In these dark days, I still find hope in the young core of Gallo, Douglas, and Hill (haven’t seen enough of Landry to form an opinion). Am starting to question Lee, Nate, and Wilson, although they certainly seemed to be more productive in previous seasons. Are they just in some type of funk? Is it the coaches not getting the most out of their players? Hmmm. Anyway, I’m a die-hard Knicks fan to the end and hope we’re at the bottom and it’s only going to get better from here…can’t get much worse.

If you have the opportunity, could you ask Chandler if he feels 100% physically or is he still recovering from the surgery.

You certainly show how the offense should work, but in reality . . .
As you set it up on the board, Duhon is mostly breaking to the left rather to the right, making Gallo and Chandler the weak side, and putting the key and Lee between him and Gallo and Chandler. Thus, the ball always goes outside to JJ or Harrington (where you set him up), or into Lee. Very predictable for the defenders. This makes Hughes, Harrington, or JJ the second go-to option every time if they can’t run the P and R with Lee. Given the shooting % of Al, JJ, and Hughes, it pays to double down on Lee as he rarely passes it out.

Two problems occur where you set up Gallo and Chandler on your board. Gallo always sets up, and I’m assuming this is not his choice, in the corner on the baseline with Chandler about ten feet away from him on the arc. When Gallo does get the ball and wants to make a move, as you said the baseline acts like a defender on him. So no baseline. Chandler always sets up so close that his man can easily double on Gallo. Chandler never moves far enough away for Gallo to pass to him without Chandler’s man being able to recover. Hence, a forced trey in a crowd for Gallo or Chandler. Very predictable, again.

The last two games they have tried to work out of that situation by having Chandler get the ball, and Gallo go toward Chandler for what I call a P and R, G and G option play depending whether Gallo has a shot, but the Knicks set sissy picks that my women’s team be embarrassed to set. After Gallo gets the ball, rather than rolling, Chandler stays so close to Gallo that Gallo, again, ends up double-teamed and Chandler is not rolling in a position to do anything with ball other than to be double-teamed by Gallo’s man. Very predictable again.

In both cases, they are failing to do what good teams do and what you indicated, get good spacing. Of course this is moot when Duhon consistently drives away from them to Al, Hughes or JJ’s side. We know what happens then; and even if they try, Gallo and Chandler are far away and automatically boxed out from getting offensive rebounds without crashing the boards. If they crash, their man releases and if Al or JJ miss, the break is on. Generally, Lee is the only Knick under the hoop with this set up.

A coach must adjust to his personnel. He doesn’t have the ponies right now. It is time to modify the system until he gets who he needs. If you do the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, that is the definition of . . .
Sorry to be so wordy, but I don’t have my slate.

lol

We get it, you go to knicks practices and have had conversations with Mike Dantoni. yaaaayyyyyyyyyyy

Lee and nate can veto

And he can’t take a contract back past 2010 unless it’s a player that fits into the mold of being available then.

he’s in a tough spot but i can’t see him standing pat. if the right deal comes along that fits under those parameters, then he will do it.

they still have to have fans come to games, and if it goes much more like this the place will be desolate after the holidays…