Unfortunately, he was completely alone out there.

Jeffries actually played well. Melo made the right basketball play to get him the ball... but with the context of the moment, it felt all wrong. Jeffries played a hell of a game - his defense on Rondo is amazing and he needed to get help on that last KG bucket and he grabbed a bunch of offensive rebounds... but he should never be in the position to take that shot. Then again he made that layup the play before.

Weird game. I can't really fault D'Antoni - he and Melo kept the team in it until the painful end again. Playing without 2 of their top 3 players.

One thing I'll say - are you seriously telling me we couldn't have used Corey Brewer tonight? Seriously?

Otherwise, I think the team did an admirable job. I hope STAT can play at the Garden. I hope Melo and Amar'e can both score 30 in game 3 and game 4 and we go back to Boston tied at 2.

Go Knicks.

JamaicanJetFan wrote:Was Fields so bad that he needed to be completely benched for the 0-11 mess Bill Walker?

Fields just seems shook.

It's making me really lament waiving Corey Brewer. We need Derrick Brown more than Corey Brewer right now? Really?

crzymdups wrote:

JamaicanJetFan wrote:Was Fields so bad that he needed to be completely benched for the 0-11 mess Bill Walker?

Fields just seems shook.

It's making me really lament waiving Corey Brewer. We need Derrick Brown more than Corey Brewer right now? Really?

wow him again? Unless he can play PG or C, not worth it.

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

JamaicanJetFan wrote:Was Fields so bad that he needed to be completely benched for the 0-11 mess Bill Walker?

Fields just seems shook.

It's making me really lament waiving Corey Brewer. We need Derrick Brown more than Corey Brewer right now? Really?

wow him again? Unless he can play PG or C, not worth it.

he'd be nice to have chasing Ray Allen around on the perimeter (4-4 from 3 tonight, won game 1). he's a LOCK DOWN perimeter defender. i'm convinced of this.

corey brewer is a blue chip lotto talent. we waived him. people are talking about how tonight was melo and a bunch of d-league guys and rightly so. brewer deserved a LONG look here.

eViL wrote:you gotta be kidding me. you know, part of me felt silly with all my optimistic talk. i felt like i was just trying to hype myself up for the series and have some fun. now, i feel like "oh my god. they are actually ****ing good." i honestly cannot believe the metamorphosis on defense. hope to win the series is pretty dim. hope for next season is much brighter. we need to win 4 out of 5. not probable. not likely. still possible. let's go knicks!!

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

JamaicanJetFan wrote:Was Fields so bad that he needed to be completely benched for the 0-11 mess Bill Walker?

Fields just seems shook.

It's making me really lament waiving Corey Brewer. We need Derrick Brown more than Corey Brewer right now? Really?

wow him again? Unless he can play PG or C, not worth it.

he'd be nice to have chasing Ray Allen around on the perimeter (4-4 from 3 tonight, won game 1). he's a LOCK DOWN perimeter defender. i'm convinced of this.

corey brewer is a blue chip lotto talent. we waived him. people are talking about how tonight was melo and a bunch of d-league guys and rightly so. brewer deserved a LONG look here.

this has been beaten to death, and what nixluva suggests above is sound long term reasoning. Management sees a lot of good things in Fields long term, and he is cheap; a $5M price tag for a bench player is not the way to spend salary cap money nor develop players (by taking away Fields minutes) on a team like the Knicks. Knicks need bigs, not wings who play the same position as TD, Melo, Shawne Williams, Fields.

i disagree. brewer brings vastly different things than shawne williams or fields or toney. fields and shawne williams have been practically non-factors in this series.

you keep brewer for this season and don't pick up his option. you can trade him in the summer or just let him go, but he'd be valuable depth right now.

i won't beat the dead horse anymore - but the knicks have very few healthy bodies who deserve to be in an nba playoffs game and brewer would help.
there is no debating that.

VDesai wrote:TD is getting ripped, but that was a tough game for him. He had one player to get the ball to and he was being heavily denied the ball and triple teamed- and he is being killed for not orchestrating. I thought he did ok. He had some shots rim out- he's not always gonna have his shots fall. But he played hard and hit the boards and grabbed a lot of key rebounds. What was horrendous about his game tonight is how he played defense in foul trouble. But he doesn't have a ton of experience doing that and he did it dreadfully tonight. But ultimately I think its a game he'll learn from. I'm surprised at how much he is criticized on this board. In my eyes he's come a long way and he has stepped up and driven the team to victory in a lot of games this year.

Here here..he did a fair job in the second half as well. Kind of difficult to just stop Rondo on penetration without fouling when he comes at you with a full head of steam. He got some huge rebounds in that last few minutes as well. No not a good game...but something to learn from going forward.

There are a bunch on this board that are certain that if Brandon Jennings were at the point we would have 52 wins and a 2-0 lead in this series right now.

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

JamaicanJetFan wrote:Was Fields so bad that he needed to be completely benched for the 0-11 mess Bill Walker?

Fields just seems shook.

It's making me really lament waiving Corey Brewer. We need Derrick Brown more than Corey Brewer right now? Really?

wow him again? Unless he can play PG or C, not worth it.

he'd be nice to have chasing Ray Allen around on the perimeter (4-4 from 3 tonight, won game 1). he's a LOCK DOWN perimeter defender. i'm convinced of this.

corey brewer is a blue chip lotto talent. we waived him. people are talking about how tonight was melo and a bunch of d-league guys and rightly so. brewer deserved a LONG look here.

this has been beaten to death, and what nixluva suggests above is sound long term reasoning. Management sees a lot of good things in Fields long term, and he is cheap; a $5M price tag for a bench player is not the way to spend salary cap money nor develop players (by taking away Fields minutes) on a team like the Knicks. Knicks need bigs, not wings who play the same position as TD, Melo, Shawne Williams, Fields.

i disagree. brewer brings vastly different things than shawne williams or fields or toney. fields and shawne williams have been practically non-factors in this series.

you keep brewer for this season and don't pick up his option. you can trade him in the summer or just let him go, but he'd be valuable depth right now.

i won't beat the dead horse anymore - but the knicks have very few healthy bodies who deserve to be in an nba playoffs game and brewer would help.
there is no debating that.

based on what? dude has prove zero. On a bad Minny team. His playoff experience consists of 4 minutes, 2 fouls and 1 rebound.

does winning a NCAA title count as proving anything? because he played well at florida. he has excellent bball pedigree. it was a mistake to let him go, which is why boston, san antonio and dallas all contacted him the second he was waived. it was a bad move

Brewer is a good player, not worth tieing up 5 mil next season for.

If we knew every senario before it happens then its great to have players come and go as we do.

BUt this ain't "I dream of Genie" stuff!

Can't just make guys appear and disaappear when we feel like it!