nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

For me Jerian has several things holding him back right now.

1. He's not aggressive enough. He should be pushing the ball like Sasha does. It gives the team a shot to catch the D before it's fully set and more time on the shot clock to run half court stuff. Everytime I see him come up slow with his mini chop steps it drives me crazy. He most certainly has another gear and should be pushing and probing early.

2. He's not strong enough. He actually looks smaller than he did coming into the season. He can't handle contact at all.

3. He's not decisive enough. He has to come off drag screens like he's on fire. He shouldn't be picking up his dribble so much. He gets stuck like that way too often. He looks to feed the post way too much. It's an option but you don't have to take it every time down. For instance they give RoLo the ball even after he's been pushed out too far. A PG must recognize when it's not smart to give a big the ball and instead call him out for a pick.

If u dont know .. here some news on Grant, Grant's family played pro-ball so they made sure Grant stay in college to receive his bachelor-degree before entering the draft.
Grant n Gallo NBA skills would have enhance 5 time more than it did this season if they weren't always put into a lineup with bad decsion-making isolation players Melo AA n Calderon controlling the ball

I dont care what anyone say "The Knicks coaches coached to LOSE games !!!"
Our coaches put out a POOR BUM starter lineup of Calderon Afflalo Melo n Porzingis for the season.
They showed to be four bum isolation-starters having a high-school b.ball IQ .. I said it!
The Four Knicks starter performance and so-call chemistry turned out be a classical highlight laughter of a failure triangle built to LOSE!
I dont see any of the 2016 offseason TOP FA players wanting to be on the court next season with any of our Four Bum Starters if we pay them twice their worth.

Our 7 yr veteran center Rolo showed great talent on both sides of the court while being in the same lineup with our four BUM starters to start each game.
It makes me think .. maybe it was Rolo idea not to play in the 4th quarter with 4 four isolation starters.

Kemet wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

For me Jerian has several things holding him back right now.

1. He's not aggressive enough. He should be pushing the ball like Sasha does. It gives the team a shot to catch the D before it's fully set and more time on the shot clock to run half court stuff. Everytime I see him come up slow with his mini chop steps it drives me crazy. He most certainly has another gear and should be pushing and probing early.

2. He's not strong enough. He actually looks smaller than he did coming into the season. He can't handle contact at all.

3. He's not decisive enough. He has to come off drag screens like he's on fire. He shouldn't be picking up his dribble so much. He gets stuck like that way too often. He looks to feed the post way too much. It's an option but you don't have to take it every time down. For instance they give RoLo the ball even after he's been pushed out too far. A PG must recognize when it's not smart to give a big the ball and instead call him out for a pick.

If u dont know .. here some news on Grant, Grant's family played pro-ball so they made sure Grant stay in college to receive his bachelor-degree before entering the draft.
Grant n Gallo NBA skills would have enhance 5 time more than it did this season if they weren't always put into a lineup with bad decsion-making isolation players Melo AA n Calderon controlling the ball

I dont care what anyone say "The Knicks coaches coached to LOSE games !!!"
Our coaches put out a POOR BUM starter lineup of Calderon Afflalo Melo n Porzingis for the season.
They showed to be four bum isolation-starters having a high-school b.ball IQ .. I said it!
The Four Knicks starter performance and so-call chemistry turned out be a classical highlight laughter of a failure triangle built to LOSE!
I dont see any of the 2016 offseason TOP FA players wanting to be on the court next season with any of our Four Bum Starters if we pay them twice their worth.

Our 7 yr veteran center Rolo showed great talent on both sides of the court while being in the same lineup with our four BUM starters to start each game.
It makes me think .. maybe it was Rolo idea not to play in the 4th quarter with 4 four isolation starters.

