BRIGGS wrote:knicks1248 wrote:Phil needs to hire a real coachThe 19 3-pointers the Warriors registered were the most the Knicks had ever allowed in a game — the final indignity to Derek Fisher’s poor 3-point defense.
This is not about bad defenders, this about a bad game plan night in and night out.
knicks1248--what coach could do materially better than Fischer with this group? You think if Phil himself was coaching wed already be at 50 wins???? 
I'm not saying that, It's one thing to have bad defenders, it's entirely another story when you have a bad defensive philosophy.
So your telling your bad defenders to playoff of 3 point shooters and protect the paint as if they are quick enough or strong enough to recover in time, or fight through a screen. You can have a all 1st team defense out there, wouldn't matter all that much, we would still be getting torch from the land of 3, because of the system..
It's the same with any coaches defensive philosophy, woodson and MDA believe that switching was the best way to defend, so despite having a few solid defenders like shump, and tyson, we still saw tyson get lit up by opposing guards, and shump getting caught defending a big in the post.