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High Socks & Short Shorts: February 2006
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, February 23, 2006. I will say this for whoever is selecting the games for "Knicks 101" - they know what the hell they're doing. All gems. Tonight was Game 6 (not Game 7 as I had originally thought) of the '94 Eastern Conference Finals between the Knicks and Pacers. Maybe the most enjoyable Knicks game of my viewing lifetime. 8) Riley and Larry Brown were young and handsome. Has a GM ever made more out-and-out lu...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 4.23.88: Steppo's Last Stand
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Sunday, June 11, 2006. 42388: Steppo's Last Stand. The Chargers were my football team: fun to watch, but sure to fold in the end. Some great memories with Fouts and Winslow and Joiner and JJ and Wes and Chuck and li'l James Brooks. But no championship. Digging through some old high school junk recently, I came across a piece of looseleaf paper from around that time. In it, I had written down my hopeful Knicks lineup f...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 12.28.83 Pistons-Knicks: ride the moustache
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, March 13, 2008. 122883 Pistons-Knicks: ride the moustache. Isiah called for two palming violations and explaining to refs that in five years you won't be calling that. Isiah two handed flush on break. Vinnie actually looks like a Vinnie. John Long my theory of the set shot being more effective when you are open. Len elmore completely overmatched. Once again, marvin webster ws at least 7'10". Isiah out of control.
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 4.22.84: in '84 he'll be a little faster
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, February 16, 2006. 42284: in '84 he'll be a little faster. I was walking through the office today and as I passed the little TV lounge area on the 2nd floor, I noticed that one of my co-workers was eating his dinner in front of the TV. What was he watching? You ask. Or maybe you don't care. I'll tell you anyway. The game we attended was one of the five most exciting sporting events I've seen in person*, a good g...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 4.20.83: prehistory
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, March 16, 2006. And for a lot of us, pro basketball was born during the 1983-84 season. Some would say Magic and Bird's faceoff in the '79 NCAA final set the stage, and I guess it did, but it wasn't until the '84 NBA Finals that they faced each other in an NBA playoff game. That series went 7 and launched a new era of popularity for the league. 3 Paul Westphal started for the Knicks and made several good plays, ...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: March 2008
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, March 13, 2008. 122883 Pistons-Knicks: ride the moustache. Isiah called for two palming violations and explaining to refs that in five years you won't be calling that. Isiah two handed flush on break. Vinnie actually looks like a Vinnie. John Long my theory of the set shot being more effective when you are open. Len elmore completely overmatched. Once again, marvin webster ws at least 7'10". Isiah out of control.
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 4.6.87 & 4.14.93: call it a comeback, or two
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Wednesday, March 01, 2006. 4687 and 4.14.93: call it a comeback, or two. This week MSG, probably in response to a big ratings boost courtesy of this blog, has decided to run 2 episodes of "Knicks 101" instead of 1. Which means I will be watching 2 episodes instead of 1. MSG, you could rebroadcast the entire '86-'87 (24-58) season and I'd suck down every minute like it was one big banana milkshake. In the 1980 finals is wa...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: June 2006
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Sunday, June 11, 2006. 42388: Steppo's Last Stand. The Chargers were my football team: fun to watch, but sure to fold in the end. Some great memories with Fouts and Winslow and Joiner and JJ and Wes and Chuck and li'l James Brooks. But no championship. Digging through some old high school junk recently, I came across a piece of looseleaf paper from around that time. In it, I had written down my hopeful Knicks lineup f...
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High Socks & Short Shorts: 1.5.85: A lousy team and a coach named Brown
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High Socks and Short Shorts. Basketball before and after it needed a dotted circle. Thursday, February 16, 2006. 1585: A lousy team and a coach named Brown. Last week I mentioned that I had stumbled across a Knicks game from 1984 on MSG Network. MSG has a series called "Knicks 101" which is basically just edited-down-for-time old Knicks broadcasts. First of all, it's a terrible show name. What the fuck? 6 The NBA three point shot was five years old then, and it was for the most part a strange and mysteri...
