Knicks Should Heed the Ghost of Lawson Past
Rubbing it in gets really old really fast. So what if Wade’s not a Piston. That’s like wondering about an America in which JFK had lived. Bogut over Paul? The Aussie’s a quite capable and skilled big. All life is a draw, after all, even the sure things. Marvin Williams(notes), he’s alright, and the Hawks are a solid playoff team still getting better.
That’s why I’m already over laughing at every team that passed on Brandon Jennings(notes) this summer, for reasons none of them could exactly articulate then and certainly won’t attempt to now. I chalk it up to some kind of tulip-like hysteria, or the same kind of collective blindness that caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis. It was that stupid, but everyone was that convinced of it.
However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t those moments that perfectly hammer home how badly a team had screwed up. Like when I read the following quote from Newsday:
"Duhon is my point guard," D’Antoni said Thursday, the day after Duhon went scoreless in the Knicks’ fifth straight defeat. "He is in a funk. We have to get him out of it."And then, from The Denver Post, this bit of full-blooded competitiveness from a certain Nuggets rookie:
Ty Lawson(notes) has played as many regular-season games against the Los Angeles Lakers as, well, you have, dear reader. But ask Lawson about the Lakers, and he sounds like, well, you again. Dude wants to beat L.A.Lawson had an impeccable college CV, heart and soul galore, and first-rate point guard skills—especially in the up-tempo game. Naturally, he fell way down to the Nuggets, who are arguably even better this season, in part due to his contributions. Maybe Donnie Walsh just didn’t get the memo about point guards getting smaller, and more important, as the league ambles on toward the future.
"I’m already ready to beat the Lakers — it’s a rivalry," the Nuggets’ rookie point guard said this week. "We’ve got to set a tone early. Last year they beat us in the Western Conference finals, so this year, we’re going to set the tone that we’re not taking it this year — we’re going to get this win."
I won’t even get into Ramon Sessions(notes) but yeah, even he stands out as the one that got away. Why no NYC paper’s turned on Walsh yet is beyond me; I guess they’re all just sensationalistic enough to spend all their time covering and praying over next summer.
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