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  • Watching the Watson highlights video above, one would think that Peoples-Jones was a great receiver.  So much for highlights...

    @orion said:

    Watching the Watson highlights video above, one would think that Peoples-Jones was a great receiver.  So much for highlights...

    Is he still in the NFL?

  • Watching the Watson highlights video above, one would think that Peoples-Jones was a great receiver.  So much for highlights...

    @orion said:

    Watching the Watson highlights video above, one would think that Peoples-Jones was a great receiver.  So much for highlights...

    He & Baker had decent chemistry. Once he got traded to the Lions, that was it. I think he's on the Saints now.

  • @orion said:

    Watching the Watson highlights video above, one would think that Peoples-Jones was a great receiver.  So much for highlights...

    Is he still in the NFL?

    @dutch-oven said:

    Is he still in the NFL?

    I don't think he's played since 2023.

  • sydS syd

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    @syd said:

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    Some say Jesus was black.

  • I've been reading a lot of good things about Watson so far, just typical hype trying to create a story?

    Guess we'll have to wait and see.

  • @syd said:

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    Some say Jesus was black.

    @ibleedbrown said:

    Some say Jesus was black.

    That was Earl The Pearl Monroe who was part of the last Knicks Championship team. Beside Black Jesus as he was known on the streets of Philly, he was also called Thomas Edison because of all the different moves he invented in High School.

  • @ibleedbrown said:

    Some say Jesus was black.

    That was Earl The Pearl Monroe who was part of the last Knicks Championship team. Beside Black Jesus as he was known on the streets of Philly, he was also called Thomas Edison because of all the different moves he invented in High School.

    @texasag1969 said:

    Earl The Pearl Monroe

    The Knicks got him from the Bullets I believe.  I modelled my game after Walt 'Clyde' Frazier.  He was very smooth and under control.  Didn't do fancy stuff unless it was required, played great defense.  What a backcourt that was....with Dick Barnett and Dean Meminger...with Dave DeBusscher, Senator Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Willis Reed and Jerry Lucas.  Lucas would come in for Reed...and sometimes he'd post waayy outside (no 3 point line back then...what the hell is the backup center doing way out there?)  This opened the inside for the rest of the guys.  And if they passed it out to him, he had a beautiful set-shot, and he would bomb it up there and make it with reliable regularity.  Again, this was way back before the 3 point line addition.  Back when nobody shot from that far out.  You had to work for your points.  And that's what made The Pearl so incredible.  He worked magic.  Pistol Pete was another...back in the day...

    ...sorry Cavs fans.....but, Go Knicks.   ( I still have a pair of Clyde's -  Puma, blue suede. )  🙂  

  • @syd said:

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    Some say Jesus was black.

    @ibleedbrown said:

    Some say Jesus was black.

    Well if he did exist he surely wasn’t the blonde haired blue eyed version we grew up with.

  • JaxJ Jax

    I've been reading a lot of good things about Watson so far, just typical hype trying to create a story?

    Guess we'll have to wait and see.

    @jax said:

    I've been reading a lot of good things about Watson so far, just typical hype trying to create a story?

    Guess we'll have to wait and see.

    Let’s see how he and Sanders look in training camp, specifically when they go up against another team for a week. 
     

    Because the last season he stated (2024) he looked horrible in training camp vs whoever the team was we were going up against… (Eagles? Vikings?)

  • @jax said:

    I've been reading a lot of good things about Watson so far, just typical hype trying to create a story?

    Guess we'll have to wait and see.

    Let’s see how he and Sanders look in training camp, specifically when they go up against another team for a week. 
     

    Because the last season he stated (2024) he looked horrible in training camp vs whoever the team was we were going up against… (Eagles? Vikings?)

    @dutch-oven said:

    Let’s see how he and Sanders look in training camp

    I read where Judy says he sees a big difference in Sanders this year.  He's more confident, more in command, etc.  Which is good to hear.  And Rizzo, who doesn't want Watson starting said that Watson looks very good out there.  But he also wants to see it when there's pads and a pass rush.  

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Earl The Pearl Monroe

    The Knicks got him from the Bullets I believe.  I modelled my game after Walt 'Clyde' Frazier.  He was very smooth and under control.  Didn't do fancy stuff unless it was required, played great defense.  What a backcourt that was....with Dick Barnett and Dean Meminger...with Dave DeBusscher, Senator Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Willis Reed and Jerry Lucas.  Lucas would come in for Reed...and sometimes he'd post waayy outside (no 3 point line back then...what the hell is the backup center doing way out there?)  This opened the inside for the rest of the guys.  And if they passed it out to him, he had a beautiful set-shot, and he would bomb it up there and make it with reliable regularity.  Again, this was way back before the 3 point line addition.  Back when nobody shot from that far out.  You had to work for your points.  And that's what made The Pearl so incredible.  He worked magic.  Pistol Pete was another...back in the day...

