The Knicks acquired Chris Wilcox in February in exchange for a barely used Malik Rose. It seemed that Wilcox was going to play center and push the undersized David Lee back to power forward, but instead Wilcox spelled Lee at center. Looking at his most frequent 5-man units from 82games, Lee doesn’t appear in any of them.
Watching Wilcox play, gave me a new appreciation of Lee. Both players have a similar style, but Wilcox lags behind in multiple areas. He was less efficient when it comes to inside scoring, and he was less able to stretch the offense. According to 82games, 80% of his attempts were inside. If the knock on Lee is his desire to stay near the hoop, then Wilcox must be tethered to it. And despite playing with the same support cast, David out rebounds Chris by a far margin. Wilcox’s one saving grace is his adequate block rate.
Name | Jump eFG | Inside eFG | Inside % | reb/36 | to/36 | ast/36 | blk/36 |
Wilcox | 35.0 | 57.3 | 80% | 8.9 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 |
Lee | 35.2 | 64.1 | 68% | 12.1 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 0.3 |
Even though New York is still short on big men, they decided not to keep Wilcox for 2010. Newly acquired Darko Milicic and Eddy Curry are likely to take any minutes that would have gone to Wilcox. I guess the Knicks have filled their quota of lottery center busts.
Report Card (5 point scale):
Offense: 2
Defense: 2
Teamwork: 2
Rootability: 1
Performance/Expectations: 2
Grade: D F I was going to give Wilcox a D, until I remembered this. If I recall correctly, he did this more than once as a Knick.
Similarity Scores:
z-Sum | FLName | Year | Tm | PER | TS% | eFG% | PTS | ORB | TRB | AST | STL | BLK | TOV |
.000 | Chris Wilcox | 2009 | TOT | 13.2 | .517 | .496 | 15.3 | 3.3 | 9.5 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.6 |
.024 | Pat Cummings | 1983 | DAL | 14.6 | .526 | .493 | 15.8 | 3.5 | 10.4 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
.032 | Rick Robey | 1982 | BOS | 11.0 | .511 | .493 | 13.8 | 3.5 | 9.0 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.8 |
.033 | Marc Jackson | 2001 | GSW | 16.1 | .534 | .471 | 16.2 | 3.0 | 9.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.4 |
.045 | Mike Jackson | 1976 | VIR | 13.2 | .549 | .499 | 15.8 | 3.4 | 9.8 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 3.1 |
.046 | Jason Caffey | 2000 | GSW | 12.4 | .515 | .479 | 14.2 | 3.2 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.8 |
.054 | Kenny Carr | 1982 | TOT | 14.7 | .543 | .504 | 16.7 | 3.1 | 9.9 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 2.8 |
.061 | Kenny Thomas | 2004 | PHI | 15.9 | .527 | .469 | 13.4 | 3.5 | 10.0 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.3 |
.071 | Armen Gilliam | 1991 | TOT | 15.5 | .542 | .487 | 16.9 | 3.0 | 8.1 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.4 |
.073 | Dwight Jones | 1979 | HOU | 10.9 | .505 | .458 | 13.6 | 3.3 | 9.7 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 3.0 |