Too much to digest right now. My man Balk Man. There are enough archived blogs here to prove my appreciation for this guy's hustle and personality. But to suggest that he might be the answer to David Lee's absence? That the Knicks proved they could play a fast-break style without Eddy Curry?
What? Aw man, crazy. Let's not totally ignore the fact that Toronto shot 2 of 21 from three-point range.
TWO.
Of TWENTY ONE!
Can we let a guy put together more than one solid game before we start anointing? It's like the Dynamic Duo. How'd that go? Then we were handing Jared Jeffries the Defensive POY after one game back from his injury.
Then there's that Q and A with James Dolan that ran on Sunday. I learned nothing from it other than the fact that he went to SUNY-New Paltz.
But I ain't bitter. I just need some time to filter all of this. Too many one-liners are coming at me at one time. I'm in wise-crack overload.
I'll hit you all back after practice today when my head is together.
Comments (8)
I love Balkman! I do think people get carried away tho. He's a rook and has had some good and bad moments. The thing is that I see good things in his future. The young players that Isiah has added to this team are ALL PLAYERS! It's about time we stop doubting this guy so much. He clearly knows what he's doing when it comes to assessing players. Just imagine how this team is gonna look in a couple of years.
While David Lee has been a bright spot for the Knicks and certainly one of my favorite players, it seems that we are also speaking as idf David Lee has arrived. David is energetic, an adequate defender, a solid, voracious rebounder, but he is not there yet either. I think the comparisons between the two's games are fine. While Renaldo has to work on his free throws, he has also been one to give us hope for next season. That is, if the Knicks, in a fit of typical boneheaded-ness don't give him up in pursuit of some thirtysomething has-been with another big contract. No, Renaldo is NOT David Lee. It doesn't mean he won't be. He's just creating some excitement in doing some of the very things that David Lee had done. The dirtywork. The defense, the tough-mindedness. The thrill in ysterday's game was in that the Knicks showed some creative thinking in changing up from the ponderous pound-it-into-Eddie offense to a mobile dynamic offense and defense and Renaldo was a big part of that. I salivate at the thought of the havoc wreaked of a unit out there with Balkman and Lee at big and small forward, swarming the offense and the energy that would generate. The platooning is a good idea. The schism would confuse the opposing defense. I can only hope that Renaldo will continue to improve. Just think, if Larry Brown were still here, Renaldo would've been sitting on the bench doing nothing sitting as David Lee, Trevor Ariza and others did.
Balkman can be a great player if he learns to hit a 10 foot jumper. The same goes for Lee and even Curry. I know that Curry always needs to attack the rim to be effective, but a 10 foot jumper would free up the collasping D he faces.
The bottom line is that any NBA player should be able to hit a 10 foot jumper with practice. The Knicks big man shooting is way too bad (except Frye and maybe Rose)
Finally! Renaldo is back in the rotation. I kew he could come up big. Hopefully him and Nate can provide that spark off the bench like they did at the beginning of the year. Speaking f NAte saw this on the webabout Nate in high school...hilarious: http://www.kidzworld.com/article/7694-when-i-was-a-freshman-nate-robinson
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