Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Still 23 to go
The Positive Knicks Fan Post, Vol. 2
While watching the Knicks last night, with the Spurs up 15 in the fourth, a voice on the other end of the couch told me that it was time to turn the channel. But I had a feeling that the Knicks had one run left. Renaldo Balkman was in the game -- instant energy -- and the Spurs were starting to look complacent. So I kept watching. And the Knicks kept chipping away, making big stops and blocks, pushing the tempo, pulling to within one, and bringing the previously-booing Garden crowd to its feet. The Spurs, who eventually got the lead back to three, stubbornly refused to call a timeout... so Isiah did it for them. Brilliant. Kill your own momentum. Within two minutes after play resumed, the game was all but over, the fans were filing out, and the Knicks were 1-3. At least they showed some heart for five minutes.
By the by, I caught the first quarter at the gym, from the treadmill, listening on earphones and watching the closed captioning at the same time. The captions simply cannot keep pace with Clyde. They drop every other sentence and at times combine words: very exhuberant becomes vrxhuberant, for example.
While watching the Knicks last night, with the Spurs up 15 in the fourth, a voice on the other end of the couch told me that it was time to turn the channel. But I had a feeling that the Knicks had one run left. Renaldo Balkman was in the game -- instant energy -- and the Spurs were starting to look complacent. So I kept watching. And the Knicks kept chipping away, making big stops and blocks, pushing the tempo, pulling to within one, and bringing the previously-booing Garden crowd to its feet. The Spurs, who eventually got the lead back to three, stubbornly refused to call a timeout... so Isiah did it for them. Brilliant. Kill your own momentum. Within two minutes after play resumed, the game was all but over, the fans were filing out, and the Knicks were 1-3. At least they showed some heart for five minutes.
By the by, I caught the first quarter at the gym, from the treadmill, listening on earphones and watching the closed captioning at the same time. The captions simply cannot keep pace with Clyde. They drop every other sentence and at times combine words: very exhuberant becomes vrxhuberant, for example.
# posted by Budds @ 12:23 PM 
