Donnie’s Darko Could Be Like Steve Nash According To Walsh!
Just when New York Vinnie is starting to have a little confidence and give some credit to New York Knicks Team President Donnie Walsh he has to open up his Frickin yap and spoil it all! Regular readers to the “House That New York Vinnie Built” Le Basketbawl are well aware of my recent conversion from an ardent critic of Mr. Walsh to cautiously starting to think he actually had a grasp on reality. However after New York Vinnie read Donnie’s latest statements about one of his players that security I had been feeling immediately vanished.
The “New York Post” sat down with the Knicks Team President and talked to him about a young man who will be going into his first season as a member of the team Darko Milicic. New York picked up Milicic on the night of the NBA Draft in a trade that sent one of New York Vinnie’s favorite Frickin Puds the Q-Ball Quentin Richardson to the Memphis Grizzlies. Just getting rid of the Q-Ball was addition by subtraction for New York Vinnie’s Boys so the trade was alright by me.
As you are well aware Darko to put it mildly has been a major disappointment so far in his NBA career. This was the player who was taken with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft. This was the player who was taken by the Detroit Pistons instead of Carmelo Anthony. Now to be fair Darko has not been quite as terrible as the “BIG BUST” Kwame Brown but he has been only one step above the biggest stiff to be chosen number one in the NBA Draft in recent memory.
Walsh told reporters he is very excited about having the 24 year old center on the roster. He said “He was a very skilled player when he was drafted. I think the thing that’s held him back is he’s been thought of as a guy that has to play with his back to the basket. And everywhere he’s been, people have tried to do that. I don’t think that will be the case here. The way Mike (Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni) plays, the fact that he’s a skilled, fairly athletic, long big man who can run the floor and can dribble the ball, shoot the ball, pass the ball, he might fit into this system better. That’s what I’m hoping.”
If Donnie had stopped talking right there he would have been fine. Nothing that Walsh said was unrealistic and there is a possibility that Milicic could be a more effective player under the Knicks system. Unfortunately though Donnie did not stop talking. Instead he made one of the stupidest statements in the history of Professional Sports in New York City!
A reporter asked Walsh if he could he come up with a player that the Knicks Team President could compare Darko to in order to show how much his game might improve by being put in this new system. Walsh said “Nash to a degree. He was a very good player in Dallas and became the MVP of the league in Phoenix.”
Okay let us break down exactly what Walsh meant in his last response. Now Donnie is not comparing their games of course Steve Nash is a point guard and Darko Milicic is a center. No what Donnie is attempting to do with this analogy is to say that Milicic and Nash are at similar points in their career as when Nash was traded from the Mavericks to the Suns. Only one problem with that Donnie. That is just pure Total Crappola!
First of all Steve Nash spent two seasons with Phoenix was traded to Dallas and then played six seasons with them. He signed a free agent deal after his eighth season where as Milicic has only completed six. But even if you compare numbers for the first six years of each player in their NBA careers the numbers still are not even close! Darko’s best season in the NBA came in the 2006-2007 season as he averaged 8.0 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game for the year.
Nash had only two seasons in his first six years in the league when he did not surpass those numbers and one of those was his rookie season. His best season in his first six he averaged 17.9 points, 7.7 assists and 3.1 rebounds per game. Not much of a comparison is it Donnie?
Look New York Vinnie does not expect Donnie and D’Antoni to fix the Knicks overnight as it took a lot of Crappola years under Isiah Thomas for the team to get this Frickin bad. But Donnie you have to worry about your Frickin credibility which after this statement is now in the minus column in New York Vinnie’s eyes.
Donnie you are in Frickin New York City now! This ain’t no Frickin bunch of Indiana farmers you are dealing with here! We are not as nice as those folks from the Midwest as a matter of fact we can get Frickin mean. So do not lie to us! And don’t Frickin exaggerate and think before you open your Frickin mouth! We will hold your feet to the fire in NYC Donnie however if you are straight with us we will support you.
New York Vinnie will never start a fight, but he's not afraid to finish one.. Mess with New York Vinnie and he'll rip your nuts off and throw them down the sewer!
August 16th, 2009 at 8:58 am
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August 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Hey Vinnie layoff my man Donnieboy,he was simply implying improvement if Nash was MVP in Dallas he wouldn’t of been traded,and if Darko becomes a player at 7/2 he won’t been traded for A MissQ,Darko has the chance in this system to maximize his ability which got him drafted pretty high.
August 16th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Yo Rene,
The only reason New York Vinnie is all over Donnie is because he wants to see the Knicks be come contenders! As I wrote in the article New York Vinnie thinks that Darko could improve in this system is a good possibility. The problem I had was comparing him to a player who was already a Superstar when he went to Dallas Steve Nash. Now of he had said Tyson Chandler that is a good comparison! Chandler was a bum who went to the Hornets and all of a sudden showed he had the ability everyone thought he had. Now that is an accurate comparison. Rene, Donnie Walsh has Forgotten more about basketball than New York Vinnie will ever know! So If New York Vinnie could come up with a more accurate name why couldn’t Walsh? Make Sense?
August 17th, 2009 at 12:08 am
My name has one e,anyway the improvement Darko can make will be somewhat equevalent,Darko was trade for a sack of potatoes being the third pick in the draft,that’s pretty low sure his salary being high has something to do with it but if he shows any improvement close to what hiim drafted that high well that’s alot of improvement similiar as someone that was a real good player improving to MVP status,the improvement level is the factor.It’s fair to say it’s a good gamble with DAnt history with playing in Europe and all.IMO DW wasn’t implying he would turn Darko into an MVP,but if turns into a viable starter that would be an immense improvement over what he came here as.Their a;pt of great players and few MVP.Darko is on the verg of exciting the NBA this is probably his last chance,hopefully our coach can find his niche.The great thing about this trade was it didn’t cost us much at all,nobody thogh Nash would be MVP till he got into DAnt system and Nash will tell you that,he told Duhon that before he signed with us,I don’t have a problem with FDW using this example,ultimately the players that played under him still want to play for him including the olympics guys and that is the ultimate compliment.
August 17th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Yo Rene,
Sorry about mispelling your name! Again I go back to what I wrote in the article just getting rid of Q-Ball was a plus so already the trade is a success! New York Vinnie just believes that there is far too much hyperbole in Pro Sports and the comparison of Darko to Nash is a perfect example of it. To be honest if Darko can make as much improvement as Tyson Chandler while a member of the New York Knicks New York Vinnie will be very pleased. But I still think the player he brought up was way over the top!