2012 Game Thread: Nueva York contra Los Bulls
March 12th, 2012 by Robert Silverman | @BobSaietta | Comments | Permalink |
Noche Latina, dontcha know. Have at it!
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Shump Shump!
Dear Knicks: Please prove I am not a masochist for waking up at 0200 to watch this :)
here we are. Wouldn’t los toros and pantalones be cooler than los bulls and neuva york?
Love that block by Lin on Rose. Without their real MVP in Deng, the Bulls are beatable. Knicks are definitely playing hard tonight.
maybe that little cut on Amare’s nose means he’s out for the season heh.
lol Lin blocked Rose.
You haven’t learned your lesson by this point!?
It looks like Chandler has taken the big brace off of his left wrist. He certainly is doing a better job of catching the ball in transition.
Plus, Jorts makes an early appearance.
why is harrelson getting minutes before novak?
Anyone else sad that the Bulls’ center can easily beat our Power Forward off the dribble?
Lets see if that Baron Davis vs Lin +/- team plays better/more organized/whatever thing is actually true today!
Assorted PnR combos so far.
I can’t even take this game seriously until I see what we do in the 3rd quarter.
Novacaine
on that play jorts just stood under the basket while noah dunked like he didnt want to get mozgoved
Don’t we all know that :(
JUST END THE GAME NOW! CALL IT OFF! KNICKS WIN 25-23!!!!!!!!!
Excellent quarter. Not sure why we haven’t been playing like this for the last two weeks. Also not confident we can keep it going for 3 more quarters either.
Expect a complete collapse roughly during minutes 25-36
Signs that the team is taking this slump seriously:
Coalescing defense, with Melo BOUNDING and ASTOUNDING on the box.
Lin watching his turnovers, keeping his dribble and re-setting when appropriate
Jorts out there just plain trying, and not looking quite as pasty at that
D’Antoni exhausting the PnR so he doesn’t look like a complete historical fallacy vs. Thibs
No more long 2′s though guys. It makes me haaaate you in transition.
why can’t they give effort like that for 48 minutes every game? are they not getting paid enough?
novak iso!
Novak is a ball stopper, and I love it.
Patrick Novack with the post moves.
stupid passes continue…. baron bah!
It is like night and day with Chandler not having the big brace on his wrist. He has gone from hands like Marvin Webster to actually being able to catch the ball in traffic.
Just heard the refs get paid under by the gamblers. Guess Knicks loose.
Good things happen when Shumpert pushes the pace. Get the ball up court quickly and the stiffling Bulls defense does not have time to get set.
We’ve been getting a suspiciously friendly amount of calls first half…
Wouldn’t be surprised to see that go the other way later tonight.
Great defense by Novak draws the 3 seconds on Gibson.
getting good calls indeed
I cringe when Baron shoots from the perimeter.
Baron any more plays like the last two and you are getting knocked down to serf.
The idea he’s better than Lin is really laughable. If the team plays better with BD leading the second unit it’s because that second unit is just better than our starting lineup with our twin millstones.
jr’s butterfinger layups continue from last game
I lol’d
Peasant Davis
Is it me, or Smith can’t put in a layup lately? Like, at all?
Why does Fields even bother to take threes? Just take a step inside the line!
anthony and stoudemire both on the bench the entire quarter…
Haha that was great! T-1000 sealed off two guys and (still a) Baron gets a lane for a layup.
and Lin for that matter.
d’antoni giving davis a lot more minute this game; lin was subbed out around 3 minute mark in first quarter, and hasn’t come out since. Also looks like d’antoni isn’t trying the davis & lin backcourt combo anymore.
I’ve figured out why melo struggles after good first quarters ..dantoni sits the guy for literally a half hour to 45 mins what an idiot
He can certainly get to the basket though. Dude’s in big slump.
At this point is it too much to assume the 3pt % from the first half last year was an aberration and this is the reality?
-3 with them, +6 without them.
And the Bulls have basically the best bench in the NBA, with their starting lineup weakened by the loss of Deng…
Our twin millstones, ladies and gentlemen
The coaching staff made him completely rework his shooting form
apparently they were concerned the shot was going in too often
Jorts sends a message that time!
playing a lot less minutes; maybe lin can be more productive. have some legs to play with.
Gotta Lima Jorts giving a foul instead of the layup.
Another message by Jorts!
WHAT A PASS BY LIN!!!
No way D’Antonio makes it 4 quarters at this rate. Can’t blame him.
frustrating. didn’t bite the fake off of rose, but still got bated into fouling.
I never understood why they did that.
I guess the league MVP can do whatever he wants regardless of rules… especially ones that are being emphasized this year… like… don’t jump into a defensive player.
lin still doing relatively well, especially on D. Melo is rusty right now after sitting out half the quarter though, missing his shots.
It was more of a set shot with a slow-ish release. I guess they didn’t like it.
Jesus christ great defense for the entire shot clock until the last second and Rose just MVP’s it all over us. Also Lin Just got hit in the face after the foul whistle and nothing at extra at all. Come on.
Pan to Bulls cheerleaders and cleavage Clyde “those are tei if by favorites”
Another 1st half where it feels like the Knicks are dominating the game but will barely be up at half-time if not trailing.
Stat has a grand total of 2 shot attempts so far in first half.
Knicks should be up by 20 by now.
The phone got excited too it should have been “those are two of my favorites”
STAT has set at least 3 picks on Lin in this game.
The only way Fields can make a FT is if the other team goaltends it.
Hahahahaha loudest ovation ever is for Scalabrine!!!! Gotta love it!
charge on scalebrene LOL
Scalabrine is the only player STAT can draw a charge on hahaha.
Back to back good defense for Amare. He also did a good job picking up Rose after the pick before the charge.
I don’t know if there’s any player in the league who gets brutalized in the lane as much as Lin… not sure if that last one was a foul or not, but in general he gets destroyed in the paint.
Best sign going into halftime: entire frontline of Bulls is foul-ridden: Asik, Boozer and Gibson each have 3 fouls
okay guys. two quarters down. first good game by lin against a true contender team. (LA and dallas eh….)
How did Lin get that limp? Was he knee-ed?
He needs to go back to his old shot mechanics next year. Never mind if it’s a slow release.
I’ve missed most of this. What’s been our best 5 man unit thus far?
regarding Fields’ J: He could not shoot off the dribble at all last season. Now he’s seemed to improve his ability to do that, but at the expense of his range.
regarding Melo sitting: Melo, like most starters around the league, sat for 6 minutes. Sit 6 minutes each half, and you play 36 minutes. There was nothing unusual about D’Antoni’s rotations other than the fact that Stoudemire sat for several minutes longer than usual.
Good first half. Credit to D’Antoni for scaring the bulls out of their zone by getting Smith and Novak in immediately. They should have gone back to it with some of those lineups we had out there.
Probably Baron, Shumpert, Smith, Melo, Chandler.
yap, although baron/ lin are pretty even so far. lin played more minutes against rose, where lin played some decent d actually and had only 1 TO. baron looking good though.
Novak played completely fundamental and well, on both ends actually… He’s in there too.
does lin have a limp? i didnt notice
this is absolutely not true, he falls over on his own constantly like he did to end the half. nice half by him, though.
lin is always getting knocked down going into the paint. it’s a wonder he can still walk and play!
come on! he gets beaten up by other teams all the time! like by mavs where 2 guys wack his head then he gets his hair pulled back by kidd! and no flagrant on kidd either!!
As much as I want to blindly root for Lin, this is true. He gets roughened up a lot, and gets bruises even visible on TV, but he really does just fall and trip often when he tries to change direction.
This has been puzzling me- when exactly did they rework his shot? They were locked out and couldn’t work with him in the summer and I doubt they spent all that much time on it during the two weeks of training camp. As far as I know that was first mentioned in an article by Tina Cervasio but she was comparing his shot to how he shot in college- not how he shot last year.
That was the best effort I’ve seen from him since his first game or two in the rotation.
yes, on that play you’re correct, and he certainly gets fouled his fair share, but he also falls over on his own all the time or with very minimal contact.
Chicago called for 14 fouls to NY’s 7 that half, dunno if that will keep up.
Lin does take a beating, but one reason why it appears worse than other guards in the paint is that he doesn’t absorb his blows very well. But that is probably a good thing, because he draws fouls.
Oh boy. Let the 3rd quarter begin! (cringe)
As expected.. Knicks look pretty sharp. Focus and effort are there.
