You create a system to match your players, you don't try to force your players to fit a system. We made this mistake with Dantoni (SSOL) and now again with JAX (Triangle).
It's basic coaching 101... Evaluate players and assess their skills and talents, what they can and cannot do, and then create a system that maximizes their strengths while masking their flaws.
Sure, in time, you can mold your players to fit your system and then look for guys to play those parts...
Just incredible... For basically a decade... We stubbornly try to do what should never be attempted.
Oh, and we still haven't grabbed a PG in the last decade. Geez.
Melo was good last night but defenses go out of their way to make anybody else beat them in the 4th... KP, as another poster wrote, hasn't shown to be an Inpactful 4th Q player... Calderon is a ghost come the 4th...
Amazing to say it... The only player who has shown even the slightest propensity to step up when game is hanging in the balance is Affalo... But this is too inconsistent to rely on.
Truth is: Galloway, Grant, Thomas, and Williams are they key X factors... Knicks are an average to above average team when 2 of those 4 are clicking on any given night... And when 1 of them is making plays in the 4th...
If those 4 are non-factors, as they've pretty much been the last 3 weeks... We are a bad, bottom feeder team.
Defenses double Melo and force him to pass... How do we score then? There have been moments we can go to Lopez or Affalo in the post... But not often enough. KP usually has nothing left by this time... What are the other options?
I blame Melo, as many do to... For not "closing" games. But he has little left in the tank and he is clearly the focus of our opponent... We all need a little help from our friends.
This is why LT and DW and JG need to play at least 20 minutes a game. We need their offense late in games.