Just to be clear about who the best players on the roster are, here are the Knicks Win Share 48 and other advanced stats for this season:

Rk  Player	      Age G  MP   PER  TS%  3PAr  FTr  TRB%  AST%  STL%  BLK%  TOV%  USG%  WS  WS/48 ▾ OBPM  DBPM  BPM  VORP
1  Robin Lopez	      27  77 2070 17.5 .585 .002  .240 14.6   8.3  0.4   4.3   15.7  17.4  5.5 .127    0.1   1.2   1.4  1.8
2  Derrick Williams   24  75 1294 17.5 .549 .264  .488 11.2   9.1  1.1   0.5   7.9   23.5  3.3 .124    0.0  -2.4  -2.5 -0.2
3  Carmelo Anthony    31  69 2442 20.4 .531 .237  .307 12.1  21.9  1.3   1.0   10.7  29.7  6.2 .121    2.9  -0.3   2.6  2.8
4  Kyle O'Quinn       25  60  684 17.4 .530 .084  .230 17.2  16.0  1.5   4.7   17.8  21.2  0.4 .104   -1.7   2.4   0.8  0.5
5  Kristaps Porzingis 20  72 2047 17.8 .518 .274  .271 14.0   7.8  1.3   5.0   10.9  24.6  4.4 .102   -0.8   0.9   0.1	1.1
6  Jose Calderon      34  72 2024 12.4 .571 .446  .105	6.2  22.4  1.6   0.3   15.4  12.6  4.0 .096    0.5  -0.6  -0.1	1.0
7  Langston Galloway  24  77 1884 11.9 .502 .387  .193	7.9  15.2  1.9   0.8    9.0  15.5  3.2 .082   -0.3   0.1  -0.1	0.9
8  Lance Thomas       27  59 1313 10.4 .557 .285  .312	5.5   6.4  0.9   0.4   11.6  16.9  1.7 .062   -1.1  -2.0  -3.1 -0.4
9  Arron Afflalo      30  66 2226 11.0 .533 .294  .166	6.1   9.8  0.5   0.3	8.8  18.0  1.7 .055   -0.6   1.8  -2.3 -0.2
10 Sasha Vujacic      31  56  762  9.5 .468 .507  .145	9.0  13.6  2.0   0.4   13.6  16.6  0.5 .034   -1.8  -0.6  -2.4 -0.1
11 Lou Amundson       33  27  193  8.4 .417 .000  .510 13.0   9.3  1.6   2.8   15.5  16.7  0.1 .022   -4.3   0.7  -3.6 -0.1
12 Jerian Grant       23  71 1109 10.4 .463 .252  .300	6.1  22.1  1.9   0.6   16.6  18.7  0.4 .019   -2.8  -1.2  -4.1 -0.6
13 Kevin Seraphin     26  45  489 11.2 .438 .010  .120 12.5  15.6  0.8   5.1   16.9  22.5 -0.1 -0.014 -5.6   1.3  -4.3 -0.3

knickscity wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Kemet wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

For me Jerian has several things holding him back right now.

1. He's not aggressive enough. He should be pushing the ball like Sasha does. It gives the team a shot to catch the D before it's fully set and more time on the shot clock to run half court stuff. Everytime I see him come up slow with his mini chop steps it drives me crazy. He most certainly has another gear and should be pushing and probing early.

2. He's not strong enough. He actually looks smaller than he did coming into the season. He can't handle contact at all.

3. He's not decisive enough. He has to come off drag screens like he's on fire. He shouldn't be picking up his dribble so much. He gets stuck like that way too often. He looks to feed the post way too much. It's an option but you don't have to take it every time down. For instance they give RoLo the ball even after he's been pushed out too far. A PG must recognize when it's not smart to give a big the ball and instead call him out for a pick.

If u dont know .. here some news on Grant, Grant's family played pro-ball so they made sure Grant stay in college to receive his bachelor-degree before entering the draft.
Grant n Gallo NBA skills would have enhance 5 time more than it did this season if they weren't always put into a lineup with bad decsion-making isolation players Melo AA n Calderon controlling the ball

I dont care what anyone say "The Knicks coaches coached to LOSE games !!!"
Our coaches put out a POOR BUM starter lineup of Calderon Afflalo Melo n Porzingis for the season.
They showed to be four bum isolation-starters having a high-school b.ball IQ .. I said it!
The Four Knicks starter performance and so-call chemistry turned out be a classical highlight laughter of a failure triangle built to LOSE!
I dont see any of the 2016 offseason TOP FA players wanting to be on the court next season with any of our Four Bum Starters if we pay them twice their worth.

Our 7 yr veteran center Rolo showed great talent on both sides of the court while being in the same lineup with our four BUM starters to start each game.
It makes me think .. maybe it was Rolo idea not to play in the 4th quarter with 4 four isolation starters.

I understand your passion about this subject but i'm afraid that facts do matter. This team needs an influx of talent but the guys that played were for the most part the guys that should play. This team will win when they improve the guards and wings to a much higher level than we have currently.

