Isiah Thomas: Fired
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Most deserving and unshocking firing in a while:
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[video] The Fire Isiah Thomas Rap
Monday, April 14, 2008
Damn, the First Cousins really dislike Zeke, huh? I have a feelin' this might come too fruition:
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Labels: Hip-Hop, New York Knicks, youtube
[video] Shot Of The Year?
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Rudy Gay from behind the backboard:
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Hang Time: Nate Robinson
Monday, January 21, 2008
I post this with a heavy heart, based on the way the Knicks beat my Nets on the 16th of Jan., but peep lil' Nate Robinson with the put-back dunk against Miami:
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The bulls win!!! 11-17
Sunday, December 30, 2007
F*ck the Knicks. Word to Billy Sunday. But before I talk about how we smashed the Knicks, let's talk about the win over the Bucks.
Jim Boylan took over for Scott Skiles and was greeted by a Bucks team that's been less than stellar lately. The Bucks were desperate for a win and must have smiled to themselves when they saw the bulls on the schedule. Boylan's first move as the new coach was to send Ben Gordon down to the bench. Personally, I feel that if anyone deserves to be benched it should have been Kirk Hinrich but what do I know? Anyway, Ben Gordon was nailed to the bench to start the game but when he got in he shot the lights out. Ben had 31 points of the bench, including 19 points in the fourth quarter to help the bulls pull out the victory over the Bucks. The game was tight, but we got a bit of a cushion after Bucks' coach Larry Krystkowiak was ejected from the game for arguing a call. Luol Deng pitched in with 28 points while Nocioni and Aaron Gray added 11 and 10 points respectively. Old Man Wallace managed to reel in 10 boards.
This afternoon against the Knicks, we had a chance to notch another "W" in the win column and did just that. Ben Gordon came off the bench again and finished with another strong game as he had 25 points on 11 out of 15 shooting. Luol Deng was second fiddle again and had 17 points. Ben Wallace pulled down 10 rebounds again, and Kirk Hinrich had 8 assists and no turnovers. Tyrus Thomas is the only member of the bulls who did not enter the game. Thabo Sef-a-what's his name apparently got in the game as he shot the ball once and missed. Other than his 0-1 performance in two minutes of action, there is no other evidence that Thabo was in the building. The amber alert for his game is still in effect.
I'm guessing Tyrus Thomas' days as a bull are numbered. I say we package Tyrus Thomas, Ben Wallace, and Thabo Sefolosha's basketball card in a trade for a low post scorer.
Next up, our inside guys get a chance to defend Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. Good luck with that.
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Labels: Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, recap
"Fire Isaiah"
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
While I do think Thomas isn't handling things properly, and that the Knicks organization's heavy-handed care with him is mad suspect, he isn't the problem. The problem started years before he came to the team, and while he's mismanaged money, firing him won't make them better. Firing him might feel good, but that's like throwing away a new pair of pants because your fat belly broke the clasp. While getting a bigger pair would be dope, your belly is truly the issue.
The lack of focus of the players is the issue. The horrible decisions made years back is the issue. And firing Thomas won't solve them. Reorganization, and possibly a bit of the player shifting, is the first place the team should start.
I wish I had a pick of that giant pink slip, though.
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Patiently Waiting
Who am I kidding?! All of these games matter, but do you think New Jersey is playing that way? Let's recap the last week in the Nets' life:
- News of Eddie Gill getting waived hit on the 12th. He wasn't a star, and with Darrell Armstrong & Marcus Williams on the way back, the room for a 4th PG was lacking.
- Rod Thorn let it be known that he is not even trying to hear offers for Jason Kidd... at this time. He did let it be known that the Nets need to turn things around, and fast, with speculation being that a trade is in the works.
- Kidd and Vince Carter were 2nd and 3rd in the Eastern Conference All-Star voting, which is weird. You'd think someone as old as Kidd, who can't get an equal in trade talk, wouldn't even be on anyone's radar...
- Speaking of Kidd, Jane Doe is suing him for groping her butt and crotch at a nightclub. I'd imagine he didn't do this, I mean that sounds crazy weird, but who knows...
- Friday the 14th saw the Nets pummel the Cavs on both sides of the court, getting a 105-97 win at home. Sean Williams suited up and came off the bench to much praise; Carter & RJ dropped 32 and 24, respectively, in a great second half performance.
