If Carmelo Anthony takes the advice of Tyson Chandler, the Knicks’ defensive leader and pseudo physician, he will miss at least one more game to allow the cut on his left middle finger to heal.
Dec 082012
Dec 072012
If Carmelo Anthony takes the advice of Tyson Chandler, the Knicks’ defensive leader and pseudo physician, he will miss at least one more game to allow the cut on his left middle finger to heal.
Dec 072012
Today’s Burning Question: How big a role did Mike Woodson’s offseason conditioning program play in getting the Knicks to compete at a consistently high level?
After the Heat game, Tyson Chandler was asked what people learned about the Knicks on Thursday night. He said, “We’re a deep team.”
But there was something else: How well-conditioned the players are, which allowed them to jump out to a 85-67 lead with 3:05 to play in the third quarter.
Dec 072012
After leading scorer and signature star Carmelo Anthony was downgraded from a game-time decision to out for the New York Knicks’ matchup with the Miami Heat, plenty of Knicks fans wondered just how New York was going to score enough to keep the Thursday night tilt interesting.
After all, this was a Knicks squad starting Kurt Thomas, Ronnie Brewer and Tyson Chandler, who aren’t exactly prime-time scorers; that figured to feature a lot of shots by hot-and-cold types like Raymond Felton, J.R. Smith and Rasheed Wallace; and that would be facing a Miami defense that, while certainly nowhere near the wrecking crew that ended last season, still seemed quick and aggressive enough to gum up the Knicks’ ball-movement-heavy offense once it no longer had to key on Anthony, the NBA’s third-leading scorer and the Knicks’ unquestioned offensive focal point. With the proverbial head of the snake already cut off, how would the Knicks adjust?
The answer, apparently: Become a hydra and attack from everywhere . Including, and most notably, from long range:
With Anthony out of the lineup, the Knicks ran pick-and-roll after pick-and-roll, swinging the ball around the court like mad to stretch Miami’s unsettled switch/hedge-heavy defense until its shape was distorted, and then routinely made one more little pass for an even more wide-open shot, frequently behind the 3-point arc. The result: 44 3-point attempts and 18 makes in a stunning 112-92 blitz . (They also took 47 shots from 2-point range and made 23 of those, but they weren’t as pretty to look at or as valuable.)
Dec 072012
MIAMI — With the Knicks’ No. 1 offensive option, Carmelo Anthony, out of the lineup on Thurdsay night, Raymond Felton facilitating the pick-and-roll became top priority.
And the Knicks’ starting point guard did not disappoint.
Felton finished with a team-high 27 points to go along with seven assists and two steals, leading the Knicks to another 20-point defeat of the defending champs.
“Raymond has been playing unbelievable,” Tyson Chandler said after the game.
Dec 072012
MIAMI, Dec 6 (Reuters) – The New York Knicks enjoyed a second 20-point win over the defending NBA champion Miami Heat in just over a month on Thursday, giving them the belief that this year they can compete when it matters in the post-season. Last year, New York lost all three regular season games to their Eastern Conference rivals Miami and then fell 4-1 to the Heat in the first round of the playoffs. For Knicks center Tyson Chandler, who was part of the Dallas Mavericks team that defeated the Heat in the 2011 finals, Thursday’s victory was a big psychological boost. …
Dec 062012
No Carmelo Anthony, not a problem. The Knicks still made it a game, thanks to back-to-back shots by Steve Novak and then one by Raymond Felton towards the end of the second quarter. But they need more overall scoring beyond their starting point guard.
Here are several main observations at the half:
1. Raymond Felton made sure to pick it up without Anthony. Felton knew that more would fall on him and Tyson Chandler in the pick-and-roll, and the point guard shifted into high gear.
Dec 032012
In November, Tyson Chandler entered the record books once again.
After shooting 5-for-8 from the floor in the Knicks’ win over the Wizards on Friday night, the starting center finished the first month of the season having made 70.9 percent of his field goal attempts (66-for-93). It marked the second time in his career that he hit at least 70 percent of his shots in a calendar month during which he took at least 75 shots from the field. He was at 71.
Dec 022012
Mike Woodson didn’t want to talk about the two technical fouls Rasheed Wallace received on Sunday, but many of Wallace’s teammates thought they were called because of Wallace’s reputation — not because of what was actually said on the court.
“I think so. He’s the only guy in the league that gets technicals for saying, ‘ball don’t lie,’ so that should go to show you right there,” Tyson Chandler said.
Wallace picked up career technical fouls 316 and 317 late in the first quarter on Sunday for arguing a foul call.
Dec 022012
You beat teams you’re supposed to beat. It’s one of the basic tenets of sports. And so far, it’s one the Knicks have followed to perfection.
New York took care of the Wizards and Suns this weekend at Madison Square Garden — two teams with a combined record of 8-24 — to improve to 12-4 on the season.
They are a 7-0 at home and 6-1 against teams that are under .500.
“You have to beat the teams you’re supposed to beat,” Tyson Chandler said after his 15-point, 13-rebound afternoon against Phoenix.