RunningJumper
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Who's worse, Woodson or D'Antoni?
I think D'Antoni too, because of things such as benching Nate for 14 games, while some of the players were physically hurting, and his love for Chris Duhon. I don't remember the interior defense being this consistently bad.Dantoni sadly is even worse....have you forgot. Do you think we win 54 games with Dantoni even with Kidd and the 3 wise men as asst coaches
Who's worse, Woodson or D'Antoni?
Just saying - MDA's Lakers are 12th right now in defensive rating. Defensive Guru Mike Woodson's Knicks are 29th.
Dantoni was a very good offensive coach before we got Melo, its no knock on Carmelo or Dantoni but Dantoni just didnt know how to switch up his system effectively with a superstar that is very good with isolation plays.
Considering the garbage we had, Dantoni got the most out of them. However our defense immediately improved after his departure.
Woodson would almost be a good defensive coach but its the switching on picks that kills me. That worked with the championship Pistons when they had bigs like Rasheed wallace and ben wallace. It doesnt work with our team and Woody needs to cut it out.
Ill say one more thing about Dantoni...in my opinion his Phoenix Suns helped change the way alotta these teams play. With Nash, the Matrix and Amare those suns were one of the funnest if not the funnest team Ive ever watched. If only he coulda put his pride aside and hired a real defensive coach (a few different times in his career)
at least woodson has been has been successful with two groups of players. d'antoni has never really had any type of success outside of his years with nash and stoudemire. to be honest, steve nash made d'antoni look a lot better as a coach than he actually is.