BRIGGS wrote:
I went to the game and I was 5 rows off the court just left to the Knicks bench. I did not see Amare there JR Smith never got in. I think this is the third time I've seen KG and with a pretty close view he's huge in person--he's got to be all of 7-1--Chandler is a big dude too--but for some reason KG looked like the biggest guy there by pretty far. I was NOT impressed with our PG play. There was decent game management at times--but Felton was taking bad shots--Kidd and Pablo(who was scrappy) did not make shots in fact many shots Pablo took were way off. Chandler and Melo looked good--no doubt we have to really good players there. After that--I was underwhelmed(granted many guys did not play. I asked a ? about SG the other day and let me say from what I saw White Thompson and Shurma are not answers maybe even for back up positions. The guy who played the best in the 2nd half--he consistently rolled and executed for the pick an droll--Copeland--I have to wonder if can do that against length--because the tallest guy who was out there for the Cs was Sullinger when Copeland was scoring(Sullinger is pretty good by the way) The C's look like a team that has improved. Courtney Lee looked good Jeff Green looked good(had an awesome one handed jam. Jason Terry and Sullinger are quality additions. Jr Smith was the most popular Knick in the stands where I was sitting for some reason and he kept looking back as he was not really attentive to the game as he was not playing. He sat mostly with Felton and KT in the 2nd half when those guys were out. Our team has questions at 4 and 2 IF Amare cant go more than 35 minutes and while we should be fine at PG--I dont see us having a good % FGA from that position. Too many 3's by us and Novak was off and took many of his shots not really square or under duress. That was that--pretty good game considering I had to watch scrubs for the last 18 minutes--but did get to see Pablo Novak and Kidd play a lot.
Cool to have seen the game up close and personal. The action in the game, well, it looked like a typical preseason sloppy game with lots of different guys on both teams either trying to crack the rotation or make the team. Besides the ugliness of quality of play of the 2nd and 3rd teamers, what specifically were you not impressed with the PG play? Missed jumpers aside, believe Felton had 7 assists against 1 turnover. Kidd and Prigioni played pretty well together in the same backcourt. At times, it looked like they've been playing together for years. Kidd still looks like he can D up, and Prigioni has some nice sleight of hand for such a slow footed guy. Prigioni's PNR with Copeland looked like something out of the D'Antoni playbook. To me, it appears Point Guard has become a strength so far during preseason.
