We beat the Hawks tonight while allowing them to shoot 60% from the field in a high scoring game where both teams scored over 100.

One of the big factors in winning is that the Knicks shot basically 60% from downtown 16-27.

No defense. Tons of 3s. Where have we seen this movie before?

GodSaveTheKnicks wrote:I am loving what has happened thus far but just had a thought.

We beat the Hawks tonight while allowing them to shoot 60% from the field in a high scoring game where both teams scored over 100.

One of the big factors in winning is that the Knicks shot basically 60% from downtown 16-27.

No defense. Tons of 3s. Where have we seen this movie before?

Yes, Woodson has adapted parts of the MDA playbook.

Fact is we shoot the 3 pretty good. Melo leads the league in shots taken.

And the wins keep coming. Could MDA have done well with this roster? Who knows.

I got slamed by the Dolanites and StarMooby's for suggesting this and the "Fableistic" tendancy was to digest as saying "MDA" won the game. Not at all, we are past that.

Remember Woodsons legacy as understudy to Larry Brown. Larry is UNC alum, so is Felton, and Larry also coached Felton. Woodson gets Felton. Woodson then coached the ATL and did a very good job but if anything he was not overly creative on offense. His completion was an abbreviated stint under MDA and its all very easy to understand elements of Bobby Knight, Larry, and MDA will find its way into his style.

Its far from MDA but when you have good shooters you spread the offense out and nice things happen.

Maybe Woodson even got "find the open man" from his year with Red!

Woodsons Beard still freaks me out. My Plasma TV does very deep blacks. His beard is not human. Its an abyss.

I just found it funny that after all the talk about

"You can NEVER win a championship playing MDA ball"
"Defense wins championships"
"Chucking a ton of 3s is NOT a game plan"

blablablablabla

Outside of that first month of great defense, we're having a pretty successful season basically shooting a TON of 3s and playing pretty subpar defense.

Perhaps Pringles biggest mistakes were

- not communicating with his players, especially THE franchise player
- not having damn point guard to run the pick n roll like Felton/Chandler

I bet it would be pretty amusing to go back through some game threads during the MDA regime. I'm pretty sure there's a decent amount of overlap and some of the people who were blasting the mediocre defense/tons of 3s under MDA are the same ones celebrating this new completely different style of play under Woody.