Former Knicks PG Derek Harper REVEALS Why Patrick Ewing Never Won A Ring!
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2020
- Former Knicks PG Derek Harper joined Knicks Fan TV for a candid interview. In this clip, Harper dishes on Patrick Ewing and the reasons the Knicks never won the championship. Watch the full interview here - bit.ly/KFTVInterviews1
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This was a great interview.....well prepared.
@@Thezapatabrandpodcast thanks alot!!!
He never won a ring cause besides starks the rest of y'all sucked o and Michael Jordan
One of the worse calls ever was H. Davis getting bailed out by a phantom call against Scottie Pippen in Game 5 ECSFs. Robbery at it's blindest..
he never won it cause it was 'not in the script for him and i think its probly okay with that them championships the people who won when he was around is worthless it's all predetermine and he know it🤣😂
Those 90’s knicks teams will forever be in my heart ❤️
As a teenager l can remember when the Knicks got that #1 pick. That was the first big deal in my basketball following history. My, how time flies, and how quickly we forget. Patrick coming into the league was bigger than Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, and Stockton n 1984. Well, at least then (1985) he was.
The 90's sun's teams will forever be in my heart❤️ maybe in a parallel universe the 93 and 94 sun's and Knicks could play off in the finals and split the wins and then chuck and Ewing would have the ring's they wanted.
They never won 💩💩💩get real
@@dfilipino4443 Michael Jordan, Reggie Miller...
The Bulls, though.
Bulls fan here.....I remember watching Ewing when he was a freshman at Georgetown and throughout his entire NBA career. I'd take him anyday on my team. Great player.
As Sixers fan, Boston (Bird); Bulls (Jordan); Pistons (Isiah Thomas) often beat NY & Philly. Pacers (Reggie Miller) beat 'em in '94 Eastern Conf finals. '95 NBA Finals: NY lost to Houston Rockets (Hakeem O.) Not too shabby. ELITE!!!
Absolutely. What HOF DID Ewing play with?
@@troyjohnson9123 that solely rest at the feet of the front office! With all that homegrown talent that came outta NYC in the 80s and 90s but they mismanaged courting them. Hell they were known for giving free money away, look at the deal they gave Jerome James. That 99-00 team was their best chance at a chip imo
hoya destroyer
Always admired Patricks humility and passion, and Team loyalty.
Patrick has been gone 20 years and the Knicks STILL haven't recovered.. That's Ewings legacy.. 👍
One other thing, I’m pretty sure Patrick Ewing made the right play in the 1993 ECF GAME 5 when he found a wide open Charles Smith, who managed to choke the game away.
He smoked that layup
I still hate Charles Smith to this day for that play...
That shit still hurts
And you can't unsee that! When you root for a team you love, and they lose like that! Makes you a fan for life.
Been a long while since Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell, Marcus Camby, LJ.
I don't want to be that guy, Thibs back in New York, these Knicks..
I like these Knicks.
@@chrissams6230
He did not "smoke" that layup. The Bulls had a great defensive sequence.
Those Ewing teams never had enough scoring threats other than Ewing. Charles Smith, Oakley, Mason at forward were not getting it done. They kept changing point guards. They had Mark Jackson, Strickland, Doc Rivers, Harper, etc. And Starks definitely was not a legit #2. Dude was a streaky, inconsistent scorer.
You can't blame Ewing because he more than held his own against opposing centers. I don't recall Olajuwon dominating him in the finals.
They just weren't good enough to win.This team focused more on building toughness than acquiring talent.
Hakeem owned him. Ewing shot 36% in the series. Ewing was good, but Hakeem was on another level.
That's why I never blamed Pat Riley for walking away. Knick management never let him have a big enough say in personnel decisions. Riley would have gotten the shooters around Ewing he needed to win at least two titles...........
👏🏿👏🏿 couldnt have said it better myself. No need to scroll further. Thank u.
100%
EXACTLY
Those 90z Knicks teams inspired me to be Tough.. To never give up... Walk with Pride... And to Work Hard...
👊🏿😓
There's only two reasons Ewing never got a ring. Michael Jordan, and Hakeem. Period.
