As composed, the New York Knicks are not a championship-caliber basketball team. There are a few fatal flaws that led to their elimination in the second round of the playoffs that need to be fixed in order for them to win an NBA Championship.
They were exposed over and over again by the Indiana Pacers, as they forced them to realized that simply playing isolation basketball and chucking three-pointers wouldn't work with Indiana's lock-down defense.
New York shot just under 41 percent in the series against the Pacers and 35.3 percent from the three-point line.
Honestly, that's all that's really needed to know in order to understand why they lost. Never mind the fact that they turned the ball over nearly 11 times a game or that they had just 15 assists per game in the series.
It was Indiana's defense that became an eye-opener for the Knicks.
Isolation basketball is fine when you have a few players capable of producing on their own. But, when they start to slow down, you better know that the rest of your team can help run the offense.
New York found out just that when Carmelo Anthony ...
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What the NY Knicks Need To Do to Win an NBA Championship
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