Traineri i Knicks D'Antoni largohet mbas "perleshjes" me Carmelon

 
Traineri i Knicks D'Antoni largohet mbas "perleshjes" me  Carmelon  
Knicks Coach Out After Clashing With Carmelo  
 
NYC : The 13-month marriage between Knicks star Carmelo Anthony and coach  
Mike D'Antoni ended Wednesday afternoon as D'Antoni unexpectedly resigned 
his  post after more than three years, one playoff appearance and countless 
headaches  due to the constant style clashes between the coach and his 
superstar player.  
 
 

 
 
 
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Assistant coach Mike Woodson, left, will lead the Knicks  in Wednesday 
night's game against the Portland Trail Blazers at Madison Square  Garden.




According to people familiar with the matter, D'Antoni made the decision  
because his uptempo system of basketball never quite meshed with Anthony, a  
five-time All-Star who was acquired in a deal in which the Knicks gave up 
four  rotation players among others. After realizing Anthony would never buy 
into his  style of play over the last few weeks, D'Antoni understood that he 
couldn't win  much with the current roster and would be subjected to two 
more months of  turmoil and negativity until the season ended. 
Mike Woodson, the former Atlanta Hawks head coach, will be the interim 
coach  for the rest of the season. Assistants Dan D'Antoni and Phil Weber are 
also  leaving the team. Owner James Dolan said that Woodson "understands that 
we will  be re-evaluating at the end of the season." Dolan added that the 
team is  positioned for a drive at the playoffs, and: "I want to be clear, I 
believe in  our players, I believe in our talent." 
That talent showed Wednesday, as they ended their six-game losing streak by 
 blowing out the Portland Trail Blazers. 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
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On Wednesday morning, D'Antoni met with Knicks interim general manager Glen 
 Grunwald and assistant GM Allan Houston, telling them he didn't think he 
should  continue to be the coach. Later, he met with Dolan to finalize the 
departure. At  a news conference Wednesday night, Dolan said the meeting was 
"not an event that  was planned in any way, it just happened." He said the 
decision to part ways was  mutual. After D'Antoni said he wanted to leave, he 
offered to stay if the Knicks  wanted, Dolan said. 
D'Antoni leaves a rebuilding project unfinished. Since being hired in May  
2008, he went 121-167, but the losses were in large part due to the salary 
cap  problems of the woeful team he inherited. Just when things looked 
brightest—last  winter with Stoudemire and a well-rounded roster starring in the 
D'Antoni  system—everything was undone with the Anthony trade. Grunwald, 
speaking about  the constant roster turnover said D'Antoni had a "rough go of 
it." 
The Anthony-D'Antoni pairing may have been doomed from the start. Even well 
 after the trade, D'Antoni often spoke fondly of the players the team gave  
up—role players like Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Raymond Felton 
among  them. In the deal, the team acquired former Nuggets point guard 
Chauncey  Billups, a friend of Anthony's who many times clashed with the offense, 
and  there became a stylistic tug of war between Anthony's loyalists and 
D'Antoni's  that never fully healed. 
The question now turns to the future of Jeremy Lin, the Knicks' suddenly  
famous point guard who led the team to seven straight wins in February and 
has  cooled down over the team's latest losing streak. The outlook for Lin is 
poor if  Woodson sticks to the style he used in Atlanta, a more traditional, 
slower game.  Woodson had two winning seasons in Atlanta and in both of 
those years, 2009 and  2010, they were 24th and 27th respectively in a 
statistic that measures  possessions. D'Antoni is almost always near the top. That 
means Lin's fast-paced  playmaking will almost certainly be contained in 
favor of the isolation style  Anthony prefers. 
 
 
 
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New York Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni resigned on Wednesday  afternoon after 
realizing his coaching style did not mesh with superstar Carmelo  Anthony, 
according to people familiar with the matter. Kevin Clark has details  on The 
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Now comes the hard part for Woodson, merging two completely different types 
 of players into one system. There are many players who were stars in 
D'Antoni's  system—Stoudemire, Lin, Steve Novak and Landry Fields among them—who 
may not fit  in a slower offense. Woodson said Wednesday night that he will 
"change things as  we go along." But said that he cannot do it immediately 
because he needs  practice time and it will be hard to quickly change 
D'Antoni's schemes, which  called for Anthony and Stoudemire to drive or receive a 
pass on the perimeter.  Woodson, however, offered up the idea that he will 
put Anthony in post-up  situations near the basket or give Stoudemire shots 
at close range as well.  
"We still have the opportunity to do something special here in New York and 
 I'm going to hold the players accountable for that," Woodson said.  
Anthony runs an "isolation" play on 29.7% of his plays, according to 
Synergy  Sports, a company which tracks every play. No player with significant 
playing  time isolates more. He'll get his chance to do it more, now. The 
Knicks' future  depends on it.