GustavBahler wrote:BigDaddyG wrote:knicks1248 wrote:smackeddog wrote:How would he fit in with a front line of Amar'e, Bargs, Tyson (or whoever we trade him for) and possibly even Boozer (if Melo go traded too the Bulls). Makes no sense, really. I'd rather spend the $3mil on some sort of PG.
exactly
With the exception of Tyson, all of those guys together would be a defensive nightmare. Could you imagine a big lineup of Bargs, Gasol and STAT?
As far as Gasol and Bargs, its a mixed bag. When healthy Gasol is a good defender, and Bargs is a good man defender. Its getting them to play effective team D. Gasol understands what Jackson wants in that dept, its a matter of his being healthy enough to deliver. Might help Bargs to have a big along side of him who can make what Jackson expects clear.
It comes down to bang for your buck. As long as we haven't stopped at Gasol, and Jackson is looking for bigs with less mileage, then its a low cost, low risk move at 3 mill.
You got to have a coach that can teach team defense, some how theres ppl out there that think players should automaically know when to rotate, but it doesn't work that way..
You can put the 5 best defenders in the league on one team, if there not communicating and understanding what the game plan is, there going to be just great man defenders.
NBA players can not be defended one on one consistantly, there just too good on offensive, so if you don't have a philosphy and a game plan, doesnt really matter.
We complain about TYSONs defense at times as if he's the 2nd coming of Amare, and this is a guy who was DPOY 2 seasons ago, felton (when he was with the Bob Cats, especially under Larry Brown) was regarded has a very solid defender b4 he became a knick. But with MDA and woodson, he's looked nothing close to how he use to look, same goes for Tyson..INFACT Tyson got the DPOY award more so because he made the knicks a decent defensive team, considering how awful we were before he got here.