I'm annoyed as all get out with their performance, but I'm not ready to throw the towel in on this team yet. I honestly believe we have upgraded the personnel from last year's 54-win team. This should be working -- I don't think it's the players. I think it's the coach. Hate to scapegoat Woody but there really isn't one thing he's doing that's had a positive impact on the team -- he's had no feel for his personnel right from the beginning; the offensive gameplan is abysmal and beyond amateurish (Bargnani's post-game admission several games back that if the players play defense they can do whatever they want on offense is a joke and not something you'd expect to hear from an NBA coach---you even have Vogel from the Pacers goofing on us in the papers); they're not playing the best defense they possibly can (and this is supposedly Woody's strength--very surprising), the substitution patterns and lineup configurations are questionable and he refuses, esp. at this dire juncture, to shake things up and come up with some alternative solutions (refusal to play Aldrich & Murry despite being down Chandler and Felton is the wrong move). He's also mishandled Amar'e so far imo (dude needs to be built back up not take a step forward and then 2 steps back by sitting him out entire games at a time---looks like the 12 pt performance on 5-5 FGs may have finally changed his mind--we'll see), and most damning is how he, and the organization as a whole, have mishandled Iman Shumpert -- this is our most promising young player, a guy who's made very good strides so far in a Knick uniform. Yet Woody jumps all over this kid all the time, plays him out of position constantly and then there are the trade rumors he has to contend with everyday (how 'bout we read that Woody has a sit-down with Iman and tells him how he's committed to him?? God forbid..).

Unfortunately, when you can't come up with one single solitary positive from the head coach AND the team is performing this poorly (underperforming), it's time for a fresh voice.