Love seeing Shumpert out there – halftime crew is right that the Knicks need to play fast, like they are tonight, and to do that it really helps having Shumpert raise hell on defense.
holy crap Stat!
Looking a little flatish on D already. Pick it up !
I know it’s not bearing results yet, but Amare has looked healthier and more athletic the last few games. Just like he said he would, losing weight! But that 1st half dunk saw him jumping higher than I’ve seen all season. And he doesn’t look like a lumbering oaf any more.
And on cue, he dunks again.
lets gooo!! knicks!!
I’m loving these Lin to Melo football passes.
Imagine if Lin was actually good enough to be an NBA starter.
Great steal (Lin), great pass (Lin), great finish (Carmelo).
Not loving that leaving Rose open defense by Lin though.
Never mind he was going after a loose ball.
True nuff, at least wave your arms around…
Stat needs to stay composed and pump fake til he dies… And then do what he just did.
Thats why Melo gets paid the big bucks.
Not closing out
uh oh. bull’s d very strong in this 3rd quarter
Not sweating yet.. I like the Knicks attacking (Lin’s pas to Melo, then Fields driving the lane).. they’re forcing the Bulls to make plays. Unfortunately for us, the Bulls might be the best team in the league, so they are making them..
Here is where a 3 point game becomes a 15-point game in about 3 minutes.
It just slips slowly. And then its double digits … Hooooooold!
And the 3rd quarter collapse begins… what’s it gonna be this time?
I’m guessing 38-13
Is anyone else pissed that chandler says at half that one reason for the bad 3rd quarters is the team waits too long to come out and isn’t properly warm?
I mean, seriously?
I mean, this is as basic as it gets. So they need to come out about 7 minutes sooner so they are warm and ready to play, and they haven’t been doing that?
Fuck
lol. Hubie Brown sounds like he loves the Knicks.
3Q meltdown begins? Please no.
I know we’re getting creamed again, but so far not because we’re playing so badly. This is what MDA was talking about the other day- not having mental toughness. THe last several games, the other team makes a run like this and we crack. Just need to keep it together… make your own luck.
The refs can’t make you play any better can they?
No matter what, when we waste possessions, we never get stops either. Complete double whammy
You know they just gave up a run but it wasn’t on the defense it was three straight blocks on guys in traffic that art it up
man, one game that the knicks are actually playing pretty well happens to be against the bulls. bummer.
D’antoni actually called a timeout to try to stem the tide…can’t believe it!
Stat adjusts..
Is it just me or has Lin looked pretty good on defense today… for the most part anyway.
what a beautiful team play after the TO.
What a break! Nice to see the Knicks actually get one.
EDITED TO ADD: And on cue, Chandler misses the gift free throw. Ugh.
definitely
I hate how much Mike Breen loves the Bulls.
Fighting back.
Fucking 28 percent 3 point shooter burns us. Literally just our luck.
Melo, youths want to guard your man on the 3
SUperstar call. But so what ?
That’s Mike Tirico.
Don’t let me hear you insult Mike Breen like that again.
Take that back, he was in the circle.
Lin hits a 3 and another lazy closeout by Melo give up a three
I’m watching MSG’s feed, as I presumed the ESPN take would be even more of a Bulls love fest.
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He he
Hubie balances.
we are being destroyed on the boards, 37-24.. that’s where we’re losing the game. Noah..
The tandem of the Bulls + the 3rd Quarter could be too much for this Knick team to overcome…
Hey no fair. You can edit and all my autocorrect goofs are stuck. :)
I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen STAT hit that shot this season.
Just one point down
Not what you want to hear, “Kicked it out to Shumpert.”
It’s always something. Most days it’s TOs and foul shooting
it’d be nice if only one of our wing players decides to be on a slump. jr and shump both sucking isn’t very helpful.
Good to stat hit the j
STAT HITTING MID RANGE JUMPERS?!
Rose is shooting 8 for 19. It is not like he’s having some amazing game.
OK now it’s more like two hands. Good sign!
Man, Shump has got some guns
Stat is playing well right now.
As terrible as Shump is on offense, man, is he amazing on defense.
72-73 when Davis subs in for Lin for all you +/- followers.
Stat needs the ball to e in his hands a lot right now
Stat’s shot is money right now.
Has Amare’s midrange jumpshot finally returned!??
Please Larry O’Brien let it be so
Team becomes infinitely more dangerous with a power forward hitting a 17 footer.
I love the notion of crediting Noah for the rebound when it was just because Rose bricked the three so poorly that it ricocheted out.
and? what are his +/- for the games when he didnt play well?
Cue D’Antoni benching STAT lol.
Ugliest foul shot around
No doubt about it. So long as he shows he can hit it, that makes so much of a difference.
I just hate John Lucas. And yes I graduated from st joes in 2004.
Melo hardly moves at all away from the ball.
That was the best Baron could come up with there
man, with melo and stat w/ hot hands, we still choose baron to take a three to close out the quarter? why….?
Remember when Baron Davis made that halfcourt shot at the halftime buzzer in the playoffs against the Mavs awhile back?
I think he thinks that that is his range.
???
LOL
again, why don’t they play this hard every night? I don’t think Chicago wants to see us in the first round of the playoffs, and I know Deng is out, but somehow we match up well with them.
3rd Quarter weathered! We can win this game!(?)
The operative term is “we.” That was not a group decision, if you catch my drift.
Baron looking like a real player…
Frankly I think Rose is just Stephon Marbury with A+ attitude and work ethic. Great player but not transcendent. What makes the Bulls special is coaching, defense, rebounding, and depth.
Yeah, the “Big Three” of STAT/Melo/Lin are playing the best D I’ve seen them play in quite awhile. They appear to get up for the Bulls, like how every team gets up to play the Knicks. I think the Knicks should pretend that they’re playing the Knicks every night.
this would be a good time for JR Swish to finally show up.
+1
Amare with a big 3 rebounds… even when he’s great on offense it’s still not enough to compensate for his poor rebounding and D.
Jinx.
Sorry. Needed to be said…
Consider it a passat-soto…:)
sweet pass by Baron.
The Knicks get the ball to start the fourth quarter a lot because of Chandler, but is it me or do they seem to blow those first fourth quarter possession, like, every game?
Great finish by Shump!
That was the most BS delay of game ever.
Isn’t it nice of the team to “get up” for the Bulls and not “get up” for teams like, say, the Bucks, helpfully ensuring that we’ll come up just short of beating all of them?
Passata-soto
Smith is brutal, get him out.
Difference in this game will be Rose sitting out only 1 minute in the 2nd half while Melo/Stat/Lin sit a shitload of time while the Bulls pull away.
Fucking JR Smith… Please bring back Lin, I’m sick of watching Davis take contested mid range jumpers after putting the ball between his legs 6 times.
I’m okay with Smith being in the game, the guy just can’t handle the ball right now.
Smith has been very disappointing so far
JR Smith looking like a d-leaguer.
Dangerous 5 pt deficit
The shitty rebounding is maddening.
JR Smith lost his brain in Tahiry’s butt cheeks
You can’t credit the Bulls rebounding on bricked threes! Those will always be flukey plays.
So why aren’t we going back to starters?
It seems like the Bulls get every offensive rebound.
expletive expletive expletive expletive.
And his choice in asses is a little over indulgent
You know you’re in trouble when Chandler is letting defensive rebounds go by him. Seriously.
This team crashes hard.
+ a trillion
ok jr smith + off. reb = reason for loss
THOSE rebounds you can credit to the Bulls. Ans what a bad foul by Davis.
Shump’s defense on Rose was amazing.
Missing Jeffries
Thank you for bringing Lin and Melo back in quickly.
Def dont go back to Amare when he’s having his best game of year
Cue Owen with the defensive rebounding reference.
KNICKS GOT A DEFENSIVE BOARD!
So we can’t get rebounds. My first reaction is to bring I’m Jeremy Lin… ? ?
Gibson and Noah are hitting 20 footers like nothing.
Gibson has a good jumper! Don’t leave him open!
I know Novak is bad on defense… but Gibson literally had no one on him for miles.
Get Novak OUT OF THE GAME
i’m not too excited about baron-lin-melo-novak-chandler line up against these bulls who are hogging the boards.
Lin back in with Davis. (@80-85?). Nice move to get the open J .
just such bad rebounding.
