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JohnWallace44
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11/9/2009  6:34 PM

Anyone watch "The Mike D'Antoni Show" the other day? In the show he diagrams how the offense is supposed to work with the spacing, where players are supposed to go, and what one of the bread & butter plays is.

Right on cue Nash and Amare show us the exact play and how to get it done.

This tells you everything about what we're missing and why its not working.

1 - Amare can dunk it in two steps from the 3 point line
2 - Defense has to guard both Amare and Nash at the 3pt line
3 - Defense has to stick to the wing players stationed around the arc due to Nash's passing and their shooting ability

Nash has a ton of options on how he can beat the defense in 7 seconds here. The defense dictates that Amare goes for a monster dunk.

This is how its supposed to work. We need better players to accomplish this.

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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JohnWallace44
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11/9/2009  6:40 PM

Here's the whole game highlight - you can actually see a lot of the same plays, just being performed much more crisply and confidently

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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11/9/2009  6:45 PM
JohnWallace44 wrote:

Anyone watch "The Mike D'Antoni Show" the other day? In the show he diagrams how the offense is supposed to work with the spacing, where players are supposed to go, and what one of the bread & butter plays is.

Right on cue Nash and Amare show us the exact play and how to get it done.

This tells you everything about what we're missing and why its not working.

1 - Amare can dunk it in two steps from the 3 point line
2 - Defense has to guard both Amare and Nash at the 3pt line
3 - Defense has to stick to the wing players stationed around the arc due to Nash's passing and their shooting abilityNash has a ton of options on how he can beat the defense in 7 seconds here. The defense dictates that Amare goes for a monster dunk.

This is how its supposed to work. We need better players to accomplish this.

point 3 is crucial.... the knicks can spread the floor with gallo, but defenses know that our point guards are a bunch of knuckleheads and will bypass a hot shooter to either force a shot or pass to guys like jeffries.. so they clog the lane, and it never seems to be that open for our pick and roll..

Anyone who sits around and waits for the lottery to better themselves, either in real life or in sports, Is a Loser............... TKF
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11/9/2009  7:05 PM
Jeffries will be open for that corner shot all year. (that's the problem)

Wilson needs to be posting guys like you see JRich doing in the game highlights.

Hill or Lee can play that center position, they're fine on the offensive end running that pick play.

The PG has to be changed and we can't put more than one player on the floor at a time that can't hit a trey in this system. Having Jeffries, Hughes, Lee etc out there is not going to work. They should almost have a secondary system for the times when they don't have the gunners out there.

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
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11/9/2009  7:44 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/9/2009  7:44 PM
Having a (smart/can shoot) point guard keeping defense honest is key to the system and that is what we don't have.
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11/9/2009  7:52 PM
this offense is better:

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11/9/2009  10:07 PM
omg, what a flashback ^^. The look at zeke's face "priceless"
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11/10/2009  12:01 AM
Great to see Douglas get us a little closer to what this offense is supposed to look like against Utah.

Still so many lacking pieces, starting caliber PG is huge, not to knock Douglas, but he would be a nice bench defensive point.

Starting SG is huge. Gotta have someone who demands to be guarded at the 3 point line. With Hughes there his defender sags to help with Lee/Hill and Duhon/Douglas when they run the pick and roll.

Gallo, Al, Chandler, Hill are OK at for the other spots. They would score much more easily if our backcourt was even average.

Alan Hahn: Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
This is what our offense is supposed to look like

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