Knicks Vs. Wizards Recap: Jeremy Lin Goes Off, Washington Loses, 107-93

Whatever his shortcomings

essentially comes down to pick and roll execution. Good system or no, that something our players are simply mediocre at.

That’s really bad analysis. Yeah it’s your opinion and it’s wrong (with the exception of one thing). He didn’t do anything special today? What game are you watching? He just steamrolled over my Wiz and did it with flair.

Lin makes everybody around him better (just ask Chandler, Jeffries, Fields, Walker, and Novak). Wall at this stage does not. Lin has earned his teammates respect and belief.

The one thing you are right on is the “system”. I’m not talking about X and Os. I’m talking about the knucklehead syndrome that has plagued the Wiz for awhile now. It’s in the water. It’s in the culture. I know Ted is going to change it…but it doesn’t happen overnight.

How does Grunfeld draft a player like Vesely who can’t shoot the ball at all when our entire offensive system is predicated around shooting the jumper?

We so rarely get easy buckets. We aren’t driving to the rim, we aren’t getting to the foul line, we aren’t getting layups or a lot of putbacks. McGee’s a ridiculous asset we’re not effectively using. We never get him the ball with momentum towards the basket. It’s obscene how rarely we run the pick and roll.

From top to bottom, we need change. With Grunfeld’s contract up, hopefully Ted takes the opportunity to interview a number of other candidates and hear some diverse opinions about where we should be taking this team moving forward.

were the only thing right with the team tonight. Offensively, Wall limited Lin in the first and second period. Things started falling apart as the team fell into a hole. Offensively, it was a solid game. Wall had the better of the match-up through the first half, but aside from Booker, he had no support. I suspect Wall and the Wizards would look much better if they had a smart veteran like Chandler guarding the paint and killing it on the high screen and pick-and-roll.

Lin’s success had almost nothing to do with Wall. IMHO the one positive of this game is John continued to get better which is all that matters at this point. Watching tonight I wouldnt take Lin over Wall in a million years.

That said, tonight was a pile-driver of a loss. One of those nights where you can’t scapegoat anyone no matter how hard you might try, the team overall just SUCKS outside of Wall and to a nice extent Booker.

so would a guy like Harrison Barnes. Or Jeremy Lamb, or Kidd-Gilchrist, or Doron Lamb, or Sullinger. We just have so many needs right now, that we really need two picks at the top of this year’s draft in order to really get things rolling in the right direction. A new GM could be added to that list as well.

He will look great in a Bobcat uniform.

I may break something lol. It’s just beyond stupidity IMO.

He doesn’t have the upside that Wall does. But, for one night, he played the better game. Wall simply got no help from his teammates.

You forgot Yi Jianlian … and Pech….heck, bring back CJ. Teach Javale how to play real post up D.

for some mid first rounders. Then we can draft Harrison barnes and jeremy lamb and actually score.

It all came down to who was able to execute on offense. New York could (mostly because of Lin). We could not. because John has no help.

They’re our “high iq” players btw

Durn autocorrect!

and if someone wants to buy a ticket for $.25 outside the arena he should thank them.

do you think any of those coached up fundamentally sound players are going to be lottery picks? Not in this trashy college basketball enviroment, the lottery picks are the players with tremendous talent and two years of college coaching tops…which equal lack of fundamentals. Meanwhile, we will keep sucking and Ted will stay the course with these “clueless but gifted” players. Our most sound basketball player is a 4 year player everyone said we drafted to high. (booker).

I agree with everything you said (and would throw in too the wasted trade of our lottery pick in 2009). But, in fairness to Ernie, we have to concede that Booker was a very good selection.

but since he joined the Wizards:

Trading the Devin Harris pick, Stackhouse and Laettner contracts for Antawn Jamison.
Signing Gilbert Arenas the first time (not the extension).
Trading Kwame Brown and Laron Profit for Caron Butler.
Not matching the Knicks on Jeffries post-rookie contract.
Not matching the Larry Hughes Cavs offer, and instead dealing for Butler.
Finding Blatche in the 2nd round.
Signing Stevenson for the veteran minimum in his first year (that was a steal).
Hinrich wasn’t a bad pick-up either for the price and for a few months rental. What he’s gotten in exchange so far — Crawford, Seraphin — has basically been a wash up to this point (not a ton of production, but the cost was effectively nothing).

The problems have always crept in when its the picture when it has involved the SECOND contract extensions — Arenas, Blatche, even DS-2.

The #5 pick is bad, especially in hindsight.

His drafts haven’t been great, but I’m not going to beat a GM up for whiffing in the middle to late part of the first round.

EG’s instincts were definitely right in going after Tom Thibodeau — although I’m not so sure that he could have made Arenas and Jamison into a defensive team.

Overall he has done a lot of things right — just not lately. That’s why his contract probably won’t get renewed.

it’s just how the team is.

You must think that russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose aren’t great point guards either right?? And if you watch the offense, the ball isn’t in his hands a lot of the time, he usually passes to the wings and watches them go to work. The PnRs are ineffective because we don’t set good screens, and we don’t space the floor so the middle of the floor is clogged because guys like Ves, Book, and even Singleton are real threats to knock down an open shot yet.

You don’t average 8 assists for your career without having court vision. The NBA is changing though, a true point guard isn’t only in the mold of a Steve Nash or Jason Kidd.

but my man is jacked, total nba body and he can really shoot. Immediate impact player for us, very safe pick imo

the coaches job is to find the balance

of course it will be better with stoudemare for sure and hopefully with anthony

The Knicks best version is where STAT goes all MVP on people’s asses. I’m not a Melodramatic fan, he’s a system breaker. Yes he’s all-league good, but he can’t sustain that into a championship. The ultimate ball movement and quick score system in the league got killed the day melo walked into town.

maybe i will pay someone to take my tickets, break the 1cent barrier

Another bright side is that JaVale is playing so poorly, nobody’s giving him 10Mil+ next year. So we could entertain keeping him for less than that, which is probably what he’s worth. The negative side is that McGee might just pull a dunce like Nick and sign for the minimum…meaning we suffer through another year of heartless, don’t-care-about-the-Wizards play from that situation.

It is also worth pointing out that the height of JaVale’s value for us was probably last year, right before the draft, when Ernie decided to…have faith in his upside? Sorry, Ern, but…we need someone else to evaluate the next draft’s talent and trade options.

After Lin got to the basket a couple times Wall started going under the screen. McGee for some reason doesn’t like to set picks and doesn’t like to defend them. There were plenty of times when Lin was beat by Wall and Chandler recovered or as a defensive unit they clogged the paint, I can understand trying to mix it up because it throw’s the penetrator off balance, because sooner or later the guard will pull up and hit shot’s. I think Lin has proven he can hit shot’s or else he wouldn’t be averaging 20+ points a game over the last three starts. Also Greg Anthony is right they play like they don’t like each other.

we need shooters terribly