Steve Novak is a scrub. Would yall want him on the team over Bud, Parsons, Morris? No...so stop crying.
They should have traded Chuckmelo instead of firing Pringles. Another mistake by New York. The team was winning without Anthony. They weren't just playing bad teams either. Forget about all the hype. They had two other stars in the line-up and a budding star in Lin.
Most MIP players are trap players, in a lot of cases they have an outlier season and they eventually regress to the mean.
With Lin at point, the knicks had a good chance to go deep into the playoffs as he makes everyone around him play better as a whole. Melo, while an extremely skilled individual scorer, doesn't make everyone around him better frequently. With the Melo-centric offense, they'll slip in the first round unless Melo and Amare can continue their inspired defense. If so, they have a shot against the Heat.
knicks playing pretty good defense lately, even melo playing d. good game by lin. him and melo are smiling and laughing together. woodson even yelling at his players on the sideline for mistakes.
Lin is really good! I mean better than average good. Not CP3 good, or D. Rose good, but really good. He just needs more confidence in himself... and just start believing he's on or near Melo's level. That's what's holding him back. He's got a bright future.
Looks like Anthony might have been dogging it to get D'Antoni fired, and he and Lin might be able to coexist after all. With the return of Chandler and Jeffries, their defense is almost back to where it was. Still not a contender, but definitely an interesting team come playoffs.
This. I probably wouldn't have worded it that way but, yeah. Dantoni doesn't coach or enforce defense in practice or in games...and it shows. I don't know if that's what Woodson is doing but that's what this team and all teams need. Also, people need to give this "Melo y u no play off the ball" attitude a rest. Asking him to play off the ball is just as silly as asking Al Jefferson to play off the ball. You should WANT him to position himself in that mid post area so he can go to work, that's what he's good at. He's a power post player. Dantoni failed when he repeatedly asked him to play pseudo PG, that's not his game. He doesn't have the handles and speed to get into the paint and create from beyond the 3pt line consistently. And, coaches are paid to find the best gameplan for their team. Phil Jackson changed up the triangle for Shaq, Adelman changed up his offense to fit Rubio/Love, the great coaches adjust to make things work with their roster. Dantoni has never done that, he's just like Nelly.
It's funny how people on clutchfans get mad at ESPN for never showing Houston highlights and always talking about the Knicks when even the Knicks have a 28 page here. Shows that people really are interested in that team.
Yup. I still watch em, especially after they beat a good team, but it's hard to get excited about the Rockets vs. the Bobcats.
