again with Kidd. But what happened when he joined the Knicks?? They still ran some P&R, but it wasn’t run properly.

” but novak was never effective on the clippers, and the rest of the team had to know where they should be to effective…”
I somewhat disagree. They need to be in the right places, but at that level you’d think each player would know where their strengths are already. That’s why I’ve been saying the Knicks have been winging it the last few games. I really don’t think Novak would wander into the post, and Chandler would spot up in the corner without the coach telling them what to do.
And I watched the last Knicks game again… and they did run sets but they always broke down, and when that happened (like every single time) they went to the P&R. A lot of what happens out of the P&R falls squarely on the PG. In the same breathe Shumpert can’t run it, and that’s on him; not D’Antoni.

And speaking of the Clippers, they have the same Head Coach as last year but a new PG. Last year their P&R was… ummm… average (to be nice). This year they’re executing it. Why?