Posting and Toasting - Knicks at Wizards- 3/1/13~https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/29802/posting_fave.png2013-03-01T22:50:10-05:00http://www.postingandtoasting.com/rss/stream/38189152013-03-01T22:50:10-05:002013-03-01T22:50:10-05:00Recap: Knicks 96, Wizards 88
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<p>Not quite PAYBACK, but a solid road win nonetheless.</p> <p>I don't know if I'd call that a revenge win or anything, but the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Knicks</a> did take care of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.bulletsforever.com/">Wizards</a> on the road tonight, paying them back for the ugliness in early February. The win had a lot of the same tides as that loss a few weeks ago, including a third-quarter run that seemed to have the Knicks in control before they collapsed again, squandering an 11-point lead. They dominated the fourth, though, pulling back ahead on a questionable goaltend call (and follow-up technical) on <span>John Wall</span>, then widening the gap behind a couple big three-pointers, some Raymond Felton drives, and a whole bunch of stops. As BJabs pointed out, New York made up for a ten-point third-quarter margin by winning the fourth 23-11.</p>
<p>Quick notes:</p>
<p>- Hard to argue with the fourth quarter defensive stats-- the Zards shot 3-17 and committed six turnovers-- but most everything before that was pretty gross. Nothing unusual. Just a lot of random-ass doubling, poor help rotations, and sluggishness in transition. Wall got his 16 and <span>Bradley Beal</span> scored a career-high 29, including 12 in the third quarter. The Knicks gave those two so, so many open looks, especially in transition.</p>
<p>- New York made a couple of big runs to close the first (8-2) and second (11-3) quarters. Both included Melo passing really well, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>- <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> fell just short of another double-digit free throw game (8-9) and had an exceedingly streaky evening from the field. Early on, he seemed to miss all his open looks off the catch and drain only the toughest of his attempts. Then he started cookin' a pot of soup with three straight jumpers to begin the second half only to have <span>Trevor Ariza</span> check in and spit in said soup. Ariza got up in his business to generate some misses, a couple turnovers, and a lot of creepily smiley trash talk (or hey, maybe they were having a totally amicable conversation and I'm just assuming!). Melo, though, got the last laugh-- or whatever the unit of smiley trash talk is-- with a huge three to put the Knicks up five just before the two-minute mark. Ariza went on to fumble a pass out of bounds on a crucial Washington possession.</p>
<p>- <span>Raymond Felton's</span> offensive performance was my favorite of the night. He missed just a few bad pull-up jumpers and spent most of his time veering around picks to finish tough attempts near the rim. He got some hiiiiigh-arcing shots to drop, including the floater that put the Knicks up six with 32 seconds to go. Felton, to my eye, has much more success getting to the rim when he takes a circuitous route or at least one sharp turn. I don't judge him to be especially fast, but he makes such nimble changes of direction. Rounded ones, too. He doesn't zig-zag, but makes these sorta rapid pivots on the run that can lose pretty much anybody. I love that little penguin. Always will.</p>
<p>- <span>Tyson Chandler</span> didn't get the ball much save for one VISCOUS first quarter dunk, grabbed barely over a third as many rebounds as he did in the previous game, and got caught helping off <span>Emeka Okafor</span> a few times. He mostly made great defensive plays, but the Wizards seemed to expect his traps.</p>
<p>- I'm sad that this has become the usual for <span>Jason Kidd</span>, but...it was the usual. He came off the bench this time, but even with a slight change of scenery, hideously bricked four open weak-side threes, redeeming himself only somewhat with a couple savvy defensive plays and the usual competent positioning/swing-passing. <span>Mike Woodson</span> really let Kidd stick around in the fourth quarter, but we never saw the other shoe drop. Just a couple missed jumpers and serial turnstile impressions as Beal shook free.</p>
<p>- <span>James White</span> started and did, by my count, one positive thing in ten minutes: Made a nice strip, raced coast-to-coast, and air-balled a layup. He also traveled on a drive and bricked a long corner two. He's just got no idea where he's supposed to be and when he's supposed to attack. With both him and the similarly spacing-challenged <span>Iman Shumpert</span> were out there, shit got unseemly. Knicks were practically defending one another.</p>
<p>- By the way, it appears Kidd and White got swapped because <span>Pablo Prigioni</span> had to sit with back spasms and Woodson felt he needed Kidd as a back-up one.</p>
<p>- Shump played okay. I feel like he's getting just as many deflections and strips as he did last year, but just has bad luck keeping them in bounds. He opened the game looking almost exclusively to pass, and did so with decent success. His timing wasn't the best, but he make three or four productive entry feeds to Amar'e Stoudemire and Chandler. Shump didn't participate in the fourth quarter until the final minute or two, which felt a little late, but it's not like he was shutting anyone down before that. Beal blew right by him a couple times when he gambled.</p>
<p>- Whoa, <span>J.R. Smith</span> had TWELVE rebounds!? I knew he was pullin' them down, but goddamn, J.R. Good work. J.R. did a great job driving and cutting to the rim in the first quarter, then settled for more and more jumpers-- with varying success- as the game went on. He did sink a pretty big three to put New York up four in the fourth.</p>
