tkf wrote:fishmike wrote:knicks1248 wrote:djsunyc wrote:nixluva wrote:Woody has a lot of issues that go beyond the defense. His overall handle on how to use this roster is absent. You can tell he doesn't have a good handle on how to use this roster and we all know he's not a very creative offensive coach either. Poor defense on top of poor offense is not a good combination. The only thing we can hope for is that by some miracle Felton starts playing better on both ends, JR starts to take better shots, pass once in a while and drive to the basket. Hopefully get more out of KMart and hope the team gets hot shooting. This team was built to be a good offensive team. If they don't score the ball they don't have enough defense to just stop teams consistently. Even with Tyson back this team has some holes on D. Still it is true that a lot of the problems can get better with more effort and working together as a unit, which hasn't happened so far this season.
melo does not lift the play of others. if jr could pass it to himself he would and i think he actually has a few times. and ray felton is hot potato pg that moves it east/west.
when your best passer is bargs, then the team has no shot at being a solid cohesive offensive unit.
there is no fix for this by changing head coach. i am seeing this same exact thing with the raptors. demar + rudy have no idea how to pass and make others better which kills the offense. this is a very very fundamentally flawed roster with limited team-first players. any coaching change will be a short lived burst of 5 hour energy before you come crashing down...
dolan's emergence from the shadows has already forecasted how this season will play out...and you're seeing it.
The only thing melo needs to do is play more with in the flow of the game, and that will only come when you get a coach with a different offensive system and a pg that can run an offense..
like MDA? Who after Linsanity asked Melo to get his offense in the flow of the game. Like that? Fools gold man. A new coach isnt fixing this.
for 13 seasons it has always been some one else or something else.. coach, lack of PG, PG, lack of help... No a new coach isn't fixing this at all like you said.. first it was dantoni.. woody was supposed to be the father figure.. now woodson is the problem.. this is so predictable..
MDA's tenure here was a transition period, im not sure what people expected from a coach who changed rosters every 90 days..then talk about woods needs time to incorporate 4 new players...Please don't judge MDA as a coach who came here to save the franchise because that was not the case.
The knicks roster was 100% drama free last yr, not one single player was worried about contract issues, playing time, or what there role was.
The effort ain't there because the coach has no idea, and it makes matters worse by the way the franchise has catered to JR, benching beno, calling out shump to often, not having control over amare and kmart's PT..
You added 4 guys who are prime players, not bench warmers. It was easy to bench KT, camby (role players) or brewer,
Either a coaching change or a trade is almost necessary, or maybe a couple of big wins to boost confidence, I doubt the latter, because these issues were as plain as day in the preseason..too many players that can play, and you can't play 10 to 12 guys, you just can't do it
11/20/2013 7:07 AM