Dagger wrote:

dk7th wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:with 3 guards in our starting line up and a center who can't create his own shot.

Were not going to be the heat with out passing the ball A LOT.

I just don't understand why woodson is hell bent on making this a predictable team..

I feel very confident saying that our guard play will cost us come playoff time. We need to completely rebuild the backcourt.

Really?

But isn't Felton back?

back to giving the ball to melo for a clear out iso..

same thing with kidd, when ever the PnR isn't there we go right to melo, or jr..

We never run even when we have a fast break opportunity (maybe felton) but kidd will slow it down immediately, him of all people.

Yes. Very little innovation by Woody but we have players who just plain can't shoot. Not a good thing.

Funny how well Melo was playing when his teammates were scoring, it opened up the floor. You can have spacing when players can't hit shots.

The reason behind the players not hitting shots? When the ball stagnates as it does with Felton and Carmelo handling the ball the vast majority of the time... shooting percentages will have to go down. These are pros but they are human. Selfishness has its downside.

Your fixation on Melo has really gotten out of hand. I know I'm not the only one that thinks this. If your hatred is really to the point that you can't write one comment without bashing Melo then maybe you should consider whether writing these comments is worth your time. A lot of people here don't like Melo, but he is not the center of their universe. This is the New York Knicks team, not the New York Melos, even if his iso makes it seem like that sometimes. Melo deserves a lot of criticism, but to pretend he is EVERYTHING wrong with this team is incorrect, foolish, and flat-out ridiculous. There may be plenty of "moobies" on this sight, or whatever people call them, but the opposite is no better.

my fixation is on the players who are most responsible for underachieving.

usage rate tells you how often the ball is in a player's hands. carmelo's usage is 34.3%. but in terms of creativity for all the time the ball is in his hands he makes a paltry 2.7 assists. moreover the ratio of usage rate to assist rate-- assist rate being the amount of time in percent that the team manages to assist a player on his basket-- is a bad 2.41:1. these numbers are not conducive to teamwork. and finally, lets take a peek at his TS%. just how efficient is he? he started off great but has since regressed to close to his career average. it is this mediocre and soon to be less-than-mediocre average that reinforces what we see during games, namely, that he takes way too many bad shots. and his defense is also far below the level necessary from what it needs to be.

felton? same exact issues. the numbers are damning. smith? doesn't get to the line nearly enough. he clearly does not like contact. so he too ends up taking bad shots.

ball movement establishes rhythm and cohesion and rhythm and cohesion establishes focus for shooters. anybody who has played this game in an organized fashion knows this.

a solid pick and roll game is also a great way to score efficiently.

in my opinion, the least desirable way to try and score is the drive and kick that has become fashionable since the advent of the rule changes surrounding palming and traveling. this allows lesser ballhandlers such as felton, marbury, francis, westbrook, and yes even rose-- who lack genuine court vision, lack the instinct to pass the ball in traffic, and lack the ability to maintain their dribble-- to remain underachievers.