The New York Knicks, compared to what they have been over the past decade or so, were a wildly successful team last season.
They were the second best team in the Eastern Conference and had high hopes heading into the playoffs. Prior to the start of the season, they were written off as an old team that had next to no chance of beating the Miami Heat. Yet, they managed to beat the Heat in three of four regular season games. There was reason for optimism.
Unfortunately, they never even had a chance to face the Heat after failing to move past the Indiana Pacers in the conference semifinals, despite having homecourt advantage. Of course, it didn’t help that Tyson Chandler had suffered from an illness which caused him to lose weight against one of the bigger and stronger centers in the league in Roy Hibbert. It also didn’t help that Amare Stoudemire was nowhere near 100 percent and was generally ineffective and disruptive to what the team had become on both ends of the court. Still, those are considered excuses at the end of the day, and every team has a few of those by postseason.
Recognizing the need to bolster the roster, the Knicks were active in the offseason and acquired Andrea Bargnani, Metta World Peace, and Beno Udrih while retaining Kenyon Martin, Pablo Prigioni and J.R. Smith. There is plenty of scoring and depth on the roster – certainly more so than last season – now, but is it enough for them to compete for a championship against the powerhouse teams like the Heat, Pacers, Brooklyn Nets and Chicago Bulls? Time will tell how Mike Woodson will utilize his new roster, but ask Smith about the upcoming season and he will already tell you that anything but a championship will be a bust:
Anything less then a #Chip is a waste! RT @B_Hodge42: @TheRealJRSmith expectations for this year?
— JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) August 16, 2013
Okay, then. I call waste.
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I love the knicks and they are 110% capable of bringing a championship home to NY this season. @Pitolove @Blacko Macko You guys are really smart! Great comments! Go Knicks! @Jerry25 What ever you smoking I want some of that!!!
MSG led by Dolan, just lost the rights to renovate the Nassau Coliseum, to the group that built Barclays and owns the Brooklyn Nets. The Islanders will be moving to Brooklyn in 1 year and the Nets will be taking over all of Long Island.
With 6 All Stars and a deep Super Team, the Nets will be the team for the World to watch this season. Meanwhile the leaderless Knicks will be battling the Pistons for 5th in the East. The media will have to make up stories of LeBron going to Knicks in 2 years to keep interest alive (that is if Melo and LeBron aren’t rumored to go to Lakers next year (lol)).
Knicks fans are the most delusional in all of sports. None of them even understand Salary Cap and the CBA.
Man @Jerry25, You must have been dropped Several times (with a capital S) on your head as a kid cause everything you just sayed made me lose IQ points just from reading your dumbass comments! Your intelligence concerns me and your a disgrace to the human race. You belong locked up in a mental institution somewhere cause if anyone is delusional its definitely you! The Knicks fans are the greatest fans in the world and you are a huge hater who needs a specialized sergeant to do a brain transplant on you cause you need major help when it comes to making sense! We are NOT delusional and you deserve to be banned from commenting on here cause you know nothing about basketball!
I think you are just one of the traditional try hard and head in their ass Nets fans who think they know everything cause they can link the Nets and islanders and automatically suggest that Long Island will be Nets fans. You are completely wrong cause im from LI and im an islander/knick fan and only complete fags like you jump on the bandwagon of a team with a new logo and an 1% owner with fame and fortune (Jay-Z who by the way was smart enough to not have any interest in the Nets anymore).
First off the Nets will only be a team (and definitely not THE team) to watch because they acquired two, by the way aging, stars and have their expectations way too high. Their hopes are only up so high not only thanks to a big mouthed Paul Pierce who doesn’t shut up about how the Nets will (definitely not) run NYC, but because the Nets bastard Russian owner is a baby and wants to win NOW and NOW only. This is the only reason why the Nets acquired KG and the Truth.
Lastly, if you payed attention and knew anything about basketball, you would know firstly that the NETS will be taking a 5th seed this season behind the Knicks, Heat, Pacers, and Bulls (not but possibly in that order). Second of all, you have to be either stupid or retarded to think that the Pistons will be anywhere near a fifth seed this season. The Pistons will be lucky to take a 7th or 8th seed if the Hawks, Cavaliers and Wizards don’t beat them to it, and later on be knocked out by the Knicks, Heat, Pacers or Bulls in the first round of playoffs. I hope that I was able to prove you completely wrong as I know I have and that you maybe in the future will think before you it anything on here again. Thank you and your welcome! Knicks4life!!!!
Ohh and by the way, for any of you who think that Carmelo is going anywhere (and especially if you think that he’s going to the lakers with/without LeBron) you need a news update!!! Carmelo has made it CLEAR that he will be the Knicks a LONG time, if not for the rest of his career, and will win a championship in years to come. Also, LeBron will either be re-signing with the Heat or going to the Cavs or Knicks to start off the 2014-2014 season.
2014-2015 season
Results are results second place in the Eastern conference scoring champ six man of the year that’s not delusional that’s results!!!
Are you kidding me. Net fans are 100 times more delusional than knick fans. Porkhorov doesn’t even know what luxury tax and salary cap are, with the nets wasting $24 mil on the worst contract in the Nba in joe Johnson, and having the highest luxury tax in nba history. The nets don’t understand chemistry either. This roster has players that aren’t meant to be on the court together other than the all-star game, since they all need the ball in order to be effective. Understand that, nets fan. I like the hawks, and I know the knicks are better than the nets any day.
What a hater article! KNICKS4LIFE
The Knicks also LOST Jason Kidd, Chris Copeland, Rasheed Wallace, Marcus Camby and Steve Novak. Their 3 pt shooting, which was a key to the Knicks success, is now diminished.
Defense has also suffered with the addition of Bargnani (who also hasn’t shot well from outside for at least 2 years.
Now the locker room will be led by JR Smith, World Peace along with Amare and Chandler.
When Knicks are in 5th/6th place in East, will JR throw in the towel or will MWP do the honors, because a Chip isn’t in sight? Will there be talk of Melo leaving for Lakers? Melo has only said that this season is critical.
Smh for one, Wallace, and Camby was ineffective most of the season, and though Bargnani isn’t great, he’s an upgrade over Novak! I didn’t like losing Copeland, but MWP can do everything he can do, just MWP play better defense! And Kidd lost his legs at the end of the season! Dude didn’t make a single shot in like 8 games, so that made him useless in the post season! Now, I agree about them not making the finals, but on paper we are a better team than last year! And that was second place in the eastern conference! So ur analysis on why they’ll fail confuses me
You’re just another Knick hater. This team is better than last years team – they have just as much a chance at a championship than any other team. Something they didn’t have last year was at least two scorers on the floor at all times. This year they will always have 3 options at all times. They’re better defensively, and will rebound at a higher rate. They’re in a good position to compete like any other top echelon team.
Wallace led to wins early in season.
Without JKidd Knicks would have been about a 5 seed in East. He won many games for them, including a game winning 3 vs the Nets, where he tripped up Stackhouse.
And that doesn’t consider that he was the leader of the locker room and everyone agreed. Now the locker room will be led by JR Smith and World Peace, and a disgruntled Amare will be complaining that he isn’t getting playing time.
Camby was hoped to return to his prior season level. Houston still thinks he will.
Over at Netsdaily, there are statistics to show that Novak has been better than Bargnani in recent years. God help the Knicks if he is getting big minutes.
Copeland of course is a big irreplaceable loss. He won many games and had upside.
But most of all, the rest of the East got much better – Indiana, Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit.
The truth hurts. That is why the reaction.
So do Knicks finish Fifth in East or Sixth, behind Pistons?