I love how all are thinking the knicks "Blew it".

No, Indy executed and beat us. How you ask yourselves?

Not by assigning blame and putting a band aid on it.

Nalod wrote:Chandler made a jumper. OMG, it was incredible! I had no idea he could do this. He tried to pull Hibbert out of the paint. Not rocket science here.

I love how all are thinking the knicks "Blew it".

No, Indy executed and beat us. How you ask yourselves?

Not by assigning blame and putting a band aid on it.

Don't try and down play this Nalod, any jump shooting Center makes Hibbert sweat and puts him at a disadvantage by making him run out to the shooter with slow feet.

The foul line Jumper I believe Tyson can make consistently if given the chance in the offense.

jrodmc wrote:So we needed to wait until the second round of the playoffs for our dunk and putback center to reinvent himself into Mr. Mid-Range Jumper?

He made that shot when he played at Dallas too. Many bow down and succumb and don't make themselves apart of the team offensively because of the personalities. Matter of fact when Melo was out I recall him shooting more Jumpshots.

playa2 wrote:

jrodmc wrote:So we needed to wait until the second round of the playoffs for our dunk and putback center to reinvent himself into Mr. Mid-Range Jumper?

He made that shot when he played at Dallas too. Many bow down and succumb and don't make themselves apart of the team offensively because of the personalities. Matter of fact when Melo was out I recall him shooting more Jumpshots.

http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=2199&zone-mode=basic

According to his shot chart this season Tyson took only 39 total shots from outside the restricted area; 25 in the paint and 14 from mid-range. The year before he also took 39 shots; 30 in the paint, 8 mid-range, and 1 corner 3. His one year in Dallas he did take more shots from outside. 95 shots outside the restricted area of which 49 were in the paint and 46 were from mid-range.

Most of his shot charts look like the one from his year in Dallas; around 75%-80% of his shots happening at the basket with the others in the paint or mid-range. Since he came here he's taking around 90% of his shots at the basket with only 10% from the paint and mid-range combined.

VCoug wrote:

playa2 wrote:

jrodmc wrote:So we needed to wait until the second round of the playoffs for our dunk and putback center to reinvent himself into Mr. Mid-Range Jumper?

He made that shot when he played at Dallas too. Many bow down and succumb and don't make themselves apart of the team offensively because of the personalities. Matter of fact when Melo was out I recall him shooting more Jumpshots.

http://stats.nba.com/playerShotchart.html?PlayerID=2199&zone-mode=basic

According to his shot chart this season Tyson took only 39 total shots from outside the restricted area; 25 in the paint and 14 from mid-range. The year before he also took 39 shots; 30 in the paint, 8 mid-range, and 1 corner 3. His one year in Dallas he did take more shots from outside. 95 shots outside the restricted area of which 49 were in the paint and 46 were from mid-range.

Most of his shot charts look like the one from his year in Dallas; around 75%-80% of his shots happening at the basket with the others in the paint or mid-range. Since he came here he's taking around 90% of his shots at the basket with only 10% from the paint and mid-range combined.

Thank You ! Most Knicks fans are trying to explain to me what Tyson can't do.

That tells me Tyson Chandler could be used to bring Hibbert out from under the basket by shooting the mid range jumper that the Pacers give up.

Uptown wrote:

playa2 wrote:I mean seriously the right substitutions and the Pacers buckle under pressure with our 3 pt shooter (Copeland) , with dribble drive kick.

You do know that the Pacers are the best defensive team in the league aswell as the best at defending the 3. Its not as easy as you say....Knicks aren't out there playing against themselves, the Pacers are a really good team...

We don't out rebound teams we outscore them and play defense. Inserting 3 pt shooters.... This approach will loosen the bunched up paint of defenders. Come on this isn't rocket science, I watched this team all freakin season.

Pablo and Copeland deserve more respect than what they have been given. Pablo gets loose balls and makes deflections , Kidd has lost more than 1 step in that category.

Melo needs to receive the ball sometimes after ball movement before he shoots, it doesn't help his teammates when he starts the shot clock going one on one.

Not that much of an adjustment, you just have to know who's got it who who doesn't night in and night out.

Uptown wrote:

playa2 wrote:

Uptown wrote:

playa2 wrote:I mean seriously the right substitutions and the Pacers buckle under pressure with our 3 pt shooter (Copeland) , with dribble drive kick.

You do know that the Pacers are the best defensive team in the league aswell as the best at defending the 3. Its not as easy as you say....Knicks aren't out there playing against themselves, the Pacers are a really good team...

We don't out rebound teams we outscore them and play defense. Inserting 3 pt shooters.... This approach will loosen the bunched up paint of defenders. Come on this isn't rocket science, I watched this team all freakin season.

And I didn't? Basketball is a game of matchups....The things that Indiana does well, nullafies the things we do well. They guard the 3 point line better than anyone, and we rely on the 3 point shot. Something has to give.....We were never a good rebonding team and Indy is one of the best which nullafies our good defensive efforts because we get the stop, but they get the second chance points....If you are paying close attention, the Pacers guard the paint and the 3 point line. The mid-range game is open and we exploited that part of the court in game 2 but not so much after that.

If we are going to exploit the 3 point line, its going to have to come against the player that West is guarding...He's not used to coming out that far and he's guarding Shump whose been slumping. The one move to make is to put Copeland in for Shump and force West to guard the 3 point line. Thats only crack I see in this Indy defense.....outside of the midrange game....

When Hibbert went out and we have our 3 pt shooters in we could have posted up Melo and forced them to double. Put Copeland in at Center and mid range and low post scoring is solved. These are in game adjustments on the fly that you have to make.