It's good that he feeds off his teammates, but once the ball gets to Nazr, a shot is DEFINITELY going up, b/c he doesn't give the ball up. I think the Knicks as a team start to play a bit more poorly too. They play best when the ball moves around a lot, or when Stephon penetrates. Someone suggested that Nazr should be the 3rd option. Ahhhhh, no. It should be Steph, then Allan, then Timmy then Kurt, THEN Nazr.

Exactly man, Nazr needs to realize he has no post game.

He also needs to realize he is nothing but a rebounder and dunker, and stop takin jumpers.

Then we need to move for a real big man. Mohammed is just not a good option at center. He thinks more then he is, he puts up meaningless numbers, actually numbers that hurt the team.

Most games he goes off for big numbers we loose. Wonder why. We need a shotblocking big, Mohammed is a nuisance. He just looks good because of all the attention the other players on the squard are getting on offense.

KT needs to go too. Our offense was fine w/out the pick and roll play with KT in the 3rd quarter, and our defense, was guess what, BETTER!!!

Move KT, start JYD, Sweetney, whatever, we need some defensive players in there, right now we got none. The KT being a good defender thing is a joke. It go against all the facts that clearly say he is not a good defender, but actually is a bad defender.

And the pick and roll with KT takes Houston and TT out of the scoring, while both of them are better scorers. Needless to say Craw is also a better scorer.

Get rid of KT and Mohammed and get a areal shotblocker and a banger inside and this team will go places.

thats exactly what I've said countless times but it's really not Nazr's fault. someone has to score inside. Nazr is trying his best. We really need someone who can finish inside. Marbury is our best inside player and he's 6'2!!!!!!!!!!!

I think there's way to much busting on Nazr. The guy took 13 shots - same as TT, less than Allan, less than Steph. He scored 21 points on his 13 shots. That' pretty efficient. Also had 11 boards and 2 blocks. I think he gets scapegoated here too often. The last 2 games have shown very poor execution down the stretch by the whole team. Poor D, rushed shots, bad clock management and play-calling by Lenny. It's been very frustrating losing these 2 winnable games. But I don't see the negative focus on Nazr.

Posted by Marv:

The guy took 13 shots - same as TT, less than Allan, less than Steph. He scored 21 points on his 13 shots. That' pretty efficient.

Good post. I dont think we are going to Nazr in the post too much. I actually think it is in moderation and they should dump it into him a little more.

put a scoring PF next to Nazr and you're set with Nazr's putback dunks

Posted by Silverfuel:

Posted by Marv:

The guy took 13 shots - same as TT, less than Allan, less than Steph. He scored 21 points on his 13 shots. That' pretty efficient.

Good post. I dont think we are going to Nazr in the post too much. I actually think it is in moderation and they should dump it into him a little more.

I agree too. He is alright in the post. We could get more out of him. He played very strong tonight backing guys all the way into the paint. Horse on the boards.

I prefer his game 10000 times over Kurt. I sure wish that Lenny would phase out that stupid pick & roll that Kurt and Marburry have been so accoustumed too. We need guys like PJ brown that can defend and score when needed. He would be just a bandage in our system until we can get a big man. the only reason I would trade for him is just to get Jim Jackson in that deal...

Posted by Allanfan20:

Well, Nazr does have some post moves, but the thing is, when he's in a crowded area, he's still not giving it up and he screws up.

So the answer is to get him to learn to pass out of the low-post better when double teamed. The answer isn't to stop giving the ball to a 54% shooter!

Posted by gunsnewing:

Posted by NYKBocker:

I don't understand the Nazr bashing. I truly don't. The only reason we are struggling right now is that because we are not getting anything from our forwards, specially the small forward spot. Once Crawford comes back and Houston finally mends we will be a very good team.

no we won't...only after we have a PF and a new coach

No we'll still be good without those things. We'll be great with them.

13 shots is a bit too much??? Dude check out how many of those shots that he makes.. Crawf, Marb, TT, all take too many shots, especially the 3 ball.