Yeah, it's very early, but I am also starting to feel Jennings as the future of the Knicks at PG. We'll see how the season goes, but maybe, this team lets Rose walk at the end of the season and looks to the future with a pass-first Jennings and an elite young scorer in Porzingis
Read this and I love it:
Knicks PG Brandon Jennings ripped the team's effort after Thursday night's loss to the Wizards.
After falling behind by 27 points early, the Knicks had a 47-point fourth quarter but came up short during their 119-112 loss.
"We haven't been locking in well on the road," Jennings said, according to Marc Berman of the NY Post. "That's our big problem. If we want to be the team we think we are, we're going to have to lock in better on the road. We got to play 10 times harder. Teams play better when they're at home because they're feeling good.
"We're the Knicks," Jennings continued. "You have to know what's across your chest. There's a bigger bull's-eye on it. Everybody wants to beat us. It's a known national team. These are games we have to win. We should be disappointed. We can't just put together two quarters or try to come back in the fourth."
(theknicksblog.com)
I also like the idea of starting BJ and transitioning Rose to the JR Smith 6th man role.
Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. That ATL team has so many perimeter threats if Horn doesn't do something different, they'll run the Knicks out of MSG with their 3pt shooting.i definitely appreciate jennings' pass-first approach to the game, but i still like him coming off the bench creating for 2nd unit scorers. that's one of the problems. we don't have a whole lot of aggressive scorers on the bench. holiday, kuz and hernangomez can do it, as well as the Q, but they're not quite being aggressive enough. i like KP playing a lot of minutes with those guys, but then that discourages those other guys from being more aggressive. if jennings starts, then you've basically just got melo and KP taking all the shots. i like that rose is aggressive with his shot taking, despite a lot of the complaints about him being a ball-hog. cLee's getting a few shot attempts, he's just not knocking them down at the moment for whatever reason (i'm still suspecting a nagging injury or something like that).
this game against the wizards was a total bust. it was a game we really needed to win because we have 4 tough match-ups coming up. we came out slow and stagnant and threw up a bunch of bricks. we can chalk it up as the results of arriving in DC at 230 in the morning or whatever it was, but we still should've played like it really meant something, more desperate. we have to win at least 2 of the next 4. 3 of them are at home. let's hope our improved play at home continues over the next bunch of days, because we're going to need it. if we come out 1-3 over these games there are going to be some serious problems, the main one being the deep hole we'll have to climb out of.
Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. That ATL team has so many perimeter threats if Horn doesn't do something different, they'll run the Knicks out of MSG with their 3pt shooting.
Time for Hornacek to do something something different against a team with one of the best records in the NBA. Have Jennings start with Holiday and play Melo and KP as your front line. Bring Noah and DRose off the bench. Melo is better a better matchup against Milsap than Bazemore and Holiday being the better perimeter defender can guard Bazemore. CLee needs to step up, I agree with Horn that Jennings and Rose in the 4th against the Wiz was like lightning in a bottle that will get you the occasional offensive explosion we saw but it's not something you want on a permanent basis.
Howard is not the offensive threat Horford was, he's having a good year being a rim protector and doing his work on the boards but KP can guard him. I'm more worried about DH stopping KP but Yao when he was around showed DH can be handled by a skilled big man.most of that makes sense to me. i can see it as a legit argument. but do you really want KP defending dHoward? I don't know, man. that might turn out kind of ugly.
Howard is not the offensive threat Horford was, he's having a good year being a rim protector and doing his work on the boards but KP can guard him. I'm more worried about DH stopping KP but Yao when he was around showed DH can be handled by a skilled big man.
Zeller was like 9-10 against Howard and got under his skin all game. Howard got ejected with a flagrant 2 for throwing an elbow at Zeller late in the game, that was the ball game for the Hawks when he left the game.
We rank 20th in points allowed... and 21st in points scored. Our offense is equally bad.Why are we all discussing offence when we are losing on the defense side? why we see few minutes of excellent defense then they go back to poor defense?