ruruland: Aggressive in what way?

Chandler isn’t going to start posting defenders up or taking anything that isn’t a lob or put-back.

Thomas can shoot a wide-open mid-range jumper.

White took what the defensive gave him.

Kidd and Prigs? I mean, the guys are who they are. I don’t understand what get more aggressive means.

Melo and Smith and when Amar’e is in have to create pretty much everything, outside of an occasional Prigioni drive and kick.

i think there are a few knicks who could step it up on offense instead of leaving everything to melo and smith. obviously, this is where you would think amare (assuming he has his legs back) should be able to give you 20. also, Im dissapointed prigs doesnt do more. he needs to be a threat on offense to take the pressure off of others. i dont think its asking too much. i know he is pass first, but now the situation requires him to score some. there areplenty of backup points in the league that can put in 15-20 points when the game demands it. finally, i think copeland is capable of giving us some offensewith shots and/or penetration if he can get on the court. everyone cannot just expect melo ad jr to do everything on that end

Brian Cronin:
The Pacers and Nets are waaaaaaaaay too close for comfort in the standings.

Still not that worried about the Nets. If Knicks beat them on MLK day then they win the season series vs them which clinches the tie-breaker.

Bruno Almeida: guess which team has the exact same problem as the Knicks?

the Bulls, and they just a**raped the Knicks.

dribble penetration isn’t everything, if it is possible to move the ball with Kirk freaking Hinrich playing 38 minutes on a game, it is possible too with Kidd + Prigioni + JR Smith or whoever else.

Felton won’t save this team.

what could save this team is to PLAY DEFENSE and move the ball.

Chicago is missing Derrick Rose, an MVP-caliber player, and they are able to move the ball beautifully… and we’re lacking Raymond Felton and playing stagnant ball.

Amare is the most irritating player on defense in the NBA, his absolute lack of effort is sickening.

and I thoroughly disagree that this is a loss that was about hot and cold nights, it wasn’t. it was about a team reverting back to its old ways (give Melo the ball and get out of the way) and playing terrible defense.

this team has shown that it has the ability to play much better than this, and I hope it gets back to it.

Some of it was bad defense, certainly as the game progressed it was.

A lot of was a hot shooting night and the Bulls playing extra energized because of it.

Again, you don’t create meaningful ball movement unless you can get the defense away from the ball in some way.

The Bulls get good penetration from their guards compared to what Kidd and Prigs provide. Robinson, Hinrich and Bellinelli all came hard off screens and created plays .

Their bigs can shoot, create offense in the post and pass. You have to guard them outside the paint.

Their wings play off of it all on off-ball screens.

The Bulls have a lot more capable offensive players on their team — the Knicks feature a lot of very limited offensive players who excel in 1-2 areas.

Felton, Melo and to a lesser extent Smith/Prigs create those chances for…

maxwell_3g: we have to stop trying to force it to melo, for starters and everyone needs to be aggressive offensively.i agree with you that we should also be running melo/ chandler pick and rolls to helo get melo in the paint and get the defense into help mode.but lets face it, the bulls and pacers are also very good def teams

Aggressive in what way?

Chandler isn’t going to start posting defenders up or taking anything that isn’t a lob or put-back.

Thomas can shoot a wide-open mid-range jumper.

White took what the defensive gave him.

Kidd and Prigs? I mean, the guys are who they are. I don’t understand what get more aggressive means.

Melo and Smith and when Amar’e is in have to create pretty much everything, outside of an occasional Prigioni drive and kick.

maxwell_3g: i think kidd COULD play 30 minutes, but definately not as the lead guard.he is fine as the sg, able to guard shooting guards (as long as they are not kemba walker type hybrids) and spot up shooting on offense.unfortunately, our currrent roster and injuries forces him into a different role

he can play 30 minutes occasionally, but not every night.

Will the Thrill:
The Bulls’ amazing shooting against us was not just them getting lucky, they were open shots. Plus, we could not score AT ALL through the first 3 quarters; basically not until the game was already over, so our defense was hardly the only problem.

They made open shots, they made contested shots.

I wouldn’t say their number of open shots was particularly alarming. there were too many than you’d want, sure.

Bruno Almeida: guess which team has the exact same problem as the Knicks?

the Bulls, and they just a**raped the Knicks.

dribble penetration isn’t everything, if it is possible to move the ball with Kirk freaking Hinrich playing 38 minutes on a game, it is possible too with Kidd + Prigioni + JR Smith or whoever else.

Felton won’t save this team.

what could save this team is to PLAY DEFENSE and move the ball.

Chicago is missing Derrick Rose, an MVP-caliber player, and they are able to move the ball beautifully… and we’re lacking Raymond Felton and playing stagnant ball.

That beautiful ball movement offense of the Bulls ranks 18th in the league so I’m not sure they’re the team the Knicks should look to emulate on offense. They run a ton of curl plays designed to generate mid-range jumpers- the least efficient shot in basketball. The Knicks don’t really have the personnel for that anyway- Kidd and Novak are far more effective spotting up than coming off of screens (and both are so slow they have a hard time running guys off of screens anyway). The Knicks two best catch and shoot guys are JR and Melo and with Felton out they’re forced to initiate the offense most of the time and can’t run those plays even if they wanted to.

Will the Thrill:
The Bulls’ amazing shooting against us was not just them getting lucky, they were open shots. Plus, we could not score AT ALL through the first 3 quarters; basically not until the game was already over, so our defense was hardly the only problem.

Phoenix is 26th in defensive efficiency. Did the Bulls’ jump shooting wilt in the face of such a juggernaut?