We had Shved - if we'd given him the money we gave Seraphin $2.9M for four years, it'd have been higher than the Russian offer.

Biggest mistake of last off-season. We had a good young PG who had his first NBA success here and we let him walk.

This is not Jose's fault. He's old - he's trying on D, but he just can't defend NBA point guards.

He shouldn't have been put in the position to play 30 minutes a night.

This isn't even Fisher or Rambis's fault.

This is Phil's fault - he built the team. The team was built around the concept Jose Calderon was a 30min per night starting NBA point guard. And that is incorrect.

gunsnewing wrote:I thought Jose was the best option we had at PG. How can you possibly sit your best PG?

newyorker4ever wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Isola tweeted earlier that Rambis discussed tinkering with the starting lineup and possibly demoting Calderon. Also, reports indicated that the entire Knicks front office were at practice today and the emphasis was on defense. Who is our weakest link on defense--Calderon.

I heard Hahn on his radio show earlier and he opened with stating that Calderon should not only lose his starting job the rest of the season, but he should never play again. Despite Rambis's delusions, this team has no chance of making the playoffs and it's time to audition the likes of Grant and Gallo to see exactly what we have in them going forward.

He also said that Calderon cannot stay in front of him man and is the worst pick n roll defender in the NBA, which leads to all the paint buckets (58 last night) and high percentage shots for the other team. He is going on 35 years old, and is what he is at this point. It makes no sense to continue playing Jose or Sasha the rest of the way.

I'd rather J.Grant get the start over Gallo. It's time we just give the job to Grant and play him 20/25 minutes and let him grow and learn and the only way for him to do that is with playing time.

fishmike wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Isola tweeted earlier that Rambis discussed tinkering with the starting lineup and possibly demoting Calderon. Also, reports indicated that the entire Knicks front office were at practice today and the emphasis was on defense. Who is our weakest link on defense--Calderon.

I heard Hahn on his radio show earlier and he opened with stating that Calderon should not only lose his starting job the rest of the season, but he should never play again. Despite Rambis's delusions, this team has no chance of making the playoffs and it's time to audition the likes of Grant and Gallo to see exactly what we have in them going forward.

He also said that Calderon cannot stay in front of him man and is the worst pick n roll defender in the NBA, which leads to all the paint buckets (58 last night) and high percentage shots for the other team. He is going on 35 years old, and is what he is at this point. It makes no sense to continue playing Jose or Sasha the rest of the way.

I'd rather J.Grant get the start over Gallo. It's time we just give the job to Grant and play him 20/25 minutes and let him grow and learn and the only way for him to do that is with playing time.

yea this.. Grant has a future as an NBA PG. Galloway's is more a 6th man combo type. Earl Watson, Tony Allen, etc..

It's time to play him and i'm sure Melo wouldn't like cause he's still in win and make the playoffs mode which you can't get mad at but we need to see if this is our future at point guard or not. We're close to getting to the point of cutting Melo's minutes way down as well so while we unfortunately don't have our 1st round pick, we can't care about if Toronto gets a lottery pick because of us.

crzymdups wrote:I feel bad for Calderon - he's been put out in an embarrassing situation. Phil should've brought in a better PG last off-season, instead of wasting money on Seraphin and Amundson.

We had Shved - if we'd given him the money we gave Seraphin $2.9M for four years, it'd have been higher than the Russian offer.

Biggest mistake of last off-season. We had a good young PG who had his first NBA success here and we let him walk.

This is not Jose's fault. He's old - he's trying on D, but he just can't defend NBA point guards.

He shouldn't have been put in the position to play 30 minutes a night.

This isn't even Fisher or Rambis's fault.

This is Phil's fault - he built the team. The team was built around the concept Jose Calderon was a 30min per night starting NBA point guard. And that is incorrect.

Not sure i agree. Phil brought in the bigs because he was trying to get the front court set (just like Parcels used to like to get the offensive line set). Fortunately with KP that part of the equation improved.

Jose has been just a major disappointment. He still has intangibles but his play has declined from too slow to slow-and-stupid. He had a lot of dumb fouls recently. His man beats him, or he tries to help, and then gets tagged for stupid reach ins to just give another foul shot to boot. And why he's still reluctant to shoot or draw fouls is anyone's guess. I expected smarter play from him. Ok you suck at defense, but at least contribute on the other end. Have you considered driving to the basket to maybe get your guy in foul trouble? You're a 90+% FT shooter after all.

Given the rut he is in at the moment, demoting him would be good short term and long term. He can still mentor KP and the younger players

Chandler wrote:and the next time Jose or anyone else throws one of those lazy lollipop, careless passes for a fast break, Rambis should tell that guy to take a shower, go home, and come back when his head is out of his butt

Which was worse, the Jose pass or the Melo pass to Derozen at the end of the half?

martin wrote:

Chandler wrote:and the next time Jose or anyone else throws one of those lazy lollipop, careless passes for a fast break, Rambis should tell that guy to take a shower, go home, and come back when his head is out of his butt

Which was worse, the Jose pass or the Melo pass to Derozen at the end of the half?

When players from opposing teams jump the passing lanes that blatantly, the problem is the not the players, but the predictable passes aka predictable system they are running.