nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:Woodson is doing absolutely bad job with Novak. He has absolutely zero schemes for Novak to get up shoots.

He just wants a decoy

Lol, decoy to do what? To play 5 on 4. He is the best shooter out there, and it looks like they are chucking the hell out of him. JR needs to stop shooting. He is completely off his game tonight.

Having Novak in the game means one defender is always on him at all times. Keeps one guy out the paint and makes just a tad easier for penetration. I disagree with it but it looks like Woodson has no intentions of drawing plays for him.

Lol, is that how you see it. I don't. I take it that he doesn't know how to design plays for him to get Novak shots. The bulls and Spurs had many plays to get Steve Kerr.

Kerr was a guard he could shoot off the dribble, Novak has to be set to get a good shot off, this isn't debatable anymore.

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:Woodson is doing absolutely bad job with Novak. He has absolutely zero schemes for Novak to get up shoots.

He just wants a decoy

Lol, decoy to do what? To play 5 on 4. He is the best shooter out there, and it looks like they are chucking the hell out of him. JR needs to stop shooting. He is completely off his game tonight.

Having Novak in the game means one defender is always on him at all times. Keeps one guy out the paint and makes just a tad easier for penetration. I disagree with it but it looks like Woodson has no intentions of drawing plays for him.

Lol, is that how you see it. I don't. I take it that he doesn't know how to design plays for him to get Novak shots. The bulls and Spurs had many plays to get Steve Kerr.

I could be wrong. But Ive seen plays where Woody has Melo come off screens. Hell, even last year Novak had Jeffries set him off ball screens (though that coulda been Jeffries doing that on his own). Every time this is mentioned in the post game though, Wally just chalks it up to Novak not being aggressive

really likeed that play where Prigs/Kurt Thomas ran the pick n roll and Tyson set a backpick to free up Novak simultaneously.

Once we're healthy the starters can run that play with

Felton/Melo with Tyson setting the backpick

Or the 2nd unit runs that with

Kidd/Pablo doing PnR with STAT and Sheed setting that backpick for Novak

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:Woodson is doing absolutely bad job with Novak. He has absolutely zero schemes for Novak to get up shoots.

He just wants a decoy

Lol, decoy to do what? To play 5 on 4. He is the best shooter out there, and it looks like they are chucking the hell out of him. JR needs to stop shooting. He is completely off his game tonight.

Having Novak in the game means one defender is always on him at all times. Keeps one guy out the paint and makes just a tad easier for penetration. I disagree with it but it looks like Woodson has no intentions of drawing plays for him.

Lol, is that how you see it. I don't. I take it that he doesn't know how to design plays for him to get Novak shots. The bulls and Spurs had many plays to get Steve Kerr.

I could be wrong. But Ive seen plays where Woody has Melo come off screens. Hell, even last year Novak had Jeffries set him off ball screens (though that coulda been Jeffries doing that on his own). Every time this is mentioned in the post game though, Wally just chalks it up to Novak not being aggressive

Yep Jeffries screens and Lin's constant penetration and kick

CrushAlot wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

nycisgreat wrote:Woodson is doing absolutely bad job with Novak. He has absolutely zero schemes for Novak to get up shoots.

He just wants a decoy

Lol, decoy to do what? To play 5 on 4. He is the best shooter out there, and it looks like they are chucking the hell out of him. JR needs to stop shooting. He is completely off his game tonight.

Having Novak in the game means one defender is always on him at all times. Keeps one guy out the paint and makes just a tad easier for penetration. I disagree with it but it looks like Woodson has no intentions of drawing plays for him.

Lol, is that how you see it. I don't. I take it that he doesn't know how to design plays for him to get Novak shots. The bulls and Spurs had many plays to get Steve Kerr.

I think the Knicks could have used size in place of Novak. Kurt or Marcus might have impacted the game more. This loss sucked but glad Kurt and camby were on the floor.

Camby is injured

yellowboy90 wrote:Tyson really sucks the life out of an offense. He needs to do something other than Pick and tap back.

he is what he is - makes absolutely zero sense to be mad or disappointed or whatever because he's not Moses Malone

Only 5 games in for Stat. Still need to be patient but I'm worried that his J is never coming back. That will destroy his game.

Please come back soon Shump, Felton, Sheed...KMart?

Clean wrote:Thx Melo for helping uslose 2 games because 'there are some things you don't say to another man'. With Camby out,Sheed out and Amare restricted we need KMart more than ever.

This

GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:

TeamBall wrote:

dk7th wrote:jr smith with the fool's gold game. is this what we can expect in the playoffs from him. terrible

Well hopefully in the playoffs, we wont be so depleted that he has to handle the ball 99% of the time

Woah. JR has been playing the best ball of his career. Why so negative?

he is not a good defender. i don't know how anyone could get that impression.

he is out of control and undisciplined.

29 shots and only 5 trips to the line tonight. that is a terrible ratio but for his career his fga/fta ratio is out of whack as it stands at 4.4:1. that means that for every free throw attempt he makes he takes 4.4 shots.

at least melo's career ratio is a respectable 2.5:1, although this year that ratio has gone up to 2.73:1 which is less than mediocre. durant 2.3:1 and lebron 2.3:1. pierce and ginobili each 2.2:1. these are playoff caliber ratios for wings... 4.4:1 is decidedly not.

best ball of smith's career won't translate to championship-caliber basketball.