Posted by CrushAlot:
I think it is important to remember that Isiah's system with the Knicks is not the system he had when he coached the Pacers. Similar to when Pat Riley came from the ShowTime Lakers, Isiah has adjusted to his personnel. If it continues to work during the regular season he will have accomplished what many considered the impossible. Despite his new offense I still think Francis and J. Rose will be traded.
Isiah says it's the same system. Perhaps he's refined it over the years. His concepts are very interesting and much more creative than anything we saw from our previous coaches. All I know is that the way he's using these players may just work for this team.
As far as what someone else said about us not playing like PHX, well we really aren't playing like them. Not exactly. It's the approach to the game that we're imitating. Open up the floor and let your players great natural skills shine thru. We're not hamstrung by being able to shoot the lights out every night, cuz this isn't a jumpshooting offense. PHX is VERY dependent on their good shooters. We play with a more powerful attack of the basket which is a very high % style. It's also hard to stop and here's why. You can't stop players from moving when they don't have the ball and with us having so many VERY quick guards and Forwards all we have to do is move and make those quick short passes and teams aren't gonna be able to react fast enough to stop it. You know what it's like...
The west coast offense in football.