Just to be clear about who the best players on the roster are, here are the Knicks Win Share 48 and other advanced stats for this season:

Rk  Player	      Age G  MP   PER  TS%  3PAr  FTr  TRB%  AST%  STL%  BLK%  TOV%  USG%  WS  WS/48 ▾ OBPM  DBPM  BPM  VORP
1  Robin Lopez	      27  77 2070 17.5 .585 .002  .240 14.6   8.3  0.4   4.3   15.7  17.4  5.5 .127    0.1   1.2   1.4  1.8
2  Derrick Williams   24  75 1294 17.5 .549 .264  .488 11.2   9.1  1.1   0.5   7.9   23.5  3.3 .124    0.0  -2.4  -2.5 -0.2
3  Carmelo Anthony    31  69 2442 20.4 .531 .237  .307 12.1  21.9  1.3   1.0   10.7  29.7  6.2 .121    2.9  -0.3   2.6  2.8
4  Kyle O'Quinn       25  60  684 17.4 .530 .084  .230 17.2  16.0  1.5   4.7   17.8  21.2  0.4 .104   -1.7   2.4   0.8  0.5
5  Kristaps Porzingis 20  72 2047 17.8 .518 .274  .271 14.0   7.8  1.3   5.0   10.9  24.6  4.4 .102   -0.8   0.9   0.1	1.1
6  Jose Calderon      34  72 2024 12.4 .571 .446  .105	6.2  22.4  1.6   0.3   15.4  12.6  4.0 .096    0.5  -0.6  -0.1	1.0
7  Langston Galloway  24  77 1884 11.9 .502 .387  .193	7.9  15.2  1.9   0.8    9.0  15.5  3.2 .082   -0.3   0.1  -0.1	0.9
8  Lance Thomas       27  59 1313 10.4 .557 .285  .312	5.5   6.4  0.9   0.4   11.6  16.9  1.7 .062   -1.1  -2.0  -3.1 -0.4
9  Arron Afflalo      30  66 2226 11.0 .533 .294  .166	6.1   9.8  0.5   0.3	8.8  18.0  1.7 .055   -0.6   1.8  -2.3 -0.2
10 Sasha Vujacic      31  56  762  9.5 .468 .507  .145	9.0  13.6  2.0   0.4   13.6  16.6  0.5 .034   -1.8  -0.6  -2.4 -0.1
11 Lou Amundson       33  27  193  8.4 .417 .000  .510 13.0   9.3  1.6   2.8   15.5  16.7  0.1 .022   -4.3   0.7  -3.6 -0.1
12 Jerian Grant       23  71 1109 10.4 .463 .252  .300	6.1  22.1  1.9   0.6   16.6  18.7  0.4 .019   -2.8  -1.2  -4.1 -0.6
13 Kevin Seraphin     26  45  489 11.2 .438 .010  .120 12.5  15.6  0.8   5.1   16.9  22.5 -0.1 -0.014 -5.6   1.3  -4.3 -0.3

stats are subjective, but even using your list it would lean to Derrick Williams should have played more, Afflalo played way too much an in reality we only have 3-4 decent to solid players.

knickscity wrote:

nixluva wrote:

knickscity wrote:

nixluva wrote:

Kemet wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

For me Jerian has several things holding him back right now.

1. He's not aggressive enough. He should be pushing the ball like Sasha does. It gives the team a shot to catch the D before it's fully set and more time on the shot clock to run half court stuff. Everytime I see him come up slow with his mini chop steps it drives me crazy. He most certainly has another gear and should be pushing and probing early.

2. He's not strong enough. He actually looks smaller than he did coming into the season. He can't handle contact at all.

3. He's not decisive enough. He has to come off drag screens like he's on fire. He shouldn't be picking up his dribble so much. He gets stuck like that way too often. He looks to feed the post way too much. It's an option but you don't have to take it every time down. For instance they give RoLo the ball even after he's been pushed out too far. A PG must recognize when it's not smart to give a big the ball and instead call him out for a pick.

