A higher number of assists doesn’t mean they passed the ball more. It just means more shots went in. So your thesis, at the end of the day, is just that the Knicks win when they make more shots.

The thing is, shot quality improves when there is purposeful ball and player movement, especially for players that can’t create for themselves as effectively as a guy like Brunson. So they make more of them. That’s the whole point of screens, cuts, ball movement etc…

If we are bringing the ball up slowly and then dribbling away most of the clock, we often wind up having guys taking rushed shots or trying to create for themselves late in the clock even though they are not highly efficient that way.

The offense we run is too slow, has too much dribbling (primarily Brunson but also Hart at times) and the rest of the guys are watching instead of doing something that could open one of them up for a good look.

We have to play faster, Brunson has to give up the ball quickly, we run something, and if fails THEN Brunson goes ISO, Towns drives or something like that.

(And it’s a hypothesis, an idea developed from observation, not a thesis, tested and ‘proven.’ Which you’ve just shot full of holes…).

[And this is my biggest complaint with all those CSI type shows, outside of them actually being on…]

Educate they had a long stretch of 27+ assist games. I wouldn’t have come up with my idiotic hypothesis if they hadn’t. Then they, well, stopped.

The problem with your thesis has always been that you’re using raw assists instead of assist percentage.

A higher number of assists doesn’t mean they passed the ball more. It just means more shots went in. So your thesis, at the end of the day, is just that the Knicks win when they make more shots.

I thought we had a high flying, high octane offense. What the hell happened to that?

Teams started putting wings on KAT and we responded by acting like it’s illegal to run a Brunson/KAT pnr against it. That’s literally the answer. We’ve been opting out of running our best play for months.

The coach is a fool

100%

If there was metric that measured a team’s offensive output relative to its offensive talent, this would team would rate very poorly.

We are against a good defense. So it’s not like we should be running up the score, but there is almost no purposeful movement of players, the ball, the spacing is often terrible, we dribble away clock etc…

It’s painful to watch.