Posted by tomverve:
And for the Knicks of last year vs so far this year:
poss/g o-eff d-eff diff
2005 90.7 (17) 105.9 (17) 109.2 (25) -3.3
2006 91.8 (13) 100.4 (26) 104.6 (17) -4.2
Well, what these stats do is backup the obvious, the Pistons are off to a better start this year then last, while we are off to a worse one. Guess that means they were right to dump Brown and we were fools to dump Lenny...
Or maybe something else is at play?
Difficult adjustment for Marbury
Friday, November 11, 2005
BY DAVID WALDSTEIN
Star-Ledger Staff
"It's kind of tough for me to get going in that sense," Marbury said. "But that's not important right now. Eventually it will swing around for me. All I'm trying to do is run the team, get us in sets and make sure we get a good shot every time down the court."
Brown lamented the Knicks' lack of organization on offense and pointed out that even a rookie like Channing Frye could see it going helter skelter. Brown said Frye approached him at the airport after Wednesday's loss and said, "Coach, it's amazing. When things get tough, instead of us slowing it down and executing to get a good set, very rarely do we get in good position to run a play."
Brown has become so uncertain about what his players can do, that he said he will pare down the Knicks' playbook to just a handful of sets. He already has taken to calling plays from the bench, something he hates doing, and on fastbreak opportunities he will limit them to two options.
In practice, before games and in timeouts, Brown has been hammering home his most basic tenets in the hope that repetition will lead to execution.
"If you say it a hundred times, you've got to say it a thousand times until they get it," he said. "I want to be specific so there's no indecision at all. That's what I told them again today. We're going to limit the things we do."
Strip it down, and start from the beginning.
As Brown keeps saying, it's a work in progress.Take it easy fellas, this is a low IQ team. Brown started with a more complex offense that well schooled rookies saw was breaking down in the hands of our do-it-yourselfer PGs.
Remember this? The knicks couldn't even recognize how to defend against their own plays:
Maurice Cheeks is Using Larry Brown's Playbook
This is a quote from Howard Beck's New York Times article about last night's Philadelphia-New York preseason game:
Even more troubling Tuesday was that the 76ers, coached by Maurice Cheeks, a Brown protégé, were running the same plays that Brown had been teaching the Knicks for two weeks.
"We even call it the same thing," Brown said. "And we practice against it, we talk about how to defend it. And then I watched last night, we didn't defend any of that stuff. Maybe we're not executing it ourselves, so that when we play against it, we're not prepared to stop it."Our boys are having a hard enough time learning the defensive rotations and limited playbook. When they show mastery over some basics Brown will add plays.
Lets just get one thing straight here, Larry is the mensa on this team, his brain is NOT the weakest link in the chain. You want to fault him for something maybe it should be that he expected too much from our boys, that he wasn't prepared to dumb it down enough from the get-go.
[Edited by - BlueSeats on 12-03-2005 8:45 PM]
