newyorknewyork wrote:misterearl wrote:"Talent does not make cohesiveness, compatible styles make cohesiveness" newyorknewyork wrote:Lin and Smith both should start. Though it will take a couple games with Smith as I feel if he plays with Melo and Amare and Chandler he will be held in check more. If he plays with a 2nd unit as its best player he will revert to chucking as he won't trust his teammates as much.
Starting JR over Landry is a bad idea. Fields provided the couch and he and Lin are best buddies. Why break up da two yoots?
On the second shift, Baron Davis will keep JR Smith in check with his juice card. Let the vets work it out.
Fields is a better SF then SG. Smith and Melo open up the paint for Lin which will make him better as he will have way more space to work with when he penetrates or uses the PNR. Or have guys that can actually knock down the open 3s on a consistent basis.
Fields, Melo, Amare, Chandler only gives Lin 1 quality outside shooting option, which lead to packed paints which lead to him getting beat up or turn overs.
Min production IMO should be broken down like
Lin 28/Davis 20
Smith 24/Shump 24
Melo 24/Fields 24
Amare 24/*Jeffries 12/Melo 10
Chandler 34/ *Harrleson 8/ Amare 6
*Swap Novak for Harrleson while he is out and swap Jeffries and Novak at PF & C.
I agree with everything you're saying especially when you consider our best scorers in the starting unit (Lin,Anthony and Stat) all work best 15 ft and in which leads to a traffic jam in the paint. Fields is more of a get out in transition, baseline, garbage-put backs type player in the molds of Cedric Ceballos. He does nothing to space the floor as Smith would. However, I am concerned about Fields losing his confidence if he is benched. Also, how would Lin react?
Either way, I would leave Fields in the starting lineup for now but keep him on a short leash. Depending on the game, JR most likely would finish the games.
