He has been pressed into playing far too many minutes than he should, and he generally hasn't embarrassed himself.or at least not as much as Jason Smith and Samuel Dalembert have ( per Basketball-Reference): Pretty much any way you slice it, Acy has been the third best big on New York's roster, behind Amar'e Stoudemire and Cole Aldrich.
No, not for Thursday's donnybrook - that was irredeemably stupid, and he deserves the one-game suspension handed down by the league - but because, prior to the Christmas Day Massacre, the guy had been one of the only Knicks to actually exceed my expectations of him. I come here not to bury Quincy Acy (completely), but to praise him (kind of). The Knicks' slim chance of a comeback are gone.
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The Wizards get two free throws and the ball. Wall shoves back, Acy throws a punch/forearm/whatever. Wall probes his way into the paint, and Acy fouls him by shoving his hands into Wall's face. There are just under six minutes remaining the game is not quite over, but they need more stops. But they are beginning to show signs of life, cutting an 18-point deficit down to 11 with an 8-1 run. The Knicks have no one capable of staying in front of him. Wizards point guard John Wall is quite the basketball player. Sure enough, we had this happen in the fourth quarter : And if you've watched Acy play even once during his three-year NBA career, you know the dude is only capable of garnering such attention through fisticuffs. The sacred law of the 2014-15 Knicks dictates that a player can only receive attention for doing something terrible and/or stupid.
Raise your hands if you predicted on Christmas Eve that Quincy Acy would be the only Knick trending on Twitter at the end of the following day's five-game NBA bonanza:Īh, to be invited into the mighty Pantheon of names like "Wade," "Lebron" and "FloBron."Įven if you were fortunate enough to miss New York's 102-91 loss to the Washington Wizards on Thursday afternoon, you probably could have guessed what led to Acy's nationwide exposure.
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