Originally Posted by
iSaYughh
Since Woodson is an inferior coach to D'antoni, and since the majority of Knick players' supported MDA (and played very well under him), I suspect us to be worse, pretty much across the board.
A best case scenario: Melo plays as well as he ever has. The rest of the team stagnates, but doesn't get too much worse. We never pose much of a threat to any of the true juggernauts in the league (with MDA we would have had a punchers' chance, even with inferior talent, as has been proved both this season and last, pre-Melo), and pretty soon we will deal with the albatross contracts of Amare and his aging knees, and Melo playing our franchise like he played DEN during a looming contract year.
We will not be winning a championship anytime soon.
And unlike pre-Melo, when we weren't that great (mainly bc we just lacked obvious ****), we were fun, on the rise, had an identity, and had a true plan.
We are in close to the worst situation possible. We won't be moving on up, and we won't be tearing down to have a chance at building up for years.
Isiah 2.0: The Redux.
The coup de gras being D'antoni's exit, tethered to Dolan and his organizational paw pints, sequentially following the likewise resignation of Walsh for precisely the same ****.
The next round of excuses will be something like: "D'antoni messed up these players' so bad they still can't win a chip".