- Saturday the 15th found the Nets getting rocked by the Knicks, in New York, in an offense-less 94-86 loss. With Jefferson knocking down 14(!?!?!) points on 7-21 shooting, you can just think of how bad the rest of the squad did. Poor performance.
Which takes us to last night's disappointing loss to the Kings. The end score was close (106-101), but with the Nets delivering 22 turnovers (half coming from Kidd and Jefferson), as well as our apparent inability to defend the three point shot (Sactown was something like 13-for-21 from downtown), and us letting John Salmons come up with a career-high 31 point night, it just wasn't in the cards. S-Dub did come up with 11 points, 7 boards and 8 blocks in his start last night, but sadly it was the only true highlight to another game we could have won, given we tightened it up.
We're now at 10-15, when we should be over .500 right now. Sadly, without some change (whether it be with the bodies in the uniforms or the brains in their heads), we will continue to get by like Kweli. There's no reason, in a conference as scattershot as the East, for the Nets to not be capitalizing. We're a top team but that's in the sack of losers. We can do it, but when will we realize that?
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Labels: Cleveland Cavaliers, New York Knicks, NJ Nets, recap, Sacramento Kings
Still waiting on that "B" 8-13
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Yeah, I've been away from providing the bulls recaps, but that's kind of by design. You see, we're creeping up on finally reaching .500 for the season and every time it looks like we're about to reach that mark we catch a head-scratching L.
Immediately following our victory over the Pistons we faced the Boston Juggernauts, I mean Celtics. Their Big 3 didn't really go off on us, but the supporting cast for the C's stepped up and drilled a spike in our collective hearts. When you've got Rajon Rondo going off on your back court you know you're in for a long night. Needless to say, we became another notch on the belt of Boston.
Lucky for us, we got a chance to face a team that we had a solid chance of beating in the Seattle Supersonics. Those kids in Seattle are young and haven't had the best season in the world but Kevin Durant has shown flashes of greatness. Unfortunately, we weren't having any of that ish and stomped them out for our biggest win of the season. Ben Gordon started off on fire and never looked back. Four out of five starters reached double figures and helped pace the bulls win.
Would the momentum carry over into the next game? Well, for about a quarter and a half we looked awesome against the new millenium Jailblazers. Halfway through the second quarter, the Pacers decided to lock and load and blast us out of their building. Yeah, I know. Tyrus Thomas also decided it would be a fine time for him to get back in Scott Skiles' dog house by getting ejected from the game after a brief scuffle with Troy Murphy. 
The game turned into another fine collapse out from the bulls and showed just how far we have to go as a team.
Friday night was a chance at redemption. We could either sink to new lows, or redeem ourselves from both blowing the Pacers game and losing to the Knicks a few weeks back. Fortunately, Luol Deng came to play last night as he dropped 29 points and pulled down 10 boards. 
Kirk Hinrich stepped it up in a MAJOR way, notching his second career triple double - 15 points, 12 rebounds, and 14 assists. Nice. Nocioni was solid off the bench with 17 points. We got bruised on the inside as Zach Randolph rumbled to 27 points and 15 rebounds, while Fred Jones dropped in 22 points together with Jamal Crawford's 18. Solid performances from the Knicks weren't enough to knock of the bulls at the U.C. Unfortunately, we almost blew this game as well and late-game free throws from Kirk saved the day. So far to go...
Next on the schedule are the Lakers on Tuesday, the Wizards on Wednesday, and the Celtics on Friday.
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Labels: Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks, recap, Seattle Supersonics
Nets Loss: Sign of Bigger Problem?
Thursday, December 6, 2007
I spoke about Jason Kidd's shared dream to play with Lebron James last week, and earlier this week I mentioned about the whole contract-extension confusion that popped off. One can only hope that the inevitable doesn't sneak up on us earlier than necessary... but with Jason Kidd sitting out due to a migraine is just not really what anyone saw going on. Iannazzone wonders if this is Kidd's dissention, almost a silent protest if you will. The info surrounding the whole sitting out is being described as "conflicting", and I'm just hoping it is what Kidd says it is.
New Jersey's captain is Jason Kidd. When the captain is happy, they are doing it big. When he is unhappy, things fall apart. They cannot afford to lose Jason now, or ever. Not without a replacement. I highly doubt that they are going to get a good deal for Kidd - hell, the dude who brought us Vince Carter just left for the 215. We're down players, we're down a solid GM, and now is just not the time for any of this.
Who knows how this will play out. NetsDaily has a compilation of many different views on this subject - and until we get the official word, it's all talk. Hopefully we can just get to playing.
