alau53 wrote:mda makes 6m a year and martin figures out what's wrong with the knicks..i hope they consider martin as coach when donnie makes a coaching change

Sure, but then UK would be having posts about six months later demanding Martin be dismissed for Mark Jackson or someone else.

You can see it here: http://www.fromthebaseline.com/video-mixes/mixes/Big-C/'s-Top-Plays-Knicks-vs-Kings/0/106/1

Turiaf rolls to the basket and when someone rotates to him he dumps it off to Amare who finishes with a flourish. We need to see more of that.

Also had a nice PnR with Felton and Amare in the 4th quarter. The offense can only get better and I LOVED the D last night.

Except, rather than saying he's the last option - I would say he should be the disguised option. Rather than openly going directly to Amar'e on every. single. play. have a little misdirection. That's what the pick and roll is meant to do in essence. If that's not working, find other ways to draw the defensive focus over to another area of the floor and open things up for Amare.

I'd like to see Wilson operating more on the elbow, as well as Gallo. Get a two man game working with Ray and Gallo and have Amar'e moving towards the hoop while this happens.

For all Mike's offense genius, the offense seems really limited most times.

martin wrote:Amare should be the finisher or the guy who attracts the double teams so that others get a better look or something. I dont know how to articulate it but the O should be focused around movement and perhaps Gallo while letting Chandler, Fields, Amare etc go to the rim.

Amare is not a passer or dribble driver when he has to put the ball down in traffic.

Nash is so good at both handling the ball and knowing when to feed that he put it into places where all Amare had to do was either shoot it or dunk it. Felton can't do this (yet?).

Why don't they switch the focus from Gallo to Amare? Or something like that.

You've been much more "aggressive" in terms of posting and starting threads.

Are you angling to replace MDA or be an assistant to Walsh?

crzymdups wrote:I agree, Martin.

Except, rather than saying he's the last option - I would say he should be the disguised option. Rather than openly going directly to Amar'e on every. single. play. have a little misdirection. That's what the pick and roll is meant to do in essence. If that's not working, find other ways to draw the defensive focus over to another area of the floor and open things up for Amare.

I'd like to see Wilson operating more on the elbow, as well as Gallo. Get a two man game working with Ray and Gallo and have Amar'e moving towards the hoop while this happens.

For all Mike's offense genius, the offense seems really limited most times.

You're correct in that the PnR is a play that is supposed to take the D by surprise and not be so obvious all the time. The rudimentary way the Knicks are running it isn't by design, but necessity since Felton and TD have so much trouble with it.

As for Mike's offense, don't get it twisted, the limitations are with our PG's and not his X and O's. Like i've said there are so many nuances to his sets, but these kids are only able to handle the basics so far. Fields has been most comfortable in this system and seems to get it. In fact he was jumping the gun, cuz he saw what was going to open up. Now his timing is near perfect. I only hope one day that more of our players get to that point.

Paladin55 wrote:Have Gallo work off a high screen, with the option to do the P&R, drive, or kick it out.

I thought that they might have had Randolph doing this type of thing, too, but his passing is not so dependable.

Gallo's biggest limitation is that his midrange game is not so hot at this point, but he seems to be able to get to the basket most of the time he wants to, and he does not turn the ball over very often.

Don't see why Fields cannot do something like this someday, too.

Isn't this was Hedu was essentially doing in his final year with Orlando, by the way?

Agree with all this.

I thought Hedo was REALLY valuable for Orlando in their playoffs run in 2009. I thought it was dumb of them to essentially ditch him for nothing. He was a big time playmaker for Orlando on the wing.

Gallo used to be a freaking PG. We should really be using him in a similar way to the way Orlando used Hedo.