max fisher-cohen:
@maxwell

Camby hasn’t had an effective 13 footer in a long time. The guy can’t even hit a FT anymore — 42% last season.

maybe so. i cant say that i actually saw camby play a lot last year. the stat catch 22 problem remains though, although maybe we dont have a solution on our roster.

maxwell_3g:
while i agree with many point of the article, does it even address our biggest personnel conundrum??i think chandler/ stat may be a bigger problem than melo/ stat.our center (whom i think is fantastic has one way to be of any use on offense, the pick and roll lob.this happens to be the only way Stat is even remotely efficent on offense, cosidering anything that requires him to dribble or make decisions becomes a turnover or a charge.The problem (and it is a Stat problem really) is that for him to be effective on offense requires him to play center, except such a lineup leaves a gaping whole on defense, as Stat is not exactly a rim protector (like saying Swisher is not exactly a post-season preformer.
The only solution that I can come up with is pairing Stat witha rim protecting center who can score from outside the paint and does not depend on diving to the rim on the 2-man game.Hello Marcus Camby and your moderately effective 13 footer!!!However we work out the rotations (we, as in Woody), we should minimize the time that Stat and Chandler play together and always have Stat out there with Camby

Maxwell I’ve been saying this for a while now, Melo and Amar’e led the number 1 offense in the league after they got together their first season and had Billups instead of Chandler. Amare’s numbers suffered a bit, but the real problem was that they had a terrible defense. Chandler might have fixed the defense, but he and Amar’e can’t both roll to the rim at once, and for some reason Amar’e lost the ability to shoot last season.

Camby hasn’t had an effective 13 footer in a long time. The guy can’t even hit a FT anymore — 42% last season.

For everyone else: take a look at a real beauty at the 16:05 mark, with an Amar’e handoff to Melo leading to an Amar’e slam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmLB6AYIRLk

Hope my friends to the north still have power!!!

Brian Cronin: Stephen Smith….wow…what a dummy.

Amen to that.

At 28, Melo isn’t getting any younger. And although he’s starving to accomplish as much as his friends Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, that appears to be a pipe dream right now.

Bounced out in the first round eight of his nine years in the league, Anthony continues to face questions about his production, or lack thereof. Is that fair?

Is it fair, considering that he has limited help offensively? Carrying this franchise on his back. Forced to hope that Felton re-emerges as the point guard he once was, or that Kidd can fight off Father Time, or that Tyson Chandler can display prowess in some category other than defense.

Chances are, it’s not happening.

Gone is Jeremy Lin. (Good riddance!) Inserted is an experienced bunch that could beat most of the teams in this league if it were healthy. But age and attrition are inevitable. So is another injury to Stoudemire.

If it’s frustrating to me, the same can probably be said for others who are closer to the situation. And if that’s the case, one can only imagine what Anthony is thinking.

Probably something like: “I wish I had pushed to end up in New Jersey, after all.”

Because then he’d be in Brooklyn right now.

Stephen Smith….wow…what a dummy.

njasdjdh: Not sure exactly what you’re referencing, but it’s not just “stats based analysis” that says Amar’e and Melo can’t/don’t work well together.

“Lowe noted that of all the players recorded by STATS, LLC’s multi-camera process for tracking every movement in an NBA game, Anthony was the most effective player in the league at driving the ball.”

That’s statistical analysis and, in the context of the circus that this team has been, I feel, an analysis that’s tangential to why the record together is poor. Lot’s of players have similar skill sets and figure out a way to blend with each other. Meanwhile 36-30 and, most importantly 18-6 down the stretch is trending upward.