holfresh wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:I get why Woody put Melo on Gasol...It's the second night of a back to back...We needed Melo offensively so Gasol was the easier cover...

Wait, how?

Zebo has more moves..Melo would have to expend more energy on defense..

But guarding Gasol couldnt have been an easier cover cause he just hooked it over Melo or found an open guy when doubled. Putting Melo on Gasol also put Tyson on Zbo which just didnt work out well for us. Melo guarding Gasol kind of threw our defense off.

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:I get why Woody put Melo on Gasol...It's the second night of a back to back...We needed Melo offensively so Gasol was the easier cover...

Wait, how?

Zebo has more moves..Melo would have to expend more energy on defense..

But guarding Gasol couldnt have been an easier cover cause he just hooked it over Melo or found an open guy when doubled. Putting Melo on Gasol also put Tyson on Zbo which just didnt work out well for us. Melo guarding Gasol kind of threw our defense off.

But who do u think Melo would expend more energy guarding??

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

holfresh wrote:I get why Woody put Melo on Gasol...It's the second night of a back to back...We needed Melo offensively so Gasol was the easier cover...

Wait, how?

Zebo has more moves..Melo would have to expend more energy on defense..

But guarding Gasol couldnt have been an easier cover cause he just hooked it over Melo or found an open guy when doubled. Putting Melo on Gasol also put Tyson on Zbo which just didnt work out well for us. Melo guarding Gasol kind of threw our defense off.

But who do u think Melo would expend more energy guarding??

You're right that he would expand more energy guarding Rudy but I just dont think the additional negatives of him guarding Gasol is worth it. Not to mention, Woodson had a whole half to see that it didnt work yet he still went with it anyway.

I could be wrong but in the first half Woody iso Melo a lot...It's a bit much to ask Melo to do on a back to back night...

NYKMentality wrote:We beat ourselves tonight. During the thrid quarter is where we lost the game. Fell apart due to A.) Each and every call going the Grizzlies way B.) We deserves these calls for C.) Arguing, staring, laughing, pretty much dancing at the refs. Focused too much of our energy against the refs, instead of focusing on stopping the bleeding earlier in which we did.

Proud of this Knicks team. Not only for fighting back during the 4th quarter, but for starting off 6-1. Here's to another win streak come Sunday against the Pacers. An afternoon game. At home. 7-1 is the goal. We can match the 93-94 team with a win come Sunday. That 94 team started off 7-1 as well.

agree except on the bold part. thats something they have done even in the more recent dark times. defense wasnt good enough on this one. this will be interesting how they take it to the pacer game (prevent the start of a negative streak).

long winning streaks with very short losing streaks would be $$$ of course.

smackeddog wrote:Ed Malloy was the ref during the first game we had vs Miami in the playoffs. I also saw him pull the same c*** later in the playoffs again with Miami, and I've seen him do it vs Boston a couple of years ago. He seems to get high for the home team, then goes beserk with the one sided fouls then with the technicals. He's either incompetent and gets swept away by the crowd cheering or he's dodgy.

Nalod wrote:Knicks were "Grumpy old men" last nite!

True but there were a ton of ridiculous calls. The team lost their cool last night big time but hopefully a learning experience.

Bring on the Pacers.

if he is to be the leader that everyone wants him to be he has to do what his coach asks him to do even if he dislikes it and not allow a made basket to get under his skin.

on another note hubie brown noted several times that felton did not recognize mismatches presented to him quickly enough, most of all when melo had a mismatch. poor court vision and/or slow recognition will be an achilles heel against elite defensive teams like memphis.

the knicks played great in the first half-- i loved their intensity-- but when the pressure ratcheted up they went iso a bit too much, and when the cracks appeared it did not take long for the team to implode.

dk7th wrote:i think it's fine for melo to guard gasol. but he didn't guard him properly, didn't three-quarter or front gasol. when you are outweighed that much and the guy is taller this is the only way you can defend. if the ball gets in there in spite of this techniques you just tip your hat and move on. on the tech play melo was behind gasol under the rim.

if he is to be the leader that everyone wants him to be he has to do what his coach asks him to do even if he dislikes it and not allow a made basket to get under his skin.

on another note hubie brown noted several times that felton did not recognize mismatches presented to him quickly enough, most of all when melo had a mismatch. poor court vision and/or slow recognition will be an achilles heel against elite defensive teams like memphis.

the knicks played great in the first half-- i loved their intensity-- but when the pressure ratcheted up they went iso a bit too much, and when the cracks appeared it did not take long for the team to implode.