DrAlphaeus wrote:

broadwaystorm wrote:We lost because both our starting guards are garbage.

Just over here in radioland but wasn't there some guard who came off OKC's bench and hit four threes? Who was that?

payne

Knicks1969 wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Another "moral" victory

thanks to fisher

Some of you need to wake up and find a basketball IQ. Fisher just caoched a great game and brought us to OT against OKC without Melo. Great coaching job.

We could ands should have won this game. The last four possessions in regulation with AA isolating are the reasons why we lost. Who do you blame ??? Some of you will kill AA, but as a coach, when you called two TOs and drew the same play to feed the same dude who missed in the previous two possessions, you have to assume some of the blames

Agreed..surprisingly.

dk7th wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Another "moral" victory

thanks to fisher

Some of you need to wake up and find a basketball IQ. Fisher just caoched a great game and brought us to OT against OKC without Melo. Great coaching job.

i am sorry but how many iso affalo did we see play after play after play in the last 5 mins of 4th quarter. i mean are you kidding me that he coached a good game...its not how you start...it's how you finish

coaches coach and players are supposed to execute. afflalo is not executing what the coach is play calling.

this AND spurs loss...both absolutely on fisher!

Clean wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Another "moral" victory

thanks to fisher

Some of you need to wake up and find a basketball IQ. Fisher just caoched a great game and brought us to OT against OKC without Melo. Great coaching job.

He coached a good game until crunch time. Force feeding AA in a game where he is shooting 5 for 19 is not good coaching. Every timeout the play ran went straight to AA in the post.

Yea definitely not one of Fishers finest coaching performances. Phil can't be to thrilled

WP76 wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

WP76 wrote:I don't put this one on Fisher. Players gotta make shots and our designated "go to" guy in this game came up small.

yes, but who called his number over and over and over again...miss after miss

Again, like Riley did with Starks once upon a time. Coaches go with their gut. AA makes one of those shots and this conversation is completely different. Who's to say another player would've done any better? We don't and it's pure second guessing since the result wasn't what we wanted.

Since when did Afflalo become a clutch player or scorer .. Afflalo career is more inconsistent than JRsmith
Last year Portland was mad as hell for trading for Afflalo on the deadline LMAO

CrushAlot wrote:

dk7th wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

Cartman718 wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Another "moral" victory

thanks to fisher

Some of you need to wake up and find a basketball IQ. Fisher just caoched a great game and brought us to OT against OKC without Melo. Great coaching job.

i am sorry but how many iso affalo did we see play after play after play in the last 5 mins of 4th quarter. i mean are you kidding me that he coached a good game...its not how you start...it's how you finish

coaches coach and players are supposed to execute. afflalo is not executing what the coach is play calling.

Fisher's team consistently plays well when he gets some practice time with them. The missed shot at the end of regulation was a good shot. Overall a tough night for Afflalo.

very well said, as usual crush. agree completely. i find it amazing how much people try and blame coaching. afflalo hits shot as executed, the knicks win. fisher drew up a perfect play for afflalo, he got a good look and he didn't make it.

mreinman wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:Some want to blame AA, but it is fisher's job to dictate who the ball should go to on offense. Right after TO, he ran the same play

I hope to god you are wrong because if Fisher is calling these plays we might as well re-hire Michael J. Woodson. At least we'd be better defensively. This team can't stop anyone. Not even bad teams

of course he called those plays. Can't believe there are posters that think this is/may not be the case

Yea you are right especially like Knicks1969 said. Same play drawn up twice right out of a timeout

nyknickzingis wrote:Afflalo was the most aggressive player. That's part of why he got the ball. That's a place where KP has to step up and say "ME". He was getting far better looks than AA. If Melo is out there, ball goes to Melo in those situations as he'd be the most aggressive. KP came out aggressive as heck in this game, but then as Fish went more with Seraphin/Williams, Porzingis just sat out and didn't seem in rhythm when he came back in.

That said, it's imperative that the Knicks don't use a 2 guard in the Triangle who doesn't know how to see an open teammate. Afflalo has tunnel vision when he plays, and it's not something that works well as a core player. He's great for the bench. Pretty much been saying this all season. Grant/Galloway/Calderon are enough at PG. The Tri doesn't ask for more than what you get from those 3. It's about defense, and when Grant/Galloway get more experienced we're far more set at the PG spot than people realize because of their defensive ability (As opposed to Calderon, who isn't able to defend).

The posting up is also something this team needs to be careful with. It should be their last resort in offense, not first. They should go to the post up or iso when they can't get anything else. Instead they dump the ball in for an iso very early at times, and that's a huge mistake.

That said, I think Fisher could have drawn up a better play that got more people involved. I felt we should have exploited Westbrooks eager ness to double team to hit an open man...