I believe we have something special in Toney Douglas. He's a good defender and he can shoot, and he can put points up. He just needs to take it to the rack more often and run the pick and roll better. He's a very valuable asset tho, and he can put up big numbers some nights, we need him.

Carmelo should take the most shots on most nights.
Look at the loss to Orlando. Melo 12 fga, Amare 20, Billups 12, Douglas 14
Melo was the most efficient scorer by alot. He shot 10-11 from the line. Made half of his shots, and lead the 'team in scoring. TD shot 50% too, but only had 17 to Melos 24 while taking 2 more fga's. TD doesn't drive to the basket often so he got 0 foul shots.

If you look at the last few losses, Melo has played well, and has generally not gotten enough shots off when it was obvious he was hot. He was torching Pierce, and we didn't stay with that and make them adjust. He was playing well against Poorlando and unfortunately Amare want. We should have put Melo into pnr with Douglas who aslo shot well.

Systems are not for star players, they are for everyone else.

Ball movement is good, getting others involved is good, but when you have a guy who can score and who is hot, sometimes you want to ride that for a minute and put the system to the side for a minute. The point is to score and win, not to follow the system at all costs, right?

Sometimes instead of finding the open man, you just need to find "the man." Let the guy go off when it looks like he is ready to go off. Force the other guys to adjust. This NEVER happens, and other teams do it against us all the time!! WHy? because it works. No one could guard Dwight Howard ? Keep giving him the ball, lets keep people in foul trouble, until they figure it out. and start to double, then ball movement and finding the open man is what you do.

SSOL isn't run to get any one or two players a shot outside of the point guard. Which is a big reason why this team looks so bad offensively too often. It's hard for me to put in words, but it seems this pie in the sky offense really doesn't work without 5 guys who are equally talented and a really good point guard.

I know people still argue if Nash made this offense or if the offense made Nash, but it is pretty clear to me that a top notch point guard is needed to shift thru this jumpshooting bull**** offense.

I image that the suns also had this open guy in the corner or wing or top of the key characteristics in their offense, but Nash is a great point guard and can dictate if the offense was going to feed Amare for forty points or if Joe Johnson was hot and needed a couple of possessions. If they were going to gun for 25 plus three pointers or get 60 points in the paint.

Right now we don't have a strong point to do those things IMO.

Anji wrote:I agree with you killa, but we have to be real here, this coach and this offense isn't really about anything you are posting.

SSOL isn't run to get any one or two players a shot outside of the point guard. Which is a big reason why this team looks so bad offensively too often. It's hard for me to put in words, but it seems this pie in the sky offense really doesn't work without 5 guys who are equally talented and a really good point guard.

I know people still argue if Nash made this offense or if the offense made Nash, but it is pretty clear to me that a top notch point guard is needed to shift thru this jumpshooting bull**** offense.

I image that the suns also had this open guy in the corner or wing or top of the key characteristics in their offense, but Nash is a great point guard and can dictate if the offense was going to feed Amare for forty points or if Joe Johnson was hot and needed a couple of possessions. If they were going to gun for 25 plus three pointers or get 60 points in the paint.

Right now we don't have a strong point to do those things IMO.

Not only equaly talented but also very alike physically.
Mike players should be able to switch any time. And Knicks as constructed cannot defend anybody on the switch.
Also Mike team needs outstanding individual rebounders and we are not even marginal.
This team so far away form finished product so it is not even funny.

I promise you that if you have a Deron or CP3 in this system you'll see something you haven't seen from this team in ages. We still need a PG and C to make things right. I'd add a SG to that list too.