* Although there doesn’t seem to be much sympathy for former Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, I thought he got a bum deal. When you do everything you can do to please the boss and the boss gets rid of you as a reward, it’s a pretty tough lump to swallow. I suppose it won’t mean much if the Knicks go on to win a championship, but if they don’t, it will be hard not to look back and wonder what would have happened if James Dolan had traded Carmelo Anthony for Deron Williams and D’Antoni had remained as coach.
KEN DREXLER
North Woodmere, N.Y.
* I hope Mike Woodson does well coaching the Knicks, but I know Woodson is answering to Carmelo Anthony, so I would rather have Phil Jackson here. There is no way Jackson would answer to Carmelo, a me-first player who has never won anything in the NBA.
EDWARD DROSSMAN
Manhattan
* Let’s see: Carmelo Anthony out of the line-up, the Knicks win; Anthony in the lineup, the Knicks lose. Do you really have to be a genius to figure this out? Great players make everyone else around them better. Anthony didn’t do that in Denver, where in his eight full seasons the Nuggets only got out the first round of the playoffs once. And he doesn’t do it with the Knicks either. MSG rocked for the three weeks of Linsanity. Sadly, it’s back to the same old story for a franchise that has time and again thrown money at the wrong “stars.”
STEVE BORRELLI
Raritan, N.J.
* I may stand alone on this one, but the choice of Mike D’Antoni as the Knicks’ head coach was doomed almost from the start. D’Antoni’s Achilles’ heel was his unwavering dedication to the motion offense and his stunning inability to adapt his approach to maximize the value of his best players. For Mike Woodson, here are the keys to the kingdom, and a contract extension: Preach defense and rebounding and use your current pieces in a more traditional offense.
BRIAN VICTOR
Manhattan
Ghosts of Flushing
* I have a theory on the Mess, oops, I mean the Mets. Taking into account all of the injuries the last couple of years — Johan Santana, Ike Davis, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Jason Bay, etc., I’m starting to believe Citi Field was built over a cemetery without relocating the bodies. Can you say “Poltergeist II,” boys and girls? I can just see their new team slogan” “They’re baaaack — on the DL.”
LOUIE REY
East Meadow, N.Y.
Rangers rooters
* Do the clowns who broadcast Rangers games have any idea of who their audience is? We are Rangers fans: We are not interested in daily updates of Sidney Crosby’s health. We are not waiting with bated breath to hear how the Islanders could make the playoffs. We do not get a thrill out of hearing how great Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, et all, are dominating the league. It was laughable during one game last week when Sam Rosen stated that one opposing superstar was impossible to strip of the puck, and then on the next three tours down the ice, he was (you guessed it) stripped of the puck.
MARTY PERRY
Massapequa, N.Y.
Away from home
* It looks as if Andy Pettitte has discovered that spending more time with your family is not always such a wonderful thing.
RICHARD SIEGELMAN
Plainview, N.Y.
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