Basketball Thoughts #7

I was watching a Knicks-Heat game tonight on ESPN. The Knicks look really tough with Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. The newly designed New York Knicks basketball team with head coach Mike D'Antoni at the helm is really a cakewalk. Chauncey Billups is the Knicks' steady floor leader and he has made the big shots in this game against the mighty Heat trio of Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh. I don't think this game means anything just yet, because the Knicks do not have a true point guard who can get Anthony and Stoudemire the ball in their spots. When the summer comes around, Chris Paul will be a great candidate to play PG alongside Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. The three Knicks players will prove to be a great challenge to Lebron James and Heat. Overall, I think this game won by the Knicks 91-86 will be the start of a Heat-Knicks rivalry dating back to the 90s rivalry between Pat Riley's Heat and Jeff Van Gundy's Knicks with Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning. Strike one for round one between the new look Knicks and Lebron James and Co. This time New York stole the show.