Posts Tagged ‘ronny turiaf’

Visualizing Shooting and Rebounding

The darker the tint, the worse a player’s performance in that said area. Amar’e may have the greatest variety of shots within the arc, having added a good midrange jumper in recent years. Ronnie Turiaf, meanwhile, remarkably shot 80 percent at the rim last year, blowing the other seven players out of the water. Like [...]

Thursday Notes: So Close, Azubuike’s Knee, Turiaf, Brown

Tommy Dee writes on just how close the Knicks were to signing LeBron. It’s a painful read, but a good one. The Knicks expect Kelenna Azubuike to be ready by the season’s start. Azubuike went down with a nasty knee injury early last season, had surgery in November, and then followup surgery a few months [...]

Quick Thoughts on Timofey Mozgov

The Knicks now have three centers on their roster, and in Ronny Turiaf the team knows what they’re getting. Yesterday I looked at Eddy Curry and his chances of helping the team, and today let’s examine the other mystery, Timofey Mozgov. Earlier this month, Donnie Walsh stealthily snared Mozgov from his Russian team. There is [...]

Do the Knicks Need Another Shooter?

Until the Heat added Mike Miller, the most popular theory for how to stop Miami was to simply clog the middle. Some have raised similar theories for the Knicks, leading for some calls for the Knicks to acquire a similar shooter – Donnie Walsh may have been interested in Miller and fellow sharpshooter Kyle Korver [...]

Long-term Options at the 5

At the start the offseason, the issue of the Knicks frontline had already been an oft-talked about issue. With the 6’9″ David Lee playing out of position at the five and little defensive help provided by Al Harrington and others, opposing centers posted a 20.5 PER (82games.com), the second worst mark in the Eastern Conference [...]