New York Knicks: Say Adios to Mike D'Antoni's Offensive Offense

New York is an unforgiving city, especially when it comes to sports and entertainment. It is there, under the dim glow of the brightest lights that you can either be made or broken. One minute, you are hailed as a hero, such as when Jeremy's Linsanity was at its highest, and the return of Carmelo Anthony from injury saw it at its lowest. 

Or so you thought until ownership woke up and realized that they had lost the pulse of the city. Gotham  is a city of grit, determination and hard-knocks. You can hear it in the thunk-thunk-thunk of a taxi rolling over its grated streets. You can feel it in the energy of the people moving through the never-sleeping city.  

Its sports teams reflect the brash, in-your-face attitude of its people. When they win like the New York Giants, they will extol your virtues. But when you lose like the New York Knickerbockers, well, they will tell you know in no uncertain terms. Mike D'Antoni represented the opposite of what the team ought to have been—a reflection of the city and its people.

The Knicks went from feeling good to trying to find a sports psychologist to fix this mess. In the end, ownership decided that it was easier to just let Mike go. He was incapable of adjusting to his players' skill-set. The dysfunction reared its ugly head once the team got healthy and fans immediately got antsy and called for change. 

The now former Knicks coach had such a strong belief in his system that he forgot to ask if his system was right for the city. Anyone who coaches a New York team must either be brash or have a Clint Eastwood like-attitude. 

As of tonight, the Knicks are putting a beatdown on Portland; the Boston Celtics did the same too. So take this win with a grain of salt because the opponent had already lost its way before this inspired play by the team. Mike Woodson has approximately 24 games to state his case as head el jefe. Otherwise, the chant for Phil Jackson to make his patented "build it and I will come" movement will begin.