That game last night between the Sixers and the Knicks had me flashing back to the 90's when I cut my teeth on the game, where defense was King, and no body got to the rim with paying a price!
Man!!, it was good nail bitting basketball last night, where 6 points meant something and a 20 points game MADE YOU A BALLER!!
Remember the old Cleveland Cavaliers, the Mike Fratello club, that team ran a defensive CLINIC, no team played defense the way they played defense, if they got 80 points on you... the game was in the bag, nobody scored on that team. Remember the "ills" , Phills, Mills and Hill! The team probably was statistically the best defensive team of their era BUT... at the end of the day you got to put the ball in the hoop.
All the radio pundits will tell you defense wins championships but I can GUARENTEE you that the best statistacal defensive rarely wins, the Cavs never had chance at a championship they didn't have the fire power, they were ugly to watch (beautiful to me) and if the score got out of hand they were always on the short end of the stick. Watch the tape (if you can, I mean it, it's very very very hard to watch).
So back to the Knicks, now that they play hard on defense and Melo & STAT are more of a complete players, don't be fooled on any given night those guys can get you 30+ and they both can get to the rim. Sprinkle in JLin in the 4th and man, it's ON!
So whats that make them then? It makes them DANGEROUS! GO KNICKS!
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