Only one Anthony can get away with this kind of stuff

I have the NBA League Pass and it was really interesting clicking from game to game and watching all the players that the Knicks got rid of for Anthony helping their teams win, including the team the Knicks played tonight, and watching the New York Carmelos lose miserably again.

I had to chuckle at that.

Does that mean that those teams will win championships? Of course not but what it does reinforce is the understanding that a team is comprised of players, not just hitching your wagon to a single supposed star and wishing for the best. You know, the James Dolan philosophy of team building.

With 12 seconds left in the game and down by two points instead of moving the ball and driving to the basket, which got the Knicks back into the game, you know what happened when Anthony got his hands on the ball. That's right, one pass one shot which clanked on the side of the rim and fell off giving Denver the victory.

Only one Anthony can get away with this kind of stuff.

Knicks lose again, Nuggets 97 - Knicks 95

Denver on Friday night

I should have written post about the Knicks last loss but they are beginning to bore me now.

They are so pathetic that I need to take a break from watching them every once in awhile but I will be ready for the ass kicking they get in Denver on Friday night.

It takes time

This afternoon folks are questioning last nights play of Shumpert on defense.

Clyde has even said that Shumpert he has "lost his swagger".

Well, the truth is, the same thing that is happening to Shumpert is exactly the same thing that happened to the young guys just before the Anthony trade. Trade talk is kryptonite to the confidence of a young player.

The pre-Anthony group was about to go over .500 and even Landry Fields wasn't in the witness protection program at the time.

However when the trade talks got serious Chandler, Landry, Gallinari and Mozgov all spit the bit and played like they were afraid for their very lives.

Each day there were stories about how upset many of them were about having to leave New York City.

That kind of stuff affects the play of all young players so the reporters and Mike Woodson need to back the hell off of Iman Shumpert and let him deal with this however he can.

Trades strip the naivete off young players and forces them to be hardened mercenaries. It takes time to become condotierri.