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Posted: Wed 15:37, 27 Nov 2013 Post subject: it’s everyone else |
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Jim Boeheim says Knicks problem is not Carmelo, it’s everyone else
A good coach always has his players’ backs in public. Even if he hasn’t coached them in a decade.Enter legendary Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, who like a lot of people in the great state of New York was watching Carmelo Antony lead the Knicks to eventual second round playoff elimination this year. You’ll remember that Anthony helped Boeheim win a national championship at Syracuse many years ago.So when Boeheim was asked to talk about what happened to the Knicks, he strayed from the consensus opinion — they need better ball movement and less isolation basketball — and said the problem was everyone but ‘Melo.Here is Boeheim’s answer to if Anthony can win a ring from an interview at Syracuse.com (via Eye on Basketball):Not on that team,[url=http://www.jdebug.net]Jimmy Choo Outlet[/url], Boeheim said. He did what he can do. He played very well the final game. Everybody's killing him but Tyson Chandler just didn't try to catch the ball. He threw him the ball and Tyson Chandler went like this (Boeheim dodged in a chair in his office in the Carmelo K. Anthony Center). He was wide open. He should have been looking for the ball right here. Kenyon Martin should have been looking for the ball. They both went like this (Boeheim dodged again). Carmelo gets turnovers and the announcers aren't smart enough to even think, Well, the guy should try to catch the ball.'I said to my son, He's going to have to get 50 for them to win,' Boeheim said. That's what he needed. Fifty. You're not going to get that against Indiana. They run an isolation offense so he goes one-on-one all the time. It's hard. It's hard work. They need more of an offense where he can get something going. He has to work too hard. That's not his fault. That's how it's set up.So you're saying that Tyson Chandler, one of the better pick-and-roll finishing bigs in the game who shot 63.8 percent last year was dodging the ball? That Steve Novak and Chris Copeland weren't waiting for passes out at the arc? Okay.If you watched the Knicks during their 13 game win streak late in the season, or even their fast start to the season back in November, they moved the ball very well — the offense started with Carmelo or Raymond Felton, but the ball moved to the open shooter. The three point shots fell because the ball moved and guys got open looks.Indiana (and Boston before them in the first round) takes away your first option out of your set. You aren’t going to get to do exactly what you want. Probably not going to get to do your second option cleanly, either. When faced with that Carmelo and J.R. Smith (and really the Knicks team) reverted to isolation basketball that was easier for the Pacers to defend.And while it’s not all his fault, a chunk of that falls on Anthony. Sorry Boeheim. He is not spotless in all this.
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