[hova-´s] NY KNICKS Dynasty (NBA Live 06)

[hova-]

I hope I can make an update tomorrow.

Sry, Ima lil bit stressed with school and stuff ....

[3C]

Nice dynasty man, sorry I haven't posted any comments recently. Been a bit busy with Uni and work. I like the magazines man, how do you make them? I recently started my dynasty and just finished the pre-season and it was an enlightening experience for me. If you're looking to reduce your cap and keep Nate, try trading your way over paid players like Marbury, Francis & Rose but to mention a few. Replace them with younger less expensive talent that will grow with the dyansty and at this rate Nate may even end up starting and his potential will without a doubt be fully realised. I'm looking to do thesame with my dynasty which I'll attempt at updating this afternoon and if I don't get it done by then I finish it when I get back from work. All in all I like what I'm seeing here.

[hova-]

thx, magazines are just made with PaintShopPro, not very difficult, the difficult thing are the ideas and stuff, creativity aint my thing .

[hova-]

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so long hova-

[hova-]

New York Knicks (2-5) vs Washington Wizards (3-7)

From MCI Center, Washington








Young Knicks defeat Wizards !

Robinson, Lee and Frye able to overcome Arenas´ 30, Marbury out



It was a tough game, and the Knicks paid their price.
Stephon Marbury had to leave in the 2nd after he drove to the basket and collided with Antonio Daniels.
"It seems like he will be out for at least 5 weeks, it´s a broken bone in his wrist, we really feel with him, hopefully he can comeback as fast as possible", Larry Brown said after the medical check.

But the game had to move on.

The Knicks started slowly, Washington led 10-2 with 6 points by Gilbert Arenas. Then New York began to play good basketball, especially David Lee, who had an career high 14 points in this game.
After this not really special quarter Washington led by 1, 24-25.

In the 2nd Stephon Marbury showed his scoring ability with some awesome shots, 8 points for him.
"He played great, bad it had to end like that", even Antawn Jamison had to confess.

Steve Francis, who got a lot of minutes, because of Jamaal Crawford´s awful performance, had 6 points and 2 assists.


On the Wizards side Caron Butler and Arenas played well combining for 16 of the 25 the Wizs had. But Knicks led by 2 52-50.

In the 3rd Nate Robinson got some playing time, had 3 assists and played up big. But Arenas, Butler and Jamison did their job very well, and kept the Wizards into the game. The Bench didn´t get it done again for Washington.
Only Rookie Andre Blatche suprised with strong 8 points.

When the clock was down to 4 secs in the 3rd, Marbury tried to make it happen, announced an isolation play and drove to the basket.
There he collided mid-air and went down, falling on his wrist.
Nate Robinson came into the game, made both freethrows, but Washington led by 3, 73-76.

And the 4th was the one of Nate Robinson. He controlled the Knicks´ Offense, had 5 assists and 10 points.
Supported by Jalen Rose, who hit a clutch threepointer with 2 minutes left to tie the game, and by Channing Frye who had 6 points, he made it for the Knicks.

The Wizards weren´t able to pull it off, especially because their bench couldn´t make something happen.
"Well, I was really down in the 4th, played lots of minutes.", Arenas claimed later.

The Wizards weren´t able to tie the game with 30 seconds left and fouled Nate Robinson, who made both freethrows and sealed it for the Knicks, 106-102.

Player Of The Game was Nate Robinson, he also posted the Play Of The Game.
The Dunk Of The Night was a emphatic one by Brendan Haywood.

He had 10 points, Caron Butler 19 and Jamison 14.
The bench again played weak, even though 25 points are quite good for Washington at the moment.

For New York, Marbury had 14 points, Richardson, Steve Francis and Channing Frye 12 each and Eddy Curry 10.

Both teams shot over .500 from the field and under .300 from down town.
New York outrebounded the Wizs.



Antawn Jamison with the acrobatic one
Nate Robinson posted the Play Of The Game
Marbury is out for 5 weeks
Arenas had 30 points and 5 steals
Jamison with the dunk

Wizards Boxscore
Knicks Boxscore

Play Of The Game - Nate Robinson
Dunk Of The Night - Brendan Haywood

[3C]

Nice recaps man, good game by the Knicks. Try starting Robinson and see how he fairs seeing that Marbury is injured. Good game although.

[hova-]

Nice recaps man, good game by the Knicks. Try starting Robinson and see how he fairs seeing that Marbury is injured. Good game although.

thx, I´m not sure with Nate, he did really good, but Francis deserved the chance to start, he always played well in short time.

