Pitino:" '69 Knicks My Favorite Team of All Time"

[Boom_70]

If it's his favorite team he certainly does not remember much, given this embarrassing mistake made during Serby Q & A in todays NY Post:


http://www.nypost.com/seven/03162008/sports/serbys_sunday_qa_with____102243.htm

Q: The '69 Knicks?

A: That was my favorite team of all time. We no longer run out for starting lineups. All we do is put our hands up and make an "L" to the fans.

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

 

[Stoney]

Re: Pitino:" '69 Kincks My Favorite Team of All Time"

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

Q: Is that the same Earl Monroe that did not join the Knicks until the 72 season?

A: Uhhhh...

Damnit, they always forget the follow-up.

 

[jgmacg]

Re: Pitino:" '69 Kincks My Favorite Team of All Time"

The '69 Kinks? Wasn't that the year they started platooning John Dalton on bass?

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

Q: Is that the same Earl Monroe that did not join the Knicks until the 72 season?

A: Uhhhh...

Damnit, they always forget the follow-up.

****, don't let the facts spoil a good story.

 

[Boom_70]

The '69 Kinks? Wasn't that the year they started platooning John Dalton on bass?

I thought he was full time after Peter Quaife got traded.

 

[jgmacg]

The '69 Kinks? Wasn't that the year they started platooning John Dalton on bass?

I thought he was full time after Peter Quaife got traded.

I thought they brought him in off the bench for a few dates until they saw how well he could muscle things down low.

 

[Boom_70]

The '69 Kinks? Wasn't that the year they started platooning John Dalton on bass?

I thought he was full time after Peter Quaife got traded.

I thought they brought him in off the bench for a few dates until they saw how well he could muscle things down low.

You may be right. Once they saw that Dalton could handle the bass part of " A Well Respected Man" it was an easy decision to trade Quaife.

 

[broadway joe]

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

Q: Is that the same Earl Monroe that did not join the Knicks until the 72 season?

A: Uhhhh...

Damnit, they always forget the follow-up.

I don't know why, but this is a common mistake, even among Knick fans. How could people forget **** Barnett and his fall-back-baby jumper?

 

[Stoney]

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

Q: Is that the same Earl Monroe that did not join the Knicks until the 72 season?

A: Uhhhh...

Damnit, they always forget the follow-up.

I don't know why, but this is a common mistake, even among Knick fans. How could people forget **** Barnett and his fall-back-baby jumper?

I know, I've heard it too.

I think it's because 69-70 is the all-time favorite Knicks team, and Earl was one of the all time favorite Knicks and he played in the 70s, so people figure he MUST'VE been on that team. Nope.

 

[Webster]

The first title was more special for a number of reasons -- it was first, the long winning streak, obviously Willis. But the Pearl was such a great player and fit into the Knicks style so perfectly that people often associate him with that team.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

He meant the Holzman-era Knicks, slip of the tongue. It would be hard for basketball fans to forget Monroe's games against the Knicks before they got him from Baltimore. Gus Johnson, Wes Unseld. Those were classics.

 

[Boom_70]

Q: You impersonated the way each of the '69 Knicks ran out for introductions for the entertainment of your current Louisville team.

A: (Earl) Monroe was the last guy. He would just take two steps and like gesture with his hand to the crowd, and go right back to the huddle.

Q: Is that the same Earl Monroe that did not join the Knicks until the 72 season?

A: Uhhhh...

Damnit, they always forget the follow-up.

I don't know why, but this is a common mistake, even among Knick fans. How could people forget **** Barnett and his fall-back-baby jumper?

Real Knick fans do not make that mistake. I would like to think that Pitino would have known better. He must get his information from Mike Lupica who has made the same mistake.

The other common mistake people make about that team is thinking that Phil Jackson was a part of it.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

Jackson was out after back surgery and didn't play, but I think he and everyone else considered him a Knick.

 

[Boom_70]

Jackson was out after back surgery and didn't play, but I think he and everyone else considered him a Knick.

Yes - he even did a photo book which I am looking at right now, but he didn't play that season.

