if h20 does replace tim in the starting lineup, i hope we implement some zone into our defense. h20 will get torched by some SF's in the league and our team defense is pretty awful so maybe the zone can sort of stop the bleeding at times. on offense, it's going to be great. teams can no longer play zone against us, and i really want h20 and nazr/sweets to play that in and out game. in the last game, everytime somebody posted on the same side as houston, he delivered the ball in the post (like the ewing/lj days). maybe we can start doing that again allowing nazr and sweets to operate a little more freely down low.

Can we win if we're undersized at EVERY position? Think about the starting 5 --
Marbs -- strong so being 6'2" doesn't hurt him against most PG's
Craw -- shorter and weaker than pretty much every starting 2 in the league
H20 -- shorter and weaker than pretty much every starting 3 in the league
KT -- shorter and weaker than pretty much every starting 4 in the league
Nazr -- shorter and weaker than pretty much every starting 5 in the league

Ouch

funny- Houston will know what its like to play out of position, just like Sprewell did when the two of them were both here.

the way this team is built, we need to outscore other teams to win- i.e., we aren't going to win games with our defense like a Detroit will, we're molded as a kind of Dallas/Sac east- so it makes sense to have as much fire power out on the court as can be had.

What if TT comes out and play a stellar game and help us crunch the other team, will you all still feel the same way? What if he sustains that same performance for a good 10 games? New Yorkers tend to have short memories. Not too long ago, you all wanted Crawf to go to the bench. Check this out, the last five games Crawf took 84 shots and only made 39, while Timmy took 46 and made 21 out of that, 7 out of 13 (3s). There is a big disparity on the shot selection that Crawf and Marburry are allowed to take, compare to what TT is allowed to do. Maybe if Lenny was to give him the green light to shoot the ball, he probably would have a bigger help than what he is reduced to now. Don't get me wrong, in the beginning of the season he was taking some illadvise shots, but things are improving a little with this dude. Instead of letting Crawf take all of those shots, maybe TT should be sharing some of those shots with him. Besides, his percentage is much better than Crawfs

Crawfffffff
MIN FG 3P FT STL BLK TO PF OFF DEF TOT AST PTS
Numbers for Last 5 Games 36.4 39-84 12-29 17-20 1.2 0.6 2.6 2.0 0.0 1.2 1.2 3.4 21.4

Timmy Thomas
MIN FG 3P FT STL BLK TO PF OFF DEF TOT AST
Numbers for Last 5 Games 27.4 21-46 7-13 7-9 0.6 0.8 1.4 2.8 0.2 2.8 3.0 2.0 11.2

Exactly, anything is better than TT at small forward; he just isn't producing

i can remember TT hitting a three versus Washington that should've sealed the game if Kurt thomas wasn't so flat-footed

if in the meantime TT averages close to his career average of 15pts 5rebs instead of 9pts 1reb then maybe they can leave him in there

and that's on a good day.

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Posted by gunsnewing:

if in the meantime TT averages close to his career average of 15pts 5rebs instead of 9pts 1reb then maybe they can leave him in there

TT's career avg's aren't even close to 15 & 5...that's closer to his career HIGH's.

I think his averages as a starter are close to that.