Josh Smith and Joe Johnson do not care for Mike Woodson's crunch time coaching

Bill Simmons talked to Ric Bucher the other day on his podcast, and Simmons asked for three side line tidbits (around the 24 minute mark). The first one Bucher told (and the one he was most excited about) was pressure point of the game Mike Woodson tried to critique Joe and Josh. Bucher reports in no uncertain terms that their response was "shut up."

So we got that going for us, which is nice.

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No real surprise here.

Josh’s feeling towards Woodson are well documented. Joe is probably suffering from senior-itis, knowing he’s gone soon.

by Duff_Man on May 6, 2010 3:14 PM EDT reply actions

At some point

The coach has to take charge of his team, and force his team to respect him. Josh Smith knows that he can take jump shots whenever he feels like it since he’ll never be benched for doing it. There’s also the possibility that they realize Woody doesn’t know what he’s talking about, so they don’t care to listen to him anymore.

It’s definitely time to do something with the head coach.

by Bronn on May 6, 2010 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s hard to argue against that Woody should shut up given how pathetically he has coached in these playoffs, but otoh Joe should shut up too until he starts shooting like the max contract player he thinks he is.

by redwards95 on May 6, 2010 4:17 PM EDT reply actions