Coach Woodson's hard head

It certainly can be argued that the Knicks lost to the 76ers yesterday because they were looking past them to today's game against the Atlanta Hawks.

You could also say that there is a lot of rust on Felton who returned last night and Amar'e and Shumpert.

Those are good arguments but the reason for yesterday's loss in my opinion had less to do with rust and more to do with coach Woodson's hard head.

Like Toney Douglas last year once Woodson gets an idea in his head he is reluctant to change it until his team is on the brink of disaster.

This force fitting of Amar'e and Carmelo on the floor at the same time does not work and will not work but coach just can't get that through his thick head.

After Melo and JR Smith proved that they couldn't hit an elephant in the ass with a two by four Woodson should have immeditely allowed Felton and Amar'e to work on the court minus Smith and Anthony.

Amar'e was the only guy who showed up offensively yesterday and could have gotten 40 points on the slow footed big men of Philly but because he was on the floor with Melo and Smith his touches were limited and yet he still managed to get 20 points.

I am not saying that Amar'e should start in place of Anthony, not at all, but I am saying that once he agreed publicly to coming off the bench coach Woodson should have put an end to this ridiculous experiment.

Amar'e's role should be as the featured scorer on the second unit working with Raymond primarily at the point.

If not the Philly game will become more of the norm and less of the exception.

Knicks Lose Again, Philly 97 - Knicks 80

These teams will meet again

Some Knicks fans will argue that although they lost yesterday to the Nets they took them to the final seconds minus three important players.

The truth is only one of those missing players is asked to contribute much and that's Raymond Felton.

Anthony, Smith and Stoudemire played at full strength but the rest of the team is not deep enough to handle this Nets version 2.0 that has been on a tear since PJ Carlesimo replaced Avery Johnson.

Unfortunately the geniuses at the league office only scheduled two regular season games between these teams making it impossible to see these teams go at it at full strength anymore in the regular season.

I have a feeling that these teams will meet again in the playoffs with the same results as yesterday.

The Knicks Lose Again, Nets 88 - Knicks 85

Deng Dong

Last night the Knicks scored 36 points total for the first half.

The game was over before the third quarter began, don't let the final score fool you.

The Knicks will be .500 in no time. I told you.

Knicks Lose Again, Bulls 108 - Knicks 101