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

[Trip]

Porzingis hasnt been booed once yet
U said he was bulletproof, im just showing you why.
Has been playing like shyt for 2 months and has been quietly flying under the radar
Lets see hoe warm and understanding the knick fans are if he does that without melo lmao

Zingis cant even post up smaller players without gettin stripped

Hey I've been the one leading the cool it with the unicorn nonsense for a while now

 

[Frump]

Breh... What Melo fans here have said the Knicks can't rebuild?

There saying Melo shields KP from boos/criticism and needs him

 

[DPresidential]

With him not posting up smaller guys - a complaint I also have of him - I think it's less about ability/strength and more about personality/confidence.

It's like he NEEDS a fair fight. He'll work magic in the post on plays against Embiid and/or KAT but will get afraid of hurting the little mosquito.

The beating up in the little guy is the one part of being Americanized that he didn't adopt yet.

 

[seemorecizzy]

Hey I've been the one leading the cool it with the unicorn nonsense for a while now

I love zingis pause
Obviously hes our future
But im not gonna sit here and ignore all his flaws
I keep it real about our players, no bias

Some mutherfukkers in here got agendas

 

[DPresidential]

There saying Melo shields KP from boos/criticism and needs him

Okay, I think it's a reach to bridge those two points, Frump.

I, also, have said the Melo shielding KP monologue, too. (I'll add that I'm weakening a bit on that point.)

With that being said, I've always been amenable to a rebuild, breh. Not to say I represent the majority of the type of Knicks fan your talking about - although I'd bet money you do think I represent them, a$$hole lol - I can say that I'm pretty sure we would be cool with a rebuild complete with selling off assets and not trying to gamble on future long term contracts of injured veterans and looking towards the draft.

Keep it 100, that debate has always been about those who are cool with the powers that be intentionally putting out the poorest product they can and those who aren't.

 

[RickyGQ]

Def meant in an alternate universe. The celtics are one of the few teams with a mix of assets and room to maneuver that could facilitate a deal.

If a deal is possible, at all.



This is silly. You sound like the posters that used to stan for Isiah Thomas.

On a basic level, obviously KP isn't a star right now. And when Melo has been out it has been PAINFULLY obvious that he's nowhere near being able to carry a team. In the end, you have to examine windows, and Melo's is somewhere between closing and closed (the former being his career, the latter being his possibility of success on the knicks.)

Ultimately, when we get some distance, and we look back on how this all played out, there will be two key moments to blame for the failure of his time with the Knicks.

1. Forcing a trade when he could have signed that following offseason. It gutted the roster, and cost him the surrounding talent and help he has needed this whole time.
2. Lower-key, the decision to use our exemption to cut Billups. Which ultimately made it impossible to get Chris Paul, who wanted to join Melo here.

The first is something I partly blame melo for, and partly blame the front office. The second is fully the front office's fault. And really, when you look at those two missed opportunities, those two short-sighted decision, they really set the pace for his entire time here. And it is a fukking shame, because I really like Melo. I have rooted for him, and WANT to root for him. I think he represents a bunch of things that I identify with and believe in. And I have always said, and still believe, that you could build a winner around him, you just needed to plan it correctly. With shooters and defenders, and a point guard who knew when to feed him and when to spread it around.

This is not a eulogy, but I feel like today's inauguration has me feeling circumspect.

This is the most depressed I've been in a while and these Knicks losses ain't helping for shyt b

 

[RickyGQ]

The Philly market is probably a lot less forgiving, but I'll agree with you about that. I think the game is more national than just local markets though, and from the outside looking in, it seems the national viewpoint is that Melo is pretty much finished as a top tier talent but the fans in NY hold onto him as though he's Bron.

If Porzingis were a bust, he'd be hearing it from everywhere. Young players don't need to be shielded, because people generally understand it takes time, so needing someone like Melo to "protect" him is irrelevant.

The national media follows the lead of the local media tho. Most of them don't actually watch all the games.

 

[Miles Davis]

Oh look another post game review where the ref didn't catch something

 

[I.V.]

This is the most depressed I've been in a while and these Knicks losses ain't helping for shyt b

On a separate, non-basketball note: I spent the last two-plus weeks, basically the entire new year so far, travelling through Europe, and one thing that it gave me, is a sense of peace with the fact that countries survive... they last. There is a permanence in the united states, that feels at risk right now, given the way the election went, and given what we are facing. And while things will undoubtedly change, and very likely change for the worse for many - including many of his supporters, who blindly gave up the social safety net they depend on - these things move in cycles.

Hopefully something like this shakes people awake, at both ends of the political hierarchy, and forces them to reinvest time and effort. I have spent a large portion of my career covering President Obama, and the last year covering the election... and I am worried. And that is coming from a white heterosexual guy in new york city with a college degree a good job and a clean bill of health. I really can't imagine what anybody who does not fit that same mold is feeling.

All I can say is that we will survive, we will move forward, and your best tactic to fight against what you don't believe in is to fukking thrive, unapologetically.

I know this thread is usually used to escape into hoops and the knicks, so I won't clutter it with a lot of real-life shyt. And I have worked to avoid bringing this stuff up in here, because it's a bit of a sanctuary. But I'm here for y'all. Anyone who wants to rap about this stuff can hit me with a DM.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

But we only 2.5 games out the playoffs, we need to just make a run for that 8th seed. Ya STAY overreacting.

I'll tell you one last time, if you have a problem with me posting or my posts, stop being a p*ssy & @ me next time.

 

[ogc163]

I'll tell you one last time, if you have a problem with me posting or my posts, stop being a p*ssy & @ me next time.

Stop acting like an emotional bytch and pull your skirt down b ya p*ssy showing, shyt is a sports forum it aint that serious.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Stop acting like an emotional bytch and pull your skirt down b ya p*ssy showing, shyt is a sports forum it aint that serious.

If you going to troll n*ggas, like I said, stop being a p*ssy & @ me. Even when @Kristaps Porzingis was trolling & getting at me, he had the balls to actually mention me in the posts so that I could see it.

 

[onelastdeath]

If you going to troll n*ggas, like I said, stop being a p*ssy & @ me. Even when @Kristaps Porzingis was trolling & getting at me, he had the balls to actually mention me in the posts so that I could see it.

Don't give that poosy any credit. fukk him and the other one

 

[ogc163]

If you going to troll n*ggas, like I said, stop being a p*ssy & @ me. Even when @Kristaps Porzingis was trolling & getting at me, he had the balls to actually mention me in the posts so that I could see it.

nikka you aint never gonna see me so miss me with that "I'll tell you one last time" or calling dudes p*ssy. fukking clown ass getting in ya feelings heavy on some forum tip?! Ya clowns need more than the Knicks in ya lives. I'mma keep on clowning and not @ you, I'm shaking thinking of the consequences.

 

[ogc163]

Don't give that poosy any credit. fukk him and the other one