blkexec wrote:martin wrote:knicks1248 wrote:Nalod wrote:knicks1248 wrote:Sangfroid wrote:newyorknewyork wrote:knicks1248 wrote:newyorknewyork wrote:knicks1248 wrote:newyorknewyork wrote:When Hardaway went down earlier in the yr. Dotson got the starting nod. He didn't play well and lost his mins.
That's very true, but how many games did frank score zero points and 5 TO's and was sub par defensively, same goes for lance, those 2 got to play through every mistake, every bad game, minimal repercussion, while guys like Noah, dotson and burke were getting yanked.
That's part of the reason why I thought this entire season was dedicated to 19 yr old FRANK.
Frank got yanked plenty. 13mins vs Philly, 16mins vs Dallas, 10mins vs Washington, 10mins vs Miluakee, 6mins vs ATL, 9mins vs Pho. And many many more as this was just a month and a half I looked at on my screen. All in his game log.
Thats why i said minimal, because at least he played some minutes, Dotson was a complete scratch
Frank can line up at 3 positions so its easier to find mins for him. And he & Burke have I believe the teams best lineup plus/minus. And that's the type of stuff a coach will look at more so then his basic stat line. He will look at lineup performance.
A lot harder to find Dotson mins. Earlier in the yr he had to compete with Thjr, Lee, Doug, Frank, Lance & Beas before it was settled he was better at PF.
Troy Williams was able to come in and get mins before he got injured. Dotson couldn't get time due to the combination of who was ahead of him and him not being ready to contribute. Troy Williams got mins because the trade of Doug created mins at SF and he was somewhat ready to contribute.
Ya know, it would have been therapeutic for THJ to sit down when he was having some of those clanker nights. His defense isn't anything to celebrate either
It wasn't just THJ that was having BRICK LAYING nights. The playoffs were a pipe dream since january when we lost 10 in a row (or something like that)..
By late december jack was literally on fumes and burke sat, Mcbuckets went back to being trash, and dotson sat, frank struggle and burke, sat (or got 4th qtr minutes), we took the least amount of 3 point attempts and gave up the most 3's in the league and dotson and burke continue to sit.
Even the good play of those guys now does not move the dial. Its nice they are evolving into NBA players but the bottom line is winning.
Your all good because they have improved and assume with this knowledge it could have happend earlier. You ignore there is assimilation that has to happen. These guys have to get minutes but until KP went down there was still playoff aspirations.
whatever dude, were on our 4th 50+ loss season.
no matter who we have on the floor, our 3 point defense is by far the worst in the league, even walt and breen said it last night after giving up 19 3's.
In fact i was looking at the stats over the last few seasons and we have been dead last or close to it, defending the 3 ball, with 3 entirely different rosters. What does that tell you?
Tells me that Frank and Dotson and Baker and the like will probably play more.
Tells me that we continue to add / scout slow footed (no lateral movement or flexibility or defensive IQ) players. When Isiah was here, I saw this organization drafting and adding players that are still in the league now.
Burke for example, fights over screens and doesn't allow the switch (from the small sample size I've seen). Frank is long enough, he switches and still successful (for the most part). But switching on defense was our defensive strategy for a long time. I believe it's much easier to switch on defense than to fight over picks (speaking with experience).
We continue to add offensive players like Melo. And our team usually follows the culture or habits on our star player, plus that's the direction of the NBA....offense not defense. This is why (in my opinion) over the years, we continue to suck guarding the 3 because we are usually slower, lack defensive IQ and offensively minded....Meaning we take the easy way out, with defense to conserve energy on offense, since this is an offensive league and offensive players like Melo get paid more than defensive players. So defense is going to be secondary unless you draft players that are defensive minded like Frank....or Baker. Or the league / teams start handing out heavy contracts to defensive players.
switch on everything only works when you have at least 3 players who can guard multiple positions, like a shawn marion, ron artest, bruce bowan.
The knicks defensive philosophy is the reason we are a bad perimeter defensive team, the whole team just focuses on the ball handler and preventing the drive to the basket..
Now of days when you see a 3 on 1 fast break, 9x out of 10 the wing guys are running behind the arc, but we defend the drive every time