TelegraphedPass: I’ll quote em for you.

As the ball handler, Landry is scoring at a pretty awful .66 PPP on 39.7% shooting. He’s turning the ball over 23.5% of the time on those possessions.

That’s just bad. Our offense won’t benefit greatly from him losing the possession nearly a quarter of the time.

Stats don’t usually lie. I guess that could bad idea.
Home team usually shot better home. I seriously doubt Woodson make attempt to play zone. So, my guess is Miami FG will be 50% tonight. So, I don’t have much hope in this game unless we generate more efficient offense.

Dan Gadzuric seem like stupid signing now. Should have gotten PG when we still had a chance.

JR is an underrated passer. He isn’t a natural distributor, obviously, but when he sets his mind to set someone up he has been pretty good at it for the past couple years. Jeremy Lin and Baron Davis are better overall passers, but as far as hitting the roll man consistently and accurately without turning the ball over I’ve seen JR handle it well.

I’d like to see more JR-STAT PnRs. He has been a weak scorer coming off the pick this year, but at least he’s the best passing option. He can get himself a good shot in that situation if the D starts keying into STAT’s offense off that action.

JC Knickfan: I not quote any stats because I don’t feel doing research. Based what saw through year I thought OK job run PNR couple times a game. If saw last game Laundry did have nice assist with Melo on PNR. Out all guards left he does have ability to penetrate. He goes north south versus east/west like JR. So if guy goes underneath Laundy it would possible get paint and let him shot his one hand running bank shot or 1 had push shot. He did shot 48% from 2pt and unlike his jumper this one few he still can make. If get to roll man then that will even be better. Point is we do need around 50-60 point outside Melo iso. First Melo does have great game and even if we play good defense I think still think we need about 95 pt. If Melo goes for 35-45 w/ reasonable field goal % some else still needs score. I think everyone hope JR get hot. He average 15 shot per game and shooting paltry 34%. I rather his go to Amare and TC, but they do need someone get them the ball. Amare shooting 55% in playoffs and TC shot almost shot 70% in regular season.

I’ll quote em for you.

As the ball handler, Landry is scoring at a pretty awful .66 PPP on 39.7% shooting. He’s turning the ball over 23.5% of the time on those possessions.

That’s just bad. Our offense won’t benefit greatly from him losing the possession nearly a quarter of the time.

TelegraphedPass: I haven’t noticed Landry doing anything particularly well out of the PnR. He turns the ball over a ton, and unlike JR he hasn’t impressed me with his passing in that situation. Since Landry isn’t really a threat to shoot or score either, I question the value of a Landry+STAT/Chandler PnR.

I not quote any stats because I don’t feel doing research. Based what saw through year I thought OK job run PNR couple times a game. If saw last game Laundry did have nice assist with Melo on PNR. Out all guards left he does have ability to penetrate. He goes north south versus east/west like JR. So if guy goes underneath Laundy it would possible get paint and let him shot his one hand running bank shot or 1 had push shot. He did shot 48% from 2pt and unlike his jumper this one few he still can make. If get to roll man then that will even be better.

Point is we do need around 50-60 point outside Melo iso. First Melo does have great game and even if we play good defense I think still think we need about 95 pt. If Melo goes for 35-45 w/ reasonable field goal % some else still needs score.

I think everyone hope JR get hot. He average 15 shot per game and shooting paltry 34%. I rather his go to Amare and TC, but they do need someone get them the ball. Amare shooting 55% in playoffs and TC shot almost shot 70% in regular season.

thenamestsam: I guess I don’t see coach speak as that much of a bad thing. The old “it’s a cliche for a reason” thing. I think the idea of throwing wrinkles is a good one. I’d especially like to see some zone given that we’ve now lost two of our better man-to-man perimeter defenders in Shump and Baron. However, I think scheme takes a back seat to effort always. The effort level was completely different between the games 1&2 and then 3&4, and just that made a huge difference on the defensive end.

