The Knicks are an amalgamation of wrong decisions. It is obvious that you don't have a decade of losing culture by it being one persons fault. Melo is at fault for not waiting to sign as a FA. The front office is at fault for making wrong decisions after wrong decisions. Dolan is a major source of these problems. With all of these wrong decisions we find ourselves with a mentally weak, injury prone, low IQ, lazy, selfish and just generally poorly constructed team. WIth all these negatives it is still obvious to me that this team still a playoff team. With all these issues, there is no doubt in my mind this is still a playoff team, especially with the historically bad eastern conference this year. So you ask why the bulls after all their injuries are still a good team. You ask why no matter who you add through free agents they are able to contribute. You ask why we are the exact opposite in those regards. The answer lies in the person who is pretending to be a coach Mike Woodson.
Woodson has been a bad coach since the playoffs after he took over for MDA. I agree that Lin's, Barons and Shumps injuries hurt the team that playoff series. I agree with the assumption that there was no way that we were going to beat the heat with that team. The problem I had with that series was the obvious coaching mistakes he was continually committing. Woodson is commiting THE SAME EXACT MISTAKES now. I am not going to go into all of those mistakes because we have seen many posters voice them this season. People ignored those mistakes because of the injuries. I can understand injuries but the mistakes he was making were not due to injuries but his own bad coaching. You can tell the difference between a well coached bad team and a poorly coached bad team.
Woodson does not even have an offensive system. He just took whatever he learned from that partial season he had coaching as an assistant under MDA. This is why since he has been the coach our team does not use any curls, dive cuts, backdoor cuts or any off ball movement. The only thing he could understand from MDA was pick and rolls. We have a bootleg seven seconds or less system without the fastbreaks!
Woodson has a defensive system but it is the worst system I have ever seen. You double the post 75% of the time. It does not matter if the team has good 3pt shooters or if the doubled post player can not score. I mean we have doubled Bismack Biyombo in the post multple times for Christ sake. The player doubling will almost always be one pass away. We switch on picks no matter what. You say the ball handler is not looking to score? So what switch! You say its a PG/C pick and switching will give us 2 bad mismatches? So what switch! Like someone pointed out in one of the recent game threads, the only time we don't switch is when it takes away a mismatch.
Our team management sucks, our players suck but through all that we are no doubt a playoff team in this years eastern conference. While all of the blame for why we are bad is not on Woodsons shoulders he is one of the bigger reasons for why we will miss the playoffs this season.
3/3/2014 10:43 AM