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Duhon & Lee
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buddapaw
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3/8/2009  2:07 PM
I think he is a true pick n roll point guard who has nothing else to offer. When teams defend against the pick n roll Duhon looks clueless, and Lee suffers because he was the main beneficiary of Duhon's passes and his outside shot is spotty at best. needs to take Duhon out of the starting lineup because we always start games coming from behind because of Duhon's ghastly streak of turnovers and horrendous defense. For all Lee's rebounding and double double stats, I don't think he is a player we should build around, his defense is let's face it terrible and doesn't create his own shots much. He's great at what he does but don't you think the Knicks could find an active rebounding four somewhere in the draft or free agency? He is what he is a good bench player, and I feel he gets the ball too much on the high post on offense. Duhon is a turd let's hope we can trade him for a bag of beans or something, thank god he is only on a two year contract, I personally can do without seeing this ******* bringing the ball up the court licking is fingers(hmm lemme see doesn't that make the ball slippery to handle?)anymore
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OldFan
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3/8/2009  2:15 PM
On another thread I asked about Lee's defense and most people seem to agree it was terrible but thought he could improve. I would think he was never going to be a shot blocker but if he could get to the point where he occasionally gave a hard foul or drew a charge in the lane - then his rebounding and opportunistic scoring would make him a keeper.
JohnWallace44
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3/8/2009  4:03 PM
One of the positives that I've seen is the evolution of the D'Antoni offense.

Early in the season it was a simple, spread the floor, get it to Zach, move it to the shooters offense... something high-schools run.

We traded Craw and Zach and then were terrible for a while.

Then Duhon started running pick and roll with Lee and the offense took off for a handful of games.

Then teams started packing the lane and now when Lee dives down the lane on the pick and roll a shooter spots up behind him so that Duhon has the option to take it himself, pass to Lee or kick it to a the shooter behind them.

Its great to see a logical development in the offense like that after years of nothing.

For one, we're leaning too much on Nate and there's a lot of standing around and watching him like there used to be with Crawford. Nate is happy to take on that role, but at the end of the day its a little bit above him or any player.

Nate needs to have targeted minutes where he's supposed to take over and needs to be able to function in the offense the rest of the time. He used to do this and worked well as just a spot up shooter within the context of the normal offense.

Eventually we need a real, alpha dog point guard. This draft could be a godsend. Of Teague, Rubio, Jennings, and Tyreke Evans, odds are that we'll get one of them and its about friggin' time.

They all have special strengths, and will be able to be the leader of an offense that loses confidence too often and looks for a rescue from players like Crawford, Nate, and now Gallo. A consistent PG who can get us in the offense for the whole game will completely change the fortunes of this team especially in the D'Antoni system.

I'm actually surprised that we've won this many games in this system without a dynamic lead guard.
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babyKnicks
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3/8/2009  4:48 PM
Sign and trade Nate and lee. I'd love Nash melo and a big
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Duhon & Lee

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