Posting that the opposing team's player's selfishness and ZERO ASSISTS is justified because he's YOUNG AND ATHLETIC - thread failure.

Consistently circle jerking one's self into oblivion by disguising deranged Melo hate as KP6 love? - thread failure.

Never mentioning or understanding that Melo for the first time in his entire tenure here is now facing one on one defensive coverage - thread failure.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201611090NYK.html

rose's usage was just below the 25% upper limit at 24.7%. meanwhile his assist rate was a pretty good 27.9% for a ratio of under 1----> .88:1

meantime, due to limited minutes-- a very good idea-- he shot the ball 10 times.

ongoing issue, his isolation streak notwithstanding, is the non-dad melo:

22 shots is too many shots for 41%fga and 48.1%TS, and his usage was 28.1% to 8.9% assist rate for an absurd and inexcusable 3.5:1.

did he help the team? this game he did, but these are fool's gold statlines that do not translate to playoff wins. the time is now to develop the right habits.

Keep in mind, this is the same dude who crucified Jennings. Guess his play had nothing to do with the win either?

some may object that this is a question of equating correlation with causation-- however, when one sets up a prescription that is meant to have *predictive power*, as is the case here, then one has to consider that there is more causation to this than mere correlation. rose may have merely been part of the problem last night correlatively, but he surely didn't help the knicks either.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201611110BOS.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201611120TOR.html

you can point to any other factors you want, including poor defense, but then rose, as the point guard is also primarily responsible here too.

that's nine games out of nine and counting.... rose has to tighten up his game or the knicks are doomed.

HofstraBBall wrote:Spent as much time as DK has on useless correlations why Knicks are losing. But probably not.

1. Attendance- When total attendance has a last digit that is even....we lose.
2. Temp- We have won every game when the days high was over 50.
3. Jeremy lin's hair. Pony tail we win, no tail we lose.
4. Trump- Winless once elected.

Too bad we can't consider stupid things like +/- differential for bench, turnover ratios, foul shot disparity, shooting %, total point allowed. Nah...just target one players stats. Cuz there's no way you can come up with some obacure stat that one can use to blame that player for losing. Let me try, KP'S assists/30ft attempts. Lee's shot attempts and shooting percentage, Noah's point totals, Melo's 3pt shooting percentage/attempts, Main bench LT scoring more than 2 bucketa, Jennings shooting %.

Agree with Fishmike...it's more fun not to ignore him.

you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what i am sharing, so you resort to insults just like most internet jackasses. rose basically has sucked so far this season. that is the truth. every win and every loss has mirrored his hewing to or breaking from the parameters i set forth.

glad you find my posts entertaining. i enjoy making your blood pressure rise to dangerous levels, champ. yours and the other low-lifes on my ignore list. in fact i am assigning you as my official liaison. report back to me what they are saying.

dk7th wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:Spent as much time as DK has on useless correlations why Knicks are losing. But probably not.

1. Attendance- When total attendance has a last digit that is even....we lose.
2. Temp- We have won every game when the days high was over 50.
3. Jeremy lin's hair. Pony tail we win, no tail we lose.
4. Trump- Winless once elected.

Too bad we can't consider stupid things like +/- differential for bench, turnover ratios, foul shot disparity, shooting %, total point allowed. Nah...just target one players stats. Cuz there's no way you can come up with some obacure stat that one can use to blame that player for losing. Let me try, KP'S assists/30ft attempts. Lee's shot attempts and shooting percentage, Noah's point totals, Melo's 3pt shooting percentage/attempts, Main bench LT scoring more than 2 bucketa, Jennings shooting %.

Agree with Fishmike...it's more fun not to ignore him.

you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what i am sharing, so you resort to insults just like most internet jackasses. rose basically has sucked so far this season. that is the truth. every win and every loss has mirrored his hewing to or breaking from the parameters i set forth.

glad you find my posts entertaining. i enjoy making your blood pressure rise to dangerous levels, champ. yours and the other low-lifes on my ignore list. in fact i am assigning you as my official liaison. report back to me what they are saying.

Bahahaha...you mean your pressure? Had you at "LIN". Btw, like the "I set forth". First report, they are still all laughing.

Rose shot 50% last night. Gets to basket at will. Had 8,11 and averaging close to 5 dimes. He will start converting some of his missed layups and start making short floaters to raise his totals. You will blow a vein when he does and need to vent with another made up statistic why he is not good. Now back to my great Sunday. Go Knicks