Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, Carmelo Anthony and The Challenge to Change the Way

Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, Carmelo Anthony and The Challenge to Change the Way: At last we checked with the New York Knicks, Linsanity was in full force and effect. Hard to believe that a few weeks later, the same coach who ventured to the undrafted Jeremy Lin to create the largest event of the season baketball now gone from the team.

For those who are closely watching the Knicks, but it is not. Mike D'Antoni, now the former coach of the New York Knicks, manages the style of play that hole with a big star, Carmelo Anthony, who was acquired last year. D'Antoni's offense quickly centered system, which relies on the head (in case the Knicks, Jeremy Lin) to be the organizer of the ball, and uses the principle that a player who openly came to hold the view. At the same time, Antoine, a great shooter, prefers to be in control of the ball.

The conflict has created what many sports commentators saw the inevitable end to stay with D'Antoni's Knicks. Knicks are not going to give up the stars, they shared so much to do, and this meant that D'Antoni would have been the one who should leave. As the Knicks Amare Stoudemire another star said on Thursday: D'Antoni was the idea of ​​"a particular system that we had to fulfill all of us have not quite join in, and he is upset. I think that's why he took his way."

Some say that D'Antoni was too stubborn and should be the one to adapt the system, he ran. It can be seen, however, why he stuck to it: he ran a similar system with the Phoenix Suns, where he coached four consecutive 50-victory and was named NBA coach of the year. As a way to make work so well in the past, we can see why it would be difficult to refuse.

However, others point the finger at Anthony, who had a "mentality scorer throughout his life," Knicks player as a partner in an interview with New York Times. Groin injury kept Anthony from the band when Linsanity, but the Knicks have gone 7-1. Since he returned, the record was reversed. "Within two weeks, the Knicks played the game a middle ground in which all flourished and pulled for each other," writes Howard Beck of The Times. "The joy is gone, pushed the tension and resentment."

Thus, when the leader of the team and its star player, both are too stubborn to change, which should be the one to watch? In most organizations, it would be a star, but the economics of professional sports are upset by this concept. In this case, the answer is easy: Maybe it was just a coincidence, but the Knicks were winning as a team D'Antoni's system, finally, click Lin increase in the foreground and Anthony away. On the other hand, the Knicks knew they would get with Anthony-shooter who likes to play successfully in isolation and struggled and paid to the state.

I think it would be a middle ground between these two, and that D'Antoni's job to find him. Play up to the forces of Antony and operate in more players and more speed than a typical game. Maybe this is impossible, and D'Antoni and Anthony knew. In any case, D'Antoni's departure is a reminder of how difficult it is for those who, a team member or team leader to change the way, especially if they are in ways that contributed to victory in the past.