Posted by nixluva:

Posted by Queeniepop:

I wonder if we would have won tonite if BDiddy and Sjax played. Monta Ellis kind of sucks too. I though that kid was supposed to be all that.

[Edited by - queeniepop on 03-02-2007 10:41 PM]

Nah Monta doesn't suck. That kid is gonna be an ALL STAR!!! Do you see his confidence, skill and athletic ability. He may not even be done growing yet. He's got the goods.

Posted by djsunyc:

we played this game like we played any other game...regardless of the opposition.

this team will never go on a big win streak b/c they play no defense.

we will score. we will have 3 players in the 20's in scoring. but if we can't stop anybody, then the opponent will always be in the game and it will come down to the final few minutes.

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by djsunyc:

we played this game like we played any other game...regardless of the opposition.

this team will never go on a big win streak b/c they play no defense.

we will score. we will have 3 players in the 20's in scoring. but if we can't stop anybody, then the opponent will always be in the game and it will come down to the final few minutes.

We don't have many players who play good o and good d. Q can do this; Marbury has started to do it too. But there aren't enough. So when you have the good defensive players on the court - guys like JJ2, Balkman, Collins and Rose, it weakens the offense. If they're not out there, the defense suffers.

Man I don't think you're viewing this properly. For one thing the Warriors avg 105ppg and we held them to 97. The problem the Knicks have isn't that they don't play any D. It's that they're inconsistent with it. How often this year has this team gotten back into games after being down large deficits? Part of that has to do with the Knicks actually defending well for stretches of time. They just don't do it every possesion of every game. We have some poor defenders mixed in with some decent defenders and as a unit we aren't always in synch. I think in time this team will get much better defensively. It may not come this season, but I think this team will eventually improve.