Notice how Melo plays decoy and feeds to unhearalded Brewer who no one is guarding, not at the 3 pt line but leaving there and cutting towards the basket. And later he feeds Tyson as he himself draws the defense to himself. This is how Melo makes his teammates better.

Brewer plays well when we pass the ball to cutters because everybody forgets about him.

Notice Miami can't defend as well becuse of role guys making plays passing the ball to moving teammates. This is all that's lacking on the knicks.

Notice Sheed is our only wide body that can etch out space because of his size. Also look how natural Prigioni plays when the ball isn't stagnant and he does was natural when the basket isn't protected. Now on the Novack3 from the corner , not too many would have passed up a layup like Brewer did to find the open man, this is how Brewerplayed in Utah and Chicago.

THIS IS WHEN THE KNICKS ARE PLAYING THE RIGHT WAY REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OPPOSING TEAMS ARE DOING.

Listen how breen downplays knicks good plays , very low key voice. Dude actually changes his tone.

yellowboy90 wrote:i disagree with you on the Brewer plays well when passed on cuts. He used to but this year he lacks the explosion he used to have and usually is scared to shoot so he turns into Pablo's bigger brother from another mother.

If our stars shooting the ball(Melo - Amare- JR Smith) understood that them playing a decoy role at times makes players like Brewer Copeland would make our team indefensible.
The plays where you see Melo play the right way by drawing defenders and then dishing off to a cutting brewer or another role player , that's when we become a better team instead of him or Amare forcing shots when double and tripled teamed .

I don't know if we are talking IQ or not , but out of the 3 they collectively only had 1 year of learning the game in college.

Cartman718 wrote:i am actually wondering if we are better with brewer on the floor as opposed to shumpert. he still hasn't had that breakout game yet and if he needs to get more strength and flexibility back in his knee, then why force him into the starting lineup.

Brewer is a team player, the teams he previously played with Utah and Chicago stresses ball movement.

Why do you think he looks lost out there THE BALL ISN'T MOVING ! He plays 1000 times better along with Kidd when the ball is moving like a hot potatoe.

playa2 wrote:If you guys would watch the clips, just notice who's on the court and who's not and how the ball gets around so much smoother.

It doesn't take a well paid NBA COACH to see the synergy that veteran role players bring to the team. They know how the game should be played and the opposing teams were shocked the knicks weren't just playing ISO ball. Watch all the clips and judge for yourselves and give me your opinion.

These videos on the knicks shows the knicks strengths and the tream work it takes for this team to play successful in the 2nd half of the season. Woody needs to show his players these clips and show them what they are capable of if guys go back to moving the ball and allow role players to stay active and alleviate some of the pressure off our big guns.

playa2 wrote:

Notice how Melo plays decoy and feeds to unhearalded Brewer who no one is guarding, not at the 3 pt line but leaving there and cutting towards the basket. And later he feeds Tyson as he himself draws the defense to himself. This is how Melo makes his teammates better.

Brewer plays well when we pass the ball to cutters because everybody forgets about him.

Notice Miami can't defend as well becuse of role guys making plays passing the ball to moving teammates. This is all that's lacking on the knicks.

Notice Sheed is our only wide body that can etch out space because of his size. Also look how natural Prigioni plays when the ball isn't stagnant and he does was natural when the basket isn't protected. Now on the Novack3 from the corner , not too many would have passed up a layup like Brewer did to find the open man, this is how they played in Utah and Chicago.

THIS IS WHEN THE KNICKS ARE PLAYING THE RIGHT WAY REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE OPPOSING TEAMS ARE DOING.

So does anybody besides me think the knicks can play like this again ?