babyKnicks wrote:Hmmm...i would have to think about this one...who would be the fifth big again? I think Sarafin has been doing very well coming back from injury. He has the defense I like to have in the paint to alter and/or block shots.

O'Quinn is rough and rugged...we need that at times. RoLo is the starter, and i like his game more and more.

I like Lou as the 5th big and contributor when we have back to backs and need to rest others.

At this stage of the season, I have not seen anything that indicates Lou is more than the 5th big on the team.

Sorry briggs.

over the last week, your knee jerk reactionary changes to the line up reek of a rookie coach looking for a high draft pick and reading the box scores more than watching the games.

But hey, opinion alert. :)

Hmm. Few things Ive noticed with the Knicks

They are simply not getting to the FL line--they are not playing with pace and they are scoring less. When you decrease Williams minutes you essentially remove what appears to be the best guy on the team in terms of creating contact and FT trips. Admundson also tens to be a guy who creates contact. We dont really have a post scorer--I think Admundson might be the best of the lot right now. He also is one of the 2-3 players who run triangle plays the right way.

Ive watches Seraphin--and I dont like his pace nor do I like his selfish play hes also over weight.

Weve played reasonable well defensively but 5 out of the last 6 under 100 and the differential is negative. We need more offense and we need to get to the FT line.

babyKnicks wrote:What do the numbers say? Seraphin has played strong defense. And has a pretty strong shooting percentage.

36% is a pretty strong shooting percentage? Also seems like he turns the ball over at the worst times and misses defensive assignments. And is a black hole on offense.

martin wrote:

babyKnicks wrote:What do the numbers say? Seraphin has played strong defense. And has a pretty strong shooting percentage.

36% is a pretty strong shooting percentage? Also seems like he turns the ball over at the worst times and misses defensive assignments. And is a black hole on offense.

His TS is .357. That is not just not good, its not really even possible to be that bad.

Kemet wrote:I like Lou when we need rebounds.
Lou does not have the defensive talent to force opponents to change their shot selection when slashing to the hoop.
Fisher .. taking Lopez out the game to replace him with Lou, then taking Quinn out the game to replace him Lou is one of the reason the Knicks lost to the Hornets. Poor coaching by not knowing what Lou brings to the team. The Hornets scored 40 pts from inside scoring, we only scored 28 pts from inside

you wanna play lopez more than 30 minutes on a back to back? No way ... this was not a playoff game.

Pace.

crzymdups wrote:I dislike Seraphin a lot.

I think O'Quinn is definitely the 3rd big.

I don't have an issue playing Amundson some - though I agree with those saying he's not great on defense. Don't get me wrong, he hustles a lot and tries his best, but he often just gets flat out beat on defense.

I think he's good as an energy spark type guy - I would never play him more than like ten minutes a night though, unless there's an injury.

He does understand the Triangle, which is huge.

agree but capping a guy at 10 minutes really does not make sense. It would all depend on matchups and how bad he is getting beat. If he is holding his own on defense (big if) then the other parts of his game is really helpful.

crzymdups wrote:I dislike Seraphin a lot.

I think O'Quinn is definitely the 3rd big.

I don't have an issue playing Amundson some - though I agree with those saying he's not great on defense. Don't get me wrong, he hustles a lot and tries his best, but he often just gets flat out beat on defense.

I think he's good as an energy spark type guy - I would never play him more than like ten minutes a night though, unless there's an injury.

He does understand the Triangle, which is huge.

Good point .. Amundson experience should be in the starting lineup with Lopez & Melo, receiving 12 to 10 minute a playintime a night, bc we have big man depth.
We should not have a rookie starting or finishing a game, we are the expensive Knicks who can afford to always be over the cap. The NBA league are water-down enough from so many small-market teams starting rookies n d.league players, plus every NBA big man wanting to be like Steph Curry n shoot 3 balls all night.

martin wrote:

Kemet wrote:I like Lou when we need rebounds.
Lou does not have the defensive talent to force opponents to change their shot selection when slashing to the hoop.
Fisher .. taking Lopez out the game to replace him with Lou, then taking Quinn out the game to replace him Lou is one of the reason the Knicks lost to the Hornets. Poor coaching by not knowing what Lou brings to the team. The Hornets scored 40 pts from inside scoring, we only scored 28 pts from inside

Lou brings hustle, team defense, and also knows where to be in the triangle. He is not a 1-on-1 stopper but a solid'ish defender. Great help defender. Great motor. Never stops the ball in the triangle. Never does anything outside of his wheelhouse.

Lou is the guy both Seraphin and DWill should be emulating. And I gotta guess it's the reason he is getting minutes over both of those guys even though he is much less talented. He's the carrot stick for both of those guy's playing time.

Lou all around hustle is great as a SF, when Lou have to defend a Jefferson or Zeller or Valanciunas in the paint his hustle dont stop them from scoring.