We been there (playoffs) and done that (Kidd, Chandler, Sheed with championship rings/ Kidd, Melo and Chandler with Olympic gold, )

Our coach demands defense from everyone. Melo got the memo.

Better not mess with us.

27 assists and only 12 turnovers

misterearl wrote:Hit the open man

27 assists and only 12 turnovers

I said in the off-season that low turnovers was the key to the Knicks season. People really do not realize how bad the pgs were. Even Lin who was great would still turn the ball over and this team needs all the possession they can get.

And this was with basically nothing from Sheed, and without Camby, Shumpert and Amare. (Now that I say that, it will be interesting to see how Woodson gets minutes for everyone once we are finally at full strength. I mean, how deep is this team????)

Anyway, my main point I wanted to make was that what really hit home with me in watching Friday night was just how much intelligence and experience this team has. It's one thing to see it on paper, but another to see it in action. We have so many guys who really know what they are doing. They may not be the most talented guys, at least at this point in the careers, but smarts and experience count for so much in the NBA, and I think we saw that vs. the Heat.

That said, it was just one game, and obviously we were extra pumped, so I'm not going to get too excited. But I do think it laid the foundation to give us an opportunity to get off to a really good start and build some momentum and confidence that could pave the way for a very nice season. I have seen over and over again in sports what a hot start can do for a team in terms of leading to a great season that defies most expectations. Which means we have to keep it up vs. the Sixers and then take it from there.

nixluva - I wasn't so sure that Woody would have the answers on offense, but he was smart enough to adopt some of MDA's stuff and when we can get some more post ups mixed in with STAT and Sheed that should also help.

Let's FINALLY set the record straight

Woodson played four years for Knight and worked with Larry Brown for years. Woodson's first pro coach was Red Holzman. Knight and Woodson talk frequently.

“I had dinner with (Bobby Knight) just this last week in New York. “We sat and chatted for about three hours. We talked basketball. What better advice to take? He’s done everything you could possibly do in basketball, and done it as good as anybody who has ever coached the game. How do you not respect Bob Knight?” - Mike Woodson, after practice last week

Mike Woodson worked with Mike D'Antoni for four months.

For all his madness and kaleidoscopically inventive profanity, Knight is one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. The hallmarks of his style—the motion offense, man-to-man defense, focus on the fundamentals, devotion to discipline—have spread throughout basketball for the past five decades at every level. It’s impossible to imagine the sport without him. And there may be no more devoted acolyte to Knight, his style of basketball, his view of the world—all the good things, without the chair-throwing—than Mike Woodson - Will Leitch, NYMagazine

Woodson draws TONS more from years with Holzman, Brown and Bobby Knight than the nanosecond he sat beside Mike D'Antoni.

Enough