Utah Jazz @ NY Knicks - 5:30 MST

[MeloTheJazzKiller]

What does everyone think of Fizdale as a coach? I've always liked him.

Just to wrap things up.

The Jazz have a coach, the Knicks have a friend.

Fiz is extremely well liked by much of the league. Watching Knick games it is astonishing how many players from the other teams hug and chat with Fiz before and after the game. One opposing player even did it during the game! Fiz has a great rep as a being a good friend to all players (except Marc Gasol, of course).

As for coaching...we have shown zero improvement throughout the year. The only improvement we have made was because DeAndre Jordan and Dennis Smith Jr. joined our team. Fiz does not get our guys to defend, he does not get guys to go hard for four quarters, he has not made any adjustments to lineup that seem to work. He's definitely great with the media and with the record we have that is definitely a plus for his job status.

Fiz will develop into a top coach one day, but it isn't now. The young guy in Brooklyn - Atkinson - is an outstanding coach. It bothers the hell out of me because Kenny Atkinson was an assistant coach for the Knicks a few years ago. He should be our head coach.

One other thing...Fiz does have a smoking wife. He gets coach of the year for this:

 

[UB]

What's BEC?

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It's a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Usually on a roll with butter, sometimes a bagel. They're ****ing delicious, although I tend to opt for a sausage, egg and cheese, with salt and pepper. They're served in foil, piping hot, so you can walk while you eat. It's ubiquitous in New York, and I've been trying to determine how big of a fake Melothejk is. Dude's def not from NYC, just had to make sure. I mean, a simple google search would have helped him maintain the facade:

MOUTH WATERING OH GOD I WANT ONE RIGHT NOWWWWW

 

[fishonjazz]

It's a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Usually on a roll with butter, sometimes a bagel. They're ****ing delicious, although I tend to opt for a sausage, egg and cheese, with salt and pepper. They're served in foil, piping hot, so you can walk while you eat. It's ubiquitous in New York, and I've been trying to determine how big of a fake Melothejk is. Dude's def not from NYC, just had to make sure. I mean, a simple google search would have helped him maintain the facade:

MOUTH WATERING OH GOD I WANT ONE RIGHT NOWWWWW

Damn bro. I'm at 3/4's right now

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[One Brow]

Would you call a timeout to maybe change something like the other team going on a huge run and you wanted to draw up a special play to stop that run from continuing?

A special defensive play? I don't think I have ever seen one of those. Do you have an example?

 

[fishonjazz]

A special defensive play? I don't think I have ever seen one of those. Do you have an example?

Well defense is one way to stop a run. Getting points from the offense if your own team is another way.
And ya, I'm certain that teams can change what they are doing on defense to counter the offense if the opponent.

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[One Brow]

And ya, I'm certain that teams can change what they are doing on defense to counter the offense if the opponent.

Well, that's true. I wish I had included the clause "or the game plan needed to change" on post #140 in this thread. I would be so much less embarrassed had I done that.

 

[Gameface]

A special defensive play? I don't think I have ever seen one of those. Do you have an example?

They use their special play dry erase board

 

[fishonjazz]

One special defensive play I can think of is hack a shaq.
I'm sure there are others.

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[RRJazz]

Momentum is absolutely a thing. Runs can be stopped with a timeout, no doubt and not only thanks to tactical changes. Not only in basketball, but in all sports. Soccer: since they don't have timeouts, many times players fake injury to stop the run of play, to try and get the opponent to cool down. Tennis and the infamous calls for medical attention. Rain delays completely changing the outcome of any game.

Any stoppage: quarter, halftime, boxing round, etc. becomes a roller-coaster because momentum is subject to change, the longer the stoppage, the bigger the chances it is stopped and even swapped to the opponent.

 

[One Brow]

Momentum is absolutely a thing. Runs can be stopped with a timeout, ...

I completely grant the belief in momentum, and being able to interrupt it, is a thing. However, whenever I see people trying to study it, the evidence for it proves difficult to find.

 

[MeloTheJazzKiller]

It's a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. It's ubiquitous in New York, and I've been trying to determine how big of a fake Melothejk is. Dude's def not from NYC, just had to make sure. I mean, a simple google search would have helped him maintain the facade:

Oh, this is an internet classic.

Hey, Columbo, turn in your raincoat.

Let's analyze what this wannabee Columbo is saying: I come here and fake that I am from NY. Uhh, why? Why do I know everything about the Knicks, clearly my posts express a love for the team....yet I am from Guam or something.

Hey, kid, you know the internet enables people from New York to chat with people from Utah! Imagine that. Turn in your ticket to the Pony Express, Columbo. There's a new thing called internet.

 

[infection]

I completely grant the belief in momentum, and being able to interrupt it, is a thing. However, whenever I see people trying to study it, the evidence for it proves difficult to find.

The evidence for psychodynamic psychotherapy is also difficult to find, mostly because it's less concrete in what you're actually measuring, just as it's harder to standardize objective measures for music, or paints, or movies, etc., but the eyeball often recognizes something that is very difficult to automatize. A better question to ask would be: how would you go about measuring momentum?