StarksEwing1 wrote:Very Good tonight BUT we need to follow this pattern in order to have success. Jeff said that KP needs to ball the most and to his credit he followed through with that promise. Rose and noah had very good overall game. This is the type of game we need from rose consistently. Melo had some good moments near the end too. The most important thing is treating KP as our main guy from here on out. Great win hopefully we build on it

Who cares who the main guy is? A good team has different guys that can step up any given night. You think Golden State fans are fighting who the main guy is? This obsession with KP being the main guy or Rose only taking certain amount of shots is getting old. Ofcourse all players need to be involved on offense. But it's got to be a desire for all players to be involved, not just KP or Melo or Rose. That's what the really good teams do. But yes, they did a good job tonight involving KP and Lee more often early. But keep saying, defense should be the main concern not who is shooting the ball on offense.

HofstraBBall wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:Very Good tonight BUT we need to follow this pattern in order to have success. Jeff said that KP needs to ball the most and to his credit he followed through with that promise. Rose and noah had very good overall game. This is the type of game we need from rose consistently. Melo had some good moments near the end too. The most important thing is treating KP as our main guy from here on out. Great win hopefully we build on it

Who cares who the main guy is? A good team has different guys that can step up any given night. You think Golden State fans are fighting who the main guy is? This obsession with KP being the main guy or Rose only taking certain amount of shots is getting old. Ofcourse all players need to be involved on offense. But it's got to be a desire for all players to be involved, not just KP or Melo or Rose. That's what the really good teams do. But yes, they did a good job tonight involving KP and Lee more often early. But keep saying, defense should be the main concern not who is shooting the ball on offense.

Really like how BJ looks for KP as the trail man. Noah looks for KP and tonight we saw KP hit Noah on a Big to Big PnR.

StarksEwing1 wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:Very Good tonight BUT we need to follow this pattern in order to have success. Jeff said that KP needs to ball the most and to his credit he followed through with that promise. Rose and noah had very good overall game. This is the type of game we need from rose consistently. Melo had some good moments near the end too. The most important thing is treating KP as our main guy from here on out. Great win hopefully we build on it

Who cares who the main guy is? A good team has different guys that can step up any given night. You think Golden State fans are fighting who the main guy is? This obsession with KP being the main guy or Rose only taking certain amount of shots is getting old. Ofcourse all players need to be involved on offense. But it's got to be a desire for all players to be involved, not just KP or Melo or Rose. That's what the really good teams do. But yes, they did a good job tonight involving KP and Lee more often early. But keep saying, defense should be the main concern not who is shooting the ball on offense.

first off relax. I never said defense shouldnt be important. However most people said the same things i said so im not just pulling this stuff out of my ass

Didn't realize I wasn't relaxed? You? Agreed with most of what you said. Just not the need to focus on "Main Guy" label. And never attacked you for not mentioning defense. Just pointed out that should be a good teams main focus. Specially the way we looked thus far.

StarksEwing1 wrote:Very Good tonight BUT we need to follow this pattern in order to have success. Jeff said that KP needs to ball the most and to his credit he followed through with that promise. Rose and noah had very good overall game. This is the type of game we need from rose consistently. Melo had some good moments near the end too. The most important thing is treating KP as our main guy from here on out. Great win hopefully we build on it

nixluva wrote:It's not so much that KP is the "Main Guy". Just that when they see he has a mismatch "HIT HIM". It's just smart basketball. This team has to have Ball and Player movement. When they do they're gonna be hard to stop. Defenses will always end up rotating and KP will end up with a mismatch inside. We have capable players and once they know the formula I believe they'll really take off. So they don't have to force it to KP. Just be aware of him at all times and feed him when he's open or has an advantage.

Really like how BJ looks for KP as the trail man. Noah looks for KP and tonight we saw KP hit Noah on a Big to Big PnR.

Agreed. Play smart ball and take what the D is giving you. One thing I noticed from rose which was fairly effective is there were times he would penetrate and if he didn't have he shot he dribbled out The D had collapsed on him and by dribbling out he had open shooters and the Bulls were scrambling to close out

While not classic drive and dish, it was still effective

Punish the mismatches. Punish the mistakes and you have won half the battle

HofstraBBall wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:Very Good tonight BUT we need to follow this pattern in order to have success. Jeff said that KP needs to ball the most and to his credit he followed through with that promise. Rose and noah had very good overall game. This is the type of game we need from rose consistently. Melo had some good moments near the end too. The most important thing is treating KP as our main guy from here on out. Great win hopefully we build on it

Who cares who the main guy is? A good team has different guys that can step up any given night. You think Golden State fans are fighting who the main guy is? This obsession with KP being the main guy or Rose only taking certain amount of shots is getting old. Ofcourse all players need to be involved on offense. But it's got to be a desire for all players to be involved, not just KP or Melo or Rose. That's what the really good teams do. But yes, they did a good job tonight involving KP and Lee more often early. But keep saying, defense should be the main concern not who is shooting the ball on offense.

*if* kp6 is the one who has the greatest number of mismatches in his favor then he has to get the ball in mismatch situations. that was the point of coach's postgame after the blowout. and *since* kp6 is the one knick who *will* have the most mismatches, it stands to reason that he *will* get the ball more often than others on the team. then the issue will be how efficient he is. if his TS% is a mediocre 55-56% then he will need to either be a better playmaker or find ways to score better.

in five games this season, even being ignored, he is at 59%TS which is unequivocally elite. he therefore deserves to get a higher usage rate, and that usage should be sacrificed by derrick rose, who needs to start looking for kp6 more than he has.

the shortest path to the knicks winning and success is for kp6 to have a higher usage rate than derrick rose and a higher number of shot attempts as well. he obviously does not need coddling or to be brought along slowly.