duetta wrote:Knicks are developing a tendency to play down to the level of their opponents. It's not an uncommon tendency.
Monster game by RJ, solid game by Walker and Fournier. Randle needs to get his head out of his backside.
Walker may be playing too many minutes this early. Rose can play more.
IQ is still struggling but I have no doubt that he's hasn't lost the ability to shoot. He's just going through a bad patch at his point. We need to get him back playing well if only to restore his value as a trade asset.
Burks dribbles too much out there for my taste. That second team offense is not flowing at the moment. None of the 2nd team guards were attempting to get Obi any opportunities tonight.
Win is a win - and this was a game we needed to win given how beat up New Orleans is.
I disagree with the playing down part, to an extent.
The Knicks have been leading for almost every quarter they played, other than the game they lost. I'm not going to check and prove it - loosely, it seems the case. They've basically been playing with the lead or damn near.
And they've been doing this without really playing WELL.
I've seen this script before, but the Knicks were always on the other side of it. The clearly better team leads most of the game. The Knicks, or in this case now, the Knicks opponents, expend a lot of energy trying to make runs, only to run out of gas or get out-talented by a couple of baskets, and lose at the end.
The Knicks are that good team now. Who have a pretty decent amount of room for improvement, yet are still leading for most of the quarters and are 5-1.
Last year, the Knicks needed 90% of the team to meet or exceed their games, in order to have a chance to win. This year, 2 or 3 guys can be somewhat "off" and Knicks pretty much leading the game wire to wire.
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