Postgame: Kings 118, Knicks 114 (OT)
For you to vent while I punch out my recap.
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Embarassing! Why does jeffries take the last shot
CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH
by IB on Feb 9, 2010 10:47 PM EST via mobile reply actions
It's been a while
Since I’ve been this dejected about a Knick loss. This team is better than it played tonight (except Chandler).
The problem isn’t really the game but what it says about the future. There is no hope but a pipe dream at this point. Gallinari has shown flashes but, as of now, lacks the quickness to get to the basket and the finishing ability to consistently put it home. Wil played out of his mind tonight but it was an aberration, and largely came outside of the flow of an offense. This team has no real muscle up front (I’ve seen David Lee get pushed around enough in the last month for a lifetime) and no guard worth a damn. And no pick! Any hope for the future seems to me based on crossing your fingers that great players we didn’t draft will take the plunge and sign here, despite numerous better options when it comes to winning.
It might be that tomorrow I’ll feel better about the Chandler/Gallo/bit parts core. But right now I feel pretty empty inside.
on the point about lee
imagine how much better he’d look with a legitimate 5 in the post to help him out. the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter and overtime showed how badly he needs to not be the knicks’ center.
Sure
But it’s not as if Lee was playing guys who physically tower over him. He needs to be able to handle guys like Thompson and Brockman (maybe not Hawes) and he can’t. Part of that is that he gets absolutely no help, yes, of course. But part of it is that, despite all his tangible skills and talents, he seems to lack the lower body strength to hold his own against bruisers down low, especially at the end of games, when it matters most.
What I mean
By outside of the flow of the offense is that most of his points came in breaking down his defender one on one. And when Sac switched to a zone he couldn’t really do it any more. And when he tried he made a wonderful driving floater over three guys but that’s a ridiculous shot you don’t want players taking every possession. And you know what? No, he can’t score like did tonight every night. He can do that once every four or five games. Wil’s last ten:
2/9 – 35
2/6 – 6
2/5 – 19
2/3 – 15
1/31 – 27
1/30 – 13
1/28 – 14
1/26 – 20
1/24 – 9
1/22 – 28
I like Wil as a complementary player fine, and yes, D’Antoni absolutely shoudl have insisted they give him the ball tonight, but he’s not usually a scoring force, and his game tonight was absolutely an aberration.

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