holfresh wrote:TeamBall wrote:holfresh wrote:TeamBall wrote:holfresh wrote:TeamBall wrote:holfresh wrote:TeamBall wrote:Nalod wrote:The brickhead is coaching his arse off with Beno as his starting PG!!! He got Iman back on track even while.
He is having to deal with JR smith as a living sitcom trying to reincarnate his inner "nate"!They stayed in Dallas to practice which tells me there is a problem.
I'm no fan of Woodson and can admit that this team has been playing some spirited ball during that Texas trip. I also think he has to have something to do with it so I give him credit there. However, what does he have to do with how Shumps playing? I'm not saying he has nothing to do with it, rather I'm asking what have you seen that suggests Woodson is that one that got him back on track?Also, Woodson can easily sit JR down so I don't know where he gets a pass with that.
JR helped him win 54 games last year..If Knicks are to take the next step, It won't be without JR and Shump..
So that means JR gets to stay in games no matter how badly hes playing?
No, it means he will be patient with JR the way he was patient with Shump..If that what it takes for this team to win going forward, do you have a problem with that?
You're saying that as if we won 2 of the last 3 because Woodson is "patient" with JR. Why does Woodson get to be patient with some players and not others? Him and Shump were getting into on the bunch during Shumps struggles. Woodson doesn't defend Shump at all with that Paul George foul. Woodson throws Beno under the bus with the JR shot against Houston. He will let JR finish every game no matter how poorly he's playing. And I have to say this because I've seen how you operate here, meaning the second JR hits a big shot or has a good game, you're gonna quote one of my posts and say something like "didn't you want JR on the bench during crunch time?". So let me say as long as JR is on this team, I'm rooting for him to do well because he helps the team. However, if he's not playing well, which he hasn't been, sit him. That rule applies to everyone but him and it's becoming more and more obvious.
That is not true..Shump has been god awful all season, yet he was logging close to 30 mins a game...JR was the second best player on the team last year...What other player would you say that Woodson wasn't patient with..Hasn't Beno mouth off about Woodson yet he is still logging big minutes?? and he sucks...Which player hasn't Woodson been patient with??
Beno and Murry are our only PGs. As soon as one of Felton or Prigs gets healthy, I highly doubt Beno sees the floor outside of garbage time. As for Shump, during the games in which he was struggling, he would get a quick hook for JR usually. He sometimes wouldn't even finish the games. This was justified due to his bad play. JR though? Not the same.
I'm really not getting your hanging your hat on these 54 games with regards to JR this season. Please correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like you're saying JR should get special treatment because of what he did last year?
No, I think JR should get the latitude he needs to get right because we saw what his good play means to the team...I think u guys look at it incorrectly..U want JR to be punished for whatever reason..I think the coach and myself wants JR to get right without damaging overall improved play of the team..
They were not listening to anything woodson had to say, you see it on TV, you here it in the the post game conferences, and if your close enough at the game (which i was fortunate) you here it at the game.
Woodson needs to coach melo more then any player on this team, because once you get him doing the right thing, Melo becomes more of a leader, and the effect trikels down.
Anthony wouldn’t reveal everything he told Mike Woodson and the team, but said one message was they needed to play with more “patience’’ and needed to have a different philosophy late in games, that they can be the hero, too, and make the big shot.
Because teams are swarming him more than ever late in games, Anthony said he will be looking for his mates in those clutch times.
It’s no coincidence Iman Shumpert’s meteoric rise in Texas occurred just as Anthony returned. Shumpert said Melo’s prodding has worked and he shot 14 of 16 on 3-pointers in San Antonio and Houston, and won the game with two big late buckets in Dallas on Sunday.
Anthony is probably closer to Shumpert, in the middle of a season-long malaise, than anyone on the team.
“For everyone on the court, the thing is just be patient,’’ Anthony said. “When that time comes at the end of the game, a lot of things are open. Teams are double- and triple-teaming me. And I told them I’m going to find them. It’s up to you to make the shot, but I’m going to find you.’’
JR stop taking the ball to the hole, and thats why he's playing poorly, shooting poorly, and his numbers are way down, He was avg about 6 FTs for a good stretch last yr, and taking high pct shots.
And as we discuss early in the thread, woodson continues to go to melo at every turn in the clutch, and it looks like melo finally had to realize that sht ain't working, Im sure melo told woodson he was tired of the ISO's.
Why are we dead last in fast break points, why are we dead last in FT attempts, little things that win games..
do you see this team on a fast break, is like watch CAMBY take a jump shot. Theres no spacing and they give up the rock to soon, too late, too high or too low, very rarely does it go right, it's like they don't even practice 101 basketball. sometime getting on track means go back to basic..
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