I’ve never been to a game where the entire crowd was united against one team in expecting them to lose.  At the bar (only one drink this time) it was unanimous, everyone agreed the Knicks were going to lose.  A guy in the pizza line told me the Knicks were going to lose by a Derrick Coleman.  He meant 44.  I got it instantly, thought it was clever and then bet on the Knicks.  Public money is a joke.

1ST QUARTER

0-0: Grant Hill isn’t on crutches, I’m confused?  No, I’m kidding – I heard it’s his 100th consecutive game.  Am I jinxing him as we speak?

2-2: Not much of a shootout if you ask me.

13-11:  Gallo is 3 for 3.  If a team’s best shooter is 1000x better in the first than the 4th – shouldn’t we work on his conditioning? Shouldn’t we work on everyone else’s shot?  The Suns have turned the ball over about 14 times already.  Amare is wearing glasses like he just got out of woodshop.  The weird part is that they kind of look bad ass.  Amare gets a technical for literally nothing.  Can we please keep getting these calls? 

21-13:  Little run happening here.  Gallo has 10 already.  Nash keeps going over to D’Antoni and talking about something.  They keep laughing.  I imagine them making fun of Duhon – it makes me laugh too.

30-23:  Opening up a little bit here.  This is the best 1st quarter we’ve had all year.  Lee is all over the boards.

35-26:  The guy next to me said they should call Phoenix, ‘Nash-ville.’  I get it.

2ND QUARTER

41-28:  Hughes is playing like he’s trying to get paid.  This is probably the longest D’Antoni has waited to put Nasty in.  Maybe I just hate Duhon, but I love the team so much more when he’s on the bench.

44-20:  Al for 3.  Harrington has got to be the favorite for 6th man of the year.  He’s basically a starter, but the award still belongs to him.  (at least ¼ way through the season anyway)

51-37:  Hughes just came out of the game.  He has 10 assists in 19 minutes.

51-40: Dudley just grabbed an offensive rebound off of a missed foul shot and threw it off of Harrington.  I’m not sure if there’s a college basketball player in the last 10 years I’ve hated more than Dudley.  He made me hate BC and I think I still might.

52-45: Amare has the Rasheed Wallace sporadic facial hair thing going.  I think Amare is the least talked about 2010 free agent.  The Suns are chipping away at this lead. 

56-46: Al Harrington is definitely in my top 10 underappreciated NBA players.  I’m making that an award.

65-52:  Gallo hits his 4th 3 pointer of the game.  He must have money on it or something.

3rd Quarter

78-62:  Nash is leading the Suns with 15 points so far.  This is a good sign.  Maybe our Robinson/Duhon/Hughes triple headed monster is too much for him to handle.

84-64:  Gallo hits back to back 3’s after grabbing a monster board.  His second one was from just inside half court.  Is he the best shooter in the NBA?  Look me in the eye and tell me he’s not.

90-66:  I mean we’re just coming together tonight. Earl Clark makes a jumper.  What a stud at Louisville, he seemed so much bigger last year…

4th quarter

102-76: Everyone at the Garden is in shock.  The Knicks basically have a 4 touchdown lead and people are unsure whether they should leave, stay, or throw up.  I’m staying and throwing up- on the 6 year old girl in front of me. She’s wearing a Dragic jersey.  Funny, is there an NBA player that looks more like a child molester?  I joke that the girl is Dragic’s girlfriend.  1 out of 5 people find it funny, there are 4 people around me.  And no, I don’t think he looks like Eli Manning either.

108-80: Alvin Gentry got a technical.  He’s screaming ‘call the foul.’  I think I have to agree with them.  I’ve never seen more no-calls in my 149 years of watching the NBA. 

112-82: Our first round draft pick just went in for the first time.  Did he bang Donnie Walsh’s wife or something?  I haven’t seen one thing Hill has done that has earned him this string of DNPs and garbage minutes. 

119-94:  Hill hits a baseline pull up.  Someone get him the fuck out of the game!!

126-99 – The Knicks win?