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The Strickland is proud to publish a second excerpt from its first book, “Fred From Fresh Meadows: A Knicks Memoir” by Fred Cantor. Again, we’re pleased to say that all of the royalties are going to the John Starks Foundation, whose mission is to provide “monetary grants to NY tri-state and Tulsa area college bound high school seniors who demonstrate academic excellence, financial need and a commitment to community service.” . I fully admit to being a big Pat Riley fan long before he became the Knicks’ head coach in May of 1991. That’s largely due to the Showtime Lakers’ style of play, which I very much enjoyed tuning into when I wasn’t watching the Knicks play. Yes, I realize, Riley had a star-studded roster but, still, he got them to maximize their potential as a team—and that’s a real skill, especially when you have to handle superstar egos. But I was a fan of his also because his teams beat the Celtics in two out of three NBA Finals matchups. OK, it really should have been three out of three but I can’t put the blame primarily on Pat for the Lakers, in essence, giving away the title to the Celtics in 1984. And, the bottom line: after that potentially psychologically devastating 1984 Finals and a humiliating Game 1 loss to the Celtics in 1985—the infamous “Memorial Day Massacre”—the Lakers rebounded not only to win the series that year, but they did it in style by closing it out on the parquet floor of Boston Garden. And then, in 1987, the Lakers provided one of the great moments in both Boston Garden and NBA Finals history with Magic Johnson’s junior, junior sky hook en route to another NBA title. That too was incredibly satisfying. So naturally I was thrilled when Riley was named the Knicks’ head coach in May of 1991. And, even though Pat’s teams didn’t win a championship during his time in New York, I think his combined record in LA and New York compares favorably with the coaching record of the man who was long considered the greatest coach in league history, Red Auerbach. And that’s primarily because Pat did something I don’t think Auerbach ever demonstrated: as Bum Phillips once said about Bear Bryant, “He can take his’n and beat your’n and then take your’n and beat his’n.” Could two teams be more different in style of play than the 1980s Lakers and the Knicks from the years 1991-95? With different personnel, Riley adapted his coaching strategy in certain respects and yet still had great success—coming this-close to the mountaintop. And if you take a close look at Auerbach’s record including his time with the Celtics pre-Bill Russell and do the same with Pat Riley’s record to include his post-Showtime experience in New York, I think you will get a better sense of what I’m talking about. (And this is probably the best way to make the comparison because Auerbach retired after the 1965-66 season and Riley had no head coaching stint prior to taking over the Lakers.) For starters, I will of course concede that Auerbach’s teams winning eight consecutive NBA titles and nine out of ten was a run second to none in NBA history. It will in all likelihood never be matched. And part of the reason it will never be equaled is because there is—and has been for decades—more balance in the league than in the early years. When Pat Riley’s Lakers teams won four NBA championships in seven years (including the first repeat title in almost 20 years), there were clearly more competitive challenges than Auerbach’s Celtics had to face. Did any of Auerbach’s teams have to face the types of formidable opponents with the depth of talent that the Lakers had to battle? During the Celtics’ streak of nine titles in ten years, they had seven or eight future Hall of Famers virtually every season, which was a real edge in talent over opposing teams of that era. Plus, there were far more rounds of playoffs in the 1980s than during the great run by Auerbach’s teams and thus, more opportunities for an upset by a lesser opponent. One could make a strong argument that it was a tougher playoff gauntlet in the 1980s than the late 1950s into the first half of the 1960s, when Auerbach’s Celtics reigned. But where the comparison gets really interesting is when you look closely at Auerbach’s time with the Celtics pre-Russell (six years) and Riley’s time in New York post-Magic Johnson (four years). In those six years, even though Auerbach’s teams featured the premier guard of that era (and one of the all-time legends of the game), Bob Cousy, their best regular-season finish in the Eastern Division— which typically consisted of five teams during that time—was only second place. The Celtics had three 2nd-place finishes and three 3rd- place finishes. Perhaps more significantly, the Celtics lost three times in the first round of the playoffs during that time and their best success was merely advancing to the next round before being eliminated in the other three years of the pre-Russell era. By way of contrast, Riley’s Knicks won the Atlantic Division title twice in four years and finished in second place the other two seasons. In four postseasons: his teams won three playoff series in 1994, two playoff series in 1993, and one playoff series in both 1992 and 1995. It would seem Riley demonstrated greater coaching success than Auerbach in the absence of his greatest star or stars. Riley’s first season in New York provided unequivocal evidence of his ability to transform his customary ways and to immediately make the most of very different personnel; this was perhaps best exemplified in Game 5 of the opening-round best-of-five series against the Detroit Pistons. I have been to physical games before but, in the opening minutes of Game 5, the Knicks made clear that they were not going to be intimidated by the Pistons and they showed that they could out-Bad-Boy the Bad Boys if need be. The Knicks even succeeded in making an impression on Bill Laimbeer, who was quoted in the next day’s edition of The New York Times: “Hopefully, the league will let them be physical with Chicago.”

