Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2019.05.09)

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 10 May 2019 11:17:32 +0000

In reply to Z-man.

Yeah, it’s kind of fascinating, right? They’re ostensibly tight series, but not really in the games themselves. Man, seeing how the Rockets find a way to lose tonight is going to be high-larious.

Speaking of “not being close,” the Bucks so far have had the same point differential through nine games as the 1995-96 Bulls did in their first nine games in the playoffs that year!

By: Z-man

Z-man — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:52:46 +0000

Despite the hype and length of these conference semis, the games have largely been not all that dramatic. There was the 4-overtime game and a couple of squeakers early, but otherwise not all that much 4th quarter drama. The Celts-Bucks series was 5 blowouts.

Maybe the remaining games will be more entertaining…

By: Z-man

Z-man — Fri, 10 May 2019 10:48:36 +0000

@64 I don’t think Jamal Murry is “incredibly overrated.” He just turned 22 on a rookie-scale contract and is an above average shooting guard on a team that’s one game away from the WCFs. No one is talking about him as a superstar, just a very good young player with a lot of potential.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Fri, 10 May 2019 06:18:04 +0000

But the thing is that we never had a very high opinion on Woodson anyway. Brad Stevens was praised for like two years as a basketball savant who made awesome adjustments and was able to extract more from this players than what they had. So of course he should be getting a lot of flak as well, this Celtics team was expected by many to be the best team in the east this year.

I never expected Woody to be a genius, I just wanted him to not be actively terrible. But when you’re praised as a great coach and you fail to make any adjustments, keep your locker room together or make sure your team takes good shots and plays good basketball, well you’re gonna be criticized.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 10 May 2019 05:21:35 +0000

In reply to Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada.

Man imagine if Jamal Murray wasn’t incredibly overrated

He was big in Game 5, though!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 10 May 2019 05:20:54 +0000

In reply to Knick fan not in NJ who thinks our rookies will lead us to a lousy lottery pick in 2019.

Woodson may not have been good, but people in thus forum definitely said nicer things about him Here at Knickerblogger after experiencing Rambus and Fisher.

Oh yeah, Woody was normal NBA coach mediocre, not crazy terrible like the other guys. He was smart enough to mostly keep D’Antoni’s offensive system in place when he took over. He was bad at handling it beyond the general aspect of it all, but hey, just that general stuff is smarter than a lot of other coaches.

By: Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada

Silky Johnson, Fleet Admiral of the Tank Armada — Fri, 10 May 2019 04:54:12 +0000

Man imagine if Jamal Murray wasn’t incredibly overrated

By: Knick fan not in NJ who thinks our rookies will lead us to a lousy lottery pick in 2019

Fri, 10 May 2019 03:05:57 +0000

Woodson may not have been good, but people in thus forum definitely said nicer things about him Here at Knickerblogger after experiencing Rambus and Fisher.

By: dtrickey

dtrickey — Fri, 10 May 2019 02:54:19 +0000

Woodson also failed to exploit the advantage he had with Chris Copeland in that Indiana series, because the East is big man.

By: Hubert

Hubert — Fri, 10 May 2019 02:41:57 +0000

We all felt Woodson did a horrible job when the Knicks lost their second round series. after a while, in hindsight, that was a good result and he was far from the worst of recent Knick coaches. I think it may similar for Stevens. In the heat of the moment, he’s getting a lot of criticism, But he may look better in hindsight.

Woodson did do a terrible job and it does not look better in hindsight.