SU stumbled across this story line this morning. I must admit it made me laugh out loud. Duh. Apparently, the statistics show that the major culprit is Derrick Rose who as the point guard (where the job description says you need to get others involved), he is rarely even passing the ball once he has it. More alarming as long-time SU subscriber T. Potter has pointed out in recent comments is that he only has 10 assists in 4 games. The stats show that the ball sticks when it goes to him – even more than when Melo touches it so you know we are in rarified territory here.
It’s still early and of course things will sort themselves out. SU likes that Hornacek has gone public with the statement. The game against the Bulls tonight will be a good test. Rose back home will get booed and no doubt will try extra hard to score even more (and pass less). As a fan, watching Melo and Rose take all the shots this year is unwatchable and of course another wasted season. But time to be patient. With Jeremy Lin out with a hamstring strain, SU needs to tune in to other games for a while.
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Rose is indeed a shoot first point guard. It worked for him before. Not convinced he can be other than the player he is.
On another note: is anyone buying the “Lebron as the underdog” commercials that are now running? Clever of course, but even in high school he never looked like “just a kid”!
Derrick Rose is living in the past… which is how Melo has been thinking his entire professional basketball career. Me first… and if i can’t take the shot then I guess i’ll pass next. Its hard enough to break Melo of this loooong habit. Now we have a 2nd star to follow the same abnormal course.
All the experts had the Knicks as a 50 win team. After 4 games they’ve been dumped. I liked the Noah and Rose pickups only because, what else are they going to do? They may end up being an awful team. But they are stuck as long as Carmelo Anthony is on the team. He’s expensive and makes all the players around him worse. This has pretty much always been the case.
I don’t know how good an executive Phil Jackson is. We do know that Donnie Walsh was a pretty good executive. And we know that both of their Knicks tenures were defined by ownership’s intervention to force-fit Carmelo Anthony into whatever plans they had in mind.
I was at the game against Houston on Wednesday. The Knicks issue is not getting Porzingis the ball – it is their defense. Houston had a wide open 3 or an open dunk off of similar pick and roll action every single time. If the subs didn’t play the 4th quarter, Houston would have scored 140 points. This was all ironic, because MIke D’Antoni coaches Houston.
Until Melo is gone, there is nothing to see here….
Fairly certain D’Antoni had that game circled on his calendar from when he took the Houston job…
I was at that game too. Apparently the Knicks entire coaching and scouting staff has never watched the Rockets play in the Harden era and couldn’t anticipate that they would have to defend Harden coming off a high screen. On the bright side, Cate Blanchett was the classiest person they have ever featured on the celebrity bench.
PG’s who don’t pass really need to be SG’s.
To give credit where credit is due, Rose had like 11 assists in their last win and 8 more against the Jazz which was a lot more competitive than some of their blowout losses. Hopefully he decides to keep that up and the Knicks also up their defense a bit.
In other news, it looks like the Jets should start playing for a high draft pick instead of trying for the playoffs.
Just saw that the Yankees may be pursuing Carlos Beltran. Please tell me I read this wrong.