NYK '14 offseason thread

[gllahone84]

guess who was at the game

guess who wants to...

just a wild guess...that's all. 

 

[big j 33]

You know you're a real Knicks fan when you have dreams of Dolan being stabbed to death.

 

[Spectacular23]

NEW YORK -- Shortly after the New York Knicks dropped their ninth straight game, star forward Carmelo Anthony said the team is "playing to lose" and appears "a little tense" as the losses pile up.

The Knicks have lost nine in a row for the first time since 2006. They have dropped seven in a row at Madison Square Garden, the longest home losing streak in franchise history.

“
Anthony I don't know what we have to do as far as coming together as a group. I don't know if we've got to sit here for hours and talk and get it all out, but we've got to do something.
”
-- Carmelo Anthony
"I think we're playing to lose rather than playing to win right now," Anthony said after the Knicks' 103-99 loss to New Orleans on Sunday. "When you lose games the way we've been losing them at home, on the road, you start thinking a lot. You start playing a little tense. You start playing on your heels."

Sunday night's loss left the Knicks at 3-13. They are tied with the Milwaukee Bucks for the worst record in the Eastern Conference.

"We just can't seem to get it together," Anthony said after scoring 23 points and getting 10 rebounds. "We can't seem to figure it out."

The Knicks lost to a Pelicans team that was missing Anthony Davis, its best player, for three quarters. Davis left the game with 1:32 to go in the first after suffering a fracture in his left hand.

New York couldn't take advantage of Davis' absence, missing 12 of its final 13 shots and committing three turnovers in the game's final six minutes.

The Knicks' only home win came in the season opener Oct. 30 against Milwaukee.

Coach Mike Woodson admitted the obvious when he said the losing streak is weighing on players.

"I thought coming down the stretch, we played on our heels," Woodson said. "The [eight-game losing streak] we were looking at here was staring at us in the face, [and] instead of relaxing and just playing, we just didn't make one play."

The Knicks have held two closed-door meetings in the past three weeks to try to turn things around. Anthony isn't sure whether another one will help.

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"I don't know what we have to do as far as coming together as a group," Anthony said. "I don't know if we've got to sit here for hours and talk and get it all out, but we've got to do something."

Anthony said recently that he worried about the team going into a "dark place." He doesn't think the Knicks are there yet.

"Any time you're fighting an uphill battle, you feel like you're in a dark place," he said. "But we can't go to that place. I've never been to that place. I don't plan on getting to that place."

All the uncertainty has marred the start to a season before which team owner James Dolan told staffers he expects to end with a Knicks championship.

There are no indications that Woodson's job is in jeopardy, although that could change at any moment. The Knicks have dangled Iman Shumpert in trade talks with several teams.

Firings and trades aside, Anthony believes the Knicks' biggest issue is a lack of identity.

"Last year around this time, we had our identity as who we were as a team," he said. "This year we're still searching for who we are as a team and who we're going to be as a team."

 

[lver of jordan]

Play T Murry.

Cut Chris Smith!

 

[Hahahaha]

Apparently there was an altercation between Kenyon and Artest

 

[lver of jordan]

Apparently there was an altercation between Kenyon and Artest

They shoot the fair huh & so who won?

 

[nick.]

Apparently there was an altercation between Kenyon and Artest

Ron just tweeted this:

@MettaWorldPeace: Don't believe those stories you here. I would play with 10 Kenyon Martins and of there year. And he has two finals appearances #Knicks

 

[Coupé It]

I'm seriously surprised Dolan has never been hurt.

There are kids being shot over there shoes and coats in NYC, and someone hasn't manned up and taken Dolan out yet?

 

[GaBeGRaMz]

Ron just tweeted this:

@MettaWorldPeace: Don't believe those stories you here. I would play with 10 Kenyon Martins and of there year. And he has two finals appearances #Knicks

Wut?

 

[yeeupp]

Wut?

"play with 10 Kenyon martins anyday of the year"

 

[goldenchild9]

I wish Jeff Van Gundy would come back to our sidelines.

 

[Mark Antony]

Metta world translator.

 

[lver of jordan]

I wish Jeff Van Gundy would come back to our sidelines.

|I

 

[nick.]

Metta world translator.

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

NY media.

 

[nydunkhead]

Listening to Francessa on the way home he said apparently why Priggs isn't getting more time is because of his hesitation to shot the open shot.

 

[nick.]

Listening to Francessa on the way home he said apparently why Priggs isn't getting more time is because of his hesitation to shot the open shot.

He's not out there to score tho..he's out there to initiate ball movement and play smart basketball.

The team plays so much better when he's on the floor..

 

[7thave btn 31stn33rd st]

Felton
Prigs
Shump
Melo
Martin or Bargs

 

[Hahahaha]

Ian Begley reported it. I misread it, it was an intense argument before Sunday's game apparently.

 

[nydunkhead]

Listening to Francessa on the way home he said apparently why Priggs isn't getting more time is because of his hesitation to shot the open shot.

He's not out there to score tho..he's out there to initiate ball movement and play smart basketball.

The team plays so much better when he's on the floor..

Listening to Francessa on the way home he said apparently why Priggs isn't getting more time is because of his hesitation to shot the open shot.

He's not out there to score tho..he's out there to initiate ball movement and play smart basketball.

The team plays so much better when he's on the floor..

I agree I am a big fan of Priggs and I am unhappy how he has been managed. another thing that Woodson has mismanaged and another reason why he probably has to go!

 

[onewearz]

View media item 677040

 

[redd spyder]

watch us keep losing until we play a solid team like the heat, pacers or spurs. this dumbass team is funny like that smh

 

[Coupé It]

JR Smith just needs to go, he is just so damn dumb.

 

[nychiphophippo]

Not gonna be mad at smith for saying that

He's an emotional dude and I can only imagine the things people are saying to him on twitter.

He's from the area and when he's playing well he's the man in his home, it's gotta be difficult to go from that to getting hardcore slander from your teams fans and followers.

 

[nick.]