- Apr 20, 2007
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that landry?? homie looks like Channing Frye right there big time.
JRS
any way congrats to Landry. He is quickly becoming my favorite Knick right now, i mean dude is hella smart for a rookie. He knows his role back, hes athletic, and has a nice J and can score when need be, but he doesnt do dumb %%+$ on offense or try and force things like you would expect alot of rookies in his role to do and he is ALWAYS doing the little things out there. Im loving him the way i remember i fell in love with David Lee like his 2nd and 3rd seasons with us when he averaged a double double off the bench. I remember it was back when Kenny Smith would color commentate our games once in awhile when Clyde had a break, i rmember the nick name he gave Lee was "Little Things" cause he was just always out there hustling and doing the little things, whether it was setting up a teamate with a nice pick, going for looseballs, tip ins especially, etc. Lee earned love at the Garden cause he hustled and would do all the little things out there i mean in his 2nd year he averaged a double double off the bench averaging less than 30 mins a game literally all off 2nd chances and put backs he literally had no other offensive game to speak of at the time Thats what im feeling with Landry right now, watching him is like watching a guard version of Lee when he was a young player like Fields. Both were late picks and pretty unknown by Knicks fans and they both always do the little things out there. I mean Landry is always out there hustling, hes our 2nd leading rebounder off of pure hussle, if you watch him hes never not moving, hes always boxing out or hcrashing the glass to get an extra man on the boards, going after the ball and he takes smart shots. Hopefully he can keep it up cause hes honestly been the best player from his draft class so far this season and he was the 39th pick. He is looking like a #%##!+# gem and a half and the way hes playing makes it less hard imo for me personally to accept trading Will or Gallo in a Melo trade if need be, knowing that he could hold down that 2 spot next to Melo.
Anyway im loving watching this team but also lets take it for what it is. 7 out of 8 is very impressive and im thrilled to be over .500 this late but we really have played very easy teams and have a tough asd %%+$ schedule the next few months. Dont get me wrong, 7/8 is impressive vs any NBA team, and the first step we need to make to becoming a playoff caliber squad is to beat the bad teams who we should beat on a consistent basis and i dont want to jinx it but it is looking like we have finally made that step which we were never able to make the past few years. Past few seasons we would have runs beating these teams and even better teams at times but weve had stretches where we were 10x worse than these teams with worse records than us. If we could beat up on the bad teams consistently, in a weak %*! Eastern Conference that alone should get us into the playoffs as a 7-8 and a near .500 record. But this team needs to beat some better competition ion order for me to be completely sold on them yet, and we have a nice stretch coming up and these should all be good test games. My one hope for the next few games like at New Orleans, etc is that we show up and compete with heart. I can live with a loss to New Orleans if we show up and play a hard game vs a superior team however i can not live with going out lazy and flat like we did vs Atlanta cause we were terrible that game and we needa bring the energy vs these good teams and prove that we can compete and work the offense on nights where the 3s arent falling.