[hova-]

December, 31th

Today New York announced a new special for all the fans and the players of the New York Knickerbockers. A new double-colored rubberband is out now, available to buy after New Year´s Eve.
In order to remind of the good old times of the franchise and to keep in mind that it´s possible to manage it this season, the rubberband is called "Knicks - Playoff-run".
"Well, we all gonna wear this piece, maybe it gives us the luck we need, but it´s more a marketing thing, I guess", was the statement by Jalen Rose, who will be the captain in the next game due Marbury´s injury.

| New York hopes to get a new feeling with the new "Knicks Playoff-run"-bands.

[hova-]

December

The month December is over, here is the review

Standings

Atlantic Division


Complete changes here, Boston fell from the first to the last spot, Philly snatched the 1st and New York won all its´ games in December.

Southeast Division


Miami and Charlotte lost track, while the Magic´s big run got them at the top. Atlanta and Washingon are weak.

Central Division


Indiana at the top with a 2-loss streak, the Cavs with 2 wins in a row, but still weak. Detroit and Chicago are doing fine, almost no changes.

Southwest Division


Strong Rockets improve their record, Spurs suprisingly on a 4 loss streak and only 2nd last spot, Dallas still weak, but 2-1 this month.

Northwest Division


The suprise of the season! Randolph leads Blazers to a league best 9-2 record. Denver is doing well. No other remarkable changes.

Pacific Division


Clippers still at the top, Phoenix and Sacramento bounce back, while the Lakers lost track completely with a 3 loss streak.


Awards

East and West Rookie Of The Month


"CP3"still keeps New Orleans in the Playoff race


Bogut defends his title, but played weaker this month


East and West Player Of The Month


Pau is Player Of The Month, although the Grizzlies are still struggling


Power Howard leads the Magic in their run


MVP Candidates



Power Rankings



Transactions
The Jazz release J. Collins.

Hard Injuries
Earl Boykins is supposed to start training in January after his disclocated shoulder.

Stephon Marbury will miss the next 3 weeks due his wrist.

[3C]

Nice recap, one question though: How do you intend to reduce the salary cap of the Knicks?

[hova-]

Nice recap, one question though: How do you intend to reduce the salary cap of the Knicks?

Well, at the moment I don´t plan any trades, but in order to reduce the salary I will have to, there will be some trades definetely, but close to the deadline.
The plan is to trade players with long, big contracts for some players, whose contracts run out.
Players like Mo Taylor and Malik Rose are the only ones, who seem to be untradable, it will be hard to clear cap space, but at the moment I hope I can make the playoffs and dont care about this salary stuff.

[hova-]

January, 1st 2006

Channing Frye
Improved his ballhandling, stealing, strength,quickness by 1.

Quentin Richardson
Improved his blocking and his passing by 1.

Steve Francis
Improved his dunking by 1, he is definetely a highflyer now.




Well, Steve wasn´t a highflyer before, I thought he was too weak at NY at the moment. Now he is, and that gives me a huge boost.
Now I have a 2nd scorer, and maybe Marbury might move to Playmaker.
This development might be important, when Marbury returns, my backcourt seems to be really deluxe.
Im also very pleased with the progress of Channing Frye. I really notice it while playing.

[Marquis]

WOW nice pic of Francis

And keep training Frye

[Cornerthree]

Nice recaps!!
Good luck!

[hova-]

WOW nice pic of Francis

And keep training Frye

thx, well thats what u can expect now every game, he´s a highflyer now, and that gives the team a huge boost.

Nice recaps!!
Good luck!

thx, glad you like it.

[hova-]

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so long hov

[hova-]

New York Knicks (3-5) vs Memphis Grizzlies (4-8)


January the 2nd, from FedEx Forum, Memphis









Knicks suffer tough loss

New York gets blown out on the road, Grizzlies win 90-105



It was the first game without Stephon Marbury, and the New York Knicks had to accept, that it is much more difficult without their leader."We all knew it will be hard, but we simply couldn´t find our game without him", Quentin Richardson said.

The Grizzlies dominated from the very first moment of the game.
Damon Stoudamire and Mike Miller had a great game in the backcourt in the first quartet. Both scored 6. Pau Gasol added 4 rebounds.
New York wasn´t able to answer and it even got worse when Steve Francis had to leave the court with an injury at his hand.

It later turned out to be a sprained thumb, he will be out for 10 days, but won´t miss any game in that time.

Without Steve Francis and Stephon Marbury, Nate Robinson stepped up,
scoring 4 points and dishing out 2 assists.
But the others didn´t respond, shot only .30 from the field and the Grizzlies led by 9, 18-27.

