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Clyde & The Pearl
Not trying to get into a dick swinging contest with you ronoranina, but I've forgotten more about BBall than you'll ever know.
Based on your philosphy when STAT was averaging 7 T O's a game (he's still over 4) he should have been benched. Nah I dont think so. Does Moz get into foul trouble a bit too much? Possibly? But. IMHO he's being targeted by the refs. Many of his foull calls are of the ticky tack variety. I've seen this kid develop. In preseason he had a problem with moving screens. Got coached up now you rarely see that called on him (when he actually plays). The only solution for this is to let him play and let the refs see he's game more, and coach him up.
As far as AR I thought it was shot selection? Funny that a coach that wants shots to go up in 7 secs or less has a problem with a players shot selection. The problem is AR doesnt have a midrange jumper of note. If he did he'd be playing. It doesnt matter that defensively he could lock down a bunch of small forwards in this league. It doesnt matter that if you get him closer to the rim his shooting % goes up DRASTICALLY. If he cant run the offense to COACHES liking he's benched.
Whats funny Gallo (although I admit he's improving) couldnt defend my 12 year old neice. But because he's the BEST SHOOTER our coach has ever seen he gets 35 mins a night. You wanna look at flaws? Lets look at Gallos. He's weak. Cant take it to the rim consistently. No handle. Cant defend. Cant shoot off the dribble. Has no left hand. Inside game is NON-EXISTENT. Yet coach extols his limited game. But offensively he fits what Mike D wants to do. Like I said in another post defense is 50% of basketball.
In the future when you come at me make sure its real. Nitpicking at a players flaws doesnt make that player totally useless to that team.
Basically we need a new coach...
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Well put post mentioning facts and logic of the Knicks early season.
Gallo wouldve developed alot better for this season if he was treated last season the same way 6.9 Shawn Williams is being treated into the rotation.
Gallo had the chance to be the Knicks deadly shooter off the bench last season developing his own style vs oponents bench-players mistakes and success.
C-Mozgov & PF-Anthony Randolph shouldve been tandem together the first day of our "training-camp" to work with each other in posting up down-low and defending the paint. The problem is Dantoni's (or rather Nash) offense never had a low-post player that can score with his back to the basket (Nash timing was always off with Shaq, under coach Dantoni, Porter, and Gentry). Our offensive-plays are always to wide-open which does clear the paint area for cutters & slashers to the hoop however, we dont have a great passer like "Nash" to hit an open cutter or slasher so Amare, Chandler, Gallo, and Fields have to dribble the ball through oponents to score in the paint. Something we do not want AR & Mozgov doing (puting the ball on the floor), this is why Mozgov & AR were force to take jump shots to show they can score too.
We have a Euro-League headcoach that is clueless of the 60 years of NBA & NCAA inside bigman game. This is why our 1990's USA Dream-Team with Ewing/ Karl Malone/ Mchale/ and Barkley beat every team by 40+ points.
No, dummy, I think they have to not be foul machines (which they are at this point) in order to play against bigs in the league.
Shit Williams is what, 6'9 and an average defender. But you don't hear me complaining about him and coach plays em because he doesn't foul guys incessantly. It helps that he can shoot too, but thas besides the point.
It's as I said the reason Moz and AR don't play is because of fouls and to's.
And, as others have pointed out more recently, AR is more facked because he can't shoot consistently.
Let's see if I can get you to understand from a different angle. If AR remained offensively challenged as he is w his bad shot selection and bad shooting, but he kept his to's low, understood the flow of the offense and could play good d & rebound w out fouling. I think Mike D would have no choice but to play him. Making sense??
AR is not there yet w respect to the above areas. If and when he can be trusted he'll play. Same for Moz..
P.S. in the future no-mater how well a posters argument or debate
with u are tempting for a response, u must remember how the poster
identify u (out of your character).
If a poster Identify u with negative name-calling, everything he/she writes
should become manute to disrespect not worthy of a response.
u responding back to the poster adding more negative (name-callin),
when u have so many other (positive) posters u can respond with
I like Ronoranina b.ball knowledge, but his character to insult people
when not face to face, insults his own character as "two-face"...
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