The Knicks' training facility is located in Greenburgh, New York, an hour's drive from mid-town Manhattan.
Mike D'Antoni defended his decision not to regularly hold home game-day shootarounds, saying it doesn't make sense for Amar'e Stoudemire to have to make the round trip drive from Manhattan to Greenburgh 10 hours before tip-off.
"New York's a little bit different than other places," D'Antoni said. "I just don't know if Amar'e being in a car for two hours in the morning of a game is the way to go. If we can get (a) shootaround the day before, if we can get our work done, then I don't think that's the way to go. If we can't get our work done then yeah, we'll do this."
On Monday, however, the Knicks held their first home morning shootaround, which is standard operation procedure for most teams. D'Antoni does conduct game day shootarounds on the road but has passed on holding them for home games.
Donnie Walsh, who also lives in Manhattan and attended Monday's shootaround, suggested that getting the team out of bed for an early game day workout isn't such a bad thing.
"When you're losing a lot you change something," Walsh said. "We'll see it the change helps us."