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Originally Posted by HarlemToTheBronx

I feel good about this game.

Sidenote: Spiro Dedes is gonna take some getting used to.
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didnt this dude get in trouble w/ the law a while ago? lol smh
 
Originally Posted by pr0phecy718

Originally Posted by HarlemToTheBronx

I feel good about this game.

Sidenote: Spiro Dedes is gonna take some getting used to.
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didnt this dude get in trouble w/ the law a while ago? lol smh
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DUI, I believe. But we all know run ins with the law mean nothing to Dolan.
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Heads up. We need to vote Amare AND Melo into the all star game starting lineup over Lebron & KG this year. Time to get an early head start so tell everybody.
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Interesting answer to some of our struggles on offensive, not surprisingly, Melo as point-forward isn't that great of an idea. If you hate advanced stats, at least read the bolded.

2011-12 was supposed to be the big coming-out party for the Carmelo Anthony/Amar'e Stoudemire Knicks. Armed with Anthony for a (sort of) full season, and having added prized free agent Tyson Chandler to shore up what had been the NBA's eighth-worst defense in 2011, New York entered the season with hopes as high as they'd been since the days of Jeff Van Gundy, Allan Houston and Latrell Sprewell.

But, barely two weeks into the 2012 campaign, the Knicks have been mediocre at best. After Monday's games, N.Y. stood at 5-4 with a Simple Rating 5.7 points below the league average; aside from a signature win over Boston on Christmas Day, the Knicks' victories have come against a motley collection of opponents that are a combined 7-28 in this young season. To underscore their unspectacular play thus far: the Knicks currently rank 15th out of 30 clubs on both sides of the ball.

To be fair, a middle-of-the-road ranking actually represents something of a major stride by New York's defense, which placed 22nd a year ago. Using Regularized Adjusted Plus-Minus, here's how the team has improved defensively over the version Mike D'Antoni put on the court after acquiring Anthony last February:
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Player              Min  DRAPM      Player              Min  DRAPM------------------------------      ------------------------------Anthony             321   -0.4      Anthony             977   -1.1Chandler            303    1.9      Stoudemire          921   -2.7Fields              266   -0.3      Douglas             786   -1.0Stoudemire          254   -2.1      Fields              782   -1.1Douglas             233   -1.2      Sha. Williams       680   -1.6Walker              184    0.8      Billups             664   -2.1Harrellson          168   -0.1      Jeffries            463    1.1Shumpert            152   -1.0      Turiaf              344    1.8Bibby               117   -1.2      Carter              310    0.3Balkman              60   -0.1      Walker              272    0.9Novak                53   -1.6      Mason               237   -0.3Jordan               25   -0.6      She. Williams       198    0.2Jeffries             13    0.7      Brown                88   -0.5Lin                  11   -0.3      Balkman              18    0.0                                    Rautins               5   -1.1------------------------------      ------------------------------TOTAL              2160   -0.3      TOTAL              6745   -0.9
Adding Chandler and jettisoning Billups, in addition to apparent improvements by Anthony and Fields, have led to the Knicks' solid improvement at that end (cynics could also point out that six of New York's nine opponents rank 20th or worse in Offensive Rating, including the 30th-ranked Wizards, 29th-ranked Pistons, and two games against the 25th-ranked Bobcats).

But defense is not the reason the Knicks have disappointed so far this season. Instead, it's been a middling offense that, in its latest showing, sputtered to a 97.3 Offensive Rating against Charlotte's 28th-ranked D on Monday night.

New York did lose Stoudemire's services to an ankle injury for a pair of games, but even with Amar'e in the lineup the Knicks have been an unimpressive shell of the team that had the league's best schedule-adjusted offensive efficiency after the Anthony trade. What gives?

The main reason for the Knicks' offensive decline has been a drop-off in jump-shooting accuracy. Midrange shots (3-23 feet) that were being converted at a 38.5 percent clip are now falling only 30.4 percent of the time, the worst mark in the league. Notably, New York shooters are having to create more of those jumpers for themselves than a year ago–44.1 percent of N.Y.'s midrange FGs were assisted in 2011, a number that has dropped to 41.2 percent this season.

That downward trend in ball movement is part of a larger, more troubling characteristic of the 2012 Knicks–a serious lack of playmaking. They currently rank 21st in assisted FG percentage, and in the absence of injured PG Baron Davis, their primary setup man has been Anthony, whose 27.5 Assist% is the 4th-lowest team-leading mark in the league. It's been an admirable effort by Melo, long known as a ball-stopper, but ultimately he's miscast as a distributor.

Last year's Knicks utilized Anthony in much the same way he'd been deployed by Denver throughout his career, save for a large increase in 3-point attempts that coincided with a decrease in long 2-point jumpers. The result was some of Anthony's most productive play, including career highs in Offensive Rating, WARP, Win%, and league-adjusted Alternate Win Score.

Individually, Anthony has started 2012 even hotter, but the team has suffered with him playing the “point forward
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Good game so far, defense looks tough. Carmelo gotta relax and stop trying to be a one man show
 
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