credit washington for making half time adjustments for playing against the triangle. Once the triangle was damaged, the knicks reverted into bad habits from the past (3pt shooting, long 2 shooting, isolations, forced shots). Once Jose comes back, this wont happen as much. plus by then, the players will know more about the triangle
1. the first option is to feed the post and have two players cut off of him (therefore Isolating the post player).
- problem is if dalmebert or aldrich is your post player, then you cant respect the post
- also if a decent post player like Stat is in the post, but sammie is on the weakside, teams can double down cuz they dont respect aldrich, acy, dalembert, larkin, prigoni or shumpert's shot (this is why shumpert was open to hit 3s)
2. another option is the pinch post entry to get things going on the weakside. One main purpose of the triangle is to overload one side in order to have a two man game on the wide open weak side.
- since the knicks have many non-offensive players (as mentioned above), the wizards were able to sag and cut off the pinch post option
- the knicks were basically forced to play one side of the court. this made them nervous and they started reverting to bad habits. once they learn to adjust (such as dribble handoffs to the weakside), they wont panic
thoughts?
Knicks should be improved: win about 40 games and maybe sneak into the playoffs. Melo, Rose and even Noah will have some nice moments however this team should be about PORZINGUS. the sooner they make him the primary player, the better