K P 6 wrote:Greenie wrote:K P 6 wrote:I agree, people underestimate how good Lebron makes teams. I know Irving is a great player. His offensive skills are great. However that team is going nowhere with those ISO tendencies. Their problem is not even talent. Its style of play.
That style of play won a championship.
Golden state went and got the best iso scorer in the game to close.
What are you even talking about right now?
lmao Greenie cmon man. I know you watched the games. What am I talking about? You can put all stars on a team and they wont mesh. Put all stars on a team and they play the right way and share they are dangerous. This is what I'm talking about...
GSW 147 assist
CLE 108 assist
through 5 games. Speaks for itself. Like Kevin Mchale said. What makes GSW good is that they play D and share the ball. You can put all the talent on the floor if they dont play the right way they wont win. Cle did one on one almost every time down its frustrating. You cant beat great teams like that. Same reason why Boston lacks talent and won 50. Same reason why Spurs are good every year. Same reason why Washington went on a tear. Sharing the ball and continuity is without a doubt very important in winning.
Knicks looked great on paper but we aint share crap!!! That and defense was our down fall.
Did KD have some all world ISO pull ups. Sure. But KD played the most off ball of his life and had his best season to date because of it.
I don't agree with this. I actually think the iso strategy could have worked, and it did work---last year. I think there was a bigger issue with Cleveland this year. Their defense was "turrible."
I saw the blueprint with San Antonio during the first half of the SA-GS series. Get an elite iso scorer (Kawhi), get a really strong defense, and a secondary scorer who lives off the shots that defenses love to give up. Obviously, some things went wrong---Kawhi getting hurt, LMA not living up to his rep, and other stuff. I don't think you can plan to out-pass, out-3 GS. I think the best way is to get the game ugly, limit possessions so your iso scorer can go to work and limit the possessions their stars get to work. And minimize transition opportunities. Back up that ugliness with some great defense.
It worked a little last year with Cleveland. They made the game ugly. They had Kyrie Irving and Lebron and people hunting for Curry isos, even in the halfcourt. They exposed a weakness in GS. When the game is ugly, the only one who could break down the defense, was Steph Curry. I think KD brought that 2nd iso scorer to GS, and the type of guy to make Lebron work.
Not to say the Knicks don't need to share---we do need to share. HOWEVER, there are times when a game gets really ugly, and things are not happening, and our sets are getting destroyed by top defenders, and we need a guy to take the shot, with confidence. I don't want that guy iso-ing over and over again, obviously, but he'll be needed. I do think that KG, the big man defender with range and intensity, was the most important member of the Celtics. But KG needed Pierce too. And Pierce would be just a loser without KG.