Couldn't beat Jordan. They choked against the Rockets.
It was more Mike than Hakeem. It we also needed a better option of a swing man. I always said we should get one of those athletic SG/SF types. #3Starks was too short, and #54Smith was too stiff.
Also dude never got to play with another star
@@jaydell4039 Agreed. If you try and think of Ewing's best team-mate.....it's a hodge-podge of guys who may have had an all-star year, but no true stars. However, you can pretty much say the same thing for Hakeem, other than having an older Drexler in that second championship season. As great as Pat was, The Dream was just a little better on both sides of the court, which is saying a helluva lot! And that's just my humble opinion, of course.
@@KnicksFanTV , he got outplayed by hakeem. all things equal, the team with the better #1 player usually wins the series.
The last 20 years would've been so much easier to live through with this team if we had just won that title in 94. The Knicks fan in me would sleep much easier.
I overstand, thank god I started being a Knick fan in 67!!!
@Jermaine Durham but Hakeem the dream was a nightmare
I agree, all the Knicks needed was one player to score 25 every game.
i just don’t get NYK fans, there are so many other teams with talent to root for.
i went from NYK fan to Pistons in ‘87, wise decision for me
To bad Bernard King couldn't play with Patrick Ewing.
Knicks were terrible for letting BK walk after he worked so hard to come back from that knee injury. I think Ewing probably gets to a Finals earlier had we kept him. We let him go cuz we were bringing in Pitino who was instilling a running and trapping style of play and people thought BK couldn't play that way cuz of the knee injury. Silly move. Pitino was gone in 2 yrs and BK went on to have a string of years of 22 plus scoring, made it back to the all star game and an all NBA team over the next 5 yrs.
@@Israel-nb7ip bernard king had 50 at the garden the year before Ewing got there. The knicks let good players go that in hindsight could have one them a title like xavier McDaniel & mark Jackson.
BINGO!!!
That’s scary😳
@@Israel-nb7ip well said !!!!
They must've forgot how the Knicks lost game 7. Before John Starks' horrible night, Charles Oakley misses a wide-open layup by himself, Pat Riley calling the *same plays thru Starks over & over again, Ewing getting freezed out, Harper(well Harp had a pretty good game) and everyone else on the Knicks was just happy to be there. Patrick Ewing still never had a Hall of Fame teammate in his prime!..EVER
Great point 👍 👏
Ewing played like Dog $#it for two straight games (6&7)
Pat played with alot of washed up and over rated guards in his prime years .
Ewing was having a really good game 7 too!… Couldn’t believe they didn’t go to him more at the end vs a ‘1 for…’ John Starks 🤦🏽♂️
Ewing did not touch the ball in the end. Riley blew it by putting the ball on Starks' hand and he had a very bad night.
I loved Harper, still do, but there’s a couples reasons why Patrick never won a title. No CONSISTENT 2nd scorer, a new PG every other year, and Michael Jordan lol.
GREAT work again!
@will lol.
What was his excuse in college?
@@alleykat6171 He won a championship in 1984. What are you talking about!?
And Villanova shooting about EIGHTY percent from the field in 1985 is why Georgetown lost that game.
Also Sleepy Floyd’s awful pass in 1982 didn’t help matters
@@BaddogSports your right he did win 1 championship.😄
Don't forget his knees and health declining in the early 90s
Patrick was a true professional and genuine Man both on and off the Court!!
Ewing is one of the best Knicks to ever wear the jersey. He was a first overall who actually lived up to it. I used to get on him back in the day but looking back now I can appreciate what he brought to the team. I really think he was cursed with some bad luck and self-destructive tendencies by the Knicks. They were built to win and could beat any top team on any given night back then. But some of the bad breaks were: Olajuwon blocking Starks in game 6, Charles Smith can't make a wide-open layup in 93 vs the Bulls, Charlie Ward, Houston AND Ewing get suspended for gm 6 vs Miami (Larry Johnson & Starks forced to sit gm 7), Ewing's finger roll bounces off the rim in gm 7 vs Pacers and in 99 he partial tears his left Achilles' tendon while the team goes on to the finals without him and lose to the Spurs. In any of those years, they could have won it all.