I hope they don’t keep switching so Novak ends up guarding Rose.
hilarious fake
I really wish we had Taj Gibson instead of Amare
That’s about the 25th consecutive opposing PF I’ve thought that about
Lin with foul number five, looks like I can turn this one off and get an early start on jerking off tonight
Gibson has a good jumper, but yeah, the Noah swishes are just bad luck. Just like Lin’s brain leaving him for a moment on that loose ball foul. Lordy.
Give me a freaking break dude. Lin gets murdered in the paint every game and gets no calls and he’s always in foul trouble because of bullshit loose ball fouls. They’re called loose balls for a reason. 50/50 shot at it, do whatever it takes to get them. Gibson was pushing off just as much as Lin was holding. !!!!
This is ridiculous … It’s obvious we need a big body in there.
Seriously…WHERE THE HELL IS AMARE?
He’s your best scorer right now
lol. +1000
Why doesnt MDA see what we see? Why is his instinct to counter bad rebounding w 3 pt shooting? This game is a war. The Bulls are too good on D to leave Novak open. He’s useless. Why is this so hard?
Exactly. Yank em when they are feeling it.
We’re going to see this group for most of the rest of the way, except maybe Shump gets back in
Isn’t he in the game? Oops, my bad, yeah, I agree.
Bulls coach is going to have a heart attack tonight.
That was a nice block by Melo how did ESPN Cree respond?
Great, Amare’s hot, but ISo to melo
What was STAT thinking there?
gibson just grabbed another o-rebound just over amare… come on stat!
We are being out efforted
Lin ends up on his back in the paint (AGAIN!!!!!!!) and the Bulls get another offensive rebound. Give me a fucking break.
Jesus Christ. Grab a fraggin’ board already!
That rose dunk. Wow. That’s game.
This is pissing me off. Were hanging on by a phucking thread and the team is completely falling apart right here. What happened to shumpert. Why are we riding baron this long. Enough
Oy mucho dolor en mi cabeza.
This wouldnt be so pathetic if it wasnt so fucking predictable.
ok, this is a fucking joke, Amare is the worst 6’10″ rebounder ever.
I’d put Jorts in for STAT.
Looking at it again, I think STAT was afraid to step on his teammate.
Also, what does D’Antoni see in the Lin/Davis pairing? It makes absolutely no sense.
Tyson Chandler must be thinking he made the biggest mistake of his career when stuff like that happens.
20 offensive rebounds in less than 40 minutes
26 defensive rebounds for us
bulls have an offensive rebound rate of 46.5%
4 offensive rebounds for us
28 defensive rebounds for them
bulls have a defensive rebound rate of 87.5%
fuck this team
Well, in about 6 minutes of game play we are looking at officially being on the outside looking in as Milwaukee won already tonight….d’antoni should just tell that to them right now….see if they wake up or care!
He has to go for the ball. Did Breen just say that like it was a thing?
He’s had this look on his face for much of the season (save for Linsanity) where he looks like he’s thinking, “Am I the only real basketball player here?”
Unreal…
they just showed the replay, he fell over again. he is like the opposite of a Weeble.
Rose has 28 on 27 shots. Fuck you. Rose has ot played well.
The Knicks are giving up to many extra chances.
Fuck rose. Tis is being handed to the bulls
Terrible shot by Lin. Amare hasnt had a shot since he left the game… on cue
What do you suppose happened on the 19 other offensive rebounds we gave up?
and finally they get Amare another shot, such a badly coached team.
Overrated on a minimum contract. Gotta love it.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, they were totally brutalized on the boards all game long. That play just looked particularly odd because STAT didn’t jump when the ball is right in front of him. It seemed so odd I figured he must have a reason.
Why if Fields in the game right now??????????
Jesus Landry
There, for instance, they were just beat.
Fields – what was he thinking? It wasn’t even a three!
Wow MSG replays Melo making a face and smacking his hands after he posts and Landry stands there hesitates and passes to Lin.
Why is fields in this game down the stretch? can someone please tell me why?
Good box out, Melo.
There, again, they were just beaten.
No one boxes out. Melo just got burned
+1
Semele needs to tell fields that line drives at the rim tend to hit e front of the rim. Melo. Loses butler and he jams the o board.
Lazy bitches
Fields. Cannot. Shoot. Why the fuck does he continue to do it? I don’t care how much everyone here loves him, our shooting guard’s lack of shooting ability kills us.
I don’t even care how close we get because I know that if the Bulls really want to score they can just throw up shots and decide to get every offensive rebound until they make one
Chandler, I love you, but you have to make free throws.
This team…this team…
The Bulls have 22 offensive rebounds to the Knicks’ 27 defensive rebounds. Ouch.
Fields is in the game because he, you know, actually tries to rebound. Basketball is not ALL about shooting.
Maybe the NBA can change the rules before the season is over and allow the Top 10 teams to make the playoffs in each conference instead of 8, maybe then the Knicks could sneak in.
I am torn on Shump and Fields taking outside shots. They can’t hit them and they should drive at all costs, but I guess they occasionally have to take outside shots sometimes, right? Even if they seem to have no chance of ever making them.
That turnover by Lin a couple of possessions ago… you see that’s MDA’s fault. He is imploring the team to push the ball and shoot quickly. That is not appropriate end of game strategy. Slow it down and run your offense and make sure you get a good shot.
The only thing worse than getting beat by the bulls is hearing the slurping sounds of Breen’s tongue in Rose’s overrated rectum
They’re winning because they’ve gotten 70% of the fukcing rebounds you conventional wisdom spouting twit
seven Bulls have more boards than Amare’s measly three.
Team is better off with Shump at this this point in game as opposed to fields.
Yeah, he hasn’t been beaten for an offense rebound this half (I don’t think in the first half, either).
19-23
You mean like the rebound he had go off his hands right to Rose for another offensive rebound??
Our shooting guard’s lack of guarding ability doesn’t help much either.
Rose is fucking awesome, you’re an idiot. the dude is still only 23 and already has one MVP, plus he’s carried his team on his back for two seasons now.
19-23
19-23
19-23
19-23
Wow.
Where exactly was Amar’e trying to tip that ball?
Good point, this is why Shaq used to take so many
Slipping away
Over
Why does this STILL make me upset?
not that Rose played one of his better games tonight, and he was still easily the best player on the floor.
I said “tries” :)
Ow, I felt more pain at this loss than I thought I would.
How many have more offensive rebounds? Gibson for one …
this is far beyond pathetic, I don’t care if he scores 1 million points on .600 TS%, if he’s going to be absolutely ridiculous on D and rebounding he needs to sit.
start Harrelson or anyone, I don’t fucking care, just get Amare out of this team ASAP, I can’t stand his lazy ass attitude anymore.
I hate when teams just give up the chance to possibly win. A STAT jumper down 9 with 1:40 to go? Come on, you have to shoot threes!
Shot goes up, turn aroumd, find a guy, put a body on him. These clowns sky toward the rim without a clue where its going. Or if ur Amare u stay put…either way ur not boxing out. It’s just so phuckin simple.
The season or this game??
when do we all officially start rooting to get into the top 5 in the lottery?
What is this 19-23 crap? Is that a joke or does he not know the Knicks’ current record (and soon to be future record) of 18-24….almost looks like we will come full circle….
were once 8-15, will soon be 18-25
Rose is a great player. He’s just not having an amazing game tonight, and Breen is acting like he is. It is annoying.
My mind.
By the way, Lin is a hero baller. He takes way to many shots down the stretch of games.
LIN GOT 15 PTS, 8 ASSISTS, 3 STEALS, 6/6 FREES, 3TOS. DONT U GUYS THINK TH’S PRETTY GOOD??
Would like to hear Ruruland defend Melo throwing his toys out of the crib bc Landry didn’t pass him the ball.
Why is that not a technical?
See, you gotta take threes!
Your best player shots 29 times and has 32 points, you lose that game most nights. But if you get 22 o boards, it doesn’t matter
but it’s a little like Iverson when the Sixers made the Finals, Rose is supposed to take a billion shots on this team. his shooting percentage isn’t as important as it is for most other players.
4 point game, somehow.
At least tomorrow night there is no Knicks game and MLB Network will be showing the Yankees-Red Sox Spring Training game.
Oh, I totally agree that he’s doing what he has to do. He’s having a good game. Breen is acting like this is vintage Jordan. That’s what is irritating me.
Melo is on the block creating double teams and seams. He wants the ball and he signed here to get the ball in that situation. He had good position.
Why foul?
Melo is also the dumbest superstar I’ve ever seen, so little understanding of the game.