If u dont know .. here some news on Grant, Grant's family played pro-ball so they made sure Grant stay in college to receive his bachelor-degree before entering the draft.
Grant n Gallo NBA skills would have enhance 5 time more than it did this season if they weren't always put into a lineup with bad decsion-making isolation players Melo AA n Calderon controlling the ball

I dont care what anyone say "The Knicks coaches coached to LOSE games !!!"
Our coaches put out a POOR BUM starter lineup of Calderon Afflalo Melo n Porzingis for the season.
They showed to be four bum isolation-starters having a high-school b.ball IQ .. I said it!
The Four Knicks starter performance and so-call chemistry turned out be a classical highlight laughter of a failure triangle built to LOSE!
I dont see any of the 2016 offseason TOP FA players wanting to be on the court next season with any of our Four Bum Starters if we pay them twice their worth.

Our 7 yr veteran center Rolo showed great talent on both sides of the court while being in the same lineup with our four BUM starters to start each game.
It makes me think .. maybe it was Rolo idea not to play in the 4th quarter with 4 four isolation starters.

I understand your passion about this subject but i'm afraid that facts do matter. This team needs an influx of talent but the guys that played were for the most part the guys that should play. This team will win when they improve the guards and wings to a much higher level than we have currently.

Just to be clear about who the best players on the roster are, here are the Knicks Win Share 48 and other advanced stats for this season:

Rk  Player	      Age G  MP   PER  TS%  3PAr  FTr  TRB%  AST%  STL%  BLK%  TOV%  USG%  WS  WS/48 ▾ OBPM  DBPM  BPM  VORP
1  Robin Lopez	      27  77 2070 17.5 .585 .002  .240 14.6   8.3  0.4   4.3   15.7  17.4  5.5 .127    0.1   1.2   1.4  1.8
2  Derrick Williams   24  75 1294 17.5 .549 .264  .488 11.2   9.1  1.1   0.5   7.9   23.5  3.3 .124    0.0  -2.4  -2.5 -0.2
3  Carmelo Anthony    31  69 2442 20.4 .531 .237  .307 12.1  21.9  1.3   1.0   10.7  29.7  6.2 .121    2.9  -0.3   2.6  2.8
4  Kyle O'Quinn       25  60  684 17.4 .530 .084  .230 17.2  16.0  1.5   4.7   17.8  21.2  0.4 .104   -1.7   2.4   0.8  0.5
5  Kristaps Porzingis 20  72 2047 17.8 .518 .274  .271 14.0   7.8  1.3   5.0   10.9  24.6  4.4 .102   -0.8   0.9   0.1	1.1
6  Jose Calderon      34  72 2024 12.4 .571 .446  .105	6.2  22.4  1.6   0.3   15.4  12.6  4.0 .096    0.5  -0.6  -0.1	1.0
7  Langston Galloway  24  77 1884 11.9 .502 .387  .193	7.9  15.2  1.9   0.8    9.0  15.5  3.2 .082   -0.3   0.1  -0.1	0.9
8  Lance Thomas       27  59 1313 10.4 .557 .285  .312	5.5   6.4  0.9   0.4   11.6  16.9  1.7 .062   -1.1  -2.0  -3.1 -0.4
9  Arron Afflalo      30  66 2226 11.0 .533 .294  .166	6.1   9.8  0.5   0.3	8.8  18.0  1.7 .055   -0.6   1.8  -2.3 -0.2
10 Sasha Vujacic      31  56  762  9.5 .468 .507  .145	9.0  13.6  2.0   0.4   13.6  16.6  0.5 .034   -1.8  -0.6  -2.4 -0.1
11 Lou Amundson       33  27  193  8.4 .417 .000  .510 13.0   9.3  1.6   2.8   15.5  16.7  0.1 .022   -4.3   0.7  -3.6 -0.1
12 Jerian Grant       23  71 1109 10.4 .463 .252  .300	6.1  22.1  1.9   0.6   16.6  18.7  0.4 .019   -2.8  -1.2  -4.1 -0.6
13 Kevin Seraphin     26  45  489 11.2 .438 .010  .120 12.5  15.6  0.8   5.1   16.9  22.5 -0.1 -0.014 -5.6   1.3  -4.3 -0.3

stats are subjective, but even using your list it would lean to Derrick Williams should have played more, Afflalo played way too much an in reality we only have 3-4 decent to solid players.

Stats are Stats. There's only facts. You are correct that DWILL was one of our better players and should've been used more. But my point is clear that we need better backcourt players cuz most of our better players are forwards and centers. Our guards have some of the worst production and that's not good. You're also correct that we need more talent. Adding 2 quality guards would make a HUGE improvement for this team. IMO going after a Conley or any of the top FA guards on my WS/48 list would significantly improve the team.

