CrushAlot wrote:dk7th wrote:knicks are an old team and back to backs are tough on them. felton can't orchestrate to save his life so when kidd and the other one-foot-in-the-grave-ers don't show up the knicks are in deeeep doodoo.
fortunately tomorrow night is against the nuggets. should be a cakewalk
Knicks win this game if they have Melo. If Felton tries to do too much it doesn't work. Fortunately he always seems remorseful and introspective after his super bad games and bounces back.
maybe. but the knicks looked tired. if melo had played maybe he makes them less tired but old teams on back to backs perform this way. look at what popovich does as an acknowledgement of this factor. if there ever was an excuse to shorten the season by 10 games it is that the players are playing longer but age can't be mitigated.
and you say "if" with felton-- i say "when" as in "he tries to do too much too often." in the thread about how well he is playing i listed, at misterearl's request, what constituted a bad game.
1) he can't stay in front of his assignment, forcing chandler to the bench with foul trouble-- this is the rule not the exception especially by the second round of the playoffs... should we make it that far.
2) he takes more than 14-15 shots and 4 or more are bad shots-- in 2 of the 4 losses he did just that. in the playoffs a bad shot is at least a momentum shifter and worse it leads to easy baskets for the opposition. in the playoffs a bad shot = turnover.
3) he overdribbles and commits more than 4 turnovers-- in the 5 games thus far with 4+ the knicks have lost 3 times.
he then responded with a pretty uncivil tone, after which i elucidated my points:
(1) if the perimeter defender cannot stay in front of his man then your shotblockers/shotchangers in the lane run the risk of getting into foul trouble. this is just common sense and fundamental basketball.
point (2) you used a game that we lost where he played well against arguably the #1 seed in the west. that was a good game for him which is why i did not include it. the response was focussing on his bad games in losses not good games in losses. but since you raise this as some sort of vindication, you should take a look at mike conley's game, where conley got into the lane repeatedly, and tyson chandler ended up with 5 fouls. conley's statline: 6-12, 8 assists, 2 TO, 2 steals, 60.1TS%. in other words, felton was outplayed in the loss to the grizzlies.
(3) you had better hope kidd does the orchestrating for this team, because relying on felton will jeopardize the team.
aside from crediting the chicago defense, kidd was tired. he's pushing 40! and when he gets tired he becomes ordinary, as his statline shows. and when he gets ordinary, felton implodes.
and why does felton implode? because he is not an orchestrator. he is playing the point guard position but lacks the requisite point guard skills.
as to melo helping, i am not sure if he can against this bulls squad. he doesn't do well when he is pressed. and i really don't see how anyone can say he "generates open looks" like this poster nupe has asserted. how does that work?
knicks win 38-43 games in 16-17. rose MUST shoot no more than 14 shots per game, defer to kp6 + melo, and have a usage rate of less than 25%
12/9/2012 12:19 PM
