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4949
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5/3/2008  1:49 PM
This guy comes with a ton of medals and plenty of playoff experience. He played in the NBA, eventually going to the Professional European league (Italy) where he became the teams all-time scorer and named the leagues point guard 'of all-time'.

He began his coaching career in 1990 in Europe, and as a NBA coach, he has a compiled a record of 267-172 for a .608 winning percentage, with the Denver Nuggets and then the Phoenix Suns, where the Suns have had a 50+ win record for four straight years.

This was Kobe Bryants favorite player, while growing up in Itally. He wears #8 on his jersey, in honor of D.Antoni old number. D'Antoni was also coach of the year 2004-05.

This is the kind of guy you want to grow with. Not some commentator with zero coaching experience.

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5/3/2008  5:31 PM
He doesn't coach defense. But he has a good W-L record and I am a results oriented person, so I'll take him. But only if he has a defensive minded assistant like TThib.
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5/3/2008  5:49 PM
I can see players like Lee, Crawford, Nate, Chandler and Balkman thriving in D'Antoni's system. I can see Beasley being unstoppable force in a D'Antoni system almost like Amare. Even Rose would thrive in it. D'Antoni is a no brainer. All reports so far suggest that he will part ways with the Suns. Walsh needs to get off his Mark Jackson trip he is on.
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5/3/2008  7:52 PM
What personell do we have that fits with what Dantoni had in Phoenix? We have slow frontcourt players and no 3 point shooters? Phoenix gave up more points than anyone in the league the last 4 years. The reason why he looks good is

a. Nash
b. Nash
c Nash
D Amare
e. Rest of team fits in

This is a horrible fit.
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5/3/2008  8:34 PM
Posted by BRIGGS:

What personell do we have that fits with what Dantoni had in Phoenix? We have slow frontcourt players and no 3 point shooters? Phoenix gave up more points than anyone in the league the last 4 years. The reason why he looks good is

a. Nash
b. Nash
c Nash
D Amare
e. Rest of team fits in

This is a horrible fit.


Exactly...bring in shaq and all of a sudden his system gets expose, nash or no nash this roster will suffer especially with curry and zach. He's not an x&o coach you would have revamp the entire roster.
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5/3/2008  9:12 PM
Uhhhhhh.....we are going to revamp the roster.....that's the whole point of Donnie Walsh being here.
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5/3/2008  9:12 PM
Posted by knicks1248:
Posted by BRIGGS:

What personell do we have that fits with what Dantoni had in Phoenix? We have slow frontcourt players and no 3 point shooters? Phoenix gave up more points than anyone in the league the last 4 years. The reason why he looks good is

a. Nash
b. Nash
c Nash
D Amare
e. Rest of team fits in

This is a horrible fit.


Exactly...bring in shaq and all of a sudden his system gets expose, nash or no nash this roster will suffer especially with curry and zach. He's not an x&o coach you would have revamp the entire roster.

Oh yeah, but you guys will take jax right? Shaq's a no brainer 'ain't got it no more'! If we do improve this roster, who do you think is going to thrive as coach more? I'll take the guy with tons of experience thank you.

Why in the world' would the Knicks want to take yet another' chance on a no name? I mean when are we gonna stop experimenting and starting going with the hard proof? Let jax get his experience somewhere else. This experiment is over with! Give it up and stop banging your heads into the wall and look at reality for once in your lives.

I want the guy who I know can win with an improved team. I don't want to take anymore chances with no names.
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5/3/2008  10:00 PM
He is a terrible coach, let him go back to italy.
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5/3/2008  10:02 PM
Posted by FireIsiah:

He is a terrible coach, let him go back to italy.

That' was cheap. What' no explanation as to why? Give us a better candidate then?
I'll never trust this' team again.
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5/4/2008  7:03 PM
Of who's available with experience, I'd take D'Antoni. Along with defensive minded asisstants, it should get the Knicks back to looking/playing like a team.
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5/4/2008  7:20 PM
A good coach can get the Knicks what they need and that is a gameplan and a focus.......Knicks don't have that. Their offense is "I hope Crawford gets hot tonight."

