Newsflash: Playing good basketball wins games! Somebody should tell Isaiah Thomas and the Knicks that having a bunch of good players won’t cut it in this NBA. Teams like Phoenix, San Antonio, Detroit, Dallas, Chicago, Utah, and Houston(and Toronto) will use their teamwork to outwork and outperform a team like New York. I swear, the Knicks roster reminds me of when I was 14 and I would play NBA Live97 with Joell and Justin at Justin’s house and we would do a fantasy draft. We’d pick at bunch of superstars and stack our team with mulitple guys playing the same position. It didn’t work in that crappy videogame and it doesn’t work in real life. Justin learned that the hard way.
Tonight we shot the ball very well–12/20 from three. AP, Bargs, Garbo and Bosh all shot well over 50% from the field, and with TJ running around like a scary scary mouse, sneaking in and out of the defense and finding the open man, the Knicks didn’t stand a chance. Ford finished with 18 points and 18 assists. He is tearing teams apart lately, and I can’t wait to see him next year, when he and the team will be more used to one another.
It was a fun game to watch. Very physical. Calderon went down with a sprained ankle, as did AP (but he came back in), Bosh got elbowed in the head by Joey Graham (who Joey, Seany and I saw at the Paramount last night). Stevie Francis went down with some mystery injury too. Kind of reminded me of the great rivalry we had with them back in 2000/2001, with the whole Vince vs. Houston, and Oak vs. everybody in the stadium.