Look MDA is 6-7 without Kobe or Nash!!! His PG's are Blake and Farmar! Lakers are looking GREAT on offense and they hustle on D, even if they aren't great. That team looks like a well coached team. People say MDA doesn't adjust but he's added Hill to the SL and they're having good success. Also MDA's Gm is working with him to get him the shooters he needed and PG help. Woody is just not showing you anything. Woody got the kind of older vet players he wanted last year and even this year they got him Beno, which i'm sure Woody was in favor of. He doesn't like to rely on young players. I think if there's any hope Woody is gonna have to make use of younger guys like Murry. I'm hoping Tyler can get well and rejoin the team.
People hate on system Coaches like MDA, but IMO you know what you get with him and if you work WITH him rather than against him you know what you're going to get production wise. The Lakers learned that last year by forcing Howard and MDA together it doesn't work. Problem with Woody is that he doesn't really offer much if the team doesn't have any natural ability on it's own. MDA can work with scrubs as long as you give him players that will listen and can play team ball.
The Knicks are infested with some selfish players that don't want to play TEAM BB. To make matters worse, Woody doesn't really coach TEAM BB. He's much more comfortable with ISO BB and it shows in how the team is playing. IF the team had come out playing the same style of BB as last year when we had Kidd, i'd give Woody the credit for how the team was playing, but it looks like Woody had very little to do with how the team was playing and that it had a lot to do with the presence of Kidd. I'll admit that I was wrong about the influence of Kidd on the offense. I assumed that Woody was more of an influence on the style they played, but that can't be the case judging from how the team has looked this year. They're aren't playing the same way at all. There's NOTHING about this years offense that bears any resemblance to the offense from last year when they were winning. The spacing, ball movement, screens, picks, etc. None of the things they did last year when they were winning are being done now. This is the offense from the playoffs when they looked horrible and were predictable in using ISO, poor ball movement and forced post ups. That's a bad indictment of Woodson's skills as a coach.
This thread was very interesting until you have to try to bring or devert the topic about Melo. It's not about Melo it's about other players and the coach. But I know you just can't help yourshelf. I think maybe Melo took your lunch money and made you cry.
11/24/2013 2:10 PM