d-mar:
Stuck in a hotel room in NJ with no MSG, still don’t have power at home.

Any suggestions for watching online?

Thanks all, go NY go!

nba league pass has a free online trial going, don’t even need credit card info

Any suggestions for watching online?

Thanks all, go NY go!

This team can be a monstrous defensive menace. I loved when JR barrelled through a screen (Haslem?) chasing Allen, Van Gundy noted it as well, saying that even though it was a foul, you like to see that as a coach. Also saw JR and Melo took hard swipes at LeBron and Wade when they cradled the ball on drives. Felton and Prigs went hard over screens as well. Even Novak looked engaged on D. Damn, how long has it been since we had an intimidating defensive team? That shit is awesome!

Felton split that trap at least 6 times by my count, which stood out ot me because last year’s pgs simply weren’t capable of making it. HE also probed quite a bit in semi-transition, and consistently made smart passes against the trap.

It’ll be interesting to see if teams start playing under screens with Felton and Chandler pnr, not so much because Felton is a poor shooter, but because the Knicks offense is virtually unstoppable in said 4-3 against recovering rotation.

While the Knicks shot a high percentage on 3s, theymissed a ton of close shots, and I thought Miami was playing its standard high-energy defense once the ball got past the half-court line (transition was another story).

2. Novak doing some pick and pop and moving without the ball. There was one time when he did a pick for Melo when Lewis was covering him. This led to a switch of Lewis onto Melo, leading to a mismatch. If this is used in the future, it’s a good antidote to a defense parking their worst defender onto Novak and just having him stay there. There was another beautiful play in which Novak passed on one corner, and a pick and roll on the same side made his man lose track of him. Novak went to the opposite corner and drained the corner 3.

3. Melo as the roll man. This was another antidote to trapping the ball, since he’s a better handler and passer than Chandler. I remember one side pick and roll with Melo as the roll man and Novak in the corner. Novak’s man had to leave him to help on Anthony, leading to a corner 3 for Novak.

If this level of ball movement keeps up, they’ll be really efficient even on a less stellar shooting night.

“Offensively, the ball flowed,” Woodson said after the win. “It moved side to side, and guys were making the plays. I thought Jason and Raymond were great early for us in terms of getting the ball moved.”

Kidd, who is in his 19th N.B.A. season, said: “Sometimes, it’s all right to make an extra pass. If you get criticized for passing the ball too much, it’s not a bad thing in this league.”

Anthony said he did not think there was a smarter player in the league than Kidd, and Woodson praised Kidd by saying: “I’m glad that he’s on our ball club. And a lot of our players are going to benefit when he’s on the floor.”

Woodson added: “He’s unique. I wouldn’t call him a freak, but he is unique in his own way. He’s one of those players that comes along in a lifetime and can play forever, and he can walk away on his own terms.”

The Heat’s Shane Battier may have offered the Knicks the most lavish praise of all by saying: “They’re doing things very similar to what we’re doing. We’re trying to create space on the floor. And when you have shooters and really good attackers, that’s the best way to play basketball.”

Battier said Tyson Chandler (the one Knicks starter who did not hit a 3-pointer) was a huge key to their success.

“That’s what you try to do,” Battier said. “Chandler’s a key to open 3-point shooting because when he rolls to the basket, he really draws attention. Because when he rolls to the basket, you have to put a body on him. And if you’re not precise in your defensive spacing, you’re going to give up open looks.”

maxwell_3g:
the dream senarion is that we get off to an amazing start in the next 6-8 weeks before amare comes back.if we are playing great, there may be enough mainstream public sentiment and upper management awareness to demand that amare comes off the bench, whether he likes it or not.i like amare playing with jr, kidd, shump, novak, camby, etc a lot better than him getting in melo’s way and allowing first team bigs to torch him.and maybe being sent to the bench will finally ignite the fire that convince him to play d.i love a win for the sake of a win, but these early season wins, expecially against the heat, serve 2 purposes.one is the standings and the second, i pray, is to send amare to the 6-7th man role that he deserves at this point

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/8585630/carmelo-anthony-wins-november-game-fail-may