Celtics beat Knicks, 104-59 (!), thus forcing us to spend the rest of the season attaching a proviso to any discussion of Boston's prodigious average margin-of-victory stats.
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Feeling Sorry for my Dad
30 Nov 2007 05:28 am
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By the way, there's an article in the New York Observer about how horrible it is for reporters to cover the Knicks. It gives you a good sense of how paranoid the Knicks organization is.
Don't worry, Jared Jefferies will save the Knicks.
I watched the game. As happy as I always am to see the Celtics whip someone, that game was an embarrassing disgrace. I honestly think that in addition to canning Isiah, either the league or the Knicks should fine the Knick players. It's one thing to lose because you're just a bad team. But even the worst teams should be held to some minimal standard of professionalism and effort. If a team just goes through the motions and mails it in, the league has a problem. I have no doubt that Isiah is a bad coach. But even a team with no coach on the bench should be able to compete better than the Knicks did last night. Even a team that is mailing a game in generally does a better job of at least faking it. The Knick players appear to have decided to lose badly and on purpose, to hasten Thomas's departure.
104-59 is a large victory margin. But even that score doesn't reflect how lopsided the game was. For one thing the Knicks were saved from their lowest point total in franchise history by a half-court three-pointer tossed in mindlessly at the buzzer.
I've had two friends die young because they didn't have health insurance, and thus couldn't get medical attention for utterly preventible conditions that ended up killing them.
I feel sorry for their families, not for your dad.
I feel contempt for so-called progressives who are opposed to universal healthcare.
I watched the first 5 minutes of the 3rd quarter. Knicks were already down 25 at halftime, and then came out after the half with zero energy, allwing the Celtics to begin the third quarter with an 11-0 run. Isaiah promptly pulled all of his starters - which is perfectly appropriate. And the reserves came in and gave a good effort. Of course they were not good enough to stay with the C's, but at least there was effort. But then a couple of minutes later, Isaish put the starters all back in! What a farce - when your starters are playing so terribly and your reserves are playing hard, how can you put the starters back in?
Seriously, does anyone get the idea that Isaiah is trying to force Dolan to fire him? (Like Larry Brown did two years ago?)
I feel sorry for your Dad Matt. That sucks when your team is terrible.
As for Petey's friends they deserved to die and so does Petey. Die Petey! Die!!! Die!!!!!!!
Go Celtics!!!
This was very fun to watch. But not as fun as watching the Lakers blow out the Nuggets afterwards.
For at least a night, the NBA was back to "normal."
Y'know, Dolan's missing a great opportunity by not putting up the Liberty vs. the Knicks in an exhibition game. At least there'd be a competitive game in the Garden for a change.
just to address the arithmetic: if the celts had won the game by a point (60-59), their average margin of victory for the season would be roughly .5 lower....
I thought Isaiah was a good coach, if a terrible GM (and human being). The knicks over-achieved last year; what's changed?
I was at a bar to watch Cowboys-Packers (stupid NFL network) so only had one eye on this game and it was nevertheless sickening to watch. This may turn out to be a historically bad year for New York sports (even though the Yankees made the playoffs, the Giants will, and the Mets only missed by one game), by which I actually just mean that the Red Sox won the World Series and two other Boston teams are looking somewhere between dominant and historically fantastic. Though the Cavs-Boston game the other night provides some hope on the Celtics not being the team to come out of the East this year, and they've only played what, 12 games?
I've had two friends die young because they didn't have health insurance, and thus couldn't get medical attention for utterly preventible conditions that ended up killing them.
Now please tell the causal story about how an individual mandate plan would have saved them but the plans offered by other leading Democratic candidates wouldn't.
Yeah but that Cavs-Celts game had a non-existent KG and a terrible performance from Paul Pierce.
Ray Allen was the only guy who showed up and he missed two free throws to win the game in regulation.
In sum: the Cavs beat them at home in overtime and needed a choke from Ray Allen and no shows from KG and Pierce.
That won't happen in the playoffs if everyone stays healthy the C's will have home court advantage and a very fired up KG and Pierce...
This team turned a performance worse than anything of the Ken Bannister-era Knicks. I forced myself to watch the whole game. The problem for the Knicks was that the Celtics frantic defense prevented the Knicks from getting the ball into the post, or scoring in the post on the few occasions when there was an entry pass. Curry, Randolph and Lee did not work hard enough to create low post position. Once they got the ball, they could not finish. Marbury and Crawford could not beat people off of the dribble to force help defense (which could have led to some easy buckets for the low post guys).
This game looked like more of a mismatch than the worst of the college games I have ever seen (such as 1980s Ivy League teams taking on Duke).
Just take the log of the data.
Though the Cavs-Boston game the other night provides some hope on the Celtics not being the team to come out of the East this year, and they've only played what, 12 games?
I'd bet on the Magic or Detroit before I bet on the Cavs. Howard looks uncontrollable, and Wallace, when on, is a nightmare.
Isaiah brought those players in, and Dolan brought Isaiah in. Too bad for the Knicks that the league can't get rid of both of them.
As a Celtics fan, it was pure joy to watch.
BTW, Petey seems like a miserable human being.
Hopefully Petey will die like his worthless dead friends. That would be great for this blog.
My own Dad's soaring Celtic glee
Will mitigate your dad's misery.
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Heads in the Sand
As a Knicks fan, all I can say is "Ugh". What a horrible, horrible team. Unfortunately, firing Isiah will only partially solve the problems in the Knicks organization. Somehow, the NBA has to find a way to get James Dolan to sell the team.
Posted by Peter H | November 30, 2007 7:33 AM