Apparently they didn't get your memo

Having said that we'll be forced to wonder if the game would have been different if they tried Koq or seraphin to bring some fire

Kyle O'Quinn, PF	DNP COACH'S DECISION
Lou Amundson, PF	DNP COACH'S DECISION
Carmelo Anthony, SF	DNP SPRAINED RIGHT ANKLE
Kevin Seraphin, C	DNP COACH'S DECISION

crzymdups wrote:Last night was terrible game management by Fisher. I think he's been very good overall lately, but that game just felt so poorly managed. From not exploiting the matchups that were there, to leaving guys in who were clearly gassed. Lance had nothing last night and played 28 minutes. It hurt not having Cleanthony Early available last night for sure.

With Melo out, I wonder why they didn't think about adding a guy on a 10-day contract from the WKnicks? Would've been a nice night to give Jimmer a shot or that Bacynski center dude. Or Atkins. Anyone, really, who had some gas in their tank.

Right now we have the smallest roster in the league at 13. We down a SF and tight at guard. Tiem to use one of those spots to make sure we have enough "just in case" if we have an in game injury to a guard--were definitely short.

BRIGGS wrote:The spurs and warriors have this down. Go watch their box scores on back to back especially spurs that's why quality matters 14 deep. We lost because we had no legs on d and kp was forced to play nearly 40 when he should've played 20

This is so stupid. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to say that KIDS at the ages from 20 to 26 can't play big minutes two nights in a row. To say that a KID that's 23/24 years old can't play the game of basketball for 30 minutes one night and then play 30 minutes the next night is absolutely ridiculous. These are KIDS guys just KIDS and they should be able to give 30 minutes or however many minutes they play for 3 nights in a row if you ask me. They're just playing basketball guys not running marathons. Is the game physical?? yep, but it's still a game and they're only running and banging with each other for 7/8 minutes then they rest then they play for another 6/7 minutes then they rest and they do this for 30 to 40 minutes a night and they can't do it two nights in a row??? Hahahaha RIDICULOUS. People just wanna find reasons to find someone to put the blame of a loss on when in reality you can't put a loss on one person so to try to put the blame for last nights loss on Fisher is also RIDICULOUS and shows how ignorant some can be.

Rant over!!!!!!!

i had no problem with fisher playing a rotation of 10. it's a long season and you need to keep guys healthy and ready, and you do so by going with a rotation of 9 or 10. he was also trying to figure out what combinations worked best together. playing 8 guys last night (not counting sasha's couple mins) was not ideal, but he didn't have much anywhere else to go. with melo out, lance had to start and was out of his element as a starter - only options on the bench were oquinn, serpahin, and amundson, which wasn't going to give us what we needed. if anything, i think last night showed, we are not a deep team at all. we have a good amount of height to delve into, but everywhere else, we are a melo-injury away from falling into a deep hole.

GustavBahler wrote:Fisher said in so many words in the post game press conference that he messed up the rotation and that he will do a better job. Like I said, this team has more work to do. Still about 3 more months to go, plenty of time to figure things out.

i seriously wonder how he thinks he messed up the rotation? there was nowhere to go last night. the end of our bench has absolutely no guard play whatsoever.

http://www.nba.com/knicks/video/teams/knicks/2016/01/14/dropbox_nyk_fisher_011316_MSGI_2528k_1280w.mp4-228853

He's a noob coach and made a mistake. Hopefully he learns from it.

nyk4ever wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Fisher said in so many words in the post game press conference that he messed up the rotation and that he will do a better job. Like I said, this team has more work to do. Still about 3 more months to go, plenty of time to figure things out.

i seriously wonder how he thinks he messed up the rotation? there was nowhere to go last night. the end of our bench has absolutely no guard play whatsoever.

Fisher said he didnt play enough guys, volunteered the information.

i understand what he said and how he thinks he messed up. im saying where else did he want to go? oquinn, seraphin and amundson were really the only other guys he could've went to and they all play the same position/do the same thing. where we really needed to go was bringing in a guard or forward who can score and we didn't have any to goto. i am disagreeing with him and saying making the change wouldn't of made a difference since he had no guards or scoring forwards to goto. we lack scoring depth terribly.

KP was gassed, back to back, arms were tired, not very complicated. Im glad Fisher owns up to his mistakes, more faith in him learning from this than I would if he said that he did everything right. I take Fisher admitting that he has room for improvement as a good thing.

ChuckBuck wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:The spurs and warriors have this down. Go watch their box scores on back to back especially spurs that's why quality matters 14 deep. We lost because we had no legs on d and kp was forced to play nearly 40 when he should've played 20

This is so stupid. I think it's absolutely ridiculous to say that KIDS at the ages from 20 to 26 can't play big minutes two nights in a row. To say that a KID that's 23/24 years old can't play the game of basketball for 30 minutes one night and then play 30 minutes the next night is absolutely ridiculous. These are KIDS guys just KIDS and they should be able to give 30 minutes or however many minutes they play for 3 nights in a row if you ask me. They're just playing basketball guys not running marathons. Is the game physical?? yep, but it's still a game and they're only running and banging with each other for 7/8 minutes then they rest then they play for another 6/7 minutes then they rest and they do this for 30 to 40 minutes a night and they can't do it two nights in a row??? Hahahaha RIDICULOUS. People just wanna find reasons to find someone to put the blame of a loss on when in reality you can't put a loss on one person so to try to put the blame for last nights loss on Fisher is also RIDICULOUS and shows how ignorant some can be.

Rant over!!!!!!!

Someone here never played organized sports.

You haven't?? Ok cause i have. I didn't play any college only middle and high school but enough to know what i'm talking about.