Knicks Morning News (Saturday, Jan 19 2013)
January 19th, 2013 by Mike Kurylo | @KnickerBlogger | Comments | Permalink |
Kevin Durant’s miserable fourth quarter ended with a final miss that gave Dallas a chance to finish a rally in overtime Friday night.
Kevin Durant scored a career-high 52 points as the NBA-leading Oklahoma City Thunder prevailed 117-114 in an overtime thriller against the Dallas Mavericks on Friday.
Kevin Durant hardly seemed bothered by O.J. Mayo’s tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of regulation.
Marco Belinelli made a game-winning jumper with 3.1 seconds left and the Chicago Bulls extended their road win streak to 14.
Two days after a one-sided defeat in Atlanta, the Nets won a back-and-forth game against the same bruising opponent.
Bradley Beal scored 23 points, John Wall blocked Ty Lawson’s attempt for a tying layup in the final seconds, and the Washington Wizards hung on to beat the Denver Nuggets 112-108 on Friday night to snap an eight-game road losing streak.
In the midst of a boisterous Bulls locker room, players talked about what a crazy game it was. It was only fitting that they won it on a tough, unconventional shot.
Tim Duncan had 24 points and 10 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs held off the Golden State Warriors 95-88 on Friday night to extend their home winning streak to 14 games.
Mike Conley scored 19 points, Marc Gasol added 18 points and 10 rebounds and the Memphis Grizzlies snapped a three-game losing streak with an 85-69 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday night.
Jrue Holiday had a career-high tying 33 points and 14 assists, including all 12 of Philadelphia’s points in overtime, and the 76ers overcame a 19-point second-half deficit to defeat the Toronto Raptors 108-101 on Friday night.
Deron Williams scored 24 points, making four free throws in the final 43.4 seconds, and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Atlanta Hawks 94-89 on Friday night to earn a split of a home-and-home series.
Kemba Walker had 25 points and eight rebounds, and Gerald Henderson added 17 points as the Charlotte Bobcats snapped a five-game losing streak with a 106-100 win over the Orlando Magic on Friday night.
Paul George couldn’t wait to play Friday night and it showed.
The Nets, winners of seven straight games, were red hot, and the Hawks, playing without their leading scorer, were stone cold, but Wednesday’s game in Atlanta saw a reversal of fortune.
The Phoenix Suns have ended head coach Alvin Gentry’s tenure of almost four years in charge of the Western Conference strugglers after both sides “mutually agreed to part ways”, the team said on Friday.
The Phoenix Suns say they have “mutually agreed to part waysâ? with Coach Alvin Gentry.
The Knicks flew back yesterday morning from England â?? with a band of players Carmelo Anthony believes is the best he ever has been a part of.
Perhaps the perspective of being back where he won a gold medal with the U.S. Olympic team and seeing a key component return…
Iman Shumpert’s season debut in London went a lot smoother than Amar’e Stoudemire’s rust-filled opener on New Year’s Day.But the bigger test may come when the Knicks regroup for practice tomorrow to prepare for Shumpert’s second outing Monday against the neighboring Nets. Will Shumpert…
LONDON â?? Carmelo Anthony joined Amar’e Stoudemire at the podium late Thursday at O2 Arena, just in time for a Polish journalist to ask a question that nearly made Anthony do an about-face and bolt for the team bus.
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Wow, after dropping 52 points on Dallas, Durant has inched past Melo on the PPG leaderboard with 29.3 (second behind Kobe). He has a usage of 29.6% and a TS% of .653. Nobody in NBA history has ever posted a high-usage/high-efficiency season that good. Unreal.
Continuing last nights thread about Gallinari and Chandler’s doing worse than expected, I think part of it is that players look better in a D’antoni offense. The same thing happened with Shawne Williams. He looked good enough playing for the Knicks to get a good free agent contract from NJ and then did nothing. I think their talent is still there because Karl is giving them as many minutes as D’antoni did; they are just are in a different offensive system.
To his credit, Woodson seems to have learned from D’antoni, and we haven’t seen individual offensive performances fall off since the coaching change.
Gallo’s percentages and game has been affected most by his transformation into an average three point shooter rather than the marksman he was early in his Knick career. He still has a great ability to draw fouls and does a pretty good job of putting up paints with a varied offensive game.
The drop in his three point percentage has really hurt his efficiency with his TS% dropping in each of the last 4 years. I thought he would become a better version of the solid role player he is now, maybe he finds his shooting stroke at some point and upps his efficiency again.
Chandler has struggled with injuries and form for the majority of his time in Denver so maybe I was a bit aggressive in asking what happened to him. That being said Wilson’s been injury prone for the duration of his career and his entire tenure in Denver has been sub-par to say the least.
Wilson Chandler has never been good, but he has been Michael-Beasley-bad in Denver.
It makes you realize just how good Amar’e was in Phoenix- .656 TS% at a usage of 28.2 in 07/08.
Whelp, rough loss for the hawks Lou Williams torn ACL done for the season
From the other thread related to Shump’s position. If Woodson doesn’t have Shumpert guarding a player that is doing a lot of the other team’s ball handling it would be a terrible misuse of him as a defensive player. Shump is a ball hawk. Sure he can guard a bigger player in the post because he plays aggressively but that’s not at all where he is most disruptive. What he and guys like Bradley do is disrupt flow by not letting teams get into their offense by bothering the ball handler. That has to be Shump’s role.
Very much agree with this, in part because Shump is still figuring out NBA level rotations on defense. I’m excited to see what he can accomplish this year
Right, .664 and 30.4 usage with Shaq!!!
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/stoudam01/gamelog/2008/#353-381-sum:pgl_advanced
Anything in this clip you don’t think Amar’e won’t be capable of doing this year? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bk_XpfAk08
Maybe the part where he jumped over 3 defenders to flush it from behind the backboard…
Wait, is this a trick question?
Probably say “Yeah, I’m 26 years old” with a straight face.