I'm on a biz-trip in NY...I'll be here until Friday, so I thought I'd take in a Knick game. I'm going through major basketball withdrawls right now, not being able to watch the Bulls for over a week, so any basketball is better than no basketball. Plus, I've never been to the Garden, so that was an experience within itself.

Surprisingly, this was actually a pretty good game...until overtime, when NY practically choked the game away. Here are my observations:

- Watching the Knicks run D'Antoni's "7 seconds or less" offense was interesting. It looked like a real life game of NBA Live. The pace was absolutely incredible.

-Speaking of his offense, there didn't really seem to be any rhyme or reason the way the Knicks were running it. In Phoenix, there seemed to be some sort of controlled madness, but here, it just seemed like madness.

-Neither team played any defense. Dallas in particular looked really bad.

-Duhon still hesitates to shoot unless he has 5ft of open space around him (at the same time, he ended up having a pretty efficient 16pt/12ast game). He sucked in the first half, but his 2nd half was better. He hit a few big shots in the 4th. Typical Duhon...he'll disappear for the next 10 games.

-Marbury was on the court shooting around and warming up about an hour before the game started. With about 35 min before tipoff he went in.

-I've always liked Crawford, but he took some absolutely horrendous shots in this game.

-I'm not sure who has the worst shot selection between Crawford, Richardson, and Z-Bo. The only difference in this game is that Z-Bo knocked down most of his shots (he was 10-20, JC was 5-19).

-Nate Robinson always seemed like he was trying to do way too much. He would try to make the spectacular play instead of the simple one.

-Violet Palmer is still the worst official in ANY sports league.

-Eddy Curry wasn't even on bench. I know he's been inactive, but I thought he would at least be there.

-As much as I like the Luvabulls, the Knick City Dancers put them to shame (in looks and in routines)

-Along the same lines, the Knicks City Kids did a couple of nice lil routines. I would say they are better than the BullsKidz...but that wouldn't be nice to say. Is it mandatory for each team to have a kids dance group now?

-The Bulls really do have one of the most fan-friendly areas in the league. The Knicks seemed to be out of enterainment after halftime. Timeouts in the 3rd and 4th quarters pretty much seemed to consist of the dancers throwing t-shirts into the crowd.

-Speaking of halftime, the entertainment was those stupid Zooperstar blow up dolls...funny, but dumb

-Magic Johnson was sitting front row. They did a close-up and the stadium errupted into a standing ovation, which was pretty cool.

-Giants, Plaxio Burress and Brandon Jacobs were also at the game and got a nice ovation.

-It was cool hearing the Knicks organ player in person.

-The fans were pretty passionate throughout the entire game. They were into it from start to finish. There was no sandwich (or any other type of food) giveaway...which meant there was no stupid anxious moaning when the Knicks approached 100.

-MSG has that old stadium look, feel, and smell to it on the inside. On the one hand, I like the classic arena feel. But on the other hand, it seriously needs some upgrades. There were hardly any suites. You'd have to think if they renovated and/or built a new arena, they'd pull in tons of money.

-I wish we could somehow get David Lee (Noce for M. Rose and David Lee anyone?)