It’s much, much harder to keep your intensity and effort high throughout a game on the road. Miami is going to go on runs and at home it’s a lot easier to maintain the focus and bounce back with a run of your own. We can talk about the tactical points all we want and those make a difference, but all the game planning in the world won’t matter if we don’t play with the intensity level we showed at home. They will beat us on effort alone.

The intensity should be automatically higher because it’s an elimination game (unless we’re the kind of team Bynum was talking about!). That can’t be all he brings to the table.

I will be very disappointed if we go down trying the same tricks but hoping for different results (or “better execution”). Heat will eat that alive.

I believe we can win this game if the right adjustment or two is made, and I hope I see it.

TelegraphedPass: I haven’t noticed Landry doing anything particularly well out of the PnR. He turns the ball over a ton, and unlike JR he hasn’t impressed me with his passing in that situation. Since Landry isn’t really a threat to shoot or score either, I question the value of a Landry+STAT/Chandler PnR.

The obvious defense against a Fields PnR is just go under the screen continuously. Help on the roll man, and dare Landry to take pull-up jumpers off the dribble all day, which he won’t, and for good reason. That’s why the side PnR they like to run with Landry hasn’t had much of an impact late this season. Teams usually go under, Landry won’t shoot, and so he dribbles around the pick, his man helps on the roll and then recovers and then Landry hands the ball back to the PG. The only time it has really been effective is when Landry’s man recovers too hard or fails to go under and allows Landry to drive middle.

However, It would be interesting to see how Miami would react to Fields PnR at the top of the key, something the Knicks almost never run. He has a pretty good handle, he’s a decent passer, and he has the height to see over the defense, so he might be effective at making a quick pass and getting the defense rotating if they hedge hard on it the way they normally like to do.

JC Knickfan: To try get TC and Amare some more scoring changes, I really thinkWoodson should let Fields run few PNR. Personal I think done decent job throughout year. P>

I haven’t noticed Landry doing anything particularly well out of the PnR. He turns the ball over a ton, and unlike JR he hasn’t impressed me with his passing in that situation. Since Landry isn’t really a threat to shoot or score either, I question the value of a Landry+STAT/Chandler PnR.

To try get TC and Amare some more scoring changes, I really think
Woodson should let Fields run few PNR. Personal I think done decent job throughout year. Since Lin hasn’t played I’ve notice Miami not really trapping ballhandler as hard. We pretty PNR all year so got to play to our strengths. So we should mixed up between JR, Fields and some Bibby do PNR and them Melo iso.

Also thumbs down for Woodson not trying zone defense yet. You know LBJ and Wade going drive hard basket tonight so zone will make it easier to collapse on them.

New Guy: I don’t know.Sounds too easy, like coachspeak.Yet, I feel confident this is the entire basis of Woodson’s plan tonight.

A good coach would have something different up his sleeve for tonight.Maybe go zone for a quarter.Run some PNR’s with Melo and Stat.Something.Anything.

If Woodson goes down doing everything that got us to this point, I won’t be sad if he’s not brought back.And I’ll wonder how far we can go with him if he is.

I’ve come to really like Son of Wood, and I do hope he brings a new trick to the table tonight.If we’re just going in with “more intensity”, say good night.

I guess I don’t see coach speak as that much of a bad thing. The old “it’s a cliche for a reason” thing. I think the idea of throwing wrinkles is a good one. I’d especially like to see some zone given that we’ve now lost two of our better man-to-man perimeter defenders in Shump and Baron. However, I think scheme takes a back seat to effort always. The effort level was completely different between the games 1&2 and then 3&4, and just that made a huge difference on the defensive end.

It’s much, much harder to keep your intensity and effort high throughout a game on the road. Miami is going to go on runs and at home it’s a lot easier to maintain the focus and bounce back with a run of your own. We can talk about the tactical points all we want and those make a difference, but all the game planning in the world won’t matter if we don’t play with the intensity level we showed at home. They will beat us on effort alone.