Post by jbaer10314 on Jan 4, 2010 13:41:49 GMT -5
<< Yesterday at 8:10pm, jbaer10314 wrote:You know what, guys? I simply wanted to pay Nate a compliment. I didn't realize everyone else considered him the Antichrist. I'm sorry, and I'll never pay him a compliment again.
An over reaction on your part Jeff. Nate has been a constant subject on this board for very good reasons. He is a helluva basketball player and he's a head case. There is no middle ground there and though you can argue about Nate's maturity level it won't hold under the weight of Nate's many, many immature acts.
Like Iron, and I suspect most Knick fans, there is a love/hate relationship with Nate Robinson. As a proud member of the under 6' club I identify with the little guy and there is no denying his amazing athletic ability and prodigious skills. As a 55 year old male I deplore Nate's constant antics. I did point out though how well he has handled the benching showing previously unseen professionalism and maturity. >>
I was just as concerned about Nate's antics, but it's up to Nate to curtail them. I can mope about his shot at the Nets' basket all I want, but it won't erase the event. Maybe if the franchise fined Robinson for his stupid stunts, he wouldn't pull so many of them. (Okay, they can't fine him, but you get the idea.)
<< The bottom line is I am a Knicks fan first. If I can advocate trading David Lee, a productive player I have met and watched extensively as a collegian down here at the University of Florida, then any and all Knicks are fair game. I would not mind Nate sticking with the Knicks though I would hope any contract extended would not be max years or dollars. I do think we can parlay Nate's ability to score in bunches as part of a deal to trade Curry.
Trade Curry and Nate and get back Lee and/or Joe Johnson (for example) in return. A guy averaging 19 points and 11 boards a game and a 6'7 All-Star SG for Eddy and Nate.
I'll do that in a NY minute and I believe any Knicks fan would do the same. FWIW, I think all of us were more than complimentary of Nate's amazing, even epic, performance against Atlanta.
That was then. This is now. It's business, not personal. >>
Uh-huh. And that same business prevented us from rebuilding with youth.
I will not unleash a tirade on this board if Robinson and Lee depart during the next off-season--or sooner, as the case may be. But if we trade all the players who want to make the Knicks a winning franchise and get back the kind of suckers we already had during the Dolan era, don't be shocked when I say "I told you so."
An over reaction on your part Jeff. Nate has been a constant subject on this board for very good reasons. He is a helluva basketball player and he's a head case. There is no middle ground there and though you can argue about Nate's maturity level it won't hold under the weight of Nate's many, many immature acts.
Like Iron, and I suspect most Knick fans, there is a love/hate relationship with Nate Robinson. As a proud member of the under 6' club I identify with the little guy and there is no denying his amazing athletic ability and prodigious skills. As a 55 year old male I deplore Nate's constant antics. I did point out though how well he has handled the benching showing previously unseen professionalism and maturity. >>
I was just as concerned about Nate's antics, but it's up to Nate to curtail them. I can mope about his shot at the Nets' basket all I want, but it won't erase the event. Maybe if the franchise fined Robinson for his stupid stunts, he wouldn't pull so many of them. (Okay, they can't fine him, but you get the idea.)
<< The bottom line is I am a Knicks fan first. If I can advocate trading David Lee, a productive player I have met and watched extensively as a collegian down here at the University of Florida, then any and all Knicks are fair game. I would not mind Nate sticking with the Knicks though I would hope any contract extended would not be max years or dollars. I do think we can parlay Nate's ability to score in bunches as part of a deal to trade Curry.
Trade Curry and Nate and get back Lee and/or Joe Johnson (for example) in return. A guy averaging 19 points and 11 boards a game and a 6'7 All-Star SG for Eddy and Nate.
I'll do that in a NY minute and I believe any Knicks fan would do the same. FWIW, I think all of us were more than complimentary of Nate's amazing, even epic, performance against Atlanta.
That was then. This is now. It's business, not personal. >>
Uh-huh. And that same business prevented us from rebuilding with youth.
I will not unleash a tirade on this board if Robinson and Lee depart during the next off-season--or sooner, as the case may be. But if we trade all the players who want to make the Knicks a winning franchise and get back the kind of suckers we already had during the Dolan era, don't be shocked when I say "I told you so."
