Whoa, a New Post! On Basketball No Less...

Yeah, I know. It's been a while. Miracles never cease. But to be honest I just wasn't adequately inspired to write about basketball. But since I picked my fantasy teams, I'm starting to warm up to the idea. I even watched the Bulls play New York last week. Go figure?

I have two things to say about that game. I have absolutely no idea why New York won. And I have even less of an idea how the Bulls lost. It was really telling in my book to see the Bulls offense running like a finely tuned machine, the spacing, the crisp passes and backdoor cuts to the basket. This is a team with a losing record? All I can say is some times the basketball goddess is a fickle mistress.

Then we have the Knicks. And their coach. What the hell was that? It certainly wasn't an offense. I watched the Knicks play and I thought I was watching a pickup game in a local recreation center. If there were ever five players in need of an introduction, it would be the Knicks. Now I'm being purposefully sarcastic here. Actually, on paper I believe the Knicks have one of the most talented rosters in the NBA. Yep I said it. The Knicks have one the most talented rosters in the NBA. The problem I saw as I watched them "somehow" beat the Bulls was there really wasn't an offense in place as far as I could tell. There were five guys, well actually four guys, who went one on one every time the ball was in their hands (the fifth player, Balkman, was there to run down loose balls for the other four).

But that isn't really the fault of the players. The responsibility for the semblance of an offense rests in the coach's hands. After watching that game, I was never surer of one thing: Isiah Thomas wants to get fired. No offense. A rotation that looks as though it came from a ouija board. A sex scandal. A player throwing a punch at him. And a losing record. What puzzles me is why he would have to work so hard given the results he's been creating. Curiouser and curiouser...