The 2011 New York Knicks: The Rebirth

[ehh]

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I look forward to the day when D'Antoni is no longer our head coach.

[CMH]

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This team is getting closer to late last season for me: unwatchable. Just more of the same.

[ehh]

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Tonight should be enough evidence to quiet any fool who thought starting Amare at the 5 was even an option. The defense tonight has been as bad or worse than it was over the last few seasons.

Mozgov has fallen out of the rotation, I don't know if AR isn't fully healthy yet or Mike is just playing headgames with another young player and without Turiaf tonight it's just pathetic.

To top it all off, I have no faith in D'Antoni being able to get a team like this over the hump.

[ehh]

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And a 15-0 run! What a ****ing horrible charge call on Gallo.

[Vast]

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Damn man we were soo close tonight. Damn 3 pointers were not falling!!

They're not running the pick and roll enough! WTF?

[bigeastbumrush]

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We'll NEVER, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER win without DEFENSE.

LMAO...D'Antoni AGAIN draws up a 3-point play for Amare.

I don't care if he made it...THAT'S PATHETIC. He's a joke of a head coach.

What's that 3 or 4 games where he's done that.

[NYJets]

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How bad is Turiaf hurt? We need him. And you would think the one positive to losing him is getting Mozgov and Randolph minutes, but they got 10 minutes combined.

[ehh]

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Turiaf should play next game.

[Bornindamecca]

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Anybody else have a boiling hatred for Mike D'Antoni right now?

[randombrother]

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Anybody else have a boiling hatred for Mike D'Antoni right now?

Getting very close to. But honestly don't know who could run this squad any better. Most coaches are gonna look for SOMETHING big inside and while Turiaf is a scrapper I don't know if he'll fill the bill for what a more conventional head coach is looking for. Unfortunately the make-up of this team fits D'Antoni and D'Antoni alone. Just the way it is.

[BaselineBakes]

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Was at the game and couldn't help but chuckle every time the defense chant started up, one side of the crowd should chant defense and the other side should say please.

All that aside one of the best atmospheres @ a Knick game I've ever been to from start to finish except that atrocious stretch in the third. The comeback was very exciting and David Lee got a great ovation and tribute.

[bigfnjoe96]

The new roster is really showing itself right now. There's no spacing on the floor. The offense is to predictable. Too much standing around waiting for the ball. It's all about 3's please.

I know it's still early, but they better get it together soon. I'd be surprised if we beat the wolves tonight the way were playing.

Also can D'Antoni settle on a rotation already. This shuffling of players is getting ridiculous & doesn't help the confidence of his players

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[Jeffx]

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I look forward to the day when D'Antoni is no longer our head coach.

Co-sign. I've been saying it for months - this dude is a fraud of a coach with his 'sissyball' style. You live by the 3-point shot, you die by it.

[Vast]

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The offense wasn't the problem. They scored 117 points. It was defense. And you have to blame D'Antoni for that.
We gave up more than 50% of the points in the paint.

Why didn't he have Mozgov in trying to block shots or A. Randolph to increase the defensive presence in the post??

I just SMH man.

[ehh]

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It's both.

As a lot of the beat writers have been saying the last couple games - Gallo and Amare do not look comfortable in the offense. It is so insanely simplistic and every single game we go through the lull of being nothing but a team of jumpshooters and every single game that we're in and lose that plays a huge role. As a whole we are terrible at protecting the basketball. A lot of stupid, unforced turnovers.

Amare is pretty much going 1-on-4 at minimum in most cases (it's a small miracle he's putting up the numbers he is right now) and is a turnover machine. Breen and Tripuka were discussing it last night, when Amare gets the ball there is zero movement from other players. Granted you want to give him space, you can still relocate on the perimeter to give Amare another option when he puts the ball on the floor.

Defensively, little needs to be said. If we played D like they did last night on my friggen HS team the entire team would have been benched and our coach would have gone through his allotment of timeouts by halftime. Yes, we're small and have no real presence inside defensively but last night was just horrific, people constantly turning their heads and losing sight of their man. Just terrible fundamental defense, no mental toughness, no accountability.