No change in the 2nd, were Pau Gasol began to show, why he is the Player Of The Month December.
He had 10 points and 8 rebounds and one strong block on Nate Robinson.
Shane Battier added 6, Hakim Warrick had a strong dunk.

For New York, Quentin Richardson showed his good shooting touch, scored 3 in a row.
But it was always like one person scores, the others make nothing.
New York fell behind, 39-59.

"At least, we didn´t give up, but im really not pleased with our game today", Larry Brown meant.

The Knickerbockers played better in the 3rd.
Jalen Rose, who hadn´t scored till that quarter, although he started, heated up.
He hit 2 threes, scored 10 points in this quarter.
But all in all, the Grizzlies didn´t really break down.
They were outscored by 7, but had a comfortable lead, 67-80.

Both teams didn´t play hard in the last one.
We saw some nice moves, Lorenzen Wright and Channing Frye showed two big highlights. The Grizzlies took it, Brian Cardinal scored the last 6 points of the game, Steve Fancis, who returned in the last, scored 8 points.

The Player OF The Game was Pau Gasol. He scored 20, had 13 rebounds, 9 of them offensive(!) and 3 blocks.
Damon Stoudamir and Shane Battier added 14 apiece, Mike Miller and Dahntay Jones 12 each.

The Knicks highpoint man was Steve Francis with 18, he also added 6 assists.
Jalen Rose scored 13 points, 2-2 from down town.
Nate Robinson and Channing Frye had 10 each.
Eddy Curry had strong 15 rebounds, "Q-Rich" had 14 points, but 0-5 from beyond the arc.

Knicks were outrebounded by 10, both teams shot weak from 3-point range. New York only shot .44 fron the charity stripe.
All in all Memphis deserved this win.

The Play Of The Game was posted by Lorenzen Wright with a freaky putback after his own missshot.
The Dunk Of The Night had Channing Frye with a putback after a strong rebound.





Hakim Warrick with authority
Robinson slashes
Lorenzen Wright with his highlight dunk
Jerome James shows why he replaced Jackie Butler
Jamaal Crawford with the tough lay-in
Even three Knicks couldn´t handle Pau
Francis hurt his thumb

Knicks Boxscore
Grizzlies Boxscore

Channing Frye with the Dunk Of The Night
Lorenzen Wright with the Play Of The Game



Well I´m not happy with that, it´s hard without Marbury, and he will miss the next game, too.
Jerome James gets more minutes now, he has improved more than Jackie Butler.

[KIG1]

yeahhhhh, get Jerome some minutes.

That Lorenzen play looked pretty sweet

[hova-]

yeahhhhh, get Jerome some minutes.

That Lorenzen play looked pretty sweet

thank you, and Jerome gets minutes over Butler now, he did better "in training "

And yeah I just thought "that was so clear that he will miss the lay-in", and than boom "D´oh!"

[hova-]

January, 2nd 2006


Charlotte´s Gerald Wallace will be out for 1-2 weeks due a broken toe.
This will test the defensive skills of the team, Wallace is averaging 1 block 1.4 steals and 7.8 rebounds per game.

January, 3rd 2006


"Flip" Murray of the Cavs will be out for 2-3 weeks. He got injured in practice session, a bone spur in his right foot.

January, 5th 2006


Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs will be out for about 2 weeks with a hyper-extended knee. It may even take longer, as he fell down very hard in the Spurs´ loss vs Boston.


Pacers´ Stephen Jackson sprained his ankle and will be out for 1 1/2 week.

January, 6th 2006


Orlando puts Grant Hill on the injury list with a sore finger. He will be out for at least 10 days. Beside Howard, Hill is the main reason for Orlando´s streak, averaging 25 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.

[thaKEAF]

Good update, you know Francis is #1 not #8 right?

[hova-]

Good update, you know Francis is #1 not #8 right?

thx, ye, didnt change that, only did after his trade, when he wore the 8.

[hova-]

some important stuff around the league ...

January, 5th 2006, topgame between East and West leaders:

77
95

Jermaine O`Neal with 22 points, 22 boards, 5 assists, 4 steals and 4 blocks.


January, 7th 2006, old rivals match up.

102
103

Duncan´s 20 and Ginobili´s 19 counter Kobe´s 38 points performance.


January, 12 2006, James setting career high and season-high.

103
150

Sick performance by James and the Raptors. James scored 49 on 17-28 FG and 7-13 from beyond the arc and also handed out 13 assists.
Expect an article about his phenomenal season.

[hova-]

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so long hov

[Marquis]

WOW Raptors 150 points against Chicago and James 49 points Unbelievable

Good luck against Jazz