CrushAlot wrote:The article yesterday about how he was surprised that he had to motivate guys to play in the NBA and then today this quote:

Fisher seems to be enjoying coaching a team more in his image. He indicated he feels the triangle is better off without proven scorers Smith and Iman Shumpert.

“I think as you see with a little bit of change from one guy to another guy, a lot of things open up within the offense that you can do,” Fisher said. “I just think it’s our ability to find five guys that can take advantage of all that’s within it. But you need guys like Lance and Lou and Langston that are facilitators of the offense and not constantly looking for shot opportunities for themselves.”

http://nypost.com/2015/01/25/thomas-supplanting-gimpy-stoudemire/

Pretty telling quote though. It's nice to see Fisher is aware of the selfishness of some of these guys (yes, Melo included). Hopefully we'll see some change.