Knicks · GAME THREAD: Knicks are Cold, travel to Miami to get some Heat !!! Knicks vs Heat !!! (page 7)

Clean wrote:our PGs have not found Amare on a PNR once tonight. No doubt in my mind a real PG can make this team much better. We wont be contenders but much better.

I agree. Felton wilson and gallo would be great right now damn

Bibby is too slow to hang with the Heat guards, Lin should get some burn.

nixluva wrote:If TD would stop ignoring STAT on the PnR when he's WIDE OPEN maybe we'd have some inside scoring.

Seriously, how many times did he miss Amare already? How can people keep blaming the coach for this?

Knicks need some easy baskets, but we can't get any without a PG to set them up. They have to keep moving and passing to get open shots and on cuts to the basket. They also can't let Lebron just go solo on his man. There has to some help that comes at the right time.

KNICKSBIGCATS wrote:Can we play like this for the next 3 quarters?

Absolutely.

If Toney Douglas has the least bit of basketball confidence it would be a winnable game. So tired of watching him stop his dribble outside the arc, pass away and ask for the ball back - still in the same spot.

nixluva wrote:Knicks need some easy baskets, but we can't get any without a PG to set them up. They have to keep moving and passing to get open shots and on cuts to the basket. They also can't let Lebron just go solo on his man. There has to some help that comes at the right time.

Heat have probably the best fast break defense, and that doesn't help

Free Jeremy Lin!

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loweyecue wrote:

nixluva wrote:If TD would stop ignoring STAT on the PnR when he's WIDE OPEN maybe we'd have some inside scoring.

Seriously, how many times did he miss Amare already? How can people keep blaming the coach for this?

Our Defense gets stops, but we struggle so hard to score that we can sustain a lead.

MDA with his classic line, "They're good."
This guy is brain dead.

loweyecue wrote:Seriously, how many times did he miss Amare already?

A bunch.

loweyecue wrote:How can people keep blaming the coach for this?

Blame it on the boogie.

Live by the 3, Die by the 3. Right now they're hitting them.

Novak

where the heck has this play been all season?

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I want to see Curry come in and lie down
in the yellow paint like a beached whale.

martin wrote:where the heck has this play been all season?

douglas and shumpert doing a much better job dictating the pace tonight, that's for sure. they aren't trying to push it too much and the half-court set has much more movement and fluidity. hopefully melo is taking notes.

islesfan wrote:Live by the 3, Die by the 3. Right now they're hitting them.

When you face a team that could't defend the three if there lives depended on it, then you need to take them. And since we don't have th epersonnel to get the ball into th epaint there isn't a lot else we can do.

KNICKSBIGCATS wrote:I want to see Curry come in and lie down
in the yellow paint like a beached whale.

lmao!!!

Larry Novak for 3!

That's how you take advantage of a defense. MDA saw that they were overplaying the PnR, so he put in Novak to spread the floor and take the wide open 3. It puts pressure on the D to cover the entire floor. It's really simple Move the ball and move your body, hit the open man! The reason the shots are falling cuz the offense is in a flow rather than what we've been seeing with all the ISO ball. Still need a PG to get inside!