misterearl wrote:Can he elevate his teams play leading INTO the playoffs?

JamesKPolk wrote:
You truly don't understand basketball if you think Woodson can elevate a team's play in the playoffs.

We truly do not understand basketball.

Why do you keep quoting me? Seems like you've had a hard-on for this since you've been wrong on 48378763756272 other things.

I already said I want to see how he coaches in the playoffs. He has won 50 games before. The Hawks were a 50+ win team and yet nobody remembers that because they bombed out of the playoffs. Let's see how he coaches in this playoffs before putting his name next to Holzman in the MSG rafters.

JamesKPolk wrote:Why do you keep quoting me?

A. Because it is entertainment.

JamesKPolk wrote:Seems like you've had a hard-on for this since you've been wrong on 48378763756272 other things.

Hard on for you? Only in your imagination JamesK. Being wrong or right on a discussion board gets no Monopoly money, no bonus points and no extra credit. You only gets respect for backing your opinion with reasonably factorial stuff or making someone do a spit take.

JamesKPolk wrote:I already said I want to see how he coaches in the playoffs. He has won 50 games before. The Hawks were a 50+ win team and yet nobody remembers that because they bombed out of the playoffs.

JamesKPolk - "how he coaches in the playoffs" implies that Mike Woodson will suddenly morph into a seventh grade, substitute gym teacher in late April. It is so patently arbitrary as it conveniently overlooks the immaturity (Marvin Williams), petulance (Josh Smith) and downright stage fright (Joe Johnson) of the Hawk's top starters.

JamesKPolk wrote:Let's see how he coaches in this playoffs before putting his name next to Holzman in the MSG rafters.

Red Holzman and Mike Woodson have nothing in common, except one played for the other. Woodson has a long way to go before he gets a banner near the pinwheel roof. Everyone knows that. Woodson knows that. He admitted, "We've got a long way to go."

Your feeble attempt to imply that anyone is equating a Hall of Famer with an incompetent mercenary who will fold like a cheap suit in three weeks is too transparent for words. Except the previous words.

Is that 50 or 51 wins? I lost track.

JamesKPolk - in case you missed it, 6'9 Chris Copeland is now an essential frontcourt man. Carmelo Anthony is playing cameo minutes at center.

Marcus Camby (left plantar fasciitis), Rasheed Wallace (fractured left foot), Kurt Thomas (right foot stress reaction) and Amar’e Stoudemire (right knee surgery) are out. Tyson Chandler sat last night with a reoccurrence of soreness from a bulging disc in his neck that recently kept him out of 10 games.

The playoffs grind down to half court basketball. Playoff games are laced with vicious collisions, rebounding in traffic and fouls with evil intent. Coach that in the playoffs

But there are no excuses from our leader:

“It’s something that is right there for us to take, and we’ve just got to figure out how to get it. We’re a little banged up right now with injuries, but again, guys that are in uniform, they’re playing. That’s all I can tell you.”

no excuses

JamesKPolk wrote:If the Knicks fail to reach the ECF you would be okay with Mike Woodson as head coach?

If the Knicks get eliminated in the first round you would be okay with Woodson as head coach?

Yes..

JamesKPolk wrote:Then you have no idea how to run a team.

"He puts his personal agenda and goals aside to see his players do well."

- Earl Smith on Coach Mike Woodson

The lesson?

If a coach cannot effectively manage diverse individuals, he will never come close to forming (or running) a team.

JamesKPolk wrote:Then you have no idea how to run a team.

True that, I'm not qualified to be a GM, but we all get to play one on this board..But ask yourself this..Does Vogel lose his job if Indy gets bumped in the first round and doesn't make the ECF?? Does Thibs lose his job for the same??...George Karl??...Woody has his team performing as good if not better than those highly regarded coaches despite the injuries...So why is Woody held to a different standard??

holfresh wrote:Woody has his team performing as good if not better than those highly regarded coaches despite the injuries...So why is Woody held to a different standard?

It is the IronWillGiroud Standard. This standard states that a distant follower of basketball prefers an inferior Knicks record from a coach like Mike D'Antoni OVER a vastly superior Knicks record from Coach Mike Woodson.

The reason lies deep in the heart of the fan who would put a playoff record with another franchise on a pedestal, while belittling the best win totals in the last 40 seasons.

To anyone comparing records, and not superficial appearances or media hype, that is preference can only be described as insane.

Mike D'Anotin LOOKS like a better coach to people like IronWillGiroud ir JamesKPok for reasons that only they understand. They certainly have not built a compelling case in basketball terms, except in their own minds.

53 wins and counting

3/26 - @ Boston - WIN
3/27 - vs. Memphis - WIN
3/29 - vs. Charlotte - WIN
3/31 - vs. Boston - WIN
4/2 - @ Miami - WIN
4/3 - @ Atlanta - WIN
4/5 - vs. Milwaukee - WIN
4/7 - @ Oklahoma City - WIN
4/9 - vs. Washington - WIN
4/11 - @ Chicago - one Carmelo shot away from 14 in a row
4/12 - @ Cleveland - WIN
4/14 - vs. Indiana - WIN

4/15 - @ Charlotte
4/17 - vs. Atlanta

Bring on Boston next Saturday