say your piece about tonight’s game in the comments, and i’ll copy it to the main page if i see fit.

are the knicks going to turn in to the 04 05 Giants? that meaning they play at the potential of there opponents? --hey, i’ll take that for this year, lol. as long as nyk get 40 wins im good… btw, how realistic is that??

The Knicks have troubles with interior defense. We all know that. And they have a bunch of players with some talents. They have no one that’s night in, night out dominant – except maybe Gallo might be able to get there.

To me it seems like the Knicks don’t ever look to feed the hot hand. If a guy like Gallo makes a couple of shots, you’d think that the next time down the court, Duhon or another teammate would be thinking about feeding him the ball in a place he can shoot it. But it’s like they just forget it – some random person shoots. I think any offense would look to get the highest percentage shot opportunity on any given time down the floor. You try to get the ball to your best shooter. Granted, Duhon does work with Lee on the pick and roll to get him the ball inside, and that’s usually a good bet. But if the other team starts taking that away, the ball moves around, but there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. If I was Duhon and saw Gallo burying threes in practice, and in the game you needed some points, I’d take it upon myself to get him the ball in a good position to shoot. Now it’s true that Gallo doesn’t seem to be moving without the ball much, but still. I remember how the pacers used to run all kinds of screens and try to get Reggie Miller the ball, because he was the best shooter on the team. But the Knicks play like they all have an equal chance to score on any possession. The truth is, they all have good nights and bad nights, and overall Gallo’s the best outside shooter. But they play like they’re all interchangable. I notice that a guy can be 4-5 from the floor in the first quarter and they don’t seem to make any effort to keep feeding that.

When they had Ewing, they would feed him in the post. If he missed his first three shots, did they stop feeding him? No way – the guy got at least 15 shots a night because everyone knew he could score in the post. I think they should be doing the same thing with Gallo. Get him 15 good, in rhythm shots a game, because he has a better chance than just about anyone on the team of hitting 10 of them.

I know this team will be defensively mediocre in the front court, but I think their defense has not been that terrible. I just think they need to be taking better shots. I think they should have been able to pull away in the 3rd quarter of this game. Then they could have weathered their slump in the 4th.

i remember seeing a serious leejection