TMS wrote:i find it hard to believe the coach is telling his player "OK, this is what i want u to do... whenever someone drives to the hole, stand there with your jazz hands up in the air & let him by you so he can get an easy basket."

ask Amare Stoudamire

McK1 wrote:

TMS wrote:i find it hard to believe the coach is telling his player "OK, this is what i want u to do... whenever someone drives to the hole, stand there with your jazz hands up in the air & let him by you so he can get an easy basket."

ask Amare Stoudamire

Amare would block a shot at least, or at least attempt to alter a guy's shot in the paint... Lee seems allergic to contact in the paint playing defense.

TMS wrote:

McK1 wrote:

TMS wrote:i find it hard to believe the coach is telling his player "OK, this is what i want u to do... whenever someone drives to the hole, stand there with your jazz hands up in the air & let him by you so he can get an easy basket."

ask Amare Stoudamire

Amare would block a shot at least, or at least attempt to alter a guy's shot in the paint... Lee seems allergic to contact in the paint playing defense.

Amare's jazz hands under Mike could've outcomposed Duke Ellington

TMS wrote:

TheGame wrote:I don't disagree that Hill and Darko should be getting more minutes, but at the same time, Lee should be putting more effort into his defense. This guy was rated as one of the most athletic guys in his draft class. He needs to hit the weights, build up some mass on his frame, and start dishing out some hard fouls and blocking some shots and stop worrying about foul trouble. That part of it is on Lee. Until he does that, MDA should not be starting him (that part is on MDA).

agreed 100%... but don't hold ur breathe on Lee dishing out hard fouls on guys, he doesn't have that in him... did u see him try & be a tough guy last night getting into Stephen Curry's face & cursing at him cuz he'd just gotten his shot stuffed cleanly by the rook... that was pretty ridiculous... let's see him get into Blake Griffin's face in the same situation... i really like Lee but lately he's becoming a joke.

I saw that clean block from Stephen Curry and David Lee's response, but I did not get what he tried to do. Particulary he did this in the garbage time. If he wants to send some message, that should happen much earlier in the game.

samuraiknicks wrote:

TMS wrote:

TheGame wrote:I don't disagree that Hill and Darko should be getting more minutes, but at the same time, Lee should be putting more effort into his defense. This guy was rated as one of the most athletic guys in his draft class. He needs to hit the weights, build up some mass on his frame, and start dishing out some hard fouls and blocking some shots and stop worrying about foul trouble. That part of it is on Lee. Until he does that, MDA should not be starting him (that part is on MDA).

agreed 100%... but don't hold ur breathe on Lee dishing out hard fouls on guys, he doesn't have that in him... did u see him try & be a tough guy last night getting into Stephen Curry's face & cursing at him cuz he'd just gotten his shot stuffed cleanly by the rook... that was pretty ridiculous... let's see him get into Blake Griffin's face in the same situation... i really like Lee but lately he's becoming a joke.

I saw that clean block from Stephen Curry and David Lee's response, but I did not get what he tried to do. Particulary he did this in the garbage time. If he wants to send some message, that should happen much earlier in the game.

too bad Curry didn't get into the game really until garbage time, Lee didn't have anyone to step to... if he'd gotten into Kelena Azabuike's face all those times he watched him drive to the hole for a wide open dunk he mighta gotten his face caved in from the aftershock.

Hill should play over Lee at this point, or try to ship Lee out ASAP with Jeffries, wait on Curry and then ship him out with Chandler

McK1 wrote:

TMS wrote:lol

I don't think lee is innocent in the least bit. I just feel he is probably the person being miscast the most especially on D and that goes to coaching moreso than to the player.

Lets be honest. MDA hasn't publically said this but its still the same "shotblocking is overrated" approach that Isiah used. It sounded stupid and incompetent then and it looks stupid and imcompetent now.

i don't disagree w/u here... if we had a stud shotblocking C then Lee would actually be a nice player to have... i think i've been 1 of the most outspoken advocates around here for bringing in a shotblocking presence... i thought Darko might help solve some of those problems but he hasn't been given enough of a run to make a difference one way or the other... as soon as MDA gets it into his head that playing Fishlips doesn't help us win games, the better... maybe it will free up some minutes for Darko & Hill to at least make guys think twice before strolling into the paint for easy layups.

LivingLegend wrote:

McK1 wrote:Mikki Mooore...aka the guy David Lee was responsible for...was invisible offensively the entire game.

HOWEVER,

Azabuke, aka Danilo's man..Ellis, Duhon's man..and Steven Jax, Chandler's man lit the Knicks up

Miki Moore sets a screen on Douglas who is guarding Ellis. Knicks switch Lee onto Ellis -- Ellis blows by Lee layup.

Repeat same scenario for everyone on the GS roster....Lee can't play the pick and roll. The sad part is -- if we don't switch -- Lee can't play the big guy on the roll either -- they just roll take a pass and dunk on us.

Lee is worthless on that end of the court.

I've never seen anyone softer at the 4 or 5 position.

Mikki Moore was invisible because he's Mikki Moore... he's a scrub... u still think Jordan Hill reminds u of that guy dude? come on... i know u can tell the difference in those 2 guys at this point even w/the limited sample, it's not too hard to see.