Smallthoughts: Rave of the Week…Enes Canter

Let’ be honest Knick fans we were happy to see Phil Jackson go, happy to Carmelo Anthony go, but wondered did the Knicks get enough back in the Anthony trade to Oklahoma City. Well it’s early but after 21 games the Knicks look like a better team and look like they are in a better

Smallthoughts: Rant of the Week…New York Knicks

One would think that when you hire a decorated coach who has won as many championships as Phil Jackson has a a player (2) and as a coach (11) he would know what it takes to build a winning culture a winning team. However it is becoming more and more alarming by the day that

Smallthoughts: Rant of the Week …George Karl

George Karl is like everyone else he ‘s got an opinion, the difference is his opinions are now public because he wrote a book. It’s apparent he has ill feelings towards Carmelo Anthony calling Anthony a “user.”  So he was asked What’s an example of Carmelo’s being a “user”? Here is his comments: “I think

Smallthoughts: Rant of the Week …Phil Jackson

I liked Phil Jackson when he was a skinny defensive player for the Knicks back in the 70’s. I liked Phil Jackson better when he coached the Bulls and would bang heads with Pat Riley and then with Jeff Van Gundy. He would say things to tweek the Knicks and I get it was to

Smallthoughts: Why I like the Moves the Knicks made

Its  not often as a Knick you get genuinely excited about the look of your team. Yes I know there are risk involved, but the risk are short term. And these are the same players other teams were looking at as well so let’s cut out …same old Knicks chatter. Yes I was not crazy

Smallthoughts: Rant of the Week

It was once the Mecca of Basketball, no place rocks not even Seattle rocks like the Garden rocks when the Knicks are good, it gets so loud you can feel the building shake. Well sadly it’s been a while since the garden has been like that. We all thought we were on our way to

Losing brings out the fight in the Knicks

It didn’t take long for the losing to turn to finger pointing, the players hate the triangle, they don’tbelieve in it and they rather play they way they been playing…selfish isolation basketball . They point out the obvious that Carmelo Anthony  is the black hole of the offense when it comes to ball movement. But

AP source: Knicks offer Anthony max contract

We are not breaking any new ground by any stretch of the imagination with this story. Now that the Melo Free agent tour is over the Knicks get the last shot to make their pitch to carmelo Anthony. The following is a published story on the Knicks offering Anthony a max contract…so here is the

NBA Free Agency…Bulls make their pitch to Carmelo Anthony

As a Knick fan this is hard to swallow only because it makes you wonder if melo doesn’t return to the knicks what is the back up plan. But if melo is swaded by what he saw in Chicago …then the Knicks had better had another course of action to replace a huge chunk of

Carmelo Anthony Offense Highlights 2013/2014

If you have any doubt if Carmelo Anthony is worth the fuss check out the video below.