While the team does need better guards, we needs guards that are NBA quality and not just upgrades over what we have. A player like Afflalo was seen as an upgrade based on what we have, when he should have been based on who he was as a player. Same with Calderon.

That's a mistake previous regimes have made, and hopefully Phil isn't locked into that, although it seems that he might be, but we'll certainly know for sure after this free agency.

Phil from what he's said and done is looking for guards that can penetrate, dish, shoot and DEFEND. Just gotta hope he can land at least one top guard this summer and hopefully at least 2 quality guards.

CrushAlot wrote:

Kemet wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

foosballnick wrote:

nixluva wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

SocraticBallin22 wrote:Grant really needs his own thread outside of the gamethread?!? lol Is he Wroten or something?

Yeah I think he does. Dude is important for our club. He's worth attention.

Besides is fun. We can over analyze and break his game down. Hard to imagine anyone going to a knicks message board to actually talk basketball huh?

This team was hoping for more from Jerian even as a rookie. His development is huge for this team. He is after all a 1st rd pick. For rebuilding teams to be successful they have to hit on enough of their picks to form a core. Jerian does have talent but he's got to learn how to use it to impact games.

When he plays aggressively he shows the talent he has but not when he gives up his dribble to early or hesitates out there. IMO Grant has to attack on dribble hand offs and screens.

My theory is that he is hesitating because he is thinking too much in the triangle. He's much more comfortable as a P&R, drive to the rim type player.

Basketball is basketball. If you can play you can play. Blowing lay ups and falling to the ground has nothing to do with the offense. He's having problems with basic basketball plays. He's 23 and played 5 years in college. No excuses for this kid

For me Jerian has several things holding him back right now.

1. He's not aggressive enough. He should be pushing the ball like Sasha does. It gives the team a shot to catch the D before it's fully set and more time on the shot clock to run half court stuff. Everytime I see him come up slow with his mini chop steps it drives me crazy. He most certainly has another gear and should be pushing and probing early.

2. He's not strong enough. He actually looks smaller than he did coming into the season. He can't handle contact at all.

3. He's not decisive enough. He has to come off drag screens like he's on fire. He shouldn't be picking up his dribble so much. He gets stuck like that way too often. He looks to feed the post way too much. It's an option but you don't have to take it every time down. For instance they give RoLo the ball even after he's been pushed out too far. A PG must recognize when it's not smart to give a big the ball and instead call him out for a pick.

If u dont know .. here some news on Grant, Grant's family played pro-ball so they made sure Grant stay in college to receive his bachelor-degree before entering the draft.
Grant n Gallo NBA skills would have enhance 5 time more than it did this season if they weren't always put into a lineup with bad decsion-making isolation players Melo AA n Calderon controlling the ball

I dont care what anyone say "The Knicks coaches coached to LOSE games !!!"
Our coaches put out a POOR BUM starter lineup of Calderon Afflalo Melo n Porzingis for the season.
They showed to be four bum isolation-starters having a high-school b.ball IQ .. I said it!
The Four Knicks starter performance and so-call chemistry turned out be a classical highlight laughter of a failure triangle built to LOSE!
I dont see any of the 2016 offseason TOP FA players wanting to be on the court next season with any of our Four Bum Starters if we pay them twice their worth.

Our 7 yr veteran center Rolo showed great talent on both sides of the court while being in the same lineup with our four BUM starters to start each game.
It makes me think .. maybe it was Rolo idea not to play in the 4th quarter with 4 four isolation starters.

Jerami Grant left Cuse after his sophomore year. He probably is drafted a lot higher if he stayed another year. Was he getting family advice?

He has another older brother that's playing in Europe. Just saying.

Jerami Grant is super aggressive and less talented. I wish that trait was passed on to Jeremy

wh4t wrote:One thing I've notice about Jerian is his legs. He takes short funny looking close strides when dribbles up the court. Watch his legs when he defends. He keeps them a little to close instead of keeping them shoulder width apart. Just an observation, Has anyone else notice

I've pointed it out before. He also plays defense standing straight up.

There's so many basic things wrong with him yet Kurt Rambis is an ******* for not playing him. There is a clear reason