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You seem so nice wow, ur amazing. Welcome!

The last Republican President did wonders for our country.

Greetings fellow NBA fans... I am NBALady... I hope to get to chat with you all & make some friends here... Feel free to contact me here...

Defense is more than just effort, although the Knicks haven't given any effort on that side of the ball this season (besides Chandler, Walker and Shumpert). When you got guys like Melo and Amare, who have been in the league nearly 10 seasons, and they have NEVER learned strong defensive principles, it takes coaching to get them up to par. They have the necessary tools to be elite, but just have no defensive awareness. Chandler has actually done his job so far this season, but so many times I've seen him give up easy plays because he looks shocked that his help hadn't made the proper rotation. Or, what I've seen so many times, is Chandler go to alter a shot, and the other team get an easy putback because Amare gave up and didn't put a body on a man for the rebound. Besides the effort, which the coach has to get out of his players, the team just doesn't look prepared defensively. And when they finally do try to clamp down, the other team is so hot from the field that they are hitting fadeaway 3's with a hand in their face. The biggest issue with this current team and D'Antoni is that they are truly a halfcourt team. The backcourt is untalented and too one-dimensional as far as starting backcourts go, Melo is strictly an iso players, Amare is strictly an iso player without a good playmaking PG, and Chandler is completely dependant on other players creating shots for him. They are 110% built to be a halfcourt team, and that is not D'Antoni's style, especially with Toney Douglas as his PG. And if they are built for that, then D'Antoni is pretty much useless offensively, and we all know he is completely useless defensively. He is simply a bad fit. As for Baron Davis, I thought before the season started that he'd be a huge factor if he can come back and be what he was last year with the Clippers. As iMan mentioned, he's dynamic, and that is something that no other backcourt player for the Knicks offers. He can score in multiple ways, can back down smaller PG's, can effectively run the PnR, run the fastbreak, and when he wants to he can make the kind of passes that Douglas and Bibby can only dream of. He'd definitely give the offense a new dimension, and could make them a lot more difficult to defend. When he's motivated and has pieces around him, he can still be a difference-maker. He won't make them championship caliber, but can bring the Knicks closer to the high expectations they had surrounding them heading into this year.

Is that the same nightmare that led our troops into Iraq, spiked gas prices, tore up our economy, and cut millions of jobs?

Ah damn, you beat me by a millisecond!

Portland fans are already chanting, "Beat LA!" They are still at work or school, lol.

Kaman has been in trade rumors for a couple of years now. I hope he's not surprised, and just lashing out.

^ lol is that Michael Rucker? http://brotherlylovesports.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/jkaponomediaday.jpg

Does anyone else think Carlisle's zone schemes really brought out the best in Chandler? Is he overrated?

lol nice title

Top 5 protected so we will probably retain it

for kyle and phightins http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/p/sp/getty/54/fullj.bae1b9e23efa4665185b560b5af78a46/bae1b9e23efa4665185b560b5af78a46-getty-136337385.jpg