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Knicked up!!

Posted on April 2, 2013 at 08:43 PM.

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When we last left off Coach Dreece had very interesting interview with an arrogant New York blogger whose main purpose seemed to be to get under the rookie coach's skin. Unfazed by the nonsense coach immediately got into game films upon boarding the team plane and what he seen was a desperate team and city trying to hold on to success of the past.

The Knicks are currently 5-18 so far this season that's good enough for last place in the NBA. They are 1-9 in last ten home games and a league worst -8.2 point differential. All this futility is making me queezy lol it's no wonder Carmelo Anthony left in free agency to go to the Wizards.

The Cavs come into tonight's game riding a 3 game winning streak but having to play a team that has had 3 days rest and you're coming off a game the prior night it seem like a trap to me. But with this new cast of characters and the sorry competition it might turn into a laugher early.

Lets get down to the sideline for tonight's action!

As the ol' saying goes if you can't score you you can't win. Coach Dreece and the Cleveland Cavaliers took that mindset into the game and executed their defensive gameplan to perfection. The Knicks shot an abysmal 36% from the floor and an even more gut wrenching 14% from beyond. The Knicks usually stingy defense had a rough time dealing with the speed and play making ability from Cleveland's back court. They tried to go with physical play on the wings early but all that did was create angles for easy dimes all over the court.

Kyrie Irving had a dominant outing against rookie lottery pick Jeremiah Williams(DC1) in what was thought to maybe be a tough match up for Irving because of Williams size, quickness, and defensive pedigree but early in the game this happened....

The crowd erupted into a frenzy!! The look on the rookies face was one of fear and Kyrie knew it. Williams had that type of reputation that said something like this would never happen.. but it happened three times during this game Irving by TKO!

Reporter: Coach that was a dominating effort against a pretty good defensive lineup. Describe how you designed a gameplan in such short time to get your team ready to play a team like New York.

Dreece: Well it's kinda simple. We went into this game feeling like we were the better team and we executed as such...listen I'm not gonna come up here and blow smoke up ya @$$es like most coaches do ima give it to you straight. I feel we have a top 5 defense right now and we are going to pressure you to do what we want you to do.

R: Can you elaborate a little please?

D: Sure. I have a great scouting team and they pointed out that New York like to anticipate plays, they like to try to beat you to the spot sorta speak. They like to take charges, they reach a lot for steals, and they like to block shots from weak side.

R: Meaning??

D: Is this guy serious lol?? Anyway to combat this we turned our pressure up on defense early. We trapped their pick and roll early and that forced some bad passes and helped us to get out in transition and get some easy baskets. Later on we changed that up and started to go under the screen to force contested jumpers and as you can see it worked like a charm.

R: That's great coach but it's going to take a lot more than simple defense concepts like that to beat the elite of the eastern conference.

D: Simple concepts!! This Ferrari I'm driving don't have no Ford engine my man!! Lets look at the stats....simple concepts hmmph! The Knicks starting wing players (Williams, Shumpert, and Brewer) went a combined 6-36 from the floor and almost all of those looks were contested.I give the players all the credit in the world for sticking with the gameplan.

R: Your team shoots the ball well from all over the floor that seemed to frustrate the Knicks early and often. How are you able to get your players the looks that the Knicks could not?

D: Well that credit goes out to the scout team and the assistant coaches. Footwork drills, conditioning, patience all play a big part in our offense. Bottom line we have some real talent in Cleveland and Kyrie is the conducter we go as he goes and he was on point tonight.

R: Thanks for taking time to talk with us coach.

D: Sure thing.

Next up for the Cavs is a trip to TD Bank Center to take on the Boston Celtics see you there!