Brandon talking like a panther before the draft…

Back is the latest installment of the Grime – For the G.O.A.T. – LL Cool J – you’re still Todd to me!

…Imagine if the Knicks could go back in time. Do you think they would draft Brandon Jennings or take David Lee, Chris Duhon and ride with first rounder Jordan Hill again and get funky with the pick?

Wanted to see the future of the “L,” so catching Nate Robinson’s first start against the player Bobbito dubbed “The Take Over” was a must see. Both are possessors of premium playground ball style with Nate showing his skills at EBC America in 2006 and Jennings earning the 2007 co-MVP at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Game.

Robinson’s first start at the point yielded some solid results. He involved his teammates and got the rock to Lee, who ended with a season-high 32 points and 15 boards.

The Knicks were down five with a minute and change left in the third quarter when Nate hit the bench. Duhon came in with an immediate turnover, which led to a vicious one-step-inside-the-extended-dotted-line cram from Hakeem Warrick, and the Bucks were good money after that, extending the lead to as many as 13 midway through the fourth.

The three-time Rookie of the Month Jennings ran the pick and roll with ease for lay ups and directed the offense with the hawk eye.

Turk Ersan Ilyasova got his catch-and-shoot game in gear with several easy and open looks at the rim and finished with a career-high 25 points and 9 boards. Most of his shots had no hand in his face…

The Bucks (without Andrew Bogut, who got injured in the 1st quarter) looked a lot smoother in the five-out system than the Knicks in the second half. The Final Result: Bucks 114
Knicks 107

The stat game went to Brandon, who dropped 22 points and 8 assists while taking a game-high 23 shots. Nate scored 13, scoring only two in the second half to Brandon’s 19. Jennings changed his shoes from an all black pair to some white and red Under Armour joints at halftime, saying after the game that he “couldn’t make no shots with my first [pair] on. I think it was the shoes.”

When D’Antoni was asked about Jennings’ performance during the post-game interview session he froze up for a sec and then said “He’s good, a good little point guard.”

While I’m Nate’s man 50-grand, round one of this match up went to Brandon, and when D’Antoni hits his pillow tonight, I’m sure he would love to dream about a team with Brandon in a crispy white Knicks uniform coming off a pick and roll with a purpose and the explosive Robinson coming in off the bench on a search and destroy mission for buckets.

A fast break featuring LeBron and Jennings….pure playground…but who are we wanting to see the future of the funk since the big dunce cap can be evicted from the dome piece of Knicks brass with a 2010 summer pick up of LeBron, Chris Bosh and a trade for someone like Utah’s Paul Millsap straight up for Lee, and then an illegal search on the Timberwolves for Ricky Rubio, or a second round point guard choice of someone like Sherron Collins or Edgar Sosa from Louisville (no joke when given the green light), which gets the crowd jingling next year.

Do you wanna see it, Do you wanna see it…?

Next: Nate vs. Brandon match up: Feb. 22, 2010 at the Garden.