Game Thread GAME# 25: KNICKS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 12, 2015 - SATURDAY, 7:00 PM (PST), CSNNW

[SIeepwalker]

Just watched the replay, Leonard is flat out awful
Let their guy shoot wide open all night, almost no contribution on O.
I'd rather have Vonleh out there.

 

[Tunchi]

Just watched the replay, Leonard is flat out awful
Let their guy shoot wide open all night, almost no contribution on O.
I'd rather have Vonleh out there.

Their both awful but I feel ya vonleh is the lesser of two evils

 

[riverman]

I only saw the last 47 seconds of this game and we were jobbed by the refs...Melo lowered his shoulder and knocked Plumlee down...should have been our ball but those free throws killed us. That being said...Dame was incredible getting fouled on the 3 attempt and missed the game winner by a half inch of rim....I thought the good guys played well. Leonard is slumping badly..I don't think he likes coming off the bench.

 

[THE HCP]

Tough loss. I actually thought we would win that game last night, especially without PORKzingas not doing anything. He was so bad yesterday, he got lost from the team bus to the locker room! Saw him wandering around like a lost kid and he asked for directions. Cool guy.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I only saw the last 47 seconds of this game and we were jobbed by the refs...Melo lowered his shoulder and knocked Plumlee down...should have been our ball but those free throws killed us. That being said...Dame was incredible getting fouled on the 3 attempt and missed the game winner by a half inch of rim....I thought the good guys played well. Leonard is slumping badly..I don't think he likes coming off the bench.

He was bad as a starter too, I don't think the bench excuse holds any water.

 

[B-Roy]

Did Lopez get a good reaction? I couldn't watch the game.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Just watched the replay, Leonard is flat out awful

It's obvious that Meyers Leonard is struggling on the offensive end (TS% down from 63.1% to 50.6%). But what bothers me is that his overall game seems to be slumping. Although Leonard's minutes have gone up from last year from 15.4 to 24.1 (54% additional time on the court), his rebounds per game has gone down from 4.5 to 4.4. At last year's rate, with these minutes, he should be getting close to 7 rebounds a game. Yes, Davis and Plumlee may be 'taking' some of the available rebounds from him, but no more than Lopez or Aldridge did last year. Offense can be attributed to just a shooting slump/mental. How do you account for the lack of rebounding production?

 

[jlprk]

Tough loss. I actually thought we would win that game last night, especially without PORKzingas not doing anything. He was so bad yesterday, he got lost from the team bus to the locker room! Saw him wandering around like a lost kid and he asked for directions. Cool guy.

We 7-foot white guys who were wandering around lost last night look up to you!

 

[DUB]

How do you account for the lack of rebounding production?

Playing exclusively at the 4 instead of the 5? Opposition stretch 4's bringing him away from the basket. I think Leonard is a 5, not a 4.

 

[Nikolokolus]

It's obvious that Meyers Leonard is struggling on the offensive end (TS% down from 63.1% to 50.6%). But what bothers me is that his overall game seems to be slumping. Although Leonard's minutes have gone up from last year from 15.4 to 24.1 (54% additional time on the court), his rebounds per game has gone down from 4.5 to 4.4. At last year's rate, with these minutes, he should be getting close to 7 rebounds a game. Yes, Davis and Plumlee may be 'taking' some of the available rebounds from him, but no more than Lopez or Aldridge did last year. Offense can be attributed to just a shooting slump/mental. How do you account for the lack of rebounding production?

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I think there's a few things happening. 1. Last year he was only called on to play for short spurts and his responsibilities and attention from opponents were far lower. It's why you can't just look at a player who plays a limited role and extrapolate production on a per minute basis and expect it to hold when a player is asked to do more. 2. The separated shoulder isn't something that just goes away after a couple of weeks; it could conceivably bother him for months. And 3. It's possible he just kind of stinks - a one trick pony who can shoot three pointers when he's open but maybe not much else?

 

[Blazers Roy]

In the last 10 games the 3-men backcourt of Crabbe,CJ and Dame is giving us 55 PPG , that's pretty good.

I wonder if they will figure it out sometime THIS season and start winning those close games.
1-8 record on games lost by 5 or less points is ridicules.

I'm waiting for Neil to do something spectacular towards the deadline.

 

[Denny Crane]

In the last 10 games the 3-men backcourt of Crabbe,CJ and Dame is giving us 55 PPG , that's pretty good.

I wonder if they will figure it out sometime THIS season and start winning those close games.
1-8 record on games lost by 5 or less points is ridicules.

I'm waiting for Neil to do something spectacular towards the deadline.

We should forward him a few of @HCP's posts. That will get him all fired up to do something.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Playing exclusively at the 4 instead of the 5? Opposition stretch 4's bringing him away from the basket. I think Leonard is a 5, not a 4.

Thing is, he's usually playing alongside Ed Davis. Seems to me that Davis should be defending the 4's and Leonard the 5's. Davis is also athletic enough to be able to crash the boards from the defensive perimeter.

If Meyers can ever come back to being a mildly productive NBA reserve C, with Vonleh beginning to develop into a no-stats star as the starting PF, we could have a very reliable and well-balanced 4-man PF/C rotation.

 

[BBert]

I wonder if they will figure it out sometime THIS season and start winning those close games.
1-8 record on games lost by 5 or less points is ridicules.

Ridicules? It's exactly what I expected in close games. If anything, the team is exceeding my expectations overall.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Ridicules? It's exactly what I expected in close games. If anything, the team is exceeding my expectations overall.

Oh yea, you expected one of the most clutch players in the league to lose every close one. gotcha.

 

[Nikolokolus]

These last two posts are just ridiculous ...

 

[BBert]

These last two posts are just ridiculous ...

Oui, c'est completement ridicule!

[/Bomb Voyage]

 

[BBert]

Oh yea, you expected one of the most clutch players in the league to lose every close one. gotcha.

Not every close one. Only about 4 out of 5.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

These last two posts are just ridiculous ...

You've never heard of Ridicules, the dimwitted brother of Hercules?

 

[Blazers Roy]

Cut me some slack assholes, it's not my native language.
If i don't get auto corrected then i roll with it.

 

[BBert]

Cut me some slack assholes, it's not my native language.
If i don't get auto corrected then i roll with it.

I wasn't giving you crap about the French spelling, although I almost asked about it. I just went with it.

Besides, people tease about grammar and typos all the time. It's usually boredom and meant in jest. I wouldn't take offense.

 

[Blazers Roy]

I never do BBert, i never do.