Zanzibar:
Novak led the Knicks in raw +/- and was second to Melo in adjusted +/-. Woody’s got a Rubik’s cube of lineups to try, and finding a way for Novak to be effective against the better teams will be just one of Woodson’s many challenges. One intriguing lineup would be Kidd/Novak/Camby/Melo/Amare using a zone defense. We would have our best spot-up 3 backcourt out there spacing the floor for Amare/Melo and Camby would drift out to keep his man from discombobulating Amare. We’d have to hope the gains in offense would outweigh any deficiencies of the zone defense.

Camby is best in zone. It’s kind of how he always plays defense anyway.

The Honorable Cock Jowles: You sound like jon abbey: “If it doesn’t reinforce my preconceived notions of player value, it can’t be valid.”

“lol”

Correction: If a bench player is supposed to be better than the former MVP on his team, then nobody getting paid for their professional basketball knowledge has any idea what they’re doing. Except for David Berri of course

The Honorable Cock Jowles: johnno: I used to think that WP as a stat is a load of nonsense.However, now that I know that Ronnie Brewer can produce 9.11 wins all by himself over an 82 game season, I realize the error of my ways and suddenly believe (or want to believe) that WP is an incredibly good predictor of a guy’s value to the team…
You sound like jon abbey: “If it doesn’t reinforce my preconceived notions of player value, it can’t be valid.”
“lol”

I’m kind of like the financial analysts on the radio who “predict” how the stock market will do after the market closes for the day. If the Fed lowers interest rates and stocks go up, they say “The market went up today because the Fed lowered rates.’ If the Fed lowers interest rates and stocks go down, they say “The market dropped today because the Fed lowered rates, sparking fears of inflation.” Just like I can say that I knew that Faried and Shumpert would be good but the truth of the matter is that, if I were GM, I would have drafted Chris Singleton over both of them. Oops.

JC Knickfan: You do know Copeland 28 right? He should be in his prime. If he can’t make rotation this year, I would be surprised he back with team next year.

I thought he was younger. In that case I’d like 2 keep Sims over him to develop

johnno: I used to think that WP as a stat is a load of nonsense.However, now that I know that Ronnie Brewer can produce 9.11 wins all by himself over an 82 game season, I realize the error of my ways and suddenly believe (or want to believe) that WP is an incredibly good predictor of a guy’s value to the team…

You sound like jon abbey: “If it doesn’t reinforce my preconceived notions of player value, it can’t be valid.”

“lol”

massive: Brewer: WP/48 – .245 (9.11 Total Wins)

I used to think that WP as a stat is a load of nonsense. However, now that I know that Ronnie Brewer can produce 9.11 wins all by himself over an 82 game season, I realize the error of my ways and suddenly believe (or want to believe) that WP is an incredibly good predictor of a guy’s value to the team…

sidestep:
Novak gave me so much pleasure watching him last season. But he is a black-hole of his own unique variety. When he can’t get the shot off, he has a hard time getting rid of the ball. At most, he can take a few dribbles with his non-existent handle, but once he picks up his dribble, the defender can hound him and cut off his passing angles. Novak is perhaps the only person in the NBA who can be trapped by a single defender, LOL. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration, but the general point stands.)

Great analysis on Novak that most people seem to ignore when discussing limited players like Novak and Korver. It’s one thing when Ray Allen or even Jason Kidd gets prevented from taking a 3 because they have moves to counter that, and they are good passers who will move the ball around and make the defense pay for closing out too fast. Novak just gets stuck with the ball and kills the possession. Fields had this exact same problem too, which is why Melo had no chance has the team’s only creator, pick and rolls and post ups only work well at creating opportunites for others when his teammates are capable of making the extra pass or making a play in space. This year this should be less of an issue since a full year of JR, Kidd, Felton, and Brewer/Shump is world’s better than what the backcourt was last season. Hopefully Amar’e will make his jumpers too…

SeeWhyDee77: Copeland is a guy i’d like to keep and develop for the future..Sims too

You do know Copeland 28 right? He should be in his prime. If he can’t make rotation this year, I would be surprised he back with team next year.

Brian Cronin:
If I thought Woody was going to give Sheed unearned playing time or if I thought that there was some interesting younger guy that Sheed was blocking, I’d be irked by the Sheed signing. But I don’t think Woody will give him unearned playing time and I don’t think there’s anyone interesting getting blocked by this. Heck, Chris Smith has a camp invite, for crying out loud! It’s not like there’s a bunch of great young guys being burned here.

Copeland is a guy i’d like to keep and develop for the future..Sims too