FoeDiddy wrote:nixluva wrote:FoeDiddy wrote:nixluva wrote:Stop making excuses mrKnickShot! You're the 1st one to start challenging someone's manhood for not responding to your posts. Here you have clear statistical facts and all you can do is make lame jokes. I don't post nonsense. If I say something I back it up. That's what you're supposed to do.When I said that Woody had started going back to more of MDA plays so that the role players could get more involved you joked, but then Woody stated exactly what I had been saying the team should do. There's nothing wrong with how Woody has handled things, but let's not ignore the truth when it's clear.
Woody is having the same issues with STAT's defense that MDA had for all those years. Now people can see for themselves that it wasn't because MDA didn't care about D. This guy was his STARTING CENTER!!! How good could any team be with STAT as the anchor of the defense??? Now we know it wasn't MDA all that time. If Woody has a hard time fixing STAT then you can imagine that it has been a problem for a long time. Woody has been here working with the players on D all year. Minus STAT the D has been good all year too. Like i've said around here for years, you need defensive talent too. That's what Tyson and Shump prove.
Yet he finds a way to win through real coaching. Most teams have a weak link on defense. It's all about adjusting to hide them. Woodson makes adjustments..MDA says Let's go. It's clear Woodson has done a way better job then MDA and it's not because melo was "doggin it".
It's simple, Woody has the cooperation of the teams best player. You think that doesn't make a difference? Just be honest. To say otherwise is to deny the truth and conventional knowledge of how teams win.
I agree but it's the coaches job to get that cooperation by making their best player comfortable which dantoni did a terrible job of doing. This isn't brand new. Happened with lakers and magic Johnson back in the day. Dantoni in the end did a terrible job of putting the pieces together
Magic didn't dog it and let his team lose! How does any of these stuff excuse what Melo did? All this talk about MDA which is fine except that the record this year doesn't really support many of the claims. The team was good on D most of the year an they got even better during Linsanity when STAT and Melo were out and we didn't yet have JR or Baron. The team was depleted and still was playing great defense. It was only during that 10 game span leading up to MDA resigning that the D suffered. This is what they were doing with an undermanned team:
Long a sore spot for Mike D’Antoni, his team’s defensive consistency (or lack thereof) had previously been an impediment to their success. But recently, New York’s stingy defense has been essential to their winning ways.New York is currently holding its opponents to 93.9 points per game on 44.5% shooting after allowing 105.7 points on 47.2% shooting last season. This type of terrific turnaround is rarely seen in the NBA from one year to the next.
In early January, the Knicks actually held three straight opponents under 90 points. Prior to that stretch, the last time New York had held even two straight opponents under 90 points was all the way back in December of 2005. In fact, during that streak, the Knicks kept those teams under 88 points. As a point of comparison, in NY’s three previous seasons with D’Antoni at the helm, they held an opponent under 88 a TOTAL of nine times. That’s three games in a row, versus nine times total over the span of three complete seasons (246 games).
The other issue about Melo not getting shots is also bogus. Aside from the 10 game stretch after he came back he was getting plenty of shots. 21 per game in January vs. 23 under Woody. The difference now is that Melo is finally hitting shots and he's fully committed to defense and playing team ball. Woody has done a great job and i'm pulling for the team. This is a separate issue.
4/22/2012 6:11 PM