I can't tell you how many people speak of him coming off the bench that year when the Knicks wanted to press.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

BTW, I still can't believe how well Monroe fit in. When they got him, I thought it would ruin the Knicks because he was a scoring machine with Baltimore and I expected he'd be selfish. He turned out to be a great team player.

 

[Starman]

The Baltimore Bullets team of the early 70s was pretty solid, too. Earl Monroe at his most brilliant, before being slowed slightly by gimpy knees; Unseld when he was young and strong, before he gained 30 pounds he didn't need in the last 5 years of his career; Gus Johnson and Riordan. They went to the finals against the Bucks in Kareem's great year, but they could never get over the hump, until finally pulling it off in 1978, with a mostly-new roster.

 

[Boom_70]

The Baltimore Bullets team of the early 70s was pretty solid, too. Earl Monroe at his most brilliant, before being slowed slightly by gimpy knees; Unseld when he was young and strong, before he gained 30 pounds he didn't need in the last 5 years of his career; Gus Johnson and Riordan. They went to the finals against the Bucks in Kareem's great year, but they could never get over the hump, until finally pulling it off in 1978, with a mostly-new roster.

Riordan's offense surprised me in those years after he got traded to the Bullets for Monroe. Bullets lost Monroe but added Elvin Hayes and Phil Chenier which kept them going.

 

[Starman]

The Baltimore Bullets team of the early 70s was pretty solid, too. Earl Monroe at his most brilliant, before being slowed slightly by gimpy knees; Unseld when he was young and strong, before he gained 30 pounds he didn't need in the last 5 years of his career; Gus Johnson and Riordan. They went to the finals against the Bucks in Kareem's great year, but they could never get over the hump, until finally pulling it off in 1978, with a mostly-new roster.

Riordan's offense surprised me in those years after he got traded to the Bullets for Monroe. Bullets lost Monroe but added Elvin Hayes and Phil Chenier which kept them going.

That's right -- Riordan wouldn't have been on the team with Monroe. I think Jack Marin was in the Bullets' rotation at the time, along with Archie Clark.

 

[shockey]

earl "the pearl" monroe, aka "black jesus," was THE MAN back in the day. NO KNICK FAN worth his salt from the late '60s-mid '70s thinks he was on that knicks '69-70 championship team. the playoff series that year and the following season vs. monroe's bullets were too memorable to make that mistake.

and phil jackson was the off-beat hippie who didn't play in '69-70. he was a great source for phil berger, though, who penned a damn good book, "miracle on 33rd street," about the '69-70 knicks. it was sort of a "ball four" of basketball, showing that knicks team, warts and all.

monroe was why the '72-73 knicks were better than the first title team, imo. man, how i worshipped that guy. was he sweet. he'd hit shots off moves that made you shake your head -- and hecouldn't jump any higher than the white guys and wasn't fast, either.

he was pure magic, though. monroe brought spice to the knicks. he'd always give you a move you'd never seen before.

 

[Boom_70]

earl "the pearl" monroe, aka "black jesus," was THE MAN back in the day. NO KNICK FAN worth his salt from the late '60s-mid '70s thinks he was on that knicks '69-70 championship team. the playoff series that year and the following season vs. monroe's bullets were too memorable to make that mistake.

and phil jackson was the off-beat hippie who didn't play in '69-70. he was a great source for phil berger, though, who penned a damn good book, "miracle on 33rd street," about the '69-70 knicks. it was sort of a "ball four" of basketball, showing that knicks team, warts and all.

monroe was why the '72-73 knicks were better than the first title team, imo. man, how i worshipped that guy. was he sweet. he'd hit shots off moves that made you shake your head -- and hecouldn't jump any higher than the white guys and wasn't fast, either.

he was pure magic, though. monroe brought spice to the knicks. he'd always give you a move you'd never seen before.

Shockey - it's an interesting debate as to which team was better. 72/73 team also had Jerry Lucus but a diminished Willis Reed.

69/70 team had Cazzie Russell and Dave Stallworth. Remember how electric the Garden got when Cazzie started to take off his warmups to come into game?