The Mind of Mullin: POSTGAME: KNICKS

Sunday, November 30, 2008

POSTGAME: KNICKS - 11/29/08

Maggette put up nice numbers but played poor defense

MVW: Corey Maggette

The Good
Corey Maggette: 42 min, 12-20 fg, 8-10 ft, 12 reb, 32 pts
C.J. Watson: 36 min, 9-17 fg, 1-2 3pt, 4-4 ft, 6 reb, 5 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk, 23 pts
Jamal Crawford: 42 min, 7-7 ft, 10 reb, 5 ast, 2 stl, 1 bs, 21 pts
Andris Biedrins: 30 min, 7-16 fg, 7 reb, 3 ast, 5 stl, 16 pts
Anthony Randolph: 12 min, 2-2 fg, 4 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl, 1 bs
Brandan Wright: 6 min, 2-3 fg, 1 reb, 1 ast, 1 bs, 4 pts

The Bad
Anthony Morrow: 18 min, 2-9 fg
Kelenna Azubuike: 37 min, -25 +/-
Corey Maggette: 42 min, 5 to

The Ugly
Jamal Crawford: 42 min, 6-20 fg, 2-7 3pt

Best and Worst +/-
Ronny Turiaf: +8
Kelenna Azubuike: -25

Team Statistics
Warriors : Cavaliers
pts - 125 : 138
fg - 46-101 (.455) : 54-105 (.514)
ft - 26-32 (.813) : 17-21 (.810)
3p - 7-20 (.350) : 13-27 (.481)
reb - 48 : 59
oreb - 17 : 20
ast - 21 : 35
to - 14 : 18
stl - 13 : 8
bs - 5 : 2
fastbreaks - 16 : 11
points in the paint - 54 : 68

Boxscore
Highlights
Popcorn Machine's Gameflow

Once again, Watson gives the Warriors a reliable producer off the bench

Notes

starting lineup: Crawford, Belinelli, Maggette, Azubuike, Biedrins
Barnett's Keys to the Game: Protect the rim; play in and out offense; pass ahead
Belinelli gets his first start due to Jackson's sprained wrist; Golden opportunity for him to get more PT from here on out
Andris is the big mismatch
Maggette feeling it - hits first 4 shots, 2 were with foot on 3pt line
Marco hits his first shot; low pass but recovered and went straight up with it
Morrow in for Belinelli (not closing out on perimeter shooters); 5:30 mark of 1st Q
Andris' sub-par roadtrip continues; looking more human these days
Maggette unwilling to dump it off to Biedrins even when challenged by 2 taller Knicks in the paint
Morrow hits his first shot; 3 pointer
Watson in for Morrow; Watson/Crawford/Maggette/Azubuike/Biedrins
Azubuike hits 3 at buzzer; Warriors 33, Knicks 39 end of 1st
Turiaf starts 2nd Q; in for Biedrins
Wilson Chandler and David Lee killing Warriors
Watson buries his first shot
Wright and Morrow in at 8:30 mark of 2nd Q
Biedrins missing point blank shots; where is the fg% leader from last year? or the double-double machine from earlier this season?
Warriors 48, Knicks 58 at 6:20 mark of 2Q; Azubuike comes out
Randolph in at 6:00
Knicks lights out from 3; 9-12 3pt
Jim Barnett getting irritated by Warriors play; no defense, no ball movement, foul before inbounding ball; not throwing the ball up court
Maggette having a bad end to the half: charge, dribbling up the court instead of passing it up; hand-check foul 22 feet way from basket; 17 pts, 7/12 fg
Warriors 64, Knicks 82 end of 2nd Q; most points ever scored by Knicks in MSG for 1st Half
even the Knicks can out-rebound the Warriors
Watson starts 3rd Q instead of Belinelli
Biedrins misses all 3 of his first freethrows in the 2nd half
Lee continues to work the pick and roll
Randolph in for Azubuike; 6:49 left in 3rd Q
16 pt deficit with 5:50 left in 3rd Q; Biedrins/Randolph/Maggette/Crawford/Watson
10 pt game with back to back 3's by Watson and Crawford
Randolph gets benched for playing good defense; not happy about being replaced by Azubuike; Knicks go back up by 20
Watson/Morrow/Azubuike/Randolph/Wright start 4th Q
Randolph gets dunked on by Tim Thomas, then answers with a 20 ft jumper
Turiaf successful in defending against Duhon/Lee pick and roll; cut deficit to 12 w/ 5:36 left to play
Crawford airballs a three with a chance to cut the lead to single digits
Warriors playing Duhon on the drive instead of playing the pass that will inevitably come a the last split second; career high 22 assists
Maggette throws away a fastbreak opportunity; 122 to 132 with 2: 25 left
many opportunities to get back into the game, all blown
Lee with career high points and rebounds (37 and 21)
Warriors go 0-5 on road; difficult part of the schedule is not over
Would like to have seen Watson/Azubuike/Randolph/Wright/Turiaf as a defensive unit to slow down Knicks
Warriors not a good small ball team - go with Maggette at the 3 or coming off the bench at 2 or 3. Randolph and Wright deserve more minutes; Belinelli deserves a chance to play more than a 5 min stretch
the Warriors could be in for a bad season - a full on youth movement is the only remedy for keeping hardcore fan's interests; I want to see development of the future, tinkering with the lineups (not more small ball, AKA Mags at 4), EXTENDED playing time for Belinelli and Marcus Williams (just to see if they can up their trade values), more Randolph/Wright/Biedrins, giving good effort on the defensive end, tanking for Ricky Rubio in 2009