My Posse's On Broadway: Official NY Knicks 2016-2017 Season Thread

[Columbo]

He's a Paul Pierce stan from Brooklyn

 

[Kitsch]

Knicks’ Derrick Rose Should Pick a Low-Profile Role Model


On Pro Basketball

By HARVEY ARATON OCT. 30, 2016

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• Derrick Rose: Forget about Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard and the other volume-scoring point guards. At this stage of your career, on this particular team in New York, the guy you really want to be like is Mike.
  
  That would be Mike Conley Jr., he of the 13.6-point career scoring average on 11.3 shots a game and the five-year, $153 million contract.
  
  For total value, that is the richest deal in N.B.A. history. For single-season compensation, Conley joins that other Mike (Jordan), Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as a player to have cracked the $30 million barrier.
  
  Political sloganeering notwithstanding, is this a great country, or what?
  
  Playing 24 minutes as he eased his way back from last season’s Achilles’ tendon injury, Conley scored 11 points and had five assists for Memphis in the Knicks’ 111-104 victory over the Grizzlies on Saturday night. You, Derrick, had 13 points (and three assists) in your Madison Square Garden debut for the Knicks, although several explosive bursts to the lane electrified the crowd and aroused memories of your vintage, pre-three-knee-operations self.
  
  Still, the Knicks’ varied, versatile attack illustrated that this team does not need you to be — or to try too hard to be — the league most valuable player you once were.
  
  This is where the defensively sturdy and stylistically understated Conley, your new role model, becomes an interesting case study. He has never been mistaken for anyone’s shoe company darling, as you instantly were when you took your hometown of Chicago by storm in what feels like a basketball eternity ago.
  
  Post-game, I found Conley wandering the Garden bowels, searching for the Grizzlies’ team bus. He was wearing jeans, a “Black Panther” backpack – no social statement, just a tribute to a Marvel Comics character – and carrying a small food container.
  
  Had he been strolling Eighth Avenue, he would easily have been taken for another anonymous soul heading to the Port Authority terminal to catch a late bus.
  
  Fine by Conley, it appears. Memphis is a long way from the hot lights of Broadway, but when I asked him to explain why his mega-pact would not become a burden as inevitable comparisons are made, here’s what he said.
  
  “People expect me to score 40 points a game? Well, I’m not going to score 40 points a game because I want to make sure our team wins. If that means scoring 25 one night, getting 15 assists, then that’s what it’ll be. If it means scoring 10, that’s OK.
  
  “Guys get caught up in the numbers nowadays, in the game within the game. I do see that the point guards are getting a lot of the attention so you can call it whatever you want, a guard’s league, but at the end of the day, it’s the teams that play together that are going to win.”
  
  Is it really that much a point guard’s league when James – the sport’s most formidable power player — is its undisputed King? When a trove of freakishly skilled young giants – from Anthony Davis to Karl-Anthony Towns to the Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis to Joel Embiid – has been unleashed?
  
  Not to be overlooked through your rosiest-colored glasses is that before you scored your first basket midway through the second quarter, the Knicks, with an offense powered by Porzingis and Courtney Lee, had already built a 47-30 lead.
  
  Your new coach, Jeff Hornacek, loved the first-half ball movement but complained mildly about the reliance on you and Carmelo Anthony as the Grizzlies fought their way to within 87-85 with under 10 minutes to play.
  
  After Joakim Noah’s defense denied Zach Randolph in the lane, he threaded the needle on a back-door pass to Anthony for a conventional 3-point- play. You, Derrick, hit a lane floater and then set a screen at the elbow for Porzingis to step out and hit a long 3, and Porzingis set another screen to free Justin Holiday for a jumper before you wrong-footed Marc Gasol for a pull-up in the lane.
  
  It was a decisive 12-0 run to which all five players contributed and left the team president Phil Jackson feeling like the N.B.A.’s Executive of the Night.
  
  And you, Derrick, modestly said, “I’m not worried about my stats as long as we win.”
  
  Except you said such things repeatedly in Chicago last season while speculation abounded that teammates – most notably Jimmy Butler — were unhappy with your ball-stopping and shot selection. After one game as a Knick, you gave the back of your hand to the triangle even as early evidence suggests that offense can run through Noah – the team’s best passer – and put you (and Anthony) in what should be your preferred midrange scoring positions.
  
  No one is asking you to be Jose Calderon, or even Charlie Ward, but more like Mike (Conley) would be fine and, frankly, your reputation could use the lower-key approach after that unseemly civil trial in Los Angeles.
  
  We know you are playing for a new contract. Talk to Conley about how it worked out for him in this league of recently realized television riches. Listen to Gasol explain why.
  
  The Conley deal, he said, was not about star power, solely a reflection of “how important he is to us.”
  
  You, Derrick, can be that guy for the Knicks. Just remember, in order to be good, they don’t need you to be great.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/s...ley-memphis-grizzlies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

 

[Wargames]

Even after a win these bum Knicks beat writers gotta find a way to hate.

 

[Columbo]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/s...ley-memphis-grizzlies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

The writer of this should be fired

 

[Ironman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/s...ley-memphis-grizzlies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

Needs his knick pass revoked and transferred to another team and location

 

[onelastdeath]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/s...ley-memphis-grizzlies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

What a fukking bytch. Piece of shyt click bait article that screams "look at my different opinion". Hate these MFs .

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

Best scoring five will include KP at the 5 and Carmelo at the 4. Btw, Cubs lost.

Name yourself after an ex Cubs first baseman brehs

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

Thick Iverson aka ball stopper 5/15.. nikka doesn't know when to chill

Stop with them gay ass nicknames. Who calls another man thick?

I watched the entire game last night and hamthony was the reason the grizzlies caught up. KP and Rose came back and secured the game. Like I said before, Knicks are better off letting Rose have the keys.

How about we get a whole team effort instead of making it the Rose show . We saw what happened to rose when thibs ran him into the ground

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Stop with them gay ass nicknames. Who calls another man thick?

 

[Po pimp]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/s...ley-memphis-grizzlies.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

I have a problem when these writers (especially unathletic cac writers) that never hooped a day in their life try to tell a former MVP who they should be like. Secondly, Derrick was not a ball stopper in Chicago. Derrick has given 30 (or damn near 30) to every "elite" PG last season. He knows he isn't washed up, even tho the media and casual fans think he is. It's an insult to suggest he model his game after someone who he's superior than. The only reason Rose isn't a 20ppg scorer is FTs.

 

[El Jefe]

I have a problem when these writers (especially unathletic cac writers) that never hooped a day in their life try to tell a former MVP who they should be like. Secondly, Derrick was not a ball stopper in Chicago. Derrick has given 30 (or damn near 30) to every "elite" PG last season. He knows he isn't washed up, even tho the media and casual fans think he is. It's an insult to suggest he model his game after someone who he's superior than. The only reason Rose isn't a 20ppg scorer is FTs.

This ..and it's not just last year ..even the year before in his Head to heads against other so called ' elite Pg's ' around the league he not only matched or outplayed the majority of them

I don't think it's the media's agenda ..I just see it as lazy journalism on their part

Its..a easy story/headline as they see the season numbers x don't want to factor in what happened at the start of last year /chicagos willingness to trade him

 

[KnickstapeCity]

Knickstape brehs..... behold------

<--------- :philjacksonlol: in HD





@cook we need the official Knickstape remix, breh

 

[onelastdeath]

 

[KnickstapeCity]

 

[#1 pick]

Lemon pepper with the sauce