Should have had that game in Denver if we hadn't hit that cold spell shooting, beating a top team instead of the Hawks and Warrior's would have been sweet.
The saying goes ?we all rise to our level of incompetence.?
Fiz is a great assistant coach.... not a HC... maybe he would do well in college... but that?s it.
This win means nothing.We all know that the Knicks would have blown the Hawks out under Fizdale! It was all Mills' and Perry's fault why the Knicks sucked under him LOL!
Let not get excited because we beat a Hawks team that was without one of there star player(Collin). If we had lost the game everybody in this forum would be talking about Young 40 some points. Two things should be look at about coach Miller. 1. Why no adjustment in defending Young after he roll around the pick(Picking off Frank)? I saw Robinson contesting one of his shots and that all. Team know that by running Frank into a pick that cut off the Knicks best defender. So something need to be done about that fault. 2. Why wasn't there any experimenting with different lineup and playing Allen, etc? This would have been the perfect time for the Frank/Payton combo that most in this forum wants to see.
* Another tidpit -- Why was RJ on the floor in the 4th quarter ?? There isn't a good reason!!! He playing more minutes than anybody on the team. So would this have been a good time to rest the 'So-call Prize Rookie'? The only reason is that Miller is getting the same order from management to play there MISTAKE!!! He doesn't fit, He is a square peg for a round hole. They are forging a lie with inflated stat's like last night.
** As a coach you don't get very many opportunities to run live game scrimmage during an actual game. Well last night was one of those times. BUT IT WASN"T DONE.... WHY?? It is puzzling to me because this would give you a totally different look at players and offensive plays. When will he get another chance to do that in a real game? He may not this season.
The new Knicks would have beat a healthy Hawks team without any problems.
The new Knicks 2nd half defensive performance had the win over the Denver Nuggets, but way to much of the rookie RJ Barrett.
The Knick Front Office want Randle and RJ to receive above 30 minute games.
What our new KEEPER head-coach Mike Miller has done was improve the Knick players confidence each game well enough to keep the starter lineup he inherited by installing a 10 times better defensive-system than we been running the past 4 years.
I have to agree, so far Fizdale is being exposed for the teams underperformance and losing. I've been calling him a cheerleader and BS artist since last season, coaches always defend each other but guys like Pop that say he didn't deserve to be fired are dead wrong.When you go to the casino you playing to a stacked deck. You see as soon as the auto-door open.
You got to change the odd(some of it) into your favor. How does he do that? By not playing that game with them. Change your starting lineup like Fiz was going to do before being fired. You don't have a team with a #1 option so you got to take chances. You don't have a team built to make a playoff run. So you have to scare a lot team with how you play the game. You got to use every opportunity to get better and build chemistry. NO FAVORITISM!!
He has done one thing that I think is very good. Stop shooting all those 3's and taking the ball to the basket. Not a fan of the 3 ball.