Comments on: NY Post: The Knicks’ Jeff Hornacek rebellion is growing quickly

By: danvt

danvt — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:27:42 +0000

Ball movement is a big part of a modern NBA offense. KP shot a good number of threes that I would prefer he wouldn’t take. Like the pull up kind from 4 feet behind the line. I can’t recall him ever getting an uncontested catch and shoot from the corner. The Knicks offense never moved on from Melo. We just installed KP as the king of the contested long range 2 and once he went down it was Beasley’s turn.

Houston has a tandem of gifted passers. Maybe the best guard tandem in league history. They create so much space for themselves and shooters. Coach D is in heaven and SSOL is alive and well. There’s more too it than just volume threes but yeah I agree with everyone’s assessment of coach H at this point.

By: DRed

DRed — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:38:03 +0000

when they were starting Porzingis, Lee and Hardaway, along with McDermott, Beasley and Thomas playing a lot of minutes off of the bench

All those guys took around their recent average 3pt attempts. I think it’s fair to complain that Horny wasnt trying to scheme more 3s out of the offense, but none of them except for Timmy has ever been anything close to a high volume 3 point shooter.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:00:00 +0000

In reply to Brian Cronin.

The maddening thing about him is that his Suns teams did shoot a lot of threes, but they had stronger point guards, so it was easier to get looks at threes. So that’s what happened, in a nutshell. “We would have to make a concerted effort in order to take more threes due to our shitty point guard play…so let’s just not do that.” He just gave up on shooting threes because it was too hard to get them to make the extra passes required to get looks for three. That’s weak.

By: JK47

JK47 — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:27:03 +0000

Not shooting threes and shooting lots of long two-pointers is a surefire formula for getting your ass kicked a lot. As Brian mentioned in #14, the Knicks had the personnel to shoot threes earlier in the season and they didn’t do it then either.

I’m not the least bit impressed with Hornacek as a coach. If he was a baseball manager he’d bunt in the first inning.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:17:00 +0000

In reply to Knick fan not in NJ at this time.

They weren’t shooting threes early in the season, either, though, when they were starting Porzingis, Lee and Hardaway, along with McDermott, Beasley and Thomas playing a lot of minutes off of the bench. Horny clearly decided not to make shooting threes a big deal for whatever reason.

By: Knick fan not in NJ at this time

Knick fan not in NJ at this time — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 05:22:05 +0000

The Knicks don’t have the personnel to shoot that many threes. That’s not Hornacek’s fault. Lee, Thomas and Beasley are the best three point shooters on the team, by percentage. Thomas takes only very open threes and doesn’t seem to get open that much, and doesn’t take many shots. Lee can do it and does. Beasley takes threes, but is also a good scorer near the basket and it’t reasonable he does a lot of attempts near the basket. The next three are McDermott, KP and Burke, one of whom is gone, one of whom is injured and the third also scores inside. Hardaway’s percentage from three is only 0.315, but he does take 7 threes a game, much more than anyone else on the team. So in order to actually put a three point shooting line up on the floor, you’d probably pick Kornet, Beasley, Hardaway, Burke and Thomas, and that is not an impressive line up and not one I would expect more than league average threes from.

By: Cock Jowles, the best dude in the draft (for all you know)

Cock Jowles, the best dude in the draft (for all you know) — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:38:24 +0000

Against the Bulls tonight, the Rockets shot 57 3PA and made just 31% of them. They won by 28.

The Knicks’ season high in 3PA is 35. The Rockets have played just 7 games this season in which they shot fewer than 35.

Fire Jeff Hornacek.

By: TheOakmanCometh

TheOakmanCometh — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:13:11 +0000

Please, no Pastor Mark. His drama will create a complete shitshow in NY.

Also, small point worth noting, he’s not a good coach.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:36:45 +0000

Yes to Horny not returning.

No to Mark Jackson in any capacity.

Imagine when Jackson tells the entire team that Porzingis is rooting against them while he is still injured and asks Kanter to prove he believes in god after blessing him.

Can’t we just rehire Derek Fisher or something like that? Isn’t Dolan still paying his contract?

By: DRed

DRed — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:12:16 +0000

Jackson had the Warriors playing very good defense, but they were 12th in the league on offense with the core of what would go on to be one of the best offenses in NBA history. How much of that is Steve Kerr and how much is players maturing is hard to say, but Jackson is probably responsible for some of it, and he’s an asshole to boot. He would be a nightmare in the NY media environment. Maybe the only plus I can see is that he’d probably fight Frank Isola.