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Message: [QUOTE="malpearl31, post: 2985386, member: 6520"] Here's my story: The morning after the Knicks acquired Tracy McGrady (February 2010), I happened to be playing in a pre-arranged pickup game at the NY Knicks training facility in Tarrytown, NY. Since the Knicks had basically traded multiple players to acquire McGrady (in order to make the salary cap numbers work), I joked with my buddy that had invited me to play that we could technically consider this a tryout (since the Knicks technically had open roster spots to fill). On my team were Allan Houston and Basketball Hall-of-Famer Carol Blazejowski (she was President of the WNBA New York Liberty at the time). On the other team was my buddy, his brother (MSG Executive), a player on the Liberty (wish I could remember her name) and a really good D-III player. First possession of the game, the Liberty gal is guarding me - and I back-cut along the baseline and get free for a lefty layup to start the scoring. So I'm feeling pretty good. But I quickly realized that with Allan Houston and Blaze on my squad, my role would be setting screens and grabbing rebounds - and then getting out of the way. Houston's jumper from 25+ feet out was effortless... and he had no problem getting his shot up even when he was double and triple teamed. Blaze was a real piece of work. She was screaming at me to hedge when my guy was setting screens - and then she screamed at me more when my guy knocked down an open jumper (after I helped on the screen, just like she asked/screamed at me to do). About half way through the game, Blaze apparently had enough - and when we got the ball back, she posted the crap out of my buddy and screamed for the ball, "MISMATCH!" - it was hysterical. Late in the game - after all of the Knick coaches and players had arrived at the facility and began to warm up - Houston had the ball again 28 feet from the basket with 3 guys draped all over him. I cut to the basket - (to position myself for an offensive rebound) and this time, he surprised me with a pass... I caught it, fumbled it, steadied myself with a dribble - and then went up for the layup... and the Liberty gal literally blocked my $ h!t off of the back wall. My buddy sidled up to me and quietly said, "I don't think the Knicks are signing either one of us." My NBA dream died that day... [/QUOTE]

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