blkexec wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Bobby Portis looked like a much superior player. He took good open shots both in and out was more active and physical than KP. He looked liked the 4 pick and KP looked like the 20th pick. Seriously KP is playing like he is in between positions and has no discipline in shot selection and this must change.

Interesting.....to me Portis looked like a player on a better team, with a team that understands their identity, with an up and coming superstar and better role players that understand their role, in a system that fits their skill set.

Put Portis on this team and KP on the bulls, and you would be creating the same thread about Portis shot selection.

I dont think so. KP can use his length even opportunistically and play better than he is now. He had that one beautiful hook and then he had 10 forced outside shots--terrible.

I've been unhappy with his offense for a few weeks mainly because he's a good shooter who isn't taking enough open looks. The way Porzingis should play is the moment he catches it in a spot up situation he should launch. I sense the coaching staff is trying to tell everyone to look for a teammate and he doesn't want to play like a gunner. But he's got the skillset for someone who should be either catching and shooting right away (instead of pausing looking for a player to pass then thinking of making a play) or he should be posting up (or cutting to the basket).

The offense we run also gets messed up too much. Guys are just lost half the time.

I will say I much rather see Porzingis deal with this as a rookie and go 4-14 from the field than Afflalo, or any other veteran player unlikely to get much better or even be a Knick a few years from now. This is part of becoming a great player. Go back and watch rookie Dirk, he struggled far more than Porzingis has. And to top it off, Porzingis is playing in an offense that seems way too complicated for most of these guys. The kid's a 7'3 SF who has skills to be a SG, SF, PF or C. He can play any of those 4 roles. When you do that, you often get lost as to what's the best and what's your bread and butter. To me his bread and butter is getting jumpshots coming off screens and posting up. Anything else (the dribbling to the basket, the wing moves) I'm not convinced are going to be his strengths in the league. Ideally he figures that out right away - that he ought to be focusing on post moves and taking jumpshots off screens (or open in spot ups) but I don't think that will happen until experimentation with all the other stuff is done completely. Literally the guy takes plays a SG, SF, PF and C would. He's doing a bit of everything and not showing to be great at one particular aspect of them. If he focused on 2 main types of roles to play in the offense, I'd bet he'd become a killer in them with what he's shown with his shooting touch and post moves.

Play like this--- the first comment on there----mine.

nyknickzingis wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Give me a few dunks. Go rip the fcking rim down and than talk to me.

Not easy to do when you're driving into traffic at 7'3. Guys at PF/C who try and do that get called for charges plenty. If he gets those plays, it'll be if they post him up from mid-post area and he beats his man off the dribble to dunk. And I've also suspected his legs and body are way more tired that he is letting on. His jumps and spring to his step isn't the same as it was 2 months ago.