I was at Madison Square Garden tonight for what should have been the fourth home victory of the season, had it not been for an overall poor shooting effort from the New York Knicks.
Jared Jeffries was back and came off the bench to take all of Renaldo Balkman's minutes, but it wasn't enough to get past the lowly Celtics, who seem to have the Knicks' number this season at Madison Square Garden with a 2-0 record.
Contrary to popular belief, this one was not Marbury's fault. Hey Isiah, why did you call that time out at the end? You Isiah, messed up the Knicks' momentum down the stretch.
Eddy Curry is now a force in the Eastern Conference, and what is the league doing in response? Hack-A-Baby-Shaq. And its working. Thing is Eddy Curry, for his career, isn't that bad of a free throw shooter.
Perhaps the Knicks never practice free throws, because tonight the entire team missed free throw opportunities. In fact, only one player for the Knicks shot better than 67% from the free throw line, Nate Robinson (2-2). The Knicks were 17-32 from the line.
And yet Nate was no hero tonight either with his silly fight with Telfair. No one had it going besides Curry, the booing idiots of MSG can blame Stephon Marbury all they want, but the entire team sucked in terms of shooting percentage at 38.9% from the floor. Curry was 50% from the floor but, like I said, every time he touched it in the fourth, Doc Rivers' players seemed ready to foul him and send him to the line.
Curry finished with 30 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocks. David Lee had another double-double with 14 points and 13 rebounds while Stephon added 15 points and three assists.
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