Now before anyone starts going crazy about how Knick fans are counting their chickens before they hatch with the "M-V-P" chants at Garden games, think about this. The Knicks haven't finished with a winning record in almost 10 years. Before the end of October when this team really started to click, the hadn't played .500 ball in almost 2 years. There is a reason for this ridiculous turnaround, besides Gallinari forgoing gelling his hair before games now, and it's off -season acquisition Amar'e Stoudemire. The dude is crazy. I've never seen him play on a regular basis with him being out west before this, but the guy is amazing. He does everything, besides play shutdown defense (but who on the Knicks actually does that anyway), the guy will posterize an unfortunate individual on the other team on what seems like a regular basis and then sinks mid-range jumpers like a boss. I don't think I've ever seen him miss a shot from the elbow. Now we all knew he was good and in the beginning of the season the team had lost like 8 straight games and it didn't looked pretty. Then Amar'e started to put the team on his back and they're a legitimate 6th seed in the Eastern Conference. Lately Amar'e has been playing out of his mind, 9 straight 30+ points a game, including last nights 39 (almost 42) performance that personified New York basketball being back. Now we can't forget about his supporting cast. Playing 40+ minutes a game, Raymond Felton is running the offense and pick and roll with Amar'e and having a great year. I believe him and Amar'e still have the most average PPG than any other forward/point guard combination in the league. Gallinari has been playing well as of late and possibly playing himself into trade bait with the Denver Nuggets. Landry Fields is playing like a legitimate Rookie of the Year candidate and is just a sparkplug for this team. Now I'm off to go on a 3 day binge that hopefully includes me being blackout drunk watching the Knicks play the Heat tomorrow night at MSG.
-Men
PS If you don't get the title, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0yfq2wDvU
Right at the begging of the season i was listening to an interview with Mike D'antoni he was asked who he thought was the better player. His choice was between Amar'e Stoudemire and Chris "Palm Trees" Bosh he responded by saying that it wasnt even close that Bosh is not in the same class as Amar'e. I for one can not wait to see this matchup not becasue i think it will be competitive in anyway but i do belive that Amar'e will embarrass him so badly that if Bosh cared at all about the game or his dignity he would kill him self like the samuari used to.Unfortunately we already know the Bosh can care less and is just along for the rideing the coattails of his two all time great player teammates. Seriously you know that friend you keep around just to make you feel better about yourslef (kreppien) that is Crish Bosh.
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