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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 5544685, member: 405"]
This is why Donnie should be the pick man up high.  Kyle, just like Eddie, is ZERO THREAT to score from out there.

High / Low Double Post Offense is the obvious answer, with Kyle down low and Donnie in the high post.  Red apparently has learned nothing in this regard since last year.

You don't use guys up high on the pick and roll who present no threat to score.  It's so easy to double team the ball handler if the guy making the pick can't score.  I mean, come on folks, this isn't that hard.

Letting Donnie float at the perimeter is a waste of his talent.  I've said it 100 times, but Kevin Durant started out by taking advantage of his physical talents to find the spot where nobody could stop him from scoring.  That was developing his midrange game, just like Troy Weaver taught Melo and Hakeem the jab step.

Boeheim was a master of this - find where your player has his best chance of scoring, and then get him the ball in that spot.

Yes, this is the "good news" part - Red has clearly made strategic changes.  Very hopeful about the aggressive defense, at least until late in the game.  But it's not like that's never happened before to us.

I think that the key to unlocking this team's potential will be what Mike Brown hopes to bring to the Knicks - using more depth, using more fresh players to keep up a higher pace of play.
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