What the eff was that?
Melo knew Korver would miss that free throw.
Amazing sequence.
Breen? I’m listening to Mike Tirico (sp?) and Hubie Brown. Is there another broadcast going on? (if so, I’m switching over for overtime)
Knicks need 3pters and they dont have 1 decent 3pt shooter on the floor.
I’m not sure how much longer I can put myself through this.
How does Melo miss that shot?
MSG has the game.
if not for Linsanity that might very well be possible.
there’s nothing wrong about losing to Chicago on a road game, but this team always finds the most pathetic and irritating way to lose game after game.
I don’t care, trade those overrated bitches for whoever takes their lazy asses and get somebody who wants to play defense, bottom out and start rebuilding again.
this team will never win a playoff series against a decent team.
Clyde, they gave up 24 offensive rebounds. WHAT IS THERE TO BUILD ON?
He meant tirico
consistently terrible coaching. I swear to god they win AT LEAST 1-2 of the games in this losing streak with competent coaching.
He plays Novak for useless minutes and then doesn’t play him now. Bizarre.
Haha… I’m not really laughing. Carmelo should clearly pump fake one time when he’s don low. Wtf… Why is rushing that … That’s a guarantee foul on Noah.
Yes, perfectly reasonable to insult me personally for thinking he’ss overrated. I find that things like that tend to be a more reliable marker of idiocy than one’s opinion on Derrick Rose.
He’s a shitty MVP and wasn’t one of the 3 best players in the league last year. Durant is as young and has been better than Rose for years. Iverson has an undeserved MVP too because he benefited from great coaching and defense while scoring a lot of PPG on mediocre efficiency. Noah/Deng/Boozer/Gibson/Thibodeau have carried that team on their backs as much as Rose has. Rose just gets all the credit because of the PPG bias. He’s about as good a scorer and floor general as Marbury. That’s not an insult, Marbury was fairly good at that stuff.
I’ll believe the hype about Rose when he has a playoff over 50% TS.
Please tell me that you saw MDA’s face after that possession where we shot rushed 3′s. Thibodeau is calling timeouts with :50 left and his team up 9 to make sure that they understand exactly what they are supposed to. MDA nothing. It’s like he literally wasn’t even coaching at the end. He had given up.
The game is on MSG. Mike Breen and Walt Frazier are calling it.
Breen and Clyde on MSG, I never watch the national telecasts if MSG also has it.
Both Breen and Tirico are on tonight
ROSE SHOT 12/29. THAT IS NOT GREAT!!!
Same here, Jon. The problem with Breen is that the major teams like the Bulls, Breen knows them so well from the national games that he just loooves the teams like OKC, Chicago, Miami, etc.
MDA has to lose his job. He has given up.
that last Gibson basket is a summary of our season so far.
pathetic effort, dumb players, even dumber coaching.
By the way, couldn’t Gibson have officially sealed the win by just dribbling the clock out?
League pass is blacked out here in dc when the game goes national.
yep, all he did was carry his team to the Conference Finals at 22 and the best record in the league in consecutive years. you’re way off on the Marbury comparison.
It is almost as if D’antoni believes his system will just win games…and that once the games start he doesn’t really have to coach anymore, ever make adjustments, actually observe and react to what occurs on the court…nah, why bother? SSOL will take over and overcome any obstacle!!! All he does is argue with the refs!!!
I think I’ll just turn off league pass, watching Nash play is sickening when you have such a dumb team.
WELP, TIME FOR THE DAILY POSTGAME RITUAL MASS SUICIDE
*shoots self*
Sadly it’s looking like the main lasting effect of Linsanity will be ruining our chance of keeping our pick this year while we make the playoffs.
I waited all day to watch this game. Fuck me.
he’s not pro really Melo. He’s just contrarian. “I’m smart because I don’t follow the crowd.” I like to control the broader narrative in this forum. Meta-contrarian, intellectual hipster stuff.
You can trash Melo, just don’t horn in on his territory as resident basketball “guru.”
For what it’s worth, arguing with the refs is a good strategy. All the great coaches do it, because they know that arguing actually does influence the refs (it shouldn’t, but it does).
It amazes me how bad their third quarters are. The opposing coaches seem to work him like a speed bag. Does he make any adjustments? Does he anticipate the opposing team making adjustment?
The bulls wanted it more. Hence they win.
Again, on a regular night if your best guy gets 32 on 29 shots, you lose.
But with 22 o boards, too many second chances.
Rose played well down the stretch, but the Knicks got lazy in the boards. They were spectating while the Bulls crashed.
Great teams win on effort.
Last game of the season is against the Bobcats. Wouldn’t it be too perfect for this team to need a win against Charlotte to get into the Playoffs…and then lose badly?
(I know. Cue Jim Mora quote.)
(puts head in hands and weeps) It is so true. MDA must go. If only because he makes it even worse.
he doesn’t really run anything like SSOL anymore, does he? just such poor coaching on every level, not that it’s an easy situation, but he is terrible.
Agree. Too many missed effort plays. MDA is gone. Too much dysfunction.
I actually am kind of starting to think hoolahoop was right when he said ruruland was a paid PR guy.
Yeah, the Knicks don’t actually run SSOL. They haven’t for years. They run a similar offense, but not SSOL. Note that they rarely push the ball.
man, I’m a big fan of TS% as a measure of a player’s value, but there are special cases where shooting percentage just isn’t important.
he takes a lot of shots and a lot of tough shots because his team absolutely needs him to… I’d rather have Durant than him too, and LeBron should have been last year’s MVP imo, but Rose is an incredible player.
if you put him together with another really good scorer (like LeBron + Wade) his TS% would be much higher, because he wouldn’t have to force so much.
and you’re comparing one of the smartest and most hard working guys in the entire NBA to a guy that eats vaseline? he’s MUCH, MUCH smarter than Marbury ever was.
I’m too pissed to post anymore for now, sorry for the people I just lashed out at. AAAAAARGGGHGHHHHHH!
Jared. Jared. Jared.
I will say this looking for any glimmer of hope, the schedule is much, much easier the rest of this month.
Look at their stats, Rose and Marbury are pretty much the same player.
Rose didn’t carry shit. He got drafted to an incredibly good team for a #1 overall pick and had every possible advantage in his favor. He’s what Marbury if not for his personality flaws and poor work ethic. Make an actual argument to refute this instead of stamping your feet and insisting Rose is amazing. The Bulls have been an average offensive team. Unless you think their PG is anchoring their consistently league-best defense and rebounding, he’s not the main cause of their success. Their record without Rose this season would support that contention. And his universally shitty playoff performances are the reason they’ve UNDERperformed there, so it’s perverse to credit him for carrying the to the ECF. When you’re the best team in the league two years in a row you should make it PAST the ECF.
C’mon with this.
I’m as disappointed as anybody in this team’s effort. Melo’s certainly a part of that problem.
The chemistry and energy of this team is horrible. All the pieces are there but there’s a togetherness that’s clearly missing.
I can’t defend the lack of energy with Melo. I’m not sure what’s going on with him. There’s no excuse for it. Unfortunately, it’s an issue with a lot of guys on this team.
I’m not nearly as confident that it will turn around as I was just a few days ago.
@358
sir, you REALLY underrate basketball IQ.
what separates Kobe Bryant from a guy who was an even better athlete probably on his prime, like Tracy McGrady?
it’s what’s inside the head.
This blog has the arc of the walking dead on amc…humanity starts to dwindle… People start killing people. And the rest of the bloggers are lifeless zombies. Little hope…
As for the game , I don’t like to say its one player because it usually never is. They all f up throughout the game. You can’t just pick one statistic or blame one guy… Well, I guess u can but…. Ya know, stat had a bad rebounding game but there are 4 other guys capable of crashing the boards out there… They all could show more hustle.
It’s okay, I feel your pain brother
haha. credible alternative expl.
I’ve actually seen him disagree with someone who said essentially the same thing he just said. Why? because how dare that guy write lengthy analysis and use “advance” stats. that’s his job. lol.
I wanted the team to win, but I knew that if they lost, there would be a much bigger chance that they would fire D’antoni and trade Melo or Amare. That is much more important.
LIN GOT 15 PTS, 8 ASSISTS, 3 STEALS, 6/6 FREES, 3TOS. DONT U GUYS THINK THAT’S PRETTY GOOD FOR A ROOKIE??
