Woodson made adjustments on the offensive end in this game. More cross-court/misdirections by Melo on the perimeter, PNR with Melo and Stat, also saw Tyson out high to clear the paint in a high-low formation. With that siad, did anybody really think his streak of never losing 2 in row would continue when we had to play the Heat in two road games in the playoffs.
We are all ultimateknick fans here and we all view games from the Knick perspective, but sometimes we have to acknowledge the other team. We've improved tremendously since Woodson took over, but the Heat are just a flat-out better team than we are. As much as we have improved defensively under Woodson, the Heat are still better on the defensive end, they are better offensively mainly because they have better playmakers than we do, which ultimately helps thier bench play better than ours on both ends of the floor, and give Coach Spo some credit, he's out coaching our coach right now. He found a weakness in our defense abd is exploiting it. Stat is slow or unsure on his rotations and they are taking advantage of that by swinging the ball around the horn to Stats side for open jumpers. Also, he is doing a good job of crowding Novak and forcing him to put the ball on the floor.
Could we have helped ourselves? Absolutely! Our defensive rotations been better but either way, we would still be coming back to NY down 2-0.