    ...sorry Cavs fans.....but, Go Knicks.   ( I still have a pair of Clyde's -  Puma, blue suede. )  🙂  

    @orion said:

    The Knicks got him from the Bullets I believe.  I modelled my game after Walt 'Clyde' Frazier.  He was very smooth and under control.  Didn't do fancy stuff unless it was required, played great defense.  What a backcourt that was....with Dick Barnett and Dean Meminger...with Dave DeBusscher, Senator Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Willis Reed and Jerry Lucas.  Lucas would come in for Reed...and sometimes he'd post waayy outside (no 3 point line back then...what the hell is the backup center doing way out there?)  This opened the inside for the rest of the guys.  And if they passed it out to him, he had a beautiful set-shot, and he would bomb it up there and make it with reliable regularity.  Again, this was way back before the 3 point line addition.  Back when nobody shot from that far out.  You had to work for your points.  And that's what made The Pearl so incredible.  He worked magic.  Pistol Pete was another...back in the day...

    ...sorry Cavs fans.....but, Go Knicks.   ( I still have a pair of Clyde's -  Puma, blue suede. )  🙂  

    There is an excellent book about Bradley at Princeton called "A Sense of Where You Are". If I recall correctly he made a shot without looking back to the basket and told the author that after you shoot so many hours per day you know exactly where you are and don't really need to see the basket. That's where the author got the inspiration for the name of the book. That was one talented Knicks team!!

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Let’s see how he and Sanders look in training camp

    I read where Judy says he sees a big difference in Sanders this year.  He's more confident, more in command, etc.  Which is good to hear.  And Rizzo, who doesn't want Watson starting said that Watson looks very good out there.  But he also wants to see it when there's pads and a pass rush.  

    @orion said:

    I read where Judy says he sees a big difference in Sanders this year.  He's more confident, more in command, etc.  Which is good to hear.  And Rizzo, who doesn't want Watson starting said that Watson looks very good out there.  But he also wants to see it when there's pads and a pass rush.  

    OTAs to me are the equivalent of spring training. 

    There's probably been a long list of players who hit .400 in spring training and came out of the first month of the regular season hitting half of that. 

  • @orion said:

    I read where Judy says he sees a big difference in Sanders this year.  He's more confident, more in command, etc.  Which is good to hear.  And Rizzo, who doesn't want Watson starting said that Watson looks very good out there.  But he also wants to see it when there's pads and a pass rush.  

    OTAs to me are the equivalent of spring training. 

    There's probably been a long list of players who hit .400 in spring training and came out of the first month of the regular season hitting half of that. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    There's probably been a long list of players who hit .400 in spring training and came out of the first month of the regular season hitting half of that. 

    Probably so, but my understanding was that pitching is always ahead in the spring.

  • @orion said:

    The Knicks got him from the Bullets I believe.  I modelled my game after Walt 'Clyde' Frazier.  He was very smooth and under control.  Didn't do fancy stuff unless it was required, played great defense.  What a backcourt that was....with Dick Barnett and Dean Meminger...with Dave DeBusscher, Senator Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Willis Reed and Jerry Lucas.  Lucas would come in for Reed...and sometimes he'd post waayy outside (no 3 point line back then...what the hell is the backup center doing way out there?)  This opened the inside for the rest of the guys.  And if they passed it out to him, he had a beautiful set-shot, and he would bomb it up there and make it with reliable regularity.  Again, this was way back before the 3 point line addition.  Back when nobody shot from that far out.  You had to work for your points.  And that's what made The Pearl so incredible.  He worked magic.  Pistol Pete was another...back in the day...

    ...sorry Cavs fans.....but, Go Knicks.   ( I still have a pair of Clyde's -  Puma, blue suede. )  🙂  

    There is an excellent book about Bradley at Princeton called "A Sense of Where You Are". If I recall correctly he made a shot without looking back to the basket and told the author that after you shoot so many hours per day you know exactly where you are and don't really need to see the basket. That's where the author got the inspiration for the name of the book. That was one talented Knicks team!!

    @texasag1969 said:

    Bradley at Princeton

    A Rhodes Scholar. is what Bill Bradley brought to the senate.  Meanwhile we voted in a president who's college professor called the dumbest student he ever had.  Someday I've gotta read Plato's Republic.  I've read a few pieces of it, like the Allegory of the Cave...and why Socrates didn't like Democracies (spoiler:  it's because stupid people are allowed to run for office and because stupid people are allowed to vote).  But I've gotta make it a priority to read the whole thing.

    @texasag1969 said:

    If I recall correctly he made a shot without looking back to the basket and told the author that after you shoot so many hours per day you know exactly where you are and don't really need to see the basket.

    One time, in a pickup game in the HS Gym, I came running down the left side of the floor on a fast break.  There was no lane to the basket so I just stayed out left of the paint and threw up a no look, left handed hook shot while on the run.  I was told that it swished.  🙂   Not for nothin' but I was fucking good at basketball.  Had a hoop on my parent's garage.  Shot hoops in the winter, cold outside, didn't matter.  Shovel the snow off the driveway and shoot.  Top of the key jumpers were easy peasy.  I could dribble through my legs, behind my back, with either hand.  I could shoot Abdul Jabbar hook shots with either hand (and not just shoot them...but reliably MAKE them).  I was the one on one champ of varsity as a junior.  I only played HS ball that one year though.  As a senior I had a job and could not play on the team.  

