Well, he picks on the guys, Copeland earlier this season and here Novak, who will not talk back, so that Woodson can appear to have some control over the team,
when in reality, if he said something like that to Carmelo or JR Swagthang, he would stand a chance of getting lip back and undermining his authority,
to my mind, this is faulty coaching, it's cutting corners and eventually gets exposed,
you can do things the right way or you can do things that appear to be right for a while, but are not really right,
only two ways to do things.
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