I concur with ALL that u stated which happens to be FACTS!!!!
Piston fan but i loved patrick ewing.hated the knicks
99 Knicks were better without Ewing but l 'm feeling the overall sentiment here.
@Anthony Riche GREAT observation, however charles barkley, george gervin & mo also say shoulda woulda coulda. but these are the breaks
@@frederickbradford4491 Thanks and that's true. The breaks are a part of sports. And who's Mo? I thought you meant Moses Malone but he already won a chip.
I literally cried as a kid when ewing miss that layup I was crushed my moms a Jamaican woman laughed at me smh
Me too bruh! Me too
lolll tough times
😂😂😂😂Same here fam, only difference was that my mom was trying to STOP my sister from laughing and teasing me about it..#Memories
@@ernestductan8231 lol
Ewing is one of the most underrated stars of the 90s.
Forget the fact that Ewing didn’t play with a hall of famer during that stretch, nobody else on that team had their number retired!
The bottom line is that the Knicks of that era overachieved and it’s tough for people to accept that because they came so close in 1994. I will always have fond memories of watching when I was a child, tough NYC team!
His nickname growing up was whop ... his mother raised him that way ... I'm so PROUD to call him my brother...REAL
I'm not he treats kids like shit
I appreciate Harps honesty 💯
likewise!
The Knicks should of won in 94. I still blame Riley for the loss in game 7. Starks should of never been able to go 2-18 and 0-11 from 3!!!!!
That was so gut wrenching. Esp when in game 6 he was magnificent in a game they were not facing elimination. I know every player has off nights bit I never got how starks could be so streaky from game to game consistently. I mean when he was good he was excellent & in a bad night he actually helped the other team win rather than the team beating them. Its gotta be psychological bc it's the same man who literally I'd imagine shooting with the same form. Starks was a bit if a hot head & head case.
Hakeem doesn’t block that shot in the closing seconds of game 6 and we may have had a Knick legend in Starks. Saw someone mention that elsewhere and thought it was accurate.
They should have won game 6 .
The Knicks played game 7 against the Bulls and Pacers. They were tired. I am sorry they didn’t win in 1994
Should have not of
Ewing is one of the best center of all time and without question the best jump shooting center. He just didn't have enough scorers.
Patrick was a unstoppable force in the post and a midrange assassin he was the first big man to consistently hit jumpshots he started this trend he should get credit for it and his teams never had enough weapons to beat none of the eventual NBA championshs.
That first Houston Championship team was no better than the Knicks, man for man of course the difference being Hakeem having a much better low post game (high percentage) where the big man is supposed to be as opposed to Ewing not having a low post game so he was forced to take outside jumpshots. When they weren't falling oh well. Ewing was a reluctant passer who didn't trust his teammates, so he didn't make anyone around him better!!
@ Drippin Sauce: Ewing had a weak low post game because he had clumsy feet and small hands for a 7 footer. That's why he became a jump shooter. There were many big men before him who had good mid-range jump shots: Bob Lanier, Nate Thurmond, Kareem, Dave Cowens, Walt Bellamy, Bob Rule, and the greatest Knick center of all time Willis Reed. These big men chose to rely on the low post high percentage shot, as opposed to shooting the out side jumper. The days of the traditional center in the post are gone and it has destroyed the art of the game.
Oh for FFS, he was a ball hog who never learned how to pass out of the post - even when he got double teamed. If he learned how to be a team player, and not a ball hog, or learned how to pass, the Knicks would have one at least one championship.
@@jaleelel-shabazz6736 Thats not true. The difference was that houston could have Thorpe and Hakeem guard Ewing. Where as the Knicks had no one but Ewing to guard Hakeem and keep thorpe off the boards. Second Horry, Kenny Smith, Maxwell and Cassell were better players and could actually shoot more consistently then every player on the Knicks outside of Pat. Pat for years was the best shooter on the knicks team. Those teams had horrible shooters. Then they struggled defending the perimeter in that finals harper was getting his butt cooked by rookie cassell once he came in. Cassell caused so much havoc once he came in the game. Harpers hand checking worked on the slower Kenny Smith but Harper would get burnt once cassell came in.
