Knicks' defensive stats at midpoint of season

[stuporman]

The switching is really overdone. I understand the philosophy of having all these versatile players who can switch if needed and still not give up easy shots. Although when a team always switches it winds up resulting in driving layups.

It's a very good thing, defensively versatile players, made bad because of poor usage, in constantly switching.

[can o peas]

LOL.

http://www.theknicksblog.com/2011/01/25 ... -midpoint/

Somebody is reading the blog.

As far as defense goes, I go by defensive rating, a cumulative metric that is compiled by basketball-reference.com.

Currently the Knicks are 23rd, which is a far cry from where they need to be, which is around 15th or better.

They have the Knicks 20th in their all around defensive category.
The Knicks are 15th in the very popular (and overused) opponents true shooting percentage.
Not surprisingly the Knicks are 26th in defensive rebounding rate
Because of Gallo’s charges and team blocks, the Knicks are in the top 5 of defensive plays made.

did you mean "somebody is reading the forum"? cause towelie's post was at 2:55 and tkb's was at 3:46.

anyway, the most annoying thing about our defense is how many easy points off of offensive rebounds we allow. it sucks to play good defense for a whole possession, force a missed shot, only to allow an offensive rebound that results in an easy lay-in right underneath the basket. it happens way too often.

[panthermark]

Bulls fan here...

Part of it is the style of play....
Part of it is the players themselves.

If you are constantly help defending, and going for highlight real blocks......you leave yourself open for the opposing team to get offensive rebounds. Same goes for blocking shots out of bounds.

Does your defense funnel teams into a particular shot blocker?

Knicks run at a fast pace....so the type of C that you need will be pretty hard to come by. I would say that Tyson Chandler makes more sense (over SammyD)...simply because of foot speed (on offense).

It seems like you are running into the problem that the Suns had (when they signed Shaq). That big post defender on D does not mesh with the up and down flow on O.

Murph would fit more on offense, and would help the boards....but he won't help the defense (outside of grabbing defensive rebounds).