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By Jared Zwerling
NEW YORK -- To Jeremy Lin, Mike D'Antoni was more than his Knicks head coach
. He was his career savior.
After going undrafted, not getting a real shot with three NBA teams (the
Mavericks, Warriors and Rockets), being sent down to the D-League three
times, Lin found himself at the end of the Knicks' bench -- wondering,
praying, hoping he would get a chance.
Then, on Feb. 4 against the Nets, at the mecca for basketball, Madison
Square Garden, Lin's world as he knew it changed forever. With 3:34 to play
in the first quarter, D'Antoni called Lin's name for him to sub in for Iman
Shumpert.
From there, Linsanity was born.
Now, the man who enabled Lin to become a global sports figure, will no
longer be guiding the second-year player from the sidelines. And that
thought didn't sit well with the 23-year-old when he received the news
Wednesday morning that D'Antoni was resigning.
"Obviously, I miss him a lot," Lin said in the Knicks' locker room Wednesday
night, after his team blew out the Blazers tonight, 121-79. "What he did
for my career, I’m not going to forget what he did for me personally. Very
emotional. I’m sad to see him go. I owe a lot to him."
Lin said he called D'Antoni today, and then received a text message back. "I
plan on talking to him for a long time," Lin said.
Behind the scenes, there are many who believe Carmelo Anthony led to the
resignation of D'Antoni, who wanted to run his system more through Lin with
Melo scoring off pick-and-rolls and space-outs; not isolations and post-ups.
But Melo never fully adjusted to an offense that D'Antoni has always
orchestrated, from his days in Phoenix with Steve Nash to last season in New
York with Raymond Felton. Interestingly, Amare Stoudemire said in the
locker room tonight that when he spoke to D'Antoni today, he told STAT that
one of the reasons why he stepped down was because the players weren't
buying into his playbook.
But from day one, when Anthony became a Knick on Feb. 21, 2011, he seemed to
always be in the driver's seat; not D'Antoni. In fact, one person
knowledgeable about D'Antoni's resignation said the head coach was "a dead
man walking" when it came to his future in New York, compared to Melo's.
Looking ahead, while Lin will continue to start -- for now, but don't count
out Baron Davis -- he will have to be prepared for more plays that resemble
what Woodson drew up as the Hawks head coach from 2005 to '10, when Joe
Johnson was the focal point.
Now, that player is Anthony. In fact, during his pregame press conference,
Woodson said he would look to post up Anthony more tonight and then after
the game, he said he tried to utilize the team's leading scorer (21.3 points
per game) early in the contest to help him get going. The play-calling
worked as Melo scored 10 points in the first quarter.
Lin said that Woodson will look to change a few things in the offense, but
not everything. On the court tonight, he felt a difference not only with the
team's defense and higher energy level, but also with Woodson's new
direction being implemented in the offense. Lin agreed that Anthony and
Amare Stoudemire should be the Knicks' go-to guys, which echoes the
philosophy of Woodson, which will likely continue to develop over time.
"Obviously we want them [Anthony and Stoudemire] to be our primary scorers,
but there are nights where that’s not going to be the case and they get
doubled, tripled," Lin said. "Tonight, we had them clicking, we had the
bench clicking. We just played to our strength, but every game has a
different tempo, different flow and different rhythm."
Woodson credited the second unit for stepping up tonight -- sharpshooters J.
R. Smith and Steve Novak combined for 13 3-pointers -- and said the Knicks
are the deepest team he's ever coached in his career. He even went on to say
that the players must "cherish" their minutes or they may not play as much
from game to game.
"That is the nature of this business," he said. "I am trying to win. I want
these guys to win for the city of New York. That is the only way it should
be."
Woodson's sense of accountability is probably at a different degree than
what Lin is used to hearing -- he had a lot of flexibility playing under D'
Antoni -- but it's crunch time now for the Knicks. With 23 games remaining,
and the team neck-in-neck at the eighth seed with the Bucks, who just
upgraded by trading for Monta Ellis, there is no letting up.
Lin will have to parlay that emotion from Wednesday's surprising development
, centered around the first person to give him his biggest professional
opportunity, into a stronger drive -- and more efficient play. That means
less turnovers and adjusting to Woodson's late-season audibles to help the
Knicks get over the hump and climb to the sixth spot or higher.
The bottom line is Woodson means business and wins, and those are the two
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“It’s going to be, including the D-league, like my sixth or seventh system
in the last year and a half. It’ll be all right,” Lin said with a smile
after the game. “We’re not going to change everything. Some things will be
the same.”
“I was surprised,” Lin said of D’Antoni’s resignation. “I know some
people were talking about it and what-not, but I didn’t know the reality of
it. I figured after shoot-around he’d definitely be here tonight.
“What he did for my career, I’m not going to forget what he did for me
personally. It’s very emotional. I’m sad to see him go and I owe a lot to
him.”
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: http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/14366/lin-was
: By Jared Zwerling
: NEW YORK -- To Jeremy Lin, Mike D'Antoni was more than his Knicks head coach
: . He was his career savior.
: After going undrafted, not getting a real shot with three NBA teams (the
: Mavericks, Warriors and Rockets), being sent down to the D-League three
: times, Lin found himself at the end of the Knicks' bench -- wondering,
: praying, hoping he would get a chance.
: Then, on Feb. 4 against the Nets, at the mecca for basketball, Madison
: Square Garden, Lin's world as he knew it changed forever. With 3:34 to play
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