@@PA-zt6xu No one on the Knicks could stop Hakeem, even Ewing. That was the only physical difference between the two teams, Otis Thorpe was no bigger or stronger than Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason. The Knicks had shooters who were just as good or even better than the Rocket guards. Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper, Alan Houston, Latrell Sprewell, were great shooters, the problems was Ewing's greed and unwillingness to share the ball on offense. I'm sick of hearing that sad ass excuse that Ewing never had All-Star to play along side him‼️
Still crazy to think that pat riley couldn’t figure out how to use rolando Blackman dude was a beast in Dallas
He & harper were wasted in a basketball graveyard their entire prime. Blackman was a 20 ppg scorer for years
Riley didn’t play Blackman because blackman brought his wife on the road, so he punished him. That’s according to Charles Oakley.
Don't forget Tony Campbell
@@memcrew1 Damn wtf
Blackmon was past his prime when got to the Knicks
Harper changed the knicks for the better and improved the team during his tenure.
Derrick spoke with clarity and certainty 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
My man D Harp!!! He waa tough for real. He used to give Kenny Anderson fits with his hard nose defense. Much respect to this man
Facts! Harper was my guy!
Ye$ $ir.-ee-B0b! Yup-Pup!
It's too bad Harper refused a trade to Utah. He's exactly what the Jazz needed. He could have won a title but instead stayed on a losing team. I wonder if he regrets that decision......
He needed a consistant scoring guard to win it all, starks was too streaky as a #2 option.
They had Mark Jackson
@@Juice-jx1pr mark was more of a traditional point tho now is they had hardaway!!!
I will say this that year we went to the finals John starks went to the all- game he had an all star year if it wasn't for starks having a great year we would not be in the finals that year, oh and a side note John got hurt pretty bad that year after the all star game, and he still played will I will forever love John starks because he's a knick forever.
@@lendog4466 Starks was 8x allstar
Career Averages
23.7 points
9.4 rebounds
8.6 assists
4.1 steals
@@loganblack4885 those aren't Starks' stats
Patrick winning a ring in an era with players like Air Jordan & Hakeem was close to impossible.
And then the Indiana challenge came which was some classic series they had against the Pacers.
Close to impossible? When you're 3 points away from winning the championship in game 6, with a 3-2 lead in the series? Please do not write when it leads to downplaying the great legacies of players such a Patrick Ewing.
@@kanajingly8957 I am stating an unshakeable fact - MJ & Hakeem were more lethal players. If you want to hide behind how close they came - that's on you. Never downplayed legacy - that's you being defensive.
@@hikidunm1582 I'm with Kana Jingly on this
@@bigkahuna3534 This is not a Dictatorship. Air & Hakeem were the truth whichever way you slice it.
But John missed all the shots in game 7, not Pat
Love D. Harper saying we didn't have enough guys make the "right play." Honest, whole heart explanation. It makes sense hearing it like that bc, We #90Knicks always played over our heads. ✌💞
no question. Speaking of 90s Knicks, check out this interview on that era! ruclips.net/video/EsEP1fV8ZHg/видео.html
What an insightful clip....that explains everything about that team...that was my squad!!! This is a part of the era I called "When men played basketball"! Keep up the great work bro! Good content!
Love listening to guys talking game strategy, mindfully, honestly, many years after their big game.
I absolutely love Derek Harper as a player absolute boss on defense this dude got it done for real
T00 True, Bo$$ed-Up!
@@alexandercoffman8319
REAL TALK!!! 100%CONCUR
@@MuammarHamed yes
My cousin was married to Derek Harper in the 90’s. I use to go to his house in Dallas and see all my cousins. We use to play basketball in the backyard and he use to have us doing drills. The stories I asked about the NBA greats being so young in the 90’s didn’t seem real to this day. From watching my cousin by marriage playing on tv and actually spending time with him when I use to go see him in the off season was amazing. When I took basketball serious I came out one year to his training camp he had with Rolando Blackman and I did real good at the camp and that sparked my NBA dream but when I got older I never grew over 5’9 and I got side tracked because I started working at 15 but that part of my childhood was golden lol.