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Labels: New York Knicks, NJ Nets, recap, Trade Talk
Nets Notes (5th December 2007)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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Makes Me Wanna Holler
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
We here at HYSMD send our condolences to Stephon and the Marbury family in this time of sorrow. Reading in the paper today, they quoted Marbury as saying his mother has lost a lot of her people in the last 5 years, but I'd imagine this loss might be one of the hardest to take. Keep your head up.
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Labels: New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns, RIP
Boston Tea Bags The Knicks
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wow. The Knicks got their muthaphuqin' hood stomped out in a major way last night. To top it all off, the game was nationally televised. Gotdayum...104-59. I haven't seen a beatdown the court that bad in a hot minute. Wow. Kevin Garnett only scored 8 points, but Paul Pierce and Ray Allen picked up the slack by dropping 21 points a piece. The Knicks had one guy (Nate Robinson) in double figures, and that came as a result of a 37 foot prayer at the end of the game. Wow.
After a 4-10 start, an embarassing court scandal, inflated the teams payroll to one of the highest in professional sports, and reducing one of the great franchises in NBA history to a laughing stock, how on earth do you NOT fire Isiah Thomas?
Oh yeah, these are the Knicks we're talking about.
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TBLA. 2-10
Sunday, November 25, 2007
I had to wait a few hours to cool down after seeing the bulls lose their fourth straight game. The road trip was a complete disaster with the bulls picking up one win in six tries. I am completely embarassed to call the bulls my team and I am thisclose to packing it in for the '07-08 season.
I think it's safe to say that this week should be Scott Skiles' last week as coach of the bulls. I am sick and tired of reading the same inept quotes from him, game after game. This team is obviously learning nothing from its past mistakes and continues to find new and more embarassing ways to lose.
Yesterday, we caught an L against the Knicks. The Knicks. The muthaphuqin' Knicks. I don't even know where to begin with analysis of that massive L. We didn't even crack 80 points against the Knicks. The Isiah Thomas-led Knicks. Stephon Marbury's Knicks. The supermassive-payroll-havin', sexual harassment case-catchin' Knicks. When your team loses to the Knicks, go ahead and start booking hotel rooms in Secaucus.
Z-Bo and Eddy Curry are ready to slaughter an all-you-can-eat buffet after slaughtering the bulls:
The bulls brass thought it would be a good idea to hold the untradeable Luol Deng out of the game against the Knicks because they didn't think his back would hold up under the grind of back-to-back games. You know, since in the NBA you only have to play your best guys when they're perfectly healthy and the games that you sit them out don't really count. Anyways, Luol managed to work his way back in the line up and put up 21 and 9 in the losing effort. I guess that plan worked, eh Skiles?
Chris Bosh gleefully reviews the score in the final seconds of the Raptors' win over the bulls:
Let's see what else happened with our "best" players in the past two disgusting losses:
-Kirk Hinrich: 84 minutes, 26 points on 11-29 shooting, 3-9 from 3 point land, 1-1 from the free throw stripe; 6 rebounds, 11 assists, 5 turnovers, 8 fouls.
-Ben Gordon: 78 minutes, 30 points on 11-35 shooting, 1-6 from 3 point land, 7-7 from the free throw stripe; 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 7 turnovers, 4 fouls.
-Ben Wallace: 79 minutes, 8 points on 4-10 shooting, 0-1 from 3 point land, 0-2 from the free throw stripe; 17 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 turnover, 5 fouls.
-Andres Nocioni: 72 minutes, 34 points on 11-30 shooting, 5-15 from 3 point land, 7-13 from the free throw stripe; 17 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 turnovers, 7 fouls.
-Tyrus Thomas: 34 minutes, 11 points on 4-13 shooting, 3-5 from the free throw stripe; 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 turnovers, 7 fouls.
These numbers are feces.
It is very safe to say that the bulls will not be among the elite teams in the NBA this season. I don't know where it all went wrong but it is very disturbing and very sad. The management of the bulls failed to address the teams' weaknesses coming into this season and those weaknesses have been exploited at every opportunity. The strengths that the bulls once had have vanished into the past and the only thing looming on the horizon is a shot at the number one draft pick in 2008. It is possible that the bulls can turn things around but there have been absolutely no signs that they are capable or even willing to get back to their winning brand of basketball.
If you'll excuse me, I will now eat my bulls fitted cap.
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Labels: Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, recap, Toronto Raptors
