crzymdups wrote:nyknickzingis wrote:Lone bright spot as this poor close to the season (We're 10-24 in the second half of the season) continues is that Porzingis still continues to play well and have good games. Some very nice moments from him again. 16 points, 10 boards, 3 blocks tonight. Keep it up unicorn. As I said in another thread, if all we get out of this season was Porzingis improving as a player, developing, and he turns out to be special in the future (remains to be seen) then we'll look back at this season and reflect differently. For now though, man Afflalo really really stunk it up tonight. We got nothing like usual from the guards. However it wasn't just that. Why the hell was this team consistently trying to feed Seraphin and Afflalo and Lopez in the post? This is not what we want to be doing. We want to get Melo in the post, yes. Maybe KP as he needs to develop and has shown some progress. Everyone else needs to stay the hell away from trying to post up. I saw the Triangle being run in Chicago and LA and there's no way they were posting up their scrubs. Why we post up our scrubs, I do not know.
I think they often result to the second and third and even fourth option in the offense because our guards are not good enough at creating the right passing angles to feed the first option.
This is what the defense wants - to force us into the secondary, tertiary, whatever plays in the Triangle. And the Knicks let it happen because they have no guards who can force the issue or create penetration.
Well, Jerian Grant can create penetration. The fact that he isn't playing at least 24min every single game is criminal. Rambis is a terrible coach.
Said many games ago, maybe right around when Rambis was hired ago, I wanted Fisher even knowing the losing was compounding to just focus on trying to develop Galloway and Grant. I liked that we signed Wroten. However there are a few things in play I think. It's about free agency. Rambis is not keeping his job. No way. If Rambis had led the team to the playoffs or close to, he would have. That was the clear objective. His record is 8-14? Not good enough. I think the reason we've played Afflalo, Jose, and tried to ignore development of Gallo/Grant is that we wanted to ensure we wind up in the 30's win wise. Free agents can then be sold on possibly joining a team that with their addition, KP's improvement, an all-star Melo, can be in the playoffs. Realistic for an all-star free agent to look at a possible 33 win Knick team and think if I joined this team, they'd be in the playoffs. I know being a 27 win team and 33 win team aren't all that big of a difference. However they can be come summer. How much did winning 17 games hurt us last summer? You can project a 33 win Knick team making the 10 win jump with a high quality free agent addition. KP improvement can add maybe even a few more to that. 45 wins may be possible.
Additionally as much as I dislike that we don't give Grant or Gallo long stretches consistently, I've found that neither plays very well with Porzingis, who is the key development piece with the starters. Say whatever you want about Jose, but he knows how to get Porzingis the ball. There's some flow to what they try to do and KP has developed some consistency this way. I think that would be missing if he were playing with Grant/Gallo, who are very erratic.
Really hope Phil can either coach himself or hire Luke. Luke will bring both Golden State offense and a different view point, as well as keep the Triangle within the game plan. Phil himself can coach at a very high level just on his way in dealing with players. Either would be a huge improvement over Rambis. I think Rambis is fine as an assistant. Just doesn't have that leadership quality a coach needs.
3/28/2016 10:28 PM