@GhostMode15 Nice great story bro! Thanks for sharing 👍🏾
I love your channel. I live in TN but have been a Knicks fan for 30 years. Especially the '99 team. The Derek Harper interview was awesome. Thanks for the content.
GOD BLESS
Great interview @knicksfantv
Great Show,Salute to the Host and Mr. Harper,Thanks 4 the memories.
thanks alot!
Man if this interview could get played at a knicks practice... this current team needs to hear this!!!
Facts! Thanks for watching
Harper was a terrible human to kids...
If they heard it, what would that do to them - turn them into LeBron James clones? They are a team full of average players.
The Knicks never got Big Pat a 2nd Hall of Fame player in their prime while he was in his prime.
The greek freak Giannas didn't have a 2nd hall of fame player and he won a chip
@@bigkahuna3534
Middleton future HOF
Mr Patrick Ewing was a class act and a man among men. I met him in DC just after the Knicks loss and he was a very gracious and humble man. I appreciate the fun times I had watching him play the game with class and heart. One of my favorites of all time. Mr Patrick Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnngggggg!
I always liked the 90s Knicks. I would get nervous Everytime they would play against my Seattle Sonic's as a kid. When basketball was still exciting to watch.
I remember there being rumors for *YEARS* that the Knicks were going to trade for Chris Mullin, who was from New York, and they never did. The best they ever did was Kiki Vandeweghe. 🤷🏻♂️🙄🤦🏻♂️
Kik Wandewghe came from the legacy so that is what got him to NY. Knicks should have won in '94
I think Harper held his tongue in this interview i saw that finals he played in he and Hubert Davis were hot in that Game 7 they should have been playing and taking The shots Ive always said Pat Riley Lost us that championship with his Bad coaching decisions
Without Riley the Knicks wouldn’t be the Knicks. Every Coach has a bad habbit
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Bless up!
Great points. Great point guard.
Knicks should have acquired Mitch Richmond!
This is silly. Patrick never got a ring because he never had a legitimate #2 scoring option, one who commanded double teams. J. Starks would have been a devastating #3 like Andrew Toney, say, but even Michael needed Scotty, Moses needed Dr. J (or the other way around), etc., etc., The only time Patrick got to face a team without a #2 of their own it was him up against Hakeem--who was a better center, face it. The Knicks never gave him what he needed so it was ALWAYS him, sweating his behind off at the end of games, drained, and missing free throws because of how they worked him like a $2 ho. By the playoffs, against the league's elite competition, he was NEVER going to beat the more complete teams, I don't care HOW much leadership he showed or didn't show. Though I WILL say he should have shaved his head with everyone else that year they got to the finals without him. That was self-centered and weak.
Glad you were actually watching. Pat is a legend
What do you mean shave his head
That’s the thing, the teams he lost to in the EC were loaded. The Pistons had Isaiah and Joe in their prime with a team just as rough and tumbled. Then you had obviously Chicago who had two players in the all time 75 with Bill Cartwright and Horace Grant surrounded by one of the greatest supporting cast of all time. Lastly, you had the Pacers- team that was lead by the one of the best closers in the history of the game in Reggie and the Dunking Dutch man who could be a top 5 big in the league when healthy…
I’d say the only time he was outplayed and truly blew his title shot was against the Rockets. Hakeem had a very similar team in 94 but even then- Vernon Maxwell and Starks we’re pretty similar guys and Mario Ellie was so clutch that playoffs from three.
Pat Riley not playing Rolando Blackman was a killer.
Ewing never wanted another superstar on the team who would have taken the lime light away from him like Bernard King.
Ewing played more years, minutes, and took more shots than any other player in NY Knick history, and yet he's never lead the league in anything.