Carmelo Anthony: 6 defensive rebounds
Tyson Chandler: 8 defensive rebounds
STATue: 2 defensive rebounds
Yeah, Amar’e's frontcourt mates just needed to pull their weight tonight, that was the problem.
No, he doesn’t run anything approaching pure SSOL…but whatever it is you want to call this hodge-podge of a system that is in place…pnr to death, some melo iso’s sprinkled in, with a side of jr smith volleyball at midcourt, a botched alley oop for dessert…
whatever you want to call it, his coaching style is so not read nad react…I have supported d’antoni throughout but I really think enough is enough….I was able to take his horrendous coaching last year in the playoffs when the team didn’t know to foul at end of one of the boston games as well as other assorted coaching gaffes, but this year proved to me that in crunch time, he is a hindrance to have as a head coach….
bill simmons likes to say coaches (with a few exceptions like phil jackson, popovich, etc.) often do more harm than good….only a few rare ones actually add a lot of values….and the goal should be to find one who doesn’t hurt the team…d’antoni has outright been hurting the team this year with his passive style…
and yes, arguing can be a good strategy….he shouldn’t be eviscerated because he argues some….that is his job….but he does it at the expense it seems of actually calling appropriate time outs in spots and reading and reacting.
What are you talking about man?
What’s with the personal attacks?
You guys think MDA will be gone by tomorrow morning? Or does he survive the week?
HE’S NOT A ROOKIE
basketball stats are so context-driven, this is a great example of why. you’re an idiot for parroting the Rose-is-overrated crowd and focusing too much on numbers instead of understanding his importance to the game.
anyway, I’ll defer to Simmons on this, he’s a top 3 player in the game, top 5 at the lowest. arguing between them (besides LeBron) is really splitting hairs and deciding on context.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7666048/nba-trade-value-part-2
Marbury was never anywhere near a top 5 player in the game, no matter what numbers he put up in Phoenix.
Now I want to beat Chicago in the playoffs. 4-0. Let’s do it baby.
It was solid considering who he was going up against. The question is how does he involve the rest of his team? I’m not exactly sure how these pieces work together.
There’s dysfunction on so many levels. The team has no identity.
Sure, the team had identity before the guys came back– but such little talent it would surely get exposed pretty badly over time.
HE’S AN ALMOST ROOKIE. WE ALL KNOW HIS STORY BY NOW.
Not to defend MDA – he doesn’t really deserve it at this point – but if we just held them under TWENTY offensive boards this game might have been a win. Maybe Harrellson would’ve gotten a couple extra boards, but who do you take out? Chandler? Amare who basically carried the offense in the 3rd quarter (and should’ve gotten the ball more in the 4th)?
I’m really not into moral victories anymore, but they really competed hard in this game. Chicago has the best record in the NBA for a reason, and we played them hard all the way to the end. We really just need to follow this up with a W on Wednesday against Portland, and then we have a pretty big home and home with Indy this weekend.
As bad as the previous 4 games were, I thought there were some positives in this game – Amare finding his jumper, pretty solid defensive effort (if not rebounding) from Melo and Amare, pretty solid game from Lin against Derrick Rose who basically went all Iverson on us (that wasn’t a compliment). If we play like this going forward, I think we will be ok. The question is, can we bring this kind of effort every night, and add to it some FREAKING DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS?
I hate the way this team plays and I really hate this team. It’s not just the losses. They are classic underachievers. No attention to detail. The stars are dying red giants. Incredibly overrated, by myself included. The coaching staff is flat out awful. I’ve watched every game this year and feel most of the time was an abject waste. Time to read and check out the Tournament. I’ve said this many times, many years. Sorry for the negativity, but I’m done for now. Over and out boys.
Weepy. I feel weepy.
Sooner the better. Have to shake things up right now. Personally, I think MDA has made it pretty clear he wants changes or he wants to go.
There’s an obvious conflict between he and Melo.
Bucks are ahead of NY for the 8th spot. The ship has SUNK.
He will survive the season. Knicks should win next 2 games to calm the waters a bit and the schedule is alot easier rest of this month.
Would it even matter? If we’re so shitty that we’re in that situation we’ll just get blown out every playoff game anyway
I’m not sure if Harrellson put on weight or something while he was injured but he’s been really bad since he’s come back. I can understand the shot being off because of the wrist but his defensive rotations have positively Amar’esque. And another game where he was invisible on the defensive glass. They said Jeffries will be probably be back on Wednesday- if not how about trying Jerome Jordan?
Ur missing my point. I understand the frustration with stat… U think I like when he doesn’t even jump…. Guards can crash too ya know. Teams win, not one guy who gets 8 rebounds. Is tyson Nd carmelo allergic to getting 10 and 8 respectively. Is 8 and 6 their cap? I used stat as an example. Take it easy. The team loses…
COME ON GUYS. DID ANYONE ACTUALLY THINK KNICKS WERE GOING TO WIN AGAINST BULLS? 99.99% OF SPORTS WRITERS AND KNICKS FANS PREDICTED A BLOW OUT BY BULLS! BUT KNICKS LOST ONLY BY 5 POINTS!! THAT’S WAAAAY BETTER THAN WHEN THEY LOST AGAINST HEAT BY 12 POINTS!! I’M GLAD THEY KEPT THE LOSS IN SINGLE DIGITS AND BY ONLY 5!! ALSO THEY IMPROVED ON TURNOVERS AND THEY SHOT BETTER. BUT IT’S THE REBOUNDS THAT KILLED US.
WELL, I GUESS WITH KNICKS IF IT’S NOT ONE THING THAN IT’S ANOTHER! LOL. THATS WHY IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET EVERYTHING PERFECT TO BECOME ELITE!
There have been positives each of the 6 game losing streak. But what’s evident above all else is that the opposing team exerts its will to win over the Knicks.
That, to me, stems from a lack of identity and cohesiveness.
I’ve seen Melo and Amar’e play much harder than this previous tonight, going back in their careers. But it’s not just those two guys — it’s everyone. The lack of multiple effort plays is contagious.
YEAH, HE HEROICALLY LED US TO A FEW MEANINGLESS WINS AGAINST BAD TEAMS THAT WILL ENSURE THAT WE DON’T SUCK ENOUGH TO KEEP OUR TOP 5 PROTECTED FIRST ROUNDER THIS YEAR
Amare was as hot as he’s been offensively in a while at the end of the third, then D’Antoni sat him for the first five minutes of the 4th.
Games like this make me appreciate the extra possessions that Jeffries provides. I miss his suicidal drawn charges.
YEAH IT’S SO AWESOME THE WAY THEY CONSISTENTLY PUT FORTH JUST ENOUGH OF A SHITTY EFFORT TO LOSE BY 5 EVERY NIGHT
elite is one thing, losing to the Bucks without their two best players in a crucial game is another.
thyrdrail, quit it with the all caps.
And a general “Quit it” to the various personal attacks, folks. Arguing with each other is cool, but come on, keep it civil.
Look, Chandler got outworked, too. So did Fields. That Butler dunk was on him.
I’ve seen what Melo does when he plays in a defensive culture.. This reminds me of his pre-Chauncey days a little bit, expect he doesn’t know how and where to fit into the offense.
A change to a defensive coach who instills a defensive culture is what the team needs.
Offensively, MDA is not exploiting the talent and not diversifying the offense to tailor around his players.
The offense can come up — you don’t need this system to generate offense with this team. You need a defensive coach.
Do you think D’Antoni realizes that even when Amar’e’ is hot on offense he’s still a huge net negative because he’s a zero on D and the glass?
Lakers and Mavs are bad? Tell that to them!!
And if it weren’t for Lin we wouldn’t even be sitting here wasting time moping out another Knicks loss cuz they’d be soooo irrelevant and out of playoff contention ages ago!!
Fair enough – in that case I think Shumpert needs more minutes. No one other than maybe Chandler plays harder than that dude when he’s on the floor.
Re: Amare – I thought this might be the best defense I’ve ever seen him play – all up until the freaking defensive rebound. It’s also probably one of his top 5 offensive games of the year, if not top 2. But 3 rebounds is basically the reason we lost this game. If he just gets 7 we probably win.
Re: Melo – overall I thought he was fine tonight, but fine is not what we need from him. What is up with his stupid fouls though?
Meanwhile – how horrible has JR Smith been? I was all for his signing but he has really been awful.
maybe, but it’s not like they were getting any boards with him out and he actually tried on D tonight.
Last night Isola was harping on Calipari as next Knicks head coach. If that happens we will all be praying for D’Antoni to return lol
But… but we’re all so fucking ANGRY!
