fitzfarm wrote:martin wrote:fitzfarm wrote:martin wrote:knicks1248 wrote:martin wrote:blkexec wrote:And yes....I will always consider the starting PG to be the extention of the coach....At least thats how it should be. The PG usually has the ball in his hands most of the game, and the PG sets the tone and calls the plays. This team could really use a better in game sigal caller. Calderon is not that type of player....Hes a knock down shooter. Melo is not a PG, he's a scorer. A solid PG would put everybody in their natural positions. And AA wouldn't have dominated the ball so much down the stretch.....And we posibly would've won.....But we can't win until we lose close games like this, against a championship caliber team. I think playing more athletes and transition defenders helped us stay in this game......
I haven't seen much of Jose prior to him joining the Knicks, but I thought that he would know by now how to recognize and call a better game. There are just too many simple PG plays that he completely misses and I am still flabbergasted. Fast break 2-on-1 or 3-on-1 and he makes the wrong pass. Just ran a simple PnR or fed ball to a post up where Knicks player got an easy basket.... next time down the court run it again until other team can prove they can defend it? KP on a hot streak shooting... find him the ball again?
Jose keeps missing these types of fairly easy stuff. He can shoot, he can move the ball, he's average at running a team and that most of all is hurting the Knicks. And his defense absolutely sucks but we already knew that.
But you are very supportive of fishers rotation, so im not sure what your proposing
I am not proposing anything here and didn't at all suggest anything about Fisher's rotations.
If you don't start Jose, who do you start? Gallo? He's a solid player but clearly not a PG. Grant is lost. Also, Gallo off the bench gives you at least 1 guard who comes in and sparks.
You want to start Gallo... and what if he doesn't fit in and makes things worse (his shooting crumbles again and the offense is worse)? Then you switch again with 2 guys in disarray?
Gallo has been progressing nicely, so why **** with that? Long term is he better where he is or starting? I don't think Gallo is a starter in this league.
Gallo is fitting in and then finishing games. That's nice progression.
What do you propose on Fisher's rotations that is just not switch it up for switching sake?
The fact that a talent like grant is lost... Why the guy is a pure pg.. is it system? Lack of coaching ? I'm really not worried about this kids shot, he's still the best pg on the team at penetrating and dishing to the open man.. He's also a plus defender ... I terms of shot won't his confidance go up with more time? Not just randomly thrown into a few minutes or playing the whole 4th ...
With fish this rookie isn't sure if he's playing at all or if he is playing crunch time minutes working hard to set up Melo,KP,or AA ...
He plays lost cause the coach is lost.
Gallo, KP sure aint lost and getting much better very quickly with their time in NY. Grant was getting very consistent minutes with the same 4-6 guys in the beggining of the season and then started to both miss shots and play more hesitantly, he needs to get his head on straight and make sure his balls are still intact.
Gallo and KP heck throw Lance Thomas in there are all playing consistent minutes ... Grant and d will on the other hand don't know when or how long they will play..
Dwill and grant deserve to know their roles... Grant didn't deserve his minutes to get cut same goes for dwill... Esp dwill why cause LT sucks fish and cups the balls ... If we had consistency in our rotation from the beginning of the season both grant and dwill would be contributing heavily in the second unit .... The same second unit that was beating the first unit in practice on a daily basis ...
I'm def not saying grant is a starting pg but why take away his minutes for who Sasha please
This seems simplistic to me. Just give a player minute and surely they will perform?
You don't think the likes of career role players and assistant coaches and players that were former champs in Fish, Rambis, Cleamons and the rest don't understand the need of role players?
How about if those coaches have been asking specific things of the players and have been very clear to them what their expectation of play is and let them know how to earn more minutes?
I like to put pressure on the player to perform and grab deserving minutes.
I do expect Grant to grab extra minutes going forward by the nature of his arc and learning curve as a rookie, etc. DWill got to play D, rebound, not switch as much and make smart decisions and his time will go up, just like LT's.
