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Isiah Needs to Wake Up
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fishmike
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1/20/2007  12:05 PM
where were they last night?

your best players play.
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TheGame
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1/20/2007  12:05 PM
Why didn't we play Balkman more yesterday? I understand why Lee did not play as much yesterday because we needed Frye's shooting and Lee cannot guard Carter or Jefferson, but why wasn't Balkman in the game. Jeffries was doing absolutely nothing and we needed a rebounding shot-blocking high energy guy in the game. Balkman can actually guard Jefferson and would have helped our energy out there. IT needs to just suck it up and sit Jeffries and play Balkman more. I still hope that Jeffries can work on his game this summer and come back next year and justify his signing, but we are losing games trying to give this guy minutes IMHO.
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fishmike
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1/20/2007  12:06 PM
Posted by Queeniepop:

Isiah's coaching IS very suspect in my opinion. Though he is a good motivator, I think he is playing the wrong guys to start...he should stop using his time-out juice card from the sidelines plus he just sits there and watches the damn game like a fan. He is so jaded about Jared Jeffries, he doesnt use Frye in any sort of productive capacity and he refuses to see what was successful. OPEN YOUR EYES, MAN!

Jamal...committed to getting the ball to Curry and KNOWS how to- - most creative passer...allows Steph to SCORE and play off the ball...JC is much more effective player as a starter...look at the stats- ITS TRUE...plus he takes pressure off Marbury and is comfortable being a third/fourth option

Stephon...we need him to be more aggressive earlier in the game...we need him to SCORE more in the flow of the offense...by taking him off the ball, it will allow him to exploit his strengths more rather than dribbling out the clock trying to get Curry the ball...plus Q gives him a good outside option to kick the ball to and he and Jamal have chemistry

Q...good D...can guard a SF and play like one...can shoot the rock...has two PG's to pass the ball so he can worry about D and hitting shots plus his rebounding helps us tremendously

Lee.."The Eraser"...he erases our guards and our rebounding-challenged center's mistakes...can hit FT's too...can make plays for Curry and can pass out the guards

Curry...needs the ball early and often...has a great rebounder in Lee next to him and a guard he has great chemistry with in Jamal...also Q can help when he passes out the double on the perimeter and in the rebounding dept. Marbury helps him because it takes the pressure off of him when he is being double teamed because Steph also commands attention

BENCH

Jared...come off the bench dude...you barely play and he should be used situationally...to help with guard D esp if you use Jamal and Curry in a two-man game or in helping Frye (who is offensively gifted enough to be a sixth man)

Frye...as mentioned, offensively gifted enough to be a sixth-man...not a string defender but if you use defensive players around him, esp with guys that can step out and shoot a la Jeffries, he'll be okay playing the opponents second team...OR USE HIM AS THE DAMN BACK UP C.

Balkman...use him situationally as well. Can handle the ball in trasition.

Nate...can be used as an energizer off the bench but he is not committed to learning the pt guard position AT ALL. We should prob get some type of vet guard so we can play Nate off the ball.

CATO...get him out of a suit. You cannot ask Lee to play the 5 when Curry is out of the game and you wont use Channing as a C.


[Edited by - QUEENIEPOP on 01-19-2007 10:41 PM]
good post. Nice to know someone is actually watching. You get your best, most productive players that play the best together the most minutes you can

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1/20/2007  12:13 PM
Posted by bigbeast:

There is a nother team out there competing with the Knicks. How about giving the other team some credit for playing good D instead of always ripping our players apart.

Collins guarded Curry at a 3/4 position (on his side) while he got help from defenders behind which made it difficult to feed the ball into Curry.

Starting Lee wasn't going to change the outcome of that game. Frye shot the ball well last night. Lee aint capable of chasing around Vince or Rj on the perimeter. Bottom line, you want best players out there in crunch time and Lee and Craw are usually on the court. How it this an indictment on Isiah? If anything he's showing the utmost confidence in Lee and craw.

If Isiah went with this lineup:
Marb
CRaw
Q
Lee
Curry

Where is the energy off the bench comming from? Where are the tempo changers? (thats waht you want from your bench players) How many minutes does Frye get and what if if Jay is off, wheres the production off the bench? It aint comming from jj2.
Knicks bench-19 points 3ast 12rebs........... THe point is it isn't coming off the bench now. Frye and JJ2 need to go to the bench, they can bring the "energy and change of pace" while crawford dand Lee, I dunno go for about 35 pointsand 20 reb bounds as starters.
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1/20/2007  12:18 PM
Lee was pulled quickly after he let Robinson shoot two wide open jumpers...Craw had an awful shooting night again...How you see this as the answer to the Knicks getting over the hump is beyond me...Marbs mounted that comeback single handedly...
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1/20/2007  12:49 PM
Because the subject is broken into two types of thoughts. Feelings and Facts.
Feelings are Craw is the perfect sixth man and is better suited to play that roll, Facts are no he plays worst.

Feelings are JC and Lee will get the same mintues at the end of the game and that's what rally matters, Facts are they get the same minutes and aren't as productive off the bench.

Feelings are JC and Lee only bring scoring(JC) and Rebounding(Lee) if they aren't doing that then they are having a terrible game, Facts are over the course of the game Lee and JC bring more things then just that to help the team play better.

Feelings are we are beter team with them on the bench with their bad D and lee not being a threat hurts curry, facts are we are still losing because of bad D, Curry still get's tripled teamed and now we don't even run score the same amount of points!!!!!!!!!

[Edited by - anji on 01-20-2007 12:51 PM]
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Isiah Needs to Wake Up

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