What's Wrong with the Knicks?

Chandler, Bibby, Lin, Davis, Novak, Harrellson, Shumpert, and Jordan, players are brand new, Melo, Balkman and Jefferies are relitivly new, Amare and Fields have only been here a year…

Douglas and Walker are the only two guys who have have been on the team for more than a season…

We are working to find a rotation that works, some chemistry…

Lin should not be the starting PG, but Melo should be running the PnR on O

i don’t think any of the blame is on the bench, here. i’ve been pleasantly surprised with bibby, who hasn’t been hitting many shots, but has been the only player remotely capable of controlling the pace of the game offensively. balkman has been giving it his all, bill walker looks out of shape as ever but has played solid d, iman looked good, novak’s jimmy looks as sweet as promised…

melo needs to call for the ball in the high post when the offense is at a stand still because he can score in so many ways from there, amar’e needs to set high screens and he needs to get on the ball handler if he doesn’t pass amar’e the ball because he needs to get the ball in motion early and often for us to control the game.

our bench isn’t exactly a “strength”, but the only reason we’re noticing that it isn’t is because melo and amar’e (and to some degree chandler) aren’t doing what it takes to take over the game.

aside, we just don’t look like we’re playing basketball.

chemistry, newness, system, X’s and O’s… all obviously in process. but while other teams in similar situations AT LEAST look energized, mobile, quick and aggressive, our guys look tentative, reluctant, passive and confused… and THIS is what’s killing us and making us doubt our coaching staff and the collection of players we’re working with.