Good interview great comments
thanks alot
Man I didn’t know this channel existed. Thank god 🙏🏾
Poor Harp! If starks just had an adequate game in the finals game 7 he was going to be the mvp of that finals. He played magnificently & consistently while starks literally was amazing than awful than amazing than awful. Sadly game 6 he had a spectacular 4th but then game 7 fell on his worst day ever. I still wonder why riley didnt tell him to stop shooting. I know he had no faith in davis or blackman as riley to his detriment goes to a 6 man rotation even if they are getting blown out he leaves his starters on when he should be resting them.
We had Patrick Ewing and John Starks as the one two punch. We were always one scorer short of a title. Every game we played we were always within one to ten or twenty points of winning. One extra guy like Glenn Rice would have pushed us over the hump. Plus we let a lot of rebounds go that we should have done a better job on the boards and that too would have won.
Agreed. By the time we got those scorers in Houston and Sprewell Ewing was already past his prime.
I remember there being rumors for *YEARS* that the Knicks were going to trade for Chris Mullin, who was from New York, and they never did. The best they ever did was Kiki Vandeweghe. 🤷🏻♂️🙄🤦🏻♂️
The Knicks had a fair amount of players who could have scored, but that would have taken away shots from Ewing, and he wasn't having that‼️
@@johnbrowntheprophet kiki was hurt. if he was healthy they would have won. Kiki was a sniper
@@bigkahuna3534 - Kiki wasn’t gonna put that Knicks team over the top. No way. 🤷🏻♂️🙄🤦🏻♂️
Excellent interview
thanks Lamont!
One of the greatest Knicks!
Ewing hadnt got a ring because he was alone at home. Sorry but is true.
Patrick Ewing always played with excellent role players and good head coaches. But he never played with another great player. The Knicks needed another great player, especially a swingman, to beat the Chicago Bulls and other great teams in the 1990s.
The Knicks of the 90’s my team my guys my players forever
Harper....Great guard.... Best guard for his time, and time period. peace.
The reason why my guy Patrick never won his chip is because he never had a robin. Most teams that won championships had a batman, a robin and also a superman. Patrick was superman or batman but he didn't have a robin.
Ok....... Then who was Olajuwon's "Robin"? From my view point, the Rockets were a "team"? Because the Rockets won 2 Championships.
I wish Ewing had Barkley or D Wilkins
But when was Ewing ever the best player in a series vs Bulls or Rockets? Can't really knock the supporting cast when Ewing just didn't quite measure up to the other teams' best player.
@@Jukeboxster basketball is a team game
@@gregorycampbell2164 if you get to an NBA Finals game 7 you have enough, just my opinion
I'm a Chicagoan but I always loved Derek Harper's game..he was incredible!!!
Ewing never stacks team never cried about he needed help etc. Like the new nba player where they need 3 stars just 2 win a chip pat had role players Charles Oakley couldn't dunk on a 8 feet rim !!
I don’t know if he cried about needing help, but the narrative has always been he needed help.
😅😅😅😅 Oakley was terrible there I said it
Although they never won a chip... those 90s Knick teams were great to watch as a teenager. All their teams embodied the NY toughness and grit. Seemed like they always were in the playoffs just always ran into more talented teams.... Pistons, Bulls, Pacers etc....fun memories but it definitely was painful during all those playoff losses.
I live in Alabama.......New York Knicks for life... ❤️
Pat never won because he had bums around him pat brought it ever night .
Hakeem 94 finals 26.9pts 9.1 rebs 3.6 blocks Ewing 18.9 pts 12.1 rebs 4.3 blocks at that time the rockets had really good 3 point shooters that gave hakeem room to operate the knicks had oakley mason harper greg anthony charles smith non shooters that really played bully ball Ewing did the best he could with this team and took all the blame all the other centers in this his era had a number 2
I loved that era
Exactly and Houston at times would have Thorpe guard Ewing to say Hakeem's energy late in the game.
Harper was my favorite Knick .... the man played defense well !!
I remember Harper doing an NBC promo on defense. "Remember, not everyone can score but everyone can play defense " love it.
Nice one!
