but wanted to pretend so that he could at least get the team through this year. They’ve beaten the dead horse enough so now they’re giving up on him. That means it’s NateRob/ToneyD the rest of the year and/or Walsh hopes to bring in another PG by the deadline.

jeffries. initiating the success of our offense and our defense?? is it really possible??? can we trade this guy?

but TD.

i think that Nate has improved his game after the benching, and has become more than the chucker that he used to be.

i also think that duhon, once a competent PG and the only guy willing to run the pick and roll, is now useless in this new offense that runs through Lee at the top of the circle.

the only problem is that this process of teaching nate and phasing out duhon should have happened last year around this time. but what can we do now?

nate had 8 assists, but what the stats don’t show is that 5 of those assists were on made 3 pointers.

say what you will about nate’s pg capabilities, but dude can score. and one of his strongest abilities is finishing at the hoop. he made the defense collapse and that freed up shooters. duhon was pretty much allowed to waltz into the lane because he wasn’t a threat to make lay ups. that left defenders all up on gallinari et al. and thats why duhon made bizarre kick out lobs that were scarier than cross court passes through traffic.

d’antoni adapted, and made the team defensive-minded, to a certain degree. but now maybe he can teach them to open up the floor. and it starts with a pg who can attack. i just hope he doesn’t give up on this because duhon really sucks it.