Where was Sweetney our best offensive defender tonight?????

What's an offensive defender? Is that like a defensive offender on defense who's offensive?

Frankly, Lenny is to be blamed for the lost. The ball should have been in Marburry's hands not Crawf. I am sorry, when you have Houston on the right, Crawf should have gone left, with Marburry penetrating the middle; whomever was open would have gotten that ball if the shot wasn't there. Besides, worst comes worst, Marburry would have gotten foul by one of their big. What about that block shot by Prince?????

My problem with Kurt is simple, he is not athletic enough to fit the team that we have right now. Kurt would be more serviceable if we were to have a big man like Ewing with a stellar postup game. There were times in the second half where we were being killed on the offensive board while Kurt was simply standing around. Sweetney was needed at least in the last five minutes.

Knick guards shoot alot of long jumpers. Long jumpers means long rebounds, which means guards are expected to help out. KT averages a little over 10 boards a game. Sure we could have a more athletic forward but who is out there. The only person I can think of is Shareef, but that is it. People like kwame, and curry all have limited talent right now with potential upside. People like kwame and curry have no jump shot. So that eliminates the pick and roll. Which means that their defenders can cheat on defense because they dont need to guard him. It would be similar to how Nazr was guarding Big Ben. When Big Ben was on the perimiter, nazr was clogging the paint.

Without Thomas's pick and roll, we would be toast thus far.

His high % shooting has been reliable.

He is no DICE, but a valuable player.

The NYK defense wasn't so bad last game. It was their inability to execute plays on the offensive end. This is something I have noticed from the Oralando game it was very similar to this game. The Knicks hit everything in sight the first half but that goes away with a jump shooting team. It is very easy for opponent to take that away from the kNicks. It happened again last night. The have to get a stronger post presence than what they have. As well as KT has played of late he isn't that type of player that draws fouls gets to the line and demands a double. Once again the kNicks played right into the their opponents hand. Pistons clamp the NYK shooter and they settle for a tough jumper instead of taking it to the hoop strong. Marbury is the only one who does this and even he sometime settle for a jumper. Very rarely does the NYK scoring come from a short FG attempt most of the attempts are 15 feet and out. They have to have a better game closer to the basket. This will open the shooters up some.

Posted by Bonn1997:

Where was Sweetney our best offensive defender tonight?????

What's an offensive defender? Is that like a defensive offender on defense who's offensive?

It sounds like he would be guarding our own guys.

Posted by diderotn:

Frankly, Lenny is to be blamed for the lost. The ball should have been in Marburry's hands not Crawf. I am sorry, when you have Houston on the right, Crawf should have gone left, with Marburry penetrating the middle; whomever was open would have gotten that ball if the shot wasn't there. Besides, worst comes worst, Marburry would have gotten foul by one of their big. What about that block shot by Prince?????

not to nitpick about one shot, because jc will usually hit that kind of shot, but lenny WAS calling for steph to come get the ball. now you are right steph should have had the ball and drove to the hoop. but don't blame lenny for this one, unless your gonna blame him for leaving moochie in too long. which he did.

Joe Beningo just called Lenny Wilkens a horrendous coach