ako će zbog njega ružni ljudi prestati da se bave košarkom, onda jeste. ali to je trenutno work in progress

molim da se na moj spisak ubaci pola safetovih

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Kevin Love (right calf) will play on Friday vs. the Pelicans. mislim, neću da ga ubacujem, samo nek je živ i zdrav

promenio je igru tako što su 15ak godina svi modelovali igru prema njemu, bilo defanzivno ili kada traže igrača koji će nositi franšizu. ja i dalje ne verujem da se ne kapira kako ovo uopšte nije pitanje ko je bolji košarkaš, već šta se percipira kao prilika da pobeđujes. magic johnson verovatno sada ima veći uticaj na ligu nego 80ih, jer jednostavno nisi mogao da nađeš igrača takvih performansi. kada jednom svi budu kiborzi kao lebron, verovatno će njegov uticaj na razvoj igre biti veći. harden trenutno ima veći uticaj na razvoj igre od lebrona, što ne znači da je bolji igrač, već da je pogodniji za intetpretaciju.

nema shaje, eno širokog interneta, neka gugla ko voli. realni me pita kako to kari ownuje ligu sa 29 ppg, pametnom dosta. džaba napišem da je lebron faca, drugi najveći ako nema hvalospeva ode diskusija levo @Barkley#34

igra u nba se puno promenila zahvaljujući jordanu.

curry trenutno ownuje ligu po svojim činjenjima

misliš da bi bez rej alena, vejda i boša lebron uzeo neku titulu? ili bez dejvisa? ne pričamo o tome, već o changemakerima.

gagi je panja. gagi je imao najbolji "tata" potez ikada, kada je na pljuvanje poslao ručnu kurčinu

curry je promenio košarku, ne curry-klay-green

ja imam problem sa definicijom @SteveFrancis#3a; naime, moje mišljenje je da su me oblikovali ljudi i situacije IRL, a da su sve te razne umetnosti dodale svojevrsni flair ali nisu bile presudne mogu da nabrojim dosta uticaja koji su me naterali na razmišljanje hronološki: the beatles, inspiral carpets, happy mondays, prodigy, chem bros, danil harms, gary lineker, azra, šarlo akrobata, dj hell, laurant garnier, eric cantona, predrag sasha danilović, indiana jones, kraftwerk, jeff koons, tarantino, and many, many more.

curry je promenio filozofiju igre, iako je lebron bolji igrac. u tom smislu je bitniji za kosarku. lebron nije napravio nikakav pomak iako je suvereno drugi najbolji ikada

pa durant je igrao sa prime curryjem koji je bitniji za kosarku od lebrona, kojem su vezane ruke, tako da nema dileme da je durant imao bolje igrace

pa lebron je na strani potlacenih i porazenih, uglavnom zato sto gubi kada treba da dobije hehe a imao je i djubre saigrace, pa zato mislim da je okej da bruklini uzmu titulu ako vec paul george choukuje sve je bolje nego bostan i lakers. drzava kosovo da uzme nba ligu radovao bih se.

sabonis se ne bi kacio sa savicem a nije dobro prosao ni u kosarkaskim aspektima da ovo nije srbija, rekao bih da je najbolje resenje, ovako, ke vidime. ali bolje od nekih sns pregalaca svakako

lebronu su sve vreme veyane ruke i noge. jordan mu je vezao

ima neke basketaske poteze i razmišljanja na mikro nivou, u pozitivnom smislu. moj utisak je da mu je problem selekcija šuta, jer nikada nije morao da razmišlja o tome, ostalo mi izgleda okej

to samo tebi može da se desi

šta se nebitno osvaja u euroleague

tako je i leon rose otišao iz agencije ka predsedniku košarkaških operacija knicksa. e sad, mi imamo thibsa, koji je debeo i lud i fura istu postavu po 38 minuta, ako me razumeš. ako je rose, procvetaće.

po meni je generalni menadžer i ko je već sastavljao ekipu, jednako kriv koliko i trener. ta ekipa dobro zvuči po imenima ali smo pisali još pre sezone koliko su nelogična spojka svi ti igrači ili bar većina

ja nikada nešto ne verujem tim pričama od ljudi bliskih klubu i slično, jer često budu pr pamfleti koji se prenose s'kolena na koleno. ono što mi je merodavno je to da niti jedan nba klub nije okušao sreću na samom kraju drafta sa 22ogodišnjim igračem takvih fizikalija i realno dobrog šuta za tri, koji je usput pokazao poneki bljesak u euroleague u aktuelnih 3-4 sezona. daklem, nikakva naročita obaveza ni u novcu, ni u trajanju ugovora, niti u obavezi da dobije neko vreme za igranje izvan g-lige, pa opet niko nije trepnuo. amere definitivno zabole gde si i koliko igrao po evropi ako vide određenu šansu da postaneš solidan igrač za sitne pare. tako da mora biti da je njegov pristup poslu velika crvena zastava.