ScoreBot wrote:

Final  
NYK 96 HOU 109

Schooled by Lin and the Rockets...AGAIN!

tkf wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

tkf wrote:so let me get this straight... felton is the scapegoat now?

Nope.

Its not his fault - it EVIL MELO'S FAULT

LOL

dude felton is not a bad guy, pretty good player,but he and brewer were the same guys I thought they were.. yet we had multiple love threads for felton and brewer while trashing lin and fields..

go figure..

Not a bad guy. Agreed.

You like or dislike guys but I am never sure why. Are you a stat geek or not? Is a TS of 47 percent a "pretty good" player? How about WS? Or, only when it is convenient? It is not bad for 4 mil though.

Fields was/is trash - I know you stick to our picks but you gotta cut the chord on this one.

Brewer is better than he has shown (IMHO)

AnubisADL wrote:I love Felton at 4 million per. I dont love Felton at 8 million per.

Just like I dont mind Smith playing like ass when he is making 2.5 million.

Could not agree more!

JR is a STEAL at 2.5, Woody just has to use him smartly

Felton is a good deal at 4 million but now we have a 4 million dollar PG

Anji wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:I love Felton at 4 million per. I dont love Felton at 8 million per.

Just like I dont mind Smith playing like ass when he is making 2.5 million.

Could not agree more!

JR is a STEAL at 2.5, Woody just has to use him smartly

Felton is a good deal at 4 million but now we have a 4 million dollar PG

4 million dollar point guard is the main reason we are 2-2 with Melo right now.

not sure what you mean

FoeDiddy wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

TeamBall wrote:While I get - and agree- with the Felton criticism, I still think he plays closer to what we saw at the beginning of the season at full strength

based on his career numbers I would say that the beginning of the season was the anomaly

This 1000%

16 and 7 assist at 40% with less attempts. I'll take that for what we paid and melo, chandler and amre taking Thr bulk of the shots. Throw in once every 4 games him going off. Nothing wrong with that. Like I said u can't have a allstar at every position. Past champions have proven u don't need a stud or even an above average pg to win.

What team (non triangle offense and Houston) won it all with a weak PG?

And even those triangle teams had low usage/high IQ guys at the position and so did Houston which was a team built with shooters just waiting for a kick out.

The Knicks run a PG-centric offense

FoeDiddy wrote:

arkrud wrote:We get a good start but we know our weeknesses.
We are old and slow. To compensate we need a lot of bodies plaing short minutes.
When inguries came this became painfully clear.
Kid canot do it well in more that 20 min.
Felton need to be reinfirced and kept in check. Olter old dudes will be in and out.
The teem will go as far as Melo will take them.
It was clear right from the start and nothing changed.
As season will go on and minutes will add up we will see more struggles.
The hope is that STAT and shrimp will come back and bring some game with them. But who knows?

Like any elite team. If Durant goes down, Kobe, rose, Duncan, Lebron, garnett

+100. This is the point that I was trying to make earlier. The Knicks started the season injury-hit so they needed everybody to stay healthy til those guys returned. Now that other guys have gone down, including the superstar, they're starting to feel it. Luckily, Melo's injury isn't long term.

yellowboy90 wrote:Ol' bruise hands had a bad night. Old man kidd too. Chanler didn't do anything on D but shove Lin. Brewer sucked and needs a week or two vacation to rest his hand and knee.

Very bad game.

Luckily they'll all get a much needed rest around New Years. I believe they've got about three days off around that time.

mrKnickShot wrote:

FoeDiddy wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:

TeamBall wrote:While I get - and agree- with the Felton criticism, I still think he plays closer to what we saw at the beginning of the season at full strength

based on his career numbers I would say that the beginning of the season was the anomaly

This 1000%

16 and 7 assist at 40% with less attempts. I'll take that for what we paid and melo, chandler and amre taking Thr bulk of the shots. Throw in once every 4 games him going off. Nothing wrong with that. Like I said u can't have a allstar at every position. Past champions have proven u don't need a stud or even an above average pg to win.

What team (non triangle offense and Houston) won it all with a weak PG?

And even those triangle teams had low usage/high IQ guys at the position and so did Houston which was a team built with shooters just waiting for a kick out.

The Knicks run a PG-centric offense

Miami, Dallas, lakers..Knicks do not run a pg centric offense...they run a melo and when healthy amare centric offense just like Dallas ran a dirk centric offense. Things look pg centric when u remove the stud players out the equation.