BRIGGS wrote:Something is wrong with Brewer unrelated to his finger--I doubt that for what Brewer is giving us right now--pretty poor in the last 4 games--of which 3 are L's--that White cant easily beat his production. Let White start and let Brewer heal what is bothering him(Knee?) he also looks like he could stand to lose 10-12 pds. I think that will give us more energy in unit 1. Prigioni is not getting it done--were settling for pirse poor play from him as a back up and we cant afford to run Jason Kidd into the ground as he starts SG. He needs to either assert himself as a player who can produce at the NBA level now--or the test is over. Im sure we can maneuver for something better--good teams do not have poor back up PG's its putting way too much pressure to keep Felton on the floor for too many minutes and we saw what happened today. Felton has been really good but were asking him to do too much right now.

Brewer's knee has been playing up- a few games ago it swelled up and since then he's had a cap on his minutes and hasn't played as well as he did. Unfortunately this schedule doesn't allow for much rest, and back to backs are probably the last thing he needs. Agree that he looks like he needs to lose some weight, but he looked overweight last season too.

I'd give Prigs another shot once Amar'e gets back- he looked at his most effective wehen running the pick and roll with Copeland in the preseason. Unfortunately he doesn't really have that type of player to pass to when he's in games. He's also said he's a bit nervous, and also I think he's a bit overwhelmed at the speed of the game. I think he can give us more than he has been, so I'd stick with him for a bit longer.

NYKBocker wrote:I agree about White. I would like to see what he can do.

By the way, OT, but that pull up from taking a layup and settling for a 3 by JR Smith was the worse basketball decision I have ever seen. That was video game type play.

It was. That had "Bad JR" written all over it.

Its a scheme that creats turnovers as well.

Nalod wrote:Fans keep calling for the PNR's like its magic.

Its a scheme that creats turnovers as well.

This is a win now team. The honest reality is that guys like Jason Kidd Camby Wallace are not playing 82 games--more like 60-65 if everything goes well. With Amare and Shumpert down--we need guys who are on a win now roster who can fill in and we know what we are going to get. I think White will produce but Prignoni is scared to shoot and seems somewhat overwhelmed and hes 35 years old. Jeremy Lin @ 23 from the D League last year did not play like that. The problem is you shove workload on Felton--and he'll either stop what was efficient play or get hurt. We need a better player for that back up PG spot.

Nalod wrote:Fans keep calling for the PNR's like its magic.

Its a scheme that creats turnovers as well.

sure it does nalod as I have never seen an offense that was turnover free..

but if you want to utilize our bigs, and a guard like prigs, the magic of the PNR is what this team needs..

BigSm00th wrote:agree on Prigioni; he just looks totally unconfident and overmatched out there. we really need a 3rd point too since we play kidd so often at the 2.

hopefully once shumpert is back we can end the Prigioni experiment.

white should get more burn, woody should open it up a bit in the next few games with kidd out and see who can contribute

Prigs seemed like he lost his confidence after he got benched following poor play against the mavs. He still is a ball hawk.