I'm with you. I'm just curious as hell as to how Phil plays this.I already mentally prepared myself months ago for the moment of if/when Melo leaves. If he stays? Cool. He goes? Cool. I'm not steressing this whole decision thing honestly. At the end of the day, we'll be good for the long term.
Depends. I don't know how Phil is running his new regime as far as leaking info to the press, especially to these scummy NY "sports journalists"
Those were the days
Still remember that 3 point shot he hit with .4 seconds left that didn't count against Boston
Im definitely not trying to say Mike Woodson was the reason we won 54 games in 2013, but to try and pin the 2013 Knicks season on him and make outrageous claims like that he was 70% responsible for us sucking last season, is JUST as outrageous as giving him 70% of the credit for immediately taking over from D'Antoni and going 18-6 and winning 54 games last season.
Stat's contract isn't insured. Bargnani can be pushed down a steep set of stairs.
Im definitely not trying to say Mike Woodson was the reason we won 54 games in 2013, but to try and pin the 2013 Knicks season on him and make outrageous claims like that he was 70% responsible for us sucking last season, is JUST as outrageous as giving him 70% of the credit for immediately taking over from D'Antoni and going 18-6 and winning 54 games last season.
Woody had a specific strategy that he utilized with the Knicks. This strategy worked very well for the us when he took over. Last year was not the first time Woodson relied on pick and rolls, 3 pointers, and switching on defense. We did that same **** and won 54 games that way last season. The biggest difference was that last year he coached a team full of out of shape, disappointing underachievers who did not execute nearly as well as they did in years past when he coached the same exact way.
Again, Im not giving Woody any sort of a pass here, I did not approve much of what he did last season, and im certainly not trying to say that he shouldnt have been replaced. But trying to place the majority of the blame from last season on his shoulders is ridiculous to me and honestly just a way to give a whole lot of players a major pass for grossly underachieving.
The NBA is, and has always been a players league. I will blame Woodson for being too predictable at times last year with his play calling and maybe even losing the locker room later in the season, but I cant think of many other coaches who could have been successful with the way our roster performed last season.
Yes, Woodson should have adapted and tried to change certain things up when his coaching strategies started failing on him more than in the years past. But Woodson also had success utilizing the same **** with the same kind of roster. Maybe it was stubborn of him to stick with what had worked and resort to overly relying on Carmelo offensively, but its not like Woodkson suddenly became a much worse coach than he had been, the same way Raymond Felton regressed to being a much worse basketball player than he had been.
Woodson didnt do anything entirely too different in 2014 than he did with the Knicks in 2013. It was mostly that the majority of players that he coached just performed entirely different than in 2014 than they did in 2013. 2014 Felton was not 2013 Felton. Nor was 2014 Tyson, JR, Shump, etc. and we had key veteran leaders that retired like Kidd and Sheed.
Obviously it is very easy to place the majority of the blame on the coach, as it always is, and many fans will choose to do so during underachieving seasons. I understand this, but I can not think of many other ooaches who could have led that mess of a roster we saw last season to any kind of success whatsoever.
I still believe in alot of this team's talent as we saw in 2013. I think underachieving was a blessing in disguise and will light a fire under this teams ***. I also think that the triangle offense will serve this team well, and we will bounce back. So I am happy bringing in Derek Fisher and the new regime, but yall are wayyy too hard on Woody sometimes. IMO he was still the best coach the Knicks have had here since Lenny Wilkens :x
Melo holding out for Miami ...according to multiple "sauces"
