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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5441159, member: 1674"] Kind of nitpicking here, but I had this argument with one of my other friends too: Thibs was technically running a 5-out offense pretty regularly. It's just that one of those 5 was Hart and teams essentially didn't care about him standing on the perimeter so it didn't really accomplish the main purpose of using 5-out offenses. The thing is though, that is more or less the case no matter what lineup you put out there; it's not like Hart is the worst shooter in the league or anything. He's a fairly willing shooter and makes his 3's at an acceptable-ish rate. I don't know; I'm not entirely confident where the Knicks should go from here. Ultimately, they're a very good team but they're built around two stars that have the same severe weakness to their games; basically everyone that shares the court with Brunson and Towns have to be guys that can help cover for their defensive issues. It's hard to see them being surrounded by much better options on the wings than OG, Bridges, and Hart in terms of trying to account for those weaknesses. Maybe the idea is that you just kinda lean into the idea of just trying to be so good offensively that teams cannot keep up and therefore you maybe try to move some combination of OG/Bridges/Hart to get better offensive pieces on the court. I don't know. But if the plan is to simply keep the same core but bump McBride's minutes at the expense of Hart, I don't really see that moving the needle much if at all. It seems to me that if they want to make a significant change, there's two reasonable paths: [LIST=1] [*]Installing a new offensive system more predicated on ball movement/pushing tempo instead of just letting Brunson dribble the air out of the ball (the only player that held the ball longer per touch than Brunson this season was Zyon Pullin, who touched the ball 4 times all year lol). [*]Moving one or more of their wings for guys that are deadlier off the ball on the offensive end. [/LIST] It's also entirely possible that they could just essentially run it back and win it all next year; at the end of the day, they were one of the best offensive teams in the league this season and they got pretty damn close this year. [/QUOTE]

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