Got news for you Derek Harper…not that some things couldn’t have been done better, but in ‘94 the Knicks over-performed in the finals against the Rockets 🚀. Rockets 🚀 were the better team from the outset of the season winning 14-15 straight games and they had Olajuwon who was better than Patrick. I don’t see how you can blame Patrick for too much isolation ball 🏀 when Olajuwon’s defense pretty much took him out of the series offensively for the most part. Harper and Starks did most of the scoring with some timely baskets by Oakley. I’m not blaming Patrick, but his game had to be more efficient for the Knicks to win. It just wasn’t enough to defeat a better Rockets team that got great contributions from Sam Cassel, Carl Herrera, Ottis Thorpe and Robert Horry. Olajuwon played like an MVP, but his wasn’t the only performance that cost the Knicks. More so, it was the composite play of the supporting cast that won a very close hard fought series. Disappointing, but nothing to be ashamed of.
I remember Barkley saying in a halftime interview of one of the games that he was disappointed in the way the Rockets were playing.
It wasn't that the Knicks were the better team than the Rockets that year, the 94 Rockets and 94 Knicks were a good and even match up but the Rockets had the best player in Hakeem Olajuwon in the whole Finals. End of story. 🏀👍🏆
Love the knicks... win or lose...
I'm glad he got a chance to clear that up, you can tell that's been bothering him for a long time
Oakley couldn’t even make a lay up all he did was lead by talking and beating up on the opposition
They needed that in those days. He wasn’t there to score. He played defense and rebounded. He averaged 13 boards at his peak. Double digits for the longest. Over 8.5 boards at the least. They didn’t shoot threes and finesse in those days. They needed Oakley. Now if you were a Pacers fan or some other team then I’m glad he beat up on those boys.
Yep
Love my man but I gotta disagree with him, even the most ardent Knick fans when we are knowledgeable and honest know that there was no way they were a better team than Houston. Houston definitely had more talent, Im a diehard native but the truth is the truth
Their best player was better than our best player. Period.
Maaaan…. Pat Ewing was an absolute superior player. That era was beyond intense and amazing. Those games had me sweating and on the edge of my seat. That knicks scared that living shit outta me when they played the bulls. I can appreciate great basketball regardless if I’m a fan or not of those knicks. Those knicks were a GREAT TEAM!!! GREEEEEEAAAAAT!!! The chemistry they had was scary. I just loved the “big men banging under the basket” type of basketball. Post moves and the awareness of double teams were fun. You could read plays and just knew where the ball would end up. Barely any dribbling. Off the ball movements and great ball movement around the defense. Man to man was played back then also. No lazy zone defense. Either you run your ass chasing or be smart and switch and hope that Ewing wasn’t on a small guard or small forward because he’d shoot over the top or take it to the rack!!✊🏼🙏🏼🤙🏼 Miss those days man😔
you were a bulls fan?
Derick Harper true pick pocket right there.... Living Legend that know one talks about.... He's the reason the NBA got ride of hand checking #DopeDogOg
Charles Oakley was a nothing player, but he sure knows how to stay in the news.
Maybe Ewing never won a ring because Harper’s dumbass left Cassell wide open in game 3
Facts...Cassell owned Harper in that series...
@@fredthomas5192 wouldn’t say that. But that Harper miscue in game 3 was baffling
@@BoB.._.. 👍 agreed
As a fan that loves to see the game played the right way... I feel what he's saying and it makes sense. But I blame Coach Riley for staying with Starks who was ice cold for the last couple of minutes for the fourth period in game seven... However as a nation Houstonian and of course a Rockets fan, I'm glad he did stay with him. Because if he had called me plays for Laws or Harper... It may have been a different story.
Harper was a very good player for a long time in the NBA. Solid and CONSISTENT!
facts! make sure you check out the full interviews. He's great
Pat nickname was BEAST! He wasn’t in a mode he is jus a beast
He's telling the truth!! 💯
Facts!!!!!
This is one of my favorite interviews by you CP. Like Harper was referring to in this interview about having cohesion and playing for each other is something that should be considered in free agency and the draft process.We need guys that are unselfish and team oriented.So when you listen to these predraft interviews, listen to see how discipline and committed these players are to do whatever is best for their team.
