KoB2011

Woodson began the season with the 'Melo-at-the-four, two-point-guard look that was so successful in 2012-13, notching an opening night win over the Milwaukee Bucks. He quickly abandoned it, though, inserting Bargnani in the starting lineup for Game 2 against the Chicago Bulls, which the Knicks lost on a game-winning floater by Derrick Rose. Much as he had throughout the Knicks' postseason loss to the Pacers, when given enough healthy fours and fives to do it, Woodson insisted on using "big" lineups featuring heavy doses of Bargnani and Stoudemire. Such lineups were roundly trounced by the opposition, largely due to their inability to get stops or secure rebounds on the defensive end.

Following a nationally televised blowout by Kidd's Nets, Chandler bristled at Woodson's switch-heavy defensive schemes, and said during his season-ending interview that the Knicks needed to "alter a lot of stuff ... offensively and defensively, honestly." In his exit interview, Stoudemire said "there was times that we didn’t totally buy into" Woodson's coaching on either end of the floor.