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Shumpert is back, or back in the starting lineup at least. He hasn’t regained his old form from last season having fought back from the ACL tear. He’s starting at the three right now. The back court remains Jason Kidd and Raymond Felton.
Why is this?
The Knicks are almost completely healthy. What would your starting five be if they were all in shape and full strength/explosion?
I would have Felton at the one, Shumpert at the two, Wallace at the three, Melo at the four and Tyson at the five.
Okay Wallace at the three is stretching it, but Melo and Stat are better off not starting together, which brings me to this point:
Kidd is still starting because, although he is burning his candle at both ends with all these extra minutes we’d do better to use in the playoffs, he doesn’t turn the ball over. Melo is having an MVP year at the four, and so that leaves the three spot for Shumpert. Shumpert in my eyes is a two, but we don’t have another three because Smith and Novak are bench players, and Brewer has proven to have a busted jump shot.
I trust Woodson enough to figure out the rotations and chemistry. The Knicks are not a good rebounding team, and so if they’re to win consistently, they need to minimize turnovers. Stoudemire, despite being a huge factor these past 8 or so games, is a high turnover player.
I hope Kidd doesn’t get burned out before the playoffs arrive. We’ll need his playoff savvy when Felton needs a rest, Prigioni is not yet consistent enough still adjusting to the NBA game.
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It has been some time since a post of great length has been written here.
How are the Knicks doing? Still atop the Atlantic Divison, I see.
Brooklyn is right there, and Boston has won three in a row now that Rondo is out for the season.
Since Miami lost last night and the Knicks won, the Knicks are now just 1/2 games behind the Heat for first place in the Eastern Conference.
And we still don’t have our full team. Not until Camby and Rasheed Wallace return will we have all of our weapons at full clip.
Shumpert has returned to the lineup, but perhaps not to his previous form, which will take time on the court to regain from injury.
Felton is playing and is driving and dishing, that’s great to see, because Kidd and Prigioni, as much as I like them both, they don’t have that explosive quickness to get in the paint.
Work has been depressing and discouraging for me lately, but on the bright side the Knicks are playing well without having to rebound very much.
The Rudy Gay trade was surprising, but I understand it was mostly a financial decision. Memphis was kicking butt with that lineup. I know Gay and Z-Bo weren’t the best of teammates in terms of locker room, but they made it work. Now both will probably win less with their reconstructed teams.
I feel like we have not yet seen the full capabilities of the Knicks this year. I also wonder if Grunwald/Isiah will be tempted to make a move before next month’s trade deadline, perhaps get a backup center (K-Mart) or even a 4th string point guard (youthier).
Shout out to those who still read here. Saipian, Bilz, Edward, and anyone else…
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These BK / NYK games are always fun…
Shump’s garden debut of the 2012-2013 season should be a good one. Glad to see more penetration into the paint now that Shump is back. We need Raymond Felton back ASAP. The Knicks have been hard to watch lately.
Let’s go Knicks!
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Was watching Miami play the other night. I saw a small guard on the court named Coles. I thought, “Bimbo? Nah… Couldn’t be Bimbo, that was years ago.”
Even in this day and age (I bet Bimbo at some point played against current Knicks veterans Kidd and Camby) I was mistaken, there is another Cole on the Heat.
Anyway, not much going on in Knick land. The same franchise that once threw out a red carpet for Stoudemire now seems to throw his name around with the D League affiliate team and saw he won’t get burn and the coach even says he may never be 100% ever again. I’m not 100% please with the franchise we still have an asshole owner and Grunwald is too much of an Isiah puppet for my taste.
I just don’t know what this team will look like when everyone is healthy, or if that is even possible considering the age and the grind of an 82-game NBA season. The window is a year.
People say Amar’e must come off the bench to avoid disrupting the winning, well, how does Shumpert automatically gel with the team but Amar’e kills the momentum?
Camby fell onto Melo’s leg, now he’s hurt. That sucks. No one is talking about it.
How about the kid out in Houston who chose to enter the NBA draft despite having a fear of flying? He has refused to to play for the rocket’s d-league team. That’s an ugly, cancerous situation I’m glad Grunwald doesn’t have to deal with all that.
Copeland has been looking good, perhaps start Prigioni who is known to have great chemistry with Copeland on the screen and roll?
Novak seems an afterthought the way Copeland is hitting from outside. Did Grunwald overpay for Novak? If Novak can’t get an open look at a three he becomes irrelevant on the court with no other way to contribute to the game.
‘just bloggin’
someone should write a screenplay about Alan Hahn’s career to this point. Wow. Lucky mother f’er.
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Felton sprained his pinkie against the lakers and it showed.
The silver lining is that Camby got burn and showed he can help down the stretch. The communication between Camby and Melo wasn’t there, but I believe it can develop with more minutes for Camby. Camby’s presence definitely prevented easy points in the paint down the stretch.
With Felton questionable for tonight’s matchup against the Suns, I expect Prigioni and Kidd to step up their games. Smith is not a playmaker, he is a bad-shot-maker, so we need Kidd and Prigioni to setup their teammates and prevent this from becoming a 2-game losing streak.
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Check the above video to see what Melo thinks about playing with and without Amar’e. Melo also states his expectations for this team as far as winning the division and making it to the Eastern Conference Finals. I hope he’s right.
Speaking of Amar’e, however, he won’t play today, nor will Rasheed Wallace, who is out with a chronic stress reaction in his foot. Everyone else should play. We’ll need everyone else, this Timberwolves team just beat the OKC Thunder. They’ve got Kevin Love back and Ricky Rubio is coming off the bench, so I HOPE we can get a win and stop losing at home as has been the case the last two out of three at the garden.
The Knicks are old, and ocassionally slow. Also, Marcus Camby, who has not been a factor in Woodson’s system to this day, has plantar fasciitis.
The Knicks need big games from Felton (who was pure crap last outing) JR and Melo to have a chance tonight. Tyson Chandler must try to keep Kevin Love off the boards. Having Melo match up with Love would be a big size disadvantage, and with no Camby or Wallace, and the lack of defense from Novak and Copeland, it may be very hard to stop Kevin Love from getting a 20 and 20 game.
Well, time will tell…
Let’s go New York Knicks!
See you at the Garden.
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