No More Crawford Giving The Ball a Headache
Alan Hahn notes today something that will make Jamal Crawford doubters happy.
A lot of you have said you don’t want to watch Jamal Crawford and his dribble-show one-on-one And-1 display. I think it’s safe to say those days are over.
What you saw last season and most of the Isiah coaching era was the result of a thin playbook. By last season, a few Knick players told me they weren’t even running plays anymore. (As if we couldn’t tell). The Knicks would come out of timeouts and literally it was get Jamal the ball and get out of the way.
The D’Antoni philosophy, which Weber is trying to instruct over three days, is based on constant ball movement. When the ball stops, a shot must go up. It’s that simple. Pass and move, pass and move until there is a shot.
Again, Crawford can shoot, but we need to see him bounce off screens and not have him dribble 15 times in order to create his shot. He’s just not a lead guard in a winning situation, but he can fit a role on this team.
Defense? Well, that’s a whole different story.
