T-Mobile Player of the Week- 1/26/10

by Seth on Jan 26, 2010 1:28 PM EST in T-Mobile Player of the Week

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Yikes. This is a tough one. In two games since the last player of the week post, the Knicks gave in to the superior Lakers and suffered a public emasculation of biblical proportions against the Mavericks. Though he might not have been the best performer of the week, I'm gonna pick Jordan Hill as this week's lone bright spot. The big fella is finally starting to get some minutes in Mike D'Antoni's short rotation.

In 11 minutes against the Lakers, Hill was all over the offensive glass, dropping 8 points and 7 boards, and going toe-to-toe ably with Pau Gasol.

In 14 minutes against the Mavericks, Jordan was just about the only Knick to shoot decently, scoring 6 points on 3-5 shooting.

It was a bad week for the team, but Jordan Hill finally got some burn. Hopefully, there's more to come.

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your guy seems to be doing well in his limited mins; why cant he get more burn on a bad team?

"Oooohhh, cat in the wall, eh? Now you're talkin' my language."

by TheMoon on Jan 26, 2010 3:00 PM EST reply actions

Couple of reasons

One, D’antoni doesn’t like trusting rookies and living with their mistakes,
Two, He’s got David Lee / Al Harrington / Jeffries ahead of him and those guys have been valuable to the Knicks this season.

by fuhry on Jan 26, 2010 3:55 PM EST up reply actions

hmmm. that sucks. maybe you can boost his mins up to 14 though by playing jeffries a couple minutes less

and playing big al as small forward for 10 min/game? and after the deadline, if jeffries cant be moved, tell him to fill out an application at the apple store?

"Oooohhh, cat in the wall, eh? Now you're talkin' my language."

by TheMoon on Jan 27, 2010 1:24 AM EST up reply actions

sounds like my man tom coughlin lol

but its true.. Ive read that Dantoni has had the speculation that his team could be losing their legs recently.. i believe thats why we are seeing a change in the rotation w/ hill appearances and some sprankling of TD.

shows that dantoni isnt as hard headed as we claim….or that he makes adjustments to his gameplanning.. either way. i like the playing time from the youngsters.

sadly enough…its time to deal jeffries along with one more to create space and to give hill more minutes.

by semsemma on Jan 26, 2010 4:04 PM EST reply actions

no, he is, but thats how it goes

Some of the frustration is not that he doesn’t make adjustments, its how long he waits to make the adjustments.

"you're the Rod Thorn in my Chris Bosh side."

by Chris Child's Fist on Jan 26, 2010 4:53 PM EST up reply actions

Two out of three...

I certainly agree with Lee and to a lesser extent Jeffries being valuable… but I’m not sold on Harrington’s value-added on the year. I know the reasons have been chatted about on here frequently, so I’ll skip that part. ;-)

by Zhantee on Jan 26, 2010 4:06 PM EST reply actions