“We know that their two bigs in the beginning of the game, we had an advantage over them with our quickness moving laterally and up and down the court. So I just wanted to kind of exploit that and get going a little early.“

-Chris Bosh on his virtuoso 40 point 11 rebound performance against The dynamic dud of Eddy ”Fat Albert” Curry and Zach “Stat Pad Central” Randolph following the Raptors’ 99-90 victory over Team Clown Mgt 101 at an angry Garden.

Doesn’t that statement say it all about this dysfunctional franchise which probably wouldn’t beat a WNBA team?

So, how much of a mismatch were Curry and Randolph against the 23 year-old Bosh? He torched them to the point where Lord Isiah benched Randolph with 7:35 left in the first half. The ex-Blazer played just 9:51 missing both field goal attempts while somehow managing to be minus-15. Curry wasn’t much better finishing with only six points, two rebounds and three fouls along with a minus-16 in 15 minutes.

So bad were they that Isiah gave them the rest of the night off and even had a heated exchange with Randolph.

“I thought he and Eddy both were just having problems with the foot speed of Toronto tonight and it was just a tough game to match up particularly for those two,” a philosophical Isiah Thomas said. “I just tried to go with quicker people and try to get us back in the game.“  

“I don’t know what happened with that,” Curry later remarked. “It was a tough night at the office for Zach. He’ll cool off and it’ll be another day tomorrow.”

Apparently, it was cool enough for him to be yucking it up on the bench while his teammates were going down to another defeat as they dropped to 9-26. 

If you saw the yeoman effort Renaldo Balkman (8 pts, 4-of-5 FG, 4 rebs, +10 in 24:39) put forth in the final quarter, it becomes pretty clear why neither Randolph nor Curry were on the floor. Balkman epitomizes the kind of heart and effort which needs to become more a trend instead of a rarity over at the World’s Most Shameless Arena.

NYC hoop fans have always appreciated the kind of hustle Balkman brings. There was one play where he made a great dive saving a ball. The overpaid bigs just don’t bring it like that.

Funny but I didn’t notice Stephon Marbury (13 pts, 8 assists, 4 rebs) dogging it in the final 12 either. He was playing very hard at the defensive end. Imagine if super sub Nate Robinson (20 pts on 10-of-18 FG) cared as much about defense as he does about jacking up shots.

When little used 36 year-old backup Darrick Martin is beating the energetic 23 year-old former Washington star off the dribble for a lay-up in crunch time, something’s wrong.

Oh…but what else would you expect in Knicks land? Where the circus is always in town. Apparently, the Rangers want to join them.

I like Jamal Crawford’s effort but would it kill the streaky scorer to pass the rock a little more instead of jacking up crazy three after crazy three?!?!?!?!?! He paced the Knicks with 27 on 9-of-17 shooting but misfired on seven of nine from long distance. You can do the math.

And we’ll end this latest edition with a couple of questions:

Why don’t Mardy Collins or Fred Jones play? Nevermind. To quote a classic 2Pac song Changes:

“Some things will never change.”