The season continues! Matt and Jeff discuss closing out Boston, the amazing Shumpert and Prigioni and the suddenly struggling JR Smith. We both agree the series is gonna go 7 with a stirring win at MSG for our Knicks. As always follow us on twitter: @westcoastknicks @mattritter1 @jeffcerulli. We will keep this podcast going as long as the Knicks do! Thanks for listening.
Wow, what a great start to the playoff, two games against the hated Celtics and two pretty solid wins. Ugly games, but wins are wins, especially in the playoffs. Melo is proving he's obviously the best player, JR Smith is proving 6th man of the year was deserved. Chandler is coming around and Kenyon is just a beast. As always you can follow us @westcoastknicks @jeffcerulli @mattritter1 We will be back after they wrap up this round!
This week is the last regular season podcast. And it ended the way it began, on a high. We beat our nemesis the Pacers in a rugged game, that now leaves us with a week to get rested for the aging Celtics, who Matt and Jeff both agree are going down in 5 or 6 games. We give our final top 5, this time it's for the entire season of work, so Copeland doesnt get named, but he did have another solid game and Jeff feels maybe he's leapfrogged Novak for post season minutes. Matt laments Melo's lack of n...
This week Matt and Jeff revel in the best week in 20 years. Beating Miami and OKC, Melo dropping crazy buckets, everyone on the team playing well, Chandler coming back strong. What else can we say, this team is a legitimate title threat and the whole league knows it! Matt apologizes for his bad prediction of 49 wins and for thinking Prigioni was blah. Jeff's pick of 53 wins is looking low! As always, you can follow us on twitter at @westcoastknicks, @mattritter1 and @jeffcerulli and please give ...
Wow. What a week. The Knicks are on the biggest roll since maybe the 90s? Matt and Jeff discuss the continued resurgence and the domination of Boston. With the absolute biggest game of the season looming against Miami we discuss if the Knicks are clicking on all cylanders. It seems like mostly everyone is, especially potential 6th man of the year, J.R. Swish! As always you can follow us on twitter at: @westcoastknicks, @mattritter1, @jeffcerulli and follow us on podomatic and give us 5 stars on ...
This week Matt and Jeff do a 180 on the season after last weeks road debacle. They rebounded strong in Utah and then handled business against Orlando and Toronto. What else can you say about Kenyon Martin except thank god he's here and kudos to Kurt Thomas for a valiant effort. All around good signs from Shumpert, Kidd, Smith, Prigioni and most importantly, Melo looks healthy. Can we hold on down the stretch while Chandler rests. Hopefully! As always you can follow us on twitter at: @westcoastkn...
This week Matt is actually in NY for a live podcast with Jeff because he was in town for his Comedians at Law show. So they finally got a chance to look each other in the eye and admit this team is rubbish. We may or may not go 0-5 on the West Coast trip, but Jeff and Matt agree to write it off because of injury. We break down how other top teams would fare without their three best players and decide only the Spurs would do well. Matt is then joined by special guest, J-L Cauvin, fellow member of...
There's no other way to say it, our season's hopes may have been dashed with the news that Amare is gone for the rest of the year. He was really playing dynamite ball, Jeff even convinced Matt he belonged in the starting lineup. To make matters worse, Melo's knee is obviously worse than the staff is letting on, which is their M/O. The Knicks hung with OKC and slaughtered Utah with their B team, which now may be the roster for a while. Kenyon stepped in nicely. But the real question is, what is t...
Matt and Jeff are back to discuss a pretty solid week. We survived 54 from Steph Curry, almost took down Miami for a third time and held on against the Cavs without Melo. We discuss Jeff's campaign to start Melo, why James White is even on the roster and whether the Knicks can survive a brutal upcoming stretch. As always you can follow us on twitter: @westcoastknicks, @mattritter1 and @jeffcerulli.
After a much needed break, the Knicks came out in the second half of the season totally flat. Losing to Toronto and getting annihilated by Indy. They rebounded/saved their season? with a complete win over Philly. As usual Matt and Jeff discuss whether Kidd is finished, whether Shumpert was ever good, why Amare isnt getting the ball enough and whether he should be starting. Matt still likes his energy off the bench, while Jeff feels that Kidd and Shumpert starting creates a huge void. We also bid...
This week Matt and Jeff discuss a rough week that ended with a loss to the very tough Clippers. The game had it's ups and downs. Melo looked like a beast, Felton played his best game in a while and...well thats all for the good. The bench was blasted out of MSG, especially JR who is clearly not on the level of J Craword. That much is clear. CP3 could not be stopped, Griffin was entirely unimpressive, but hit a few key jumpers. Matt thinks the biggest problem is Woodson's stubborn refusal to twea...
This week Matt and Jeff are like all Knicks fans: on cloud 9! How can you not be. We discuss a very easy and rewarding week, probably the best since the beginning of the year, if not better than that because now we know we are good, we don't just hope it. We discuss Amare's investment in post moves with Hakeem and consider starting a Kickstarter campaign to get Jeff and I to Hakeem's post camp. We ponder whether there are any real issues right now? Is anyone bothered by Felton's D? We obviously ...
This week Matt Ritter and Jeff Cerulli discuss the week that saw a nice win in Boston and a home win against Atlanta sandwiched around a brutal loss to Philly. More notable was the return of Shumpert and Felton. Which means basically for the first time all year, the Knicks are at full strength. We discuss whether the team as constructed has what it takes to win or if we need to make a move. Some positive signs from Amare and Melo has one of his solid Melo games where he wills the team to victory...
