Rookie wrote:MDA needs to keep implementing more of his offense. The other teams watch tape and will figure us out. Tough to do with the condensed schedule and also spending practime time on defense. We cant always live and die by the 3. When the team gets down they revert back to 1 on 1 play. Good spacing last night, the ball was moving and the 3's were falling. Not going to be like that everynight. Was good to see the pick n roll and a few alley oops. Over the next few weeks we should start to see more of the offense implemented and our D will also improve. This team is going to get alot better with time. It is the most talent we have had in a long time

Consistency....we will has it

The thing is that we should see good 3pt shooting on MOST nights cuz we have a system that is designed to create open 3's and we have GOOD 3pt shooters. I've said this before but still many Knick fans don't believe it. The Career 3pt % for our main shooters: Fields 40%, Walker 40%, Novak 40%, Bibby 38%, TD 37%, Melo hasn't been a great shooter career but over his last 5 years he has been good. Harrellson seems like a solid shooter and STAT can hit a few too. As a team we're going to shoot well from 3 over the course of the season.

The key is getting penetration to draw the defense in and then kick it to the wide open shooters. When we do that our 3pt % is very high. We continue to see TD drive and kick and Melo do the same and the shooting will improve all the way around. Go back and watch the game again and notice how many of the 3's come after penetration or swinging the ball the right way.

JCrusher wrote:I still think we should be 4-0. I mean we should have beaten teh lakers without Bynum and we certainly should have beaten the warriors without curry. We lost those games because of lack of hustle and focu. last Night we saw the hustle and focus back so we need to continue that. teams dont look at us as the knicks of 2003-09 anymore so we need to play hard

I somewhat disagree. In the 1st half of that GS game we held them to 36% FG. The team simply couldn't get in sync on offense. Mostly due to TD not having his act together and getting the team into the offense the right way. We only score 78 and 82 points in the losses and that's not about effort and hustle. That's a breakdown of the teams offensive game. NO WAY should this team ever score so few points in a game.

My view is that early on the team just hasn't been in sync yet and with no chemistry on D or O your gonna lose. Things should start to get sorted out as the season moves along.

nixluva wrote:

JCrusher wrote:I still think we should be 4-0. I mean we should have beaten teh lakers without Bynum and we certainly should have beaten the warriors without curry. We lost those games because of lack of hustle and focu. last Night we saw the hustle and focus back so we need to continue that. teams dont look at us as the knicks of 2003-09 anymore so we need to play hard

I somewhat disagree. In the 1st half of that GS game we held them to 36% FG. The team simply couldn't get in sync on offense. Mostly due to TD not having his act together and getting the team into the offense the right way. We only score 78 and 82 points in the losses and that's not about effort and hustle. That's a breakdown of the teams offensive game. NO WAY should this team ever score so few points in a game.

My view is that early on the team just hasn't been in sync yet and with no chemistry on D or O your gonna lose. Things should start to get sorted out as the season moves along.

mrKnickShot wrote:

loweyecue wrote:

JCrusher wrote:I still think we should be 4-0. I mean we should have beaten teh lakers without Bynum and we certainly should have beaten the warriors without curry. We lost those games because of lack of hustle and focu. last Night we saw the hustle and focus back so we need to continue that. teams dont look at us as the knicks of 2003-09 anymore so we need to play hard

Why? They were each without one starter so were we. Baron Davis is the starting PG on this team even w/o playing a game. The Warriors and Lakers weren't trying to put a bunch of complete strangers into a regular season game and trying to work out the dynamics real time, we were. And the guy supposed to do most of the orchestration wasn't even on the floor.

Unfortunately, people on this board are putting way to much faith in Baron Davis as the second coming ... not that we have any other choice but he as been very injury prone and very often take very questionable shots and that can be very detrimental to this team.

I will still keep my fingers crossed