Chaney's coaching has always been questionable... keeping Eisley in the game till the end when the team hadn't scored a bucket in 5 minutes plus was unbelievable.

I'm not going to blame this loss on Houston. The guy played like 48 minutes on a bad knee. So much for pacing his rehab. The Knicks are practically begging to put Houston on the shelf for a long time.

KVH played like a champ--- there's no fault there in that missed rebound toward the end of regulation--- you wonder if Mutombo should have been brought in for a few possessions.

That was a badly coached game by Chaney at the end. If he keeps this up he should be gone.

here are some of chaney's great points and bad points. first, he had the right defensive strategy for the magic. it was the same one that detroit used in the playoffs. get it out of mcgrady's hands and let others beat you. it worked in the first three quarters as everyone was out of rythm. then gooden and others started finding their shots while mcgrady started to drive the lane in a mutumbo- less paint. but the downside was no one was scoring on our team but van horn. we were not getting key baskets. thomas and houston looked awful which brings me to my next point.

the most critical error is the substitution. houston looked awful and was limping. you take him out. he was not producing offensively and defensively he was a liability at the end. we were up by ten. you need to stress defense at that point. anderson was a better defender than houston because of his quickness and athletisism. rest houston just in case. and that case happened last night. when van horn received his 5th foul, take him out. yeah, you are up by a decent margin but you are dealing with a one man army with mcgrady who can catch wreck at any time. as a fan, i knew what mcgrady can do. did'nt chaney have a clue? his offensive scemes were horrible. he did a pick and roll with thomas but thomas was shooting constantly out of his range. these were designed plays so it was not thomas' fault. his shot is at the elbow of the free throm line, not just inside the three point circle. chaney had to establish that thomas needs to get into a rythm. then the knicks would have been tough to beat. but instead, thomas was out of sync as well as houston.

overall, i thought the team as whole were decent. we played well despite houston and thomas contributing very little. but, like i said before, houston's injury is very troubling and the knicks brass is acting ho-hum about it. they have a long season so they do not need to aggravate another injury with another star player. what is worse is that we kind of needed that game. now we are going to the hard part of our schedule with the pissed off spurs waiting on saturday. that will be ugly.

But that was with less talent.

Terrible coaching by Chaney. No Deke, no Ward, no chance. It's no coincidence that Deke, Ward and KVH were the difference makers in the game. The fact that Chaney played Eisley and Doleac instead is more than a little questionable.

If Chaney coaches it right, that's a win. The Magic frontline was helpless trying to score on ours when we had Mutumbo, Thomas and Van Horn in there. Furthermore, Eisley? Come on. Everytime Eisley has the ball in the 4th quarter or in a big moment he blows it? The guy is a dumb player, plain and simple.

Why did he take Van horn out with about 3min left in the 3rd and on;y put him back in with under 8 to go in the 4th! He does that way too often. I don't understand the logic. He used to sit houston in the beginning of the 4th when he was doing good and leave spree in. When Van horn finally got back in game he was cold and picked up fouls. Someone help me understand this idoit's logic? I'm so pissed off, we can afford to lose these games where we play we enough to win! Is not a coincidence that all we have been doing is blowing 4th quarter leads the last 2yrs under Chaney.

I love this thread, it is everything I have been saying since Chaney was hired as head coach. He just doesnt work with this team, go find someone who can manage these players and make smart decisions. Look what the Red Sox did to their manager when he blew pulling Pedro out. As coach you are paid to make the touch decisions, when you consistently make the wrong ones then you need to go find a new job. Send Chaney packing.

I just don't get the huge minutes for Houston. Granted, we don't have a backup, but how many times did Houston either have the ball deflected away or dribble off someone's knees? His ball handling was sloppy, probably cuz he's dragging his leg a little.

Houston was, however, actually doing a pretty decent job on McGrady (w/ the help of the zone D), until the collapse with a minute left.

CHANEY ADMITTED THAT HE PLAYED EISLEY TOO LONG AGAINST THE MAGIC,BUT ALSO SAID HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY TO PUT IN TO HELP SCORE INSTEAD OF ALLAN HOUSTON. HMMMM

ONce he is pacing on the NYK sideline you are going to love his antics. . This is the type of guy the knicks need someone who has learned under one of the greatest coaches Chuck Daily. He would bring toughness to this team and to top it off he would be great influence on the young players.