This week Matt Ritter and Jeff Cerulli discuss a very light week for the Knicks. A win in London vs the bottom feeding Pistons and a rough, rough loss to a bitter rival NJ Nets. We discuss again how rebounding and effort are becoming major problems and how we wish we had a guy like Reggie Evans instead of a stiff like Copeland. On the bright side, Amare's work with Hakeem seems to be paying off, although he looks visibly shorter and is getting stuffed everytime he drives baseline. Once again Mel...
Wow, what a crappy week for our Knicks, beaten by 3 of our main Eastern Coference rivals, the Celtics, Pacers and Bulls. Melo gets suspended after KG gets in his for the infamous phrase "your girl tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios". Luckily, we had the deadbeat Hornets to salvage the week and a good performance on both ends. Jeff and I give Copeland player of the week for stepping up big. Then I have special guest, NBA stat geek, Arturo Galletti of Wages of Wins on the podcast. We breakdown how the...
Happy New Year Knicks Fans! Well, it's been an up and down few weeks, mostly down with a few tough losses to Portland and Sacramento and more importantly a major injury suffered by Felton has really affected the offensive flow. On the plus side, we beat San Antonio and Orlanda and we are starting to work Amare back in, he and Melo seems to be clicking a little, he's rolling well of the screen and roll, but as we suspected, he is a disgrace defensively. His claim of never having been taught defen...
We end the year in style by bringing on Cousin Mikey, another West Coast transplant who spends his days gambling on Basketball with a bunch of Australians and buying all the hot new NBA kicks. We discuss his views on Amare - he has always ranked him as one of the NBA's biggest cancers and on Melo - he agrees that the man has been reborn. He has many theories, one is that Melo's game has improved due to unknown personal factors. I describe the Amare-Melo dynamic, which I believe to be basically A...
This week we get the man behind the amazing fake twitter, Coach D'antoni, who has been providing us with fake insights of the coach we love to hate. Comedian Joe Praino and I discuss getting pro-active and using fake twitter accounts to express yourself in a way that nobody lets you do using your real name. We discuss his memory of sitting in Ewing's seats and getting yelled at by Spike Lee Jeff Cerulli and I discuss Linsanity's only visit to the Garden where he and the Rockets absolutely annihi...
This week, we get to hear from another great guest, NY Daily News beat reporter, Frank Isola, who has been covering the Knicks since 1996. He shoots me down after I suggest Novak is better than Ray Allen and reminds me that Tyson Chandler didn't fare so well in the playoffs against Bosh. Basically, the reality check podcast. It was a great week, starting with J.R. Smith's first career game winner in Charlotte. The monster's dethroning of King James and Company without Melo. An ugly but hypercomp...
Amazing Race competitor, film producer and die hard Knicks fan, Justin Kanew joins us to talk about the past week where the Knicks took care of business against a few inferior opponents. We also talk about his experience shooting a comedy with the legendary Jean Claude Van Damne. As usual, Jeff Cerulli and I debate my feelings on Sheed and Priggioni, who I'm starting to come around on. Sheed finally gets his first ejection, but did he deserve it and did we just find out that Copeland is really g...
Comedians Matt Ritter and Jeff Cerulli break down the first rough week of the Knicks season. We actually lost two games in a row to Dallas and Houston on the road, who do we blame? Kidding, there's no one to blame, they recovered with a nice blowout win at home against the Pistons where we saw the return of Novakaine. We discuss the Houston debacle, the Chandler Bang phenomenon and all things Knicks. We even google Camby's Houston estate and guess what it's worth!
ESPN's Jared Zwerling joins us to discuss the past week where the Knicks beat San Antonio at home, then lost to a rough Memphis squad and rebounded this Sunday with an ugly but dominant win over the Pacers. We discuss the secret weapon for the Knicks, Melo and JR Smith's personal trainer who have them both in the best shape of their lives. We also talk about the leadership in the locker room that Jason Kidd and Rasheed Wallace are bringing. Jared also shares Novak's shooting routine in practice ...
This week Matt Ritter and Jeff Cerulli welcome very special guest, ESPN's Ian Begley. Ian covers all of the NY sports teams and gives us an inside look inside the Knicks locker room. He also tells us what being a beat reporter is like. We discuss Melo's improved defensive focus, JR Smith playing under control, the rotation, why politics may keep Rasheed Wallace in it and Kurt Thomas out and Ian reveals the funniest Knick. Pretty joyous time to be a Knick fan so get on our bandwagon before they a...
Comedians Matt Ritter and Jeff Cerulli break down the magical first week of the Knicks season. Melo playing unselfishly, two crafty Point Guards doing their thing, Chandler being Chandler, the future buddy cop duo, JR Smith and Novak shooting the lights out, the ups and downs of Prigoni and Brewer and whether Rasheed is just a novelty. Basically everything else that went right in this 3-0 week where we murdered Philly twice and annihilate the NBA's best team, the Miami Heat. We also discuss happ...
Comedian Matt Ritter lives on the West Coast but refuses to give up his Knicks addiction. So he sits down with fellow comic and New Yorker Jeff Cerulli to break down the upcoming season. We discuss the effect of the Jeremy Lin departure, the new additions of Raymond "Svelton" Felton, Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby and any other players on the team that were great in 1999, and the coexistence of Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoutemire, aka everything that is wrong with the Knicks.
