blkexec wrote:

FoeDiddy wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

blkexec wrote:

nixluva wrote:

blkexec wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:I'm going to this game tonight..should be a easy win

I can't believe people are still using the words "easy" and "win" in the same sentence.

Wiz are starving for a win, and they are desperate. Knicks love to use every excuse in the book why we cant win.

This is a typical trap game for us....Best case, we win a close game on a last second shot.

I don't know about "Best Case", but no game is a gimme with this team. I just want a solid win, where the team looks like a real team. I'd like some execution on both ends, but especially on defense.

I'm not the type to rub it in but did I call it or what...."Best Case" we win a close game on a last second melo shot.....This team will have problem beating a HS team right now. We need a veteran PG in the worst way....

I was thinking about what you predicted when the game ended lol If Shumpert has started from the get-go Knicks would've won by 15+ and I would've got gamepicker right!

Exactly..why are people complaining like they didn't watch the game...we came back from a 16 pt deficit almost instantaneous as soon as we had the lineup change.

Big lineup...6'5, 6'7, 6'8, 6'10, 7'1

Switching on picks is not a problem anymore with this lineup....All because Shump can guard 3...sometimes 4 positions. Fields can also hold his own on defense, with his lateral quickness....and the teams trust each other on those switches with this big lineup.

When TD is in the game, or Bibby....they try too hard to help out on the defensive switches,which leaves players wide open. Can't wait til BD comes back. He's another heavy weight that can play multiple positions on defense.

TD's value is slowly slipping away.....

TDs value is totally different as a scorer off the bench....very valuable when he's right. Being horribly misused.

FoeDiddy wrote:Another great stat...18 3s taken today.

yea we went from 35 to 29 to 18 SIGNIFICANT

I will take the win tho....

FoeDiddy wrote:

nykshaknbake wrote:Phew! Giving me ulcers:

1. Shump is the real deal. Needs to improve his shot but I like how he's progressing with the playmaking and decision making.
2. We have no penetration defense and John Wall is really, really fast
3. Great work on the offensive boards by Chandler.
4. Defense was horrible as ususual
5. A win is win though! We just need to hold on and not get in too big a hole and hopefully when we start playing better we'll be competitive enough to be relevant

The Defense was actually good..again..outside the first quarter. Wizards at 32 in first quarter. Only 64 after.

Also it's a tall order to keep Wall from doing that the whole game. Shump did a pretty good job on it for most the game. Got a strip on one of his drives. Bibby got a charge on him one time. From a set Half court defense the Wizards had no penetration when Shump was on the court.

DrAlphaeus wrote:The sound from the Washington crowd was an arena deflating.

Actually it was cheering. I went to the game tonight and there were an equal amount of NYK fans there as wizards fans...if not more!
Not even exaggerating.

Fields just goes and hides in the corner on offense and has lost his confidence. Damn shame!

IM ok with TD starting but we can't fight back from being down every nite.

Amare is shooting from further out like its preseason. Shump is good. Starting him is not as important as who finish and his over all minutes.

On to Detroit.

Knicksfan wrote:Starting Shump may not be as important as who gets the most minutes, but I think that doing so may keep us in the game in that 1st Quarter instead of simply falling back by double digits like seems to be the norm now.

+1,000,000

It is so obvious that Shump MUST be our starting point guard till Davis is healthy that it is not even funny.

We were up by nine in the fourth before Shump, who was playing the point, took a seat. Two minutes later it was a tie game.

colombian0725 wrote:What worries me is at the end of that game on the inbound play 4 of our guys where running around after John wall and left one man open under the basket and one open on the 3 point line. Any other team would have lobbed that up to either one and that's a easy basket and we go home with a lost. how do you leave two guys wide open on the inbound? 3 guys following John Wall around really? and he still got the shot off and it almost went in.

They needed a 3 to tie....Who cares if they are open for a layup. Thats smart defense. An open 3 is a different story....I didn't see that!