He took the words right out of my mouth when he said that. WTF were we watching last night? This is beyond time to gel. The ball went to Melo or Amare and they Iso'd. There was NO BALL MOVEMENT. TO much Isolation, no body movements. No offensive sets. Amare looked lost. Melo tried to shoulder too much. Chandler was a NO FACTOR. The offense looked elementary.
Even Reggie said like its clear they don't have any offensive chemistry. Run some BASIC basketball sets. backdoor screens. Down screens..Dantoni is a freaking Idiot. :barf:
It's amazing how we are just not a fundamentally sound team. Mike D never stresses fundamentals. He hopes that a players talent will just get him over the hump, meaning he'd rather have someone who just makes lights out 3's and has amazing court vision run his team than him actually running set plays and adjusting in the game.
I haven't liked this guy from day one, but the Knicks have had their good and bad stretches.
Right now we are seeing how bad his teams are without Steve Nash running the point, they are terrible.
His offense is stagnant without a pure PG.
Douglas is not a PG, he is a small tweener who is really a small 2 guard Jason Terry type.
Shumpert and Davis couldn't be healthy any sooner.
I never see any one passing to Chandler on pick and rolls, and why is Amare not picking and rolling anymore?
Why doesn't Douglas come off screens like Ray Allen and pop a three of a screen? Why don't we post up Amare more often instead of having him camp 20 feet from the hoop? He can't ball handle and is missing the mid range so it would make sense.
Too many questions.
I was calling for Mike D to be fired back when we had a crappy team. Then Amare came and we would have won more games. Then Melo came and the offense changed entirely.
Now we have a solid team. No excuses.
I don't care if Douglas sucks at PG....you can bring in Jeremy Lin who has better court vision. You can stop playing Fields so many minutes and play Walker more. You can STOP playing Amare at Center and use Harrelson and Jerome Jordan at the 5 and keep Amare at the 4 unless every big man is hurt. You can have your team attack the boards more instead of always running back for transition defense. All it takes is having Tyson or Fields always attacking the hoop for offensive rebounds then send everyone back, is it that hard?
How are we getting outrebounded with Douglas who is a good rebounder for a PG, Fields who is one of the best rebounders at SG, Melo who averages 6+ rebounds a game, Amare averages 8+ and Tyson averaged 10 rebounds a game last year????? Walker is also a good rebounder, Balkman is a good rebounder....why are we getting outrebounded?
Because Mike D's style makes us jack up shots then run back for defense, we don't focus on getting high percentage shots and getting rebounds. It's sickening.
The "system" only looks good when u have a good distributing PG and everyone hitting their shots.