Thanks alot! Couldn't agree with you more
D. HARPER Was a BEAST!!! 93' & or 94' Playoffs He was the 2nd Reason they Won a Few Key playoff Wins!
It comes down to trust. When you trust your team mates you wont be worrying about whether they knock it down or not. You just make that pass or that play.
I agree 💯 percent with Harper !!🏀🏀🏀
NYK
Peace and respect to Harp good basketball from Mav's to Knicks. IMO the best Knick and consistent player on that team in the Finals. Harper was on another level
Terrible human and an ok basketball player
@@thepresidentialjfk Irrelevant
@@MrDavis...42 like his career
@@thepresidentialjfk Irrelevant
@@MrDavis...42 exactly
"DEREK HARPER" WAS TELLIN' DA' REAL/THA' TRUTH 2 WINNIN' and WINNIN' A "CHAMPIONSHIP Or CHAMPIONSHIPS"!
FACTS!
@@KnicksFanTV But "I" Think Most Likely "THA' KNICKS" Would Have Still Been Beaten By "THA' ROCKETS" Anyway,"THA' ROCKETS" In "MY OPINION" Was Just A Lil' Better Than "THA' KNICKS"!
@@KnicksFanTV And "THA' KNICKS" Went Back In "1999" Against "THA' SPURS" and Lost 2 "THEM" As Well! "THA' SPURS" Was Clearly "THA' BETTER TEAM",And Unfortunately "PATRICK EWING" Was Not Available 4 "THAT NBA FINALS"!
I remember the 94 Finals like yesterday!! I'm from Houston and I will agree, the Knicks were technically the better team.. if I'm not mistaken, we were like the 6th seed that year coming into the playoffs.. but never underestimate the heart of a Champion...Nothing like 90s basketball.. !!! The entire Knicks starting 5 are legends in my eyes.. Much love for all the Knicks fans ..
Harper was a great player, 5 time champion who made a lot of the right plays offensively and defensively. It was hard to see how badly he was hampered by injuries, and inspiring to see how he battled through all of that anyway.
I think u r referring to the "wrong" harper. U are referring to Ron harper (no pun intended). This is Derek Harper.
@@buffetize You're right! My mistake.
Patrick was the Knicks, & he still is.
Derrick Harper North shore high School west Palm Beach went to school with him . great person 💪.
Derek.
Much respect to mr harper for not throwing underachieving patrick ewing under the bus.
100 percent right about making the right play. It’s been a while, and I understand basketball a lot better now then when I was watching Pat play. But if it is a fact that Pat failed to make the right play down the stretch of games, then Harper is 100 percent right about that too.
It needs to be pointed out the Ewing was notorious for choking at the free throw line in tight games!!
@@jaleelel-shabazz6736 Dam. That hurts his legacy.
Knicks were a great team. THEY made the Bulls better...Only as good as your competition. Pat Riley was a great Coach. Good organization. Loved watching them play.
Harper you was a good New York Knicks please believe that
Ewing was the strongest and biggest man in the Knicks team yet he spent his time
25 feet away from the basket shooting jumpshots, only Oakley left for rebounds and
put back layups. To win you need a big man inside Ewing played like a guard.
@Franklin NJ, Ewings career offensive rebound numbers say otherwise.
Teams need guys like Oakley, high motor low skill. But you can't have 4 guys like that on the court and expect to win a championship.
Man i miss those knicks!
Pat was a SUPER STAR!!! Even his "Ewings" was selling as well as Jordans! At Georgetown, Pat started wearing the Nike T Shirt under the jersey and he was one of the ones that pushed Georgetown University in having "The Georgetown Hoyas" Air Force One. I believe the first university to do so. -LAKERS'80- 🤜🏿🤛🏿
FACTS!
Pat Riley should've taken the ball off of John Starks and put it in your hands in that game 7.
Remember when Derek Harper would score used to love hearing it Deeeerek haaaarper
Patrick Ewing WAS the leader...He lead by his play/character
Interesting interview...
thanks make sure you catch the full version!