:D
I want to blame melo but I can’t tonight. I’m without a soul.
Which is something I would prefer instead of them wasting my time with yet another shot of false hope leading directly to crushing disappointment!
I know there is much deeper analysis to be had in the pages of this site and others, but D’Antoni’s system looked really good there for two weeks when Carmelo and Amar’e were replaced by Bill Walker and Jared Jeffries. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but for whatever reason the system can’t support the two main guys. Every hypothesis has been tested and dismissed over the the past 12 months (need a C, need a PG, need practice, need a long off season to heal, need a defensive coordinator, need a new GM, need more luxury boxes at the arena, etc…) the only thing left to try seems to be a new coach. But who??
Disappointing ending but it’s hard for me to really work up any anger about this game. The effort was there — especially on defense (13 blocked shots!?!) They lost a close game on the road against the best — and hottest — team in the league. It happens. They got killed on the boards, but the Bulls kill practically everyone on the boards. They are the best rebounding and best defensive team in the league. By the way, I thought that Lin played a very good game — 15 points on 11 shots, 8 assists, 3 steals and he blocked 3 of the league MVP’s shots. Overall, he actually played a much more “efficient” game than Rose, who somehow managed to get 6 of his shots blocked.
yeah, JR Smith’s massive ball of suck has really killed us. I also was expecting big things from him, certainly not this.
I really tried to pick up chicks at the bar last night, yet I still went home with Rosy Redpalm. In pro sports it takes more than just trying to do stuff sometimes.
It’s confounding to be sure.
You want to analyze every little thing when you lose but at the end of the night what’s missing is a will to win. There’s no blueprint for that, and there’s no trust between guys on who’s going to do what.
Ama’re has improved defensively to be sure. The team defense has improved. But a lot of guys got outworked tonight on loose balls– that defined the game– and that defines a loser.
I just don’t think the culture is in place to turn it around in that regard.
I would love it if Phil Jackson had the balls to coach this team.
Problem is right now the Knicks have an interim GM and a lame duck head coach. They need to figure out who will be the president/GM full-time then hire a head coach.
I know its been said here before, but as much as want MDA gone, I sure as hell don’t want Woodson. It would be Atlanta Hawks 2.0 with Carmelo in place of Joe Johnson.
I feel your pain brother. I’m glad the time has finally come, I remember calling for this during the first loss of the season to GS. The guy pays no attention to detail.
This was a tolerable loss, only because it is on the back end of a losing streak is it magnified. Considering it is also a back-to-back with a flight in between, I can live with it.
The Bulls are a well-oiled machine that knows how to give maximum effort on every play. The Knicks had very few “open” shots. The Bulls had plenty. The offensive rebounding is a product of both effort and great coaching. Breen mentioned that defense only ends after you regain possession. That was hopefully what we learned tonight, that just causing misses is not good enough if you want to compete with the big boys.
It was also disheartening to see every open midrange look by the Bulls converted.
I was angry last night. Tonight, I’m just blue.
Actually, from an efficiency perspective, the Knicks have been better with all the guys back, especially when you consider the level of opponent.
But they aren’t playing with the same will to win as that team did. And that, to me, is what’s so hard to explain.
As we saw tonight with the Bulls and their extra efforts for loose balls, that will to win is contagious. Amar’e and Melo have had that will before, but right now, not many guys are showing it consistently.
yo guys, chill with the ALL CAPS please. makes your posts hard on the eyes.
As for the Lin discussion, he had some great individual plays (block and steal against rose, etc). and the stats tonight are decent, but it doesn’t really matter in the end if he’s not clutch in the fourth and doesn’t get the team to win. That turnover at the crucial time made him look like what he is, a rookie.
And that’s the second time turned it over recently throwing a super high pass to Amar’e. Lin and Amar’e don’t seem to play that well together, but the passes were not even horizontally off but too high to be catchable.
cuz jr has other “balls” stuck in his mind. the femme fatale type “balls”. he cant wait to go home to them so his mind has not been in the games. :D
they’re a combined 15-27 on the road this year, not as impressive wins as it seemed at the time.
That sounds mighty fine right now.
Yeah, and when they’d brick threes, the ball would ricochet right to a Bulls player. Both events (which happened more than once) were quite aggravating.
I agree with that. It’s just not a consistent effort from the entire team. I know its cliche to continue to harp on effort but that’s it.
Agreed. Right now Melo isn’t playing any better than Joe did, So I’m with you 100 percent.
Wait, Amare has improved defensively?
dude, its the offensive rebounds that killed us. not one little turnover. 22 OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS BY BULLS!!!!! how many points is that there???
JR Smith is another guy that really plays well when the momentum and energy of the team are in the right place.
The pace of the offense, the tempo and the overall energy just arne’t there for him to be the kind of impact player he’s capable of being.
I know Mike Woodson isn’t Red Holzman or anything, but those Hawks teams were consistently over .500. Can’t hurt to give him the last 24 games to see how he does.
Coach Woodson is my biggest nightmare. Fire D’Antoni only if there is actually an upgrade out there. Woodson is not it.
Yes, the whole team has a done a better of job of covering each other up.
It’s not great, probably not good, but it’s certainly passable.
What Rose-is-overrated crowd? Everybody lines up to suck his cock. The only crowd when it comes to Rose is the massive crowd doing the overrrating.
I’m tickled that you denigrate statistical analysis as being overly context-driven. Gee, know what’s a whole lot more context-driven than stats? Accolades based on team success and top 5 lists of sportswriters! That stuff is based ENTIRELY on bullshit context and narratives. Simmons parrots conventional wisdom- Do you believe that Melo is also as good as he says he is? Because we’re learning nightly painful lessons on how wrong he is about that.
Jesus, Bill Simmons ranks Horry as a top 100 player of all time. Talk about context-driven. When you look at actual objective evidence, it’s prety clear Love, Howard, LBJ, Wade, Durant, Paul, and maybe Deron/Dirk are better
Do you really think that if Marbury was drafted by, say, the Indiana Pacers who hit a 1% chance at a top pick, and grew up around a strong young defensive core of Jermaine O’Neal and Artest, and if he had a good work ethic and team concept like Rose does, that he wouldn’t be considered at least a top 5-10 player? Or if he wasn’t a…
Mike Woodson coached the Hawks for 6 seasons. They finished over .500 twice.
I hear you. But short of the Knicks ripping off some huge run, there’s no reason to think he’s going to be their head coach next year. And if he does pull it off, isn’t he at least worth a look? There’s no magic bullet out there, Phil Jackson included.
How big of an offer would you make JVG right now? Sloan is a little too old school, a little too much disciplined in a very specific kind of offense to be the right guy.
Outside of Melo, the pieces aren’t there for the triangle, either.
They were also consistently below average or below in defense when he coached them, and I doubt he’s a better offensive coach than one-trick pony MDA
For every bad play by Lin (like the horrible pass over Stat’s head), he does something that impresses (like the great ball fake followed by a smooth jumper from 19 feet along the wing).
Best sign tonight was that Amar’e finally looked strong on the offensive end. I would love to see Stat and Melo run the PnR more often. They did it once during the first half, but I did not see them ever run it again.
JR Smith has been AWFUL since the first ten minutes of his first game (when he won me over). Shumpert has no jumper, but his defense is amazing.
Just grit your teeth and smile through the rest of this year. I pray that Phil Jackson will be patrolling the sideline next year. If not Phil, then could we see the return of JVG?
Thought his record was better than that. Still, if I remember correctly (and I probably don’t), his teams won more games season by season. I just think that firing D’Antoni seems like their last chance at salvaging the season. The guy’s a mensch, but he just looks like he’s had it with this team. And vice versa.
Amar’e's defense tonight was actually pretty good and he’s been much better in the pnr since San Antonio. His rebounding however…
And as much as I like Chandler, he’s had trouble with really active bigs- Noah, Varejao, and Humphries have all given him trouble on the glass.
We can’t have JVG because of Jimmy Dolan’s ego. The same reason we couldn’t have a fair Melo trade, a top 3 draft pick in the last 20 years, or pretty much any other nice things
Interesting Lin had 3 blocks – he tip a lot Rose dribbles, but Knicks just couldn’t get lose ball. He was 4-8 after fake out jumper, but 0-3 rest game missing 2 pretty easy shot at end. During 9 wins of linsanity he pretty much would make those.
