The Knicks’ Plan to Expose Mike Bibby
Mike BibbyThere’s a monster white board in the Knicks locker room – it wasn’t used in quite the same way last year under Isiah’s reign – which always has Mike D’Antoni’s most important keys to the game written in big, colorful letters.
When we walked in for pre-game interviews last night, there were a couple of one-liners that caught our eyes. The first of which was a little diagram of the painted area with “No Joe” written in there. More on that in a second.
Number two was “Bibby is struggling – keep him there.” And number three was, “As funny as it sounds – don’t let Pachulia make an impact.”
The Knicks accomplished all three things and won.
Joe Johnson wasn’t shooting well from deep – he went 0-4 from beyond the stripe. During the third quarter, he was able to get in the lane, and during that stretch he scored eight of his 18 points. But aside from that, he had one shot in the painted area in the other three quarters combined.
Bibby continued to struggle throughout the game, as he shot the worst percentage from the floor of any Hawk. For his last four games, his 11-38 from the field (29% FG) and 2-15 from deep (13% 3FG). He’s still struggling.
And finally, Zaza was a total nonfactor. He didn’t attempt a single field goal, finished “-3″ in the “+/-” category, and scored only 3 points.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:10 am
dk says:
Hey Dime, hire an editor or have some brood read over your articles. I love the matierial but theres errors left and right like a drop out wrote them….
March 5th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Flip says:
Yes, people tend to underestimate Pachulia. If he has a good game, he can really crash the boards.
March 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Frank says:
LOL @ #1… ‘brood’ & ‘matierial’???
I guess you were not applying for the editor job…..
March 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
doc says:
Mission accomplished
March 5th, 2009 at 9:46 am
hahns says:
regarding the poll:
i dont get how melo is considered such a great pure scorer when hes not even close to the top in pts in the league. i understand that shouldnt be the main consideration w/ this- it has more to do w/ his repetoire etc, but still…if someone is a pure scorer i expect them to drop buckets on a nightly basis. KD might be a better pure scorer at this point
March 5th, 2009 at 9:57 am
s.bucketz says:
good thing they got on pachullia..as an avid knicks fan for years ive seen scrubs tear the knicks apart…can someone look into this??i guarantee most people in the nba hav ther career high against the knicks
March 5th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Diego says:
Yeah, post 1 is ridiculous–littered with grammatical errors yet criticizing Dime for the same?
Zaza really isn’t half bad folks, and specializes in offensive boards. Now, Smoove–jeeze lueezee. He has been HORRIBLE lately. Want to beat the Hawks? Just play hack-a-Smoove. The guy is shooting free throws lately worse than Chris Dudley did. (Not to mention that patented J-Smoove sourpuss face, when a call goes against him.) Also, do not cover him at all from outside–he will jack, and he will miss badly.
March 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Shrink This says:
Breaking News: Knicks coach does job, gets praise…
March 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am
BROGDEN says:
@8 — “GOOD” job, gets praise
The adjective is the sole reason for the praise.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Michorizo says:
The whiteboard also stated that Bibby sounds alot like Bert from Sesame Street
March 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Big Freeze says:
“For his last four games, his 11-38 from the field (29% FG) and 2-15 from deep (13% 3FG).”
Nice sentence Dime. Keep up the great editing work.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Kobeef says:
The Hawks are getting into the same funk as last year – slacking off cause they think they have the playoffs locked up. Someone needs to get them back in line or they are going to wind up as the 8th seed again.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:43 am
SteveNash says:
as long as you understand what they are trying to tell you that is all that matters… doesn’t matter if they have no AP writing skills or for that matter MLA… i majored in journalism and i work in sales lmao… so give them props for doing what they love atleast!!!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
heavy d says:
Mike Woodson helped with #3 by trying to go small most of the game. Zaza played 8 minutes when his average is 20 minutes.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Tha Boddy (Shaqified) says:
If you can understand what they are writing then sdfu…If you have such a problem with DIMGmag grammatical errors then find something else to read assmuppet.
March 5th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
David Brandon says:
why’d you change the title?
March 5th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Andrew Katz Wannabe says:
Just like the new slogan: I’m Al Harrington and I get Buckets!!!
I’m Andrew Katz and I write sentence fragments!!!!