<p>- <span>Steve Novak</span> hit a corner three and a hysterical pull-up two off the glass, but good GOD was his defensive positioning bad.</p>
<p>- Amar'e Stoudemire had some shaky stretches-- including a few of those predictable turnovers where he gets himself cornered and just surrenders the ball to a double team-- but finished with 12 points on a bunch of beautiful back-to-the-basket moves. It used to be so frustrating to watch him jump directly into defenders, so it's been amazing to watch him cover like ten feet of ground and get right to the rim by grindin' and windin' instead of making straight approaches. Would be nice if he got that jumper to fall a little more regularly, though it seemed like he was pulling up from a bit outside his range (and the repeated front-rim landings tended to agree).</p>
<p>- No <span>Kenyon Martin</span>.</p>
<p>That's all. Pretty solid road victory, which makes it a quiet three straight wins. To <strike>Miami</strike> New York they go to face the Heat!</p>
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<p>Three straight!</p> <p>Once again, not the most convincing of wins, but the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Knicks</a> made a couple big runs to neutralize their own poor defense and kiiiinda get revenge against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.bulletsforever.com/">Wizards</a> in Washington. <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> had a somewhat inefficient 30 while <span>Raymond Felton</span>, attacking plenty over pick-and-rolls, had the offensive performance of the night with 22 on 18 shots.</p>
<p>Short recap coming soon.</p>
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<p>The Knicks play the Wizards in D.C.</p> <p>Good evening! It's almost game time, and we have a bit of news:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p><span>James White</span> will start in place of Kidd tonight.</p>— Chris Herring (@HerringWSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerringWSJ/status/307621606581215234">March 1, 2013</a> </blockquote>
<p><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Interesting. Match-up wise, I imagine White will take <span>Martell Webster</span> and <span>Iman Shumpert</span> will take either <span>John Wall</span> or <span>Bradley Beal</span> (leaving the other to light up <span>Raymond Felton</span>. Why the change? It's not just the shooting slump, or at least that's what Woodson says:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p>Woodson said he wants to put Kidd as the primary ball handler more often, & that bringing him off the bench accomplishes that</p>— Chris Herring (@HerringWSJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerringWSJ/status/307623109211594754">March 1, 2013</a> </blockquote>
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<p>That's a little weird and I wonder if it marginalizes <span>Pablo Prigioni</span> somehow. I hope not. We'll see. No word on Nene yet, incidentally. At least not that I've seen.</p>
<p>Anyway, here's your game thread. Here's <a href="http://www.bulletsforever.com" target="_blank">Bullets Forever</a>. Please don't post large photos, .gifs or links to illegal streams in the thread. Get your revenge, <a href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Knicks</a>!</p>
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<p>The Knicks play in Washington at 7 PM.</p> <p>Hello! <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.postingandtoasting.com/">Knicks</a>-<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.bulletsforever.com/">Wizards</a> is a few hours away. This, the Knicks tell us, is a revenge game. The Wizards embarrassed the Knicks in early February-- I was there and can confirm it sucked-- by torching them in transition, hitting an absurd number of threes, and encouraging an awful shooting display on the other end. Now, the Wizards aren't bad anymore-- they've joined the top ranks of the league defensively and finished a tough February schedule 7-5. The Knicks feel very strongly that they should beat (and should have beaten) them, though, so we're <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/tear_down_that_wall_IKHrrEr7hCcP8CkKO89r7J?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Knicks">seeing lines like this</a>:</p>
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<p>"I’m not thinking about Miami — there’s just one game on our minds, the Wizards,’’ <span>Carmelo Anthony</span> said. "That last time down there, we felt we should’ve won. So it’s a payback game.’’</p>
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<p>In that last game, <span>John Wall</span> carved up New York's perimeter defense like so many before and after him while Washington as a team hit 11 of 20 three-pointers. The first thing is going to happen again if the Knicks don't tighten up their pick-and-roll coverage (something they have done recently, so that's somewhat promising). The second thing isn't likely to recur, but <span>Martell Webster</span> and the like do need to get closed out a bit better, and this time <span>Bradley Beal</span> will be available. He's been on a tear and has all the attributes necessary to kill New York. Nene, who kinda cleaned up inside in that last game,<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bulletsforever.com/2013/3/1/4044156/nene-injury-wizards-big-man-a-game-time-decision-vs-knicks"> is a game-time decision</a>.</p>
<p>On the other end, we have to assume from recent trends that New York won't shoot well from outside, so they've gotta keep pushing for free throws and tall-folk touches around the rim.</p>
<p>So, let's see how vengeful these Knicks can get. 7 PM is the time to do that. There'll be a game thread for yelling. See you then and there.</p>
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