Knicks shot better % FG and %FT in must cases you win. But when PF get 3 RB and 1 foul you know he doing shit on defense. Box your got dam guy out. If crash board make sure going over the back biatches. The lack fundamental basketball is extremely had watch.
Rose did not have good game. 32pt on 29 shot, Shot 41.3% FG 67% FT, 7 assists, 6 Reb, 0 steal, 0 blocks and 4 TO
Lin missing layout and jumper inside foul line end up having bad shoot night.
15pt on 11 shots, FG 37%, 100% FT, 8 assists, 1 Reb, 3 steal, 3 block and 3 TO.
i dont think knicks should fire d’antoni mid-season. that will just destroy the team’s morale and drive even more. he needs to stick around for rest of season and keep pushing for more improvements. the knicks definitely played much better tonight and put in more effort. i mean, come on, they lost by only 5 points to the BULLS!!! if they had limited the bulls rebounds, they couldve won!! only 5 PTS!!
Interim guys are surprisingly kept on more than you’d think. I don’t want there even to be a chance of Woodson being the head coach. I’d sooner hire Herb Williams, as at least there you know there’s no chance of him actually keeping the job.
Unfortunately as long as Dolan is owner JVG will never coach this team again.
Yeah, I hope he snaps out of it. I think he can be a monster if it’s clicking for him.
What worries me is that it’s not even clear what his role is supposed to be out there. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it looks to me like he doesn’t know either. Is he supposed to be the second-option wing man on the PnR? I can’t recall one instance in which Davis passed it to him bc when Smith was open on the wing after running a PnR. Whenever Smith touches the ball, there’s no set play for him, like setting a screen for him to shoot the 3, like Novak sometimes gets. When Smith touches the ball, it’s often in situations in which shooting it (like he wants to) would mean forcing it. I just don’t know what he is supposed to do out there. He’s got great hustle on the defensive end, as we saw tonight, but on the offensive end, his role looks really vague.
No Amare defense was not that good. 1 foul is a telling tale. Defensive Rebound, hence it’s part playing good defense.
yes! and how many full nba games has rose played vs. how many full nba games has lin played? lin will only get better. he may not be a rose, but he will be better than average.
And I want no part of JVG. Sloan, sign me up. My biggest fear is they give Woodson the job, they play marginally better and then keep him rather than going out and getting a better coach.
There’s a lot of guys out there like that.
@428:
Doesn’t JVG hate Dolan, and vice versa? Didn’t they have a major falling out? I thought Dolan purportedly viewed JVG’s bogus resignation as being burned out and wanting to spend time with family in 2001 as a form of quitting on the team. Likewise, I recall JVG pretty much not being fond of knick ownership at the time either, which factored into his leaving (as well as presciently seeing the writing on the wall as far as the Knicks being a playoff contender after the Ewing trade).
I can’t see JVG ever returning unless they offered him an ungodly sum of money (like highest annual salary in NBA history), and maybe not even then….I think the animosity runs deep.
This team looks dead in the water. SOMETHING’s got to give. They’re not going to turn around and ship Melo out, much as many of us would welcome the idea, so a coaching change seems like their only viable option.
Wow really? I actually found that comment insulting…
Sloan’s offense is not a fit for this personnel at all.
He also employs a defensive strategy that essentially amounts to flopping and hacking.
He’s not a good fit here.
A truly defensive minded coach who is willing to diversify the offense is the only hope.
Egg-fucking-zactly. My biggest nightmare. Guaranteed mediocrity.
Re-hiring JVG would be the happiest day of my life lol
I know this has been brought up here before but look at the change in Zach Randolph’s game when he goes to a team with a polar opposite culture…
Honestly, and this from an afar perspective, but it seems that the same team-wide issues have been there with MDA with each iteration.
He had one really bad play on Noah where Noah breezed right by him and a really bad play in transition where he had his back to the play and gave up a lay-up. Other than those and few rotations that could have been quicker he was okay. He did a really good job following Rose into the lane on pnr’s forcing either bad shots or tough passes and when Rose pulled up, he actually challenged the shot- something he hasn’t been doing. Obviously, rebounding was an issue but some of that was a function of him actually being fairly active as a helper. If he plays like that the rest of the season it’d be a huge boost for the team.
no Mike Woodson, for god’s sake, he’s part of this sucky team right now.
I’d let D’Antoni finish the year than go after Skiles, this team needs a heavy disciplinarian.
Season gets easier (how could it not?) but not easy. It’s nowhere near as easy as the cake we were served (and refused to eat) before the all-star break. Toronto has Bargnani back, and Milwaukee always beats us. Then there are five games against good teams: 2x indiana, philly, orlando and atlanta. If we play like we did tonight, there’s potential to win a majority of those games.
Also, I was only casually watching tonight (cooking @ the same time), but it seemed like the knicks did a lot less switching on defense.
That would be sweet. Unfortunately, every team burns out on his message after that first year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umie6Rl3URk
You don’t suppose this was what JR Smith had in mind? :P
Who would you suggest? This team has more parts on offense than JVG can manage- they’d certainly be better defensively but he’s never run anything but a post-based offense. Not what we need.
but it seemed like the knicks did a lot less switching on defense.
Yep that’s been the trend recently. pnr defense much better as a result. Cut the second chance points down in half and you get a really good defensive game.
D’Antoni’s only real hope is convincing Dolan it is Melo’s fault. You can tell that Melo realizes this and that is why he and D’Antoni are now in this weird sort of “one of us is leaving, who will it be?” situation. It probably will be D’Antoni before Melo. Either way, it is quite toxic to have your coach and your highest paid player at odds like this. But rarely do you have a situation like this where you don’t know for sure who management is going to side with. D’Antoni has to hope that Linsanity has convinced Dolan that the Knicks can win without Melo. That hope is likely for naught, though.
So….no on Skiles, Woodson, and JVG. Don’t suppose we could try out Larry Brown again? *ducks*
Are you certain a post-based offense was simply based on the old personnel?
JVG could recognize that Melo is really good in the post, particularly creating double teams that allow for penetration for Lin.
I don’t know enough about who’s out there to make any suggestions, outside of the typical names.
So, I didn’t watch the game, but I read the AP recap. It made it sound like Rose had a great game at Lin’s expense, but since his true shooting percentage was worse than Lin’s and Lin had 3 blocks and 3 steals in the box score I was curious what really happened. Interesting to read the comments here, which are generally pretty fair-minded. I contend that the AP has a vendetta against Lin, potentially due to “one of their own” getting canned a couple weeks ago. Perhaps I’m too much of a conspiracist. Read the recap and tell me if it seems like a fair characterization of the game.
I started to get the idea that the AP is biased when they claimed that Kyrie Irving played Lin “about even” after Lin had one of the most efficient games an NBA point guard has had this season against him.
Are you certain a post-based offense was simply based on the old personnel?
JVG could recognize that Melo is really good in the post, particularly creating double teams that allow for penetration for Lin and others.
I don’t know enough about who’s out there to make any suggestions, outside of the typical names.
Yeah, it does, I don’t know if he’ll ever be a title-winning coach (much like Doug Collins always wears his welcome too), but he would get the most talented roster he’s ever had and exactly the type of team that needs discipline, hustle and a defensive system.
I don’t know if Milwaukee would let him go (specially if they make the playoffs with Bogut injured once again), but he could change the culture in New York.
You’re right about the boards. I just wasn’t in the mood to hear about any Knick as playing well tonight, because this game was winnable. Really frustrating.
however, every day it becomes clearer that we lost our big chance to get a really good coach – Adelman.
even Kevin Love is at least trying to play defense with him.
HELL NO to Scott Skiles. Most overrated coach by far. Man has never won anything but has built this rep as some kind of tough disciplinary coach but he doesnt win much so who cares how tough he is.
Yep. The AP story was perhaps a bit too harsh on Lin, but nothing even slightly suggesting anything personal. If anything, it was a typical article you read about star players who score a lot of points. The media will make it sound like they had an amazing game if they score a lot of points, especially if they do them on pretty plays like Rose did tonight.
I dont know why there are Knick fans who hate JVG. I hated Riley because he truly did quit on the Knicks but right now I look at Riley as a freaking saint because of how good his Knicks teams were. Ditto JVG. Also they were both great to listen to so if JVG ever returns his press conferences and interviews would be must see TV lol
I’m a big JVG fan but I dunno if this roster would fit his skills very well. He’d sure love Chandler, though! Shump, too.
god, I hate Van Gundy almost as much as I hate Mark Jackson. in a way, I would welcome that hiring (which would never happen) just so I could (at least temporarily) stop caring about this shitty organization.
the Derrick Rose argument is one that I’d be happy to get into if we had a forum with separate threads and could hash it out over time, but in this format where everything is basically washed away every 12 hours, it doesn’t make much sense to get into it IMO.