Funny thing about the guy is he coached Marbury, correct me if I'm wrong......he coached Marbs when he single handedly almost pushed the Suns past the Spurs.

Anyway, I'm just siked to see who Donnie does pick to be coach and ultimately what they do to help said coach sucseed via roster moves.
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5/5/2008  12:02 AM
Posted by EnySpree:

Uhhhhhh.....we are going to revamp the roster.....that's the whole point of Donnie Walsh being here.

that's the whole point of getting a coach on the same page with the GM. D'Antoni and Walsh have the same vision? I doubt it.

D'Antoni routinely gets outcoached in the playoffs. check their record without Nash - that team's genius is not D'Antoni, it's Nash. D'Antoni benefits from having had Nash play with Amare, Marion, Joe Johnson, etc. He whines and moans in the playoffs and gets beat - Avery beat him, hell the 7th seed Lakers almost beat him with Kwame Brown playing center. He's extremely overrated.

also, there's the whole factor that he's expected to come here for what? two years and lose? how does Walsh's vision mesh with his? not well.

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5/5/2008  12:03 AM
Posted by EnySpree:

A good coach can get the Knicks what they need and that is a gameplan and a focus.......Knicks don't have that. Their offense is "I hope Crawford gets hot tonight."

Funny thing about the guy is he coached Marbury, correct me if I'm wrong......he coached Marbs when he single handedly almost pushed the Suns past the Spurs.

Anyway, I'm just siked to see who Donnie does pick to be coach and ultimately what they do to help said coach sucseed via roster moves.

Frank Johnson coached Marbury in Phoenix.

Though it is true that D'Antoni never beat the Spurs. Or got to the Finals. he's overrated.
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5/5/2008  12:31 AM
No thanks to D'Antoni. I want a team that plays defense and a coach that doesn't consistently get outcoached in the playoffs every year. He'll be perfect in Toronto. Sorry DJ.
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5/5/2008  7:55 AM
No thanks.He is basically a coach who lets his players play.he has a good PG and players that fit. They win solely on the talent of the players not the coach's system. Defense can make a good team great and the lack of it causes good talent to crash and fail. He hasn't proved anything.

The best example of this were the great knick teams of the late 60s early 70's. They weren't a physically gifted team-slow, undersized but possibly the smartest team ever with a great coach and a great system. A great example of teh whole being greater than its parts.
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5/5/2008  11:00 AM
Posted by islesfan:

No thanks to D'Antoni. I want a team that plays defense and a coach that doesn't consistently get outcoached in the playoffs every year. He'll be perfect in Toronto. Sorry DJ.

jury is still out if d'antoni can win without nash...but the raps do have decent pg's so if he winds up in toronto...i gots no problems with that.

the only thing, imho, that d'antoni is guilty of is not being able to beat duncan. his only other playoff loss came to dallas w/o amare.
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5/5/2008  2:24 PM
D'Antoni isn't going to Toronto, he's going to Chicago. It's practically a done deal.
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5/5/2008  2:31 PM
Posted by crzymdups:

D'Antoni isn't going to Toronto, he's going to Chicago. It's practically a done deal.

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5/5/2008  2:46 PM
Let's see.

D'Antoni's system requires:

Players who can get up and down the court in a hurry for 48 minutes.
Players who shoot a high percentage.
Exceptional court vision by multiple players.
Teamwork and the willingness to pass the ball as soon as that exception court vision tells the player someone else is in a better position to score.


We have neither of those at any position at all. What we do have a lot of out of shape low percentage 1 on 1 style chuckers. It would be an absolute failure.

The sooner people realize this roster is uncoachable the better.
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5/5/2008  2:51 PM
I don't necessarily want D'Antoni but I don't know why everyone is analyzing our roster as if it matters in his decision to come here or not. When D'Antoni arrived in Phoenix, that roster was not conducive to his style, yet he worked with the GM to bring in players that fit his style, case in point, immediately shipping out Marbury.

D'Antoni is going to goto whatever team's GM says they want to play his style.
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