  • Hopefully a new era in winning as need new blood. Good luck!

  • Hopefully a new era in winning as need new blood. Good luck!

    @jppt1974 said:

    Hopefully a new era in winning as need new blood. Good luck!

    Yup.  Hopefully Monken is the new blood and spark that ignites a new winning era.

    ...the only caveat is that we have the same owner.  Everybody talks about how the Haslems want so very badly to win.  And how they'll spend whatever money it takes and do whatever it takes to put a winning team out there.  And I truly believe that to be true.  But, it's their decision making that has kept the team down.  Lousy hiring decisions starting right from when they took over ownership.  Hopefully the blind squirrels have finally found the right acorns...and will stay out of their way.

  • @texasag1969 said:

    Bradley at Princeton

    A Rhodes Scholar. is what Bill Bradley brought to the senate.  Meanwhile we voted in a president who's college professor called the dumbest student he ever had.  Someday I've gotta read Plato's Republic.  I've read a few pieces of it, like the Allegory of the Cave...and why Socrates didn't like Democracies (spoiler:  it's because stupid people are allowed to run for office and because stupid people are allowed to vote).  But I've gotta make it a priority to read the whole thing.

    @texasag1969 said:

    If I recall correctly he made a shot without looking back to the basket and told the author that after you shoot so many hours per day you know exactly where you are and don't really need to see the basket.

    One time, in a pickup game in the HS Gym, I came running down the left side of the floor on a fast break.  There was no lane to the basket so I just stayed out left of the paint and threw up a no look, left handed hook shot while on the run.  I was told that it swished.  🙂   Not for nothin' but I was fucking good at basketball.  Had a hoop on my parent's garage.  Shot hoops in the winter, cold outside, didn't matter.  Shovel the snow off the driveway and shoot.  Top of the key jumpers were easy peasy.  I could dribble through my legs, behind my back, with either hand.  I could shoot Abdul Jabbar hook shots with either hand (and not just shoot them...but reliably MAKE them).  I was the one on one champ of varsity as a junior.  I only played HS ball that one year though.  As a senior I had a job and could not play on the team.  

    @orion said:

    A Rhodes Scholar. is what Bill Bradley brought to the senate.  Meanwhile we voted in a president who's college professor called the dumbest student he ever had.  Someday I've gotta read Plato's Republic.  I've read a few pieces of it, like the Allegory of the Cave...and why Socrates didn't like Democracies (spoiler:  it's because stupid people are allowed to run for office and because stupid people are allowed to vote).  But I've gotta make it a priority to read the whole thing.

    One time, in a pickup game in the HS Gym, I came running down the left side of the floor on a fast break.  There was no lane to the basket so I just stayed out left of the paint and threw up a no look, left handed hook shot while on the run.  I was told that it swished.  🙂   Not for nothin' but I was fucking good at basketball.  Had a hoop on my parent's garage.  Shot hoops in the winter, cold outside, didn't matter.  Shovel the snow off the driveway and shoot.  Top of the key jumpers were easy peasy.  I could dribble through my legs, behind my back, with either hand.  I could shoot Abdul Jabbar hook shots with either hand (and not just shoot them...but reliably MAKE them).  I was the one on one champ of varsity as a junior.  I only played HS ball that one year though.  As a senior I had a job and could not play on the team.  

    I played a pickup game when in grad school at A&M  against guys that had All Pro footballer DBs Lester Hayes (who was a basketballer for an undefeated state champ) and Pat Thomas. I shot mainly outside but many times would shoot running across the key going left & sometimes under the basket spinning the ball on a reverse on the other side and sometimes a little running jump hook from the right side. That day I just had one of those nothin' but net days to the point that their whole team was wondering who the hell this was that could do anything he wanted against some great athletes. Believe me I rarely had those nothin' but net days, but that one will live forever as my best basketball memory.

  • sydS syd

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    @syd said:

    I hear some call him The Black Jesus

    His high school coach definitely called him the Michael Jordan of football

  • @ibleedbrown said:

    Some say Jesus was black.

    Well if he did exist he surely wasn’t the blonde haired blue eyed version we grew up with.

    @dutch-oven said:

    Well if he did exist he surely wasn’t the blonde haired blue eyed version we grew up with.

    Who grew up with that? Despite the many assertions I've never once seen jesus depicted as such.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Well if he did exist he surely wasn’t the blonde haired blue eyed version we grew up with.

    Who grew up with that? Despite the many assertions I've never once seen jesus depicted as such.

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Who grew up with that? Despite the many assertions I've never once seen jesus depicted as such.

    maybe it was a Talladega nights reference ?