You would stop caring for the team if they re-hire the last coach who was actually successful with the team??
heh, and I like Skiles just like I always liked Carlisle. anyway, there’s got to be someone better than D’Antoni.
LOL we definitely have a difference of opinion in our preferred coaches :-)
I’m all for seeing who is on the market next season (perhaps the rumored “Godfather offer” for Carlisle turns out to be true), but there is no one better than D’Antoni available right now, so I’d stick with him.
he had one fairly lucky playoff run, if Houston’s jumper bounces out, it’s another first round exit. he’s one of the worst offensive coaches I’ve ever seen, just never liked him.
if Van Gundy is so good, why hasn’t he been able to get a job for the last five seasons?
He followed up the “lucky” playoff run with another run to the Conference Finals. His first 5 postseasons with the Knicks he won at least 1 playoff series in each season.
yeah, with a loaded roster, but it’s true I underestimated his run here.
but after that, he didn’t win a single playoff series in four years with Houston, despite having Yao and McGrady. again, why do you think he hasn’t gotten a job in the last five years?
i agree only because he showed he can coach the knicks primadonnas when his back is against the wall. IMO he really used the team well today showed fire and shook up the players to keep los bulls off balance.
You are way off base if you think Van Gundy wants to coach and isn’t getting jobs. He doesn’t want to coach. if Van Gundy were available to coach, he would get a job.
From everything Ive read he hasnt gotten another job because he doesnt want to coach again yet. Has said he is waiting for his daughter to finish high-school and I believe she is in 11th grade I believe. The day he makes it known he is ready to coach again I guarantee there will be plenty of opportunities for him especially with him attending the SLOAN conferences and kind of re-inventing himself as a coach who accepts statistical analysis but still has his own ideas.
What Brian just said too lol
Agreed but he was good running a sloe tempo team so melo would fit in perfectly so would lin cause he would love to change tempos with his gaurds running the floor. imo he is in love with landry he fits JVG mold perfectly.
hmm, not so sure about that. some quick Googling shows that he tried to push himself for the Lakers job this year. he may not be available for any job, but I think there are also a bunch of teams that have passed on him since he left Houston in 2007 that he would have been happy to coach.
I think he burned a lot of bridges while in Houston, with the league and the refs. this one-liner from his Wiki page is interesting:
“On May 12, 2009, on ESPN writer Bill Simmons’ podcast, Van Gundy expressed his desire to eventually return to coaching, stating he would consider being an assistant coach.”
Herb is actually a great idea. He has no system, no style, no philosophy. It would be the closest to watching this team play in a vacuum as you can get.
one thing i must say is the coach we have on the bench coach woodson i think would do a bang up job with the knicks. he knows how to use everybody to their highest potntial and he is a great defensive coach. and JVG was a decent offensive coach he did well with what he had.
As for Houston, he coached there four years, had winning records in three of the four seasons (the losing season was the year both Yao and T-Mac missed much of the season) and while yes, they lost in the first round each of the three times…
A. It was just three times
B. Two of the losses came against teams that went to the Conference Finals and the third was the eventual Western Conference champions (and two of those three series went to 7 games).
C. His Houston teams were far from loaded:
Check out their lineups for the playoffs.
Season 1
Jim Jackson
Cuttino Mobley
Steve Francis
Yao Ming
Kelvin Cato
SEASON 2
Tracy McGrady
David Wesley
Ryan Bowen
Bob Sura
Yao Ming
SEASON 3
Rafer Alston
Tracy McGrady
Yao Ming
Shane Battier
Chuck Hayes
That last team is the only one that flat out looks good and they lost in 7 games to a good Utah team.
But yes, it is fair to say that he might want to coach now, but only for the perfect job. Like the Lakers gig. He is not coming back to coach the Kings, the Raptors or the Warriors, ya know? But if he wanted to, he could.
hmm, maybe I’m being too harsh and maybe Van Gundy is like the hoops version of Bobby Valentine, a guy who says so many stupid things publicly, it makes you forget that he was pretty good at coaching/managing.
What, Dolan didn’t buy the classic “my two good friends were killed in a terrorist attack” excuse?
(besides, if I remember right, Van G didn’t want to spend more time withhis family… He wanted to spend more time studying magic)
Hmm, I can see the recap on the front page but it comes up page not found. I need me some Jim Cavan!
Sage analysis. That’s exactly what I see, especially with the things MDA has and hasnt said
didn’t mr. jvg quit on the knicks in the past???
i agree with Cronin. one thing i might like to add even Frazier is sick of melo complaining when he doesn’t get the ball. i think we all know its not melo i think we all know its just that melo is acting like a primadonna. if he just played the game and looked to win instead of being the hero then the knicks would be that much better.
i still think MDA was coaching with his hands behind his back. i think if he actually played the type of players and had complete control of whos on the floor this would be a winning season.
lin played really well especially against top seeded chicago bulls and #1 elite pg derrick rose especially for his 20th full game of his nba career. he played what everyone is expecting him to play as a pg for knicks – in mid teens in scoring, high assists, low to’s. i really dont see how anyone can say lin didnt play well. outside of saying he didnt play as good as all top pgs in the league and score 40 points and have 20 assists and 30 rebounds or whatever. there will always be doubters about him especially when the knicks lose.
We actually outplayed the bulls on offense pretty badly.
TS% .570 Knicks
TS% .524 Bulls
But the bulls had almost as many offensive rebounds as we had defensive rebounds 22 to 29. pretty incredible. Even if we manage a plain horrible rebounding performance (say 5 more RB) we win this game. BTW same thing happenned with the bucks. We lost that game because we got destroyed on the boards to the tune of 17 offensive rb.
How can a team with chandler/amare/melo/fields get beat so badly on the boards, this is a good rebounding team on paper.For example, korver tonight had 3 offensive RB. Amare had 3 defensive RB. gibson had 8 offense, noah had 4! Even Melo had only 6 defensive.
We are talking about basic stuff here. the effort seemed to be there.
so what’s wrong?
I’m not able at the moment to rewatch the game, but isn’t the silly double-PG squad that D’Antoni puts out there out-rebounded a lot? And Novak gives up many offensive boards.
+100
Advanced stats are useful in a vacuum, but anyone who denies Rose’s greatness is an idiot.
Chi. was missing 2 of their starters and their back up pg. There is nothing approaching a moral victory here.
Are you feakin kidding me!!?? After 3 months of you going on about how great Melo will be in this offense once the team “gels” and “practices”, how they will be scoring 120 a night once they are all healthy, now you are saying they need a defensive coach for Melo to wake up?? Really?
500 comments. New KB record?
Don’t get me wrong, you’re accurate in noting that he is a bad offensive coach. He certainly was a bad offensive coach. He was just such a great defensive coach that he’ll always have a job in the NBA if he wants one. And his greatness as a defensive coach is practically legendary – the only JVG coached team not in the top 6 in the NBA in defensive efficiency was the Knick team he quit on, and I dunno where they ranked when he quit. The best examples of his defensive coaching were when he took a Houston team that had missed the playoffs in 2003 and took them from 14th in DE to 4th, with the same exact roster that Rudy T had and 2000-01, when he took a Knick roster with Glen Rice and a decrepit LJ in his rotation and somehow got them 3rd in the NBA in DE with a DE as good as any they ever had under Riley (it was tied with the best DE of Riley’s Knicks – the 1993-94 team – it was better than the DE of every other Riley-led team). His 1999 team had the best DE of any Knick team since the glory days of Frazier/Monroe/Bradley/DeBusschere/Reed squad.
Note that if you ever make it to an NBA Finals in your career you are basically set for life as far as always getting a job in the future. If you look at NBA coaches that have made it to an NBA Finals in the past 15 years, the only ones not coaching teams right now are Phil Jackson, Pat RIley, Larry Bird, Larry Brown, Jerry Sloan and Jeff Van Gundy. And all of them are not coaching out of their own volition. The trick is that once you have a certain reputation, it just doesn’t make sense to come back to coach unless the situation is ideal. Jerry Sloan is a perfect example. He could coach nearly any team he wants to in the NBA, he just doesn’t want to.