but we know Ronny can't play 40 minutes a night or he'll break down.

Now is the time to play Anthony Randolph.

MDA, Please play Anthony Randolph.

The guys who will get Gallo's minutes are Shawne Williams and Bill Walker.

Allanfan20 wrote:If AR is playing crappy in practice don't think for a second that MDA will play him for even a minute. He has to earn his way back. It's not a grudge from MDA.

Maybe. But this is also the MDA who benched Nate for a month for that shot he took at his own basket against New Jersey.

I do think that he and/or Mozgov are going to get minutes in Gallo's absence. Hopefully he makes the most of it.

NYKBocker wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:If AR is playing crappy in practice don't think for a second that MDA will play him for even a minute. He has to earn his way back. It's not a grudge from MDA.

Maybe. But this is also the MDA who benched Nate for a month for that shot he took at his own basket against New Jersey.

What was wrong in that?

CrushAlot wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:If AR is playing crappy in practice don't think for a second that MDA will play him for even a minute. He has to earn his way back. It's not a grudge from MDA.

Maybe. But this is also the MDA who benched Nate for a month for that shot he took at his own basket against New Jersey.

What was wrong in that?

Nothing would be wrong with that if that was who he is. You can't be a laid back players coach and then react in a manner totally out of character. He isn't a disciplinarian and he is a poor communicator. Your talking about the coach that was afraid to approach and confront Amare when he was in Phoenix because he wanted to avoid conflict. There was a lot of coverage last year about guys that the coach never communicated with about their situation. D'Antoni has players that he favors and guys that he has no use for. I don't think Randolph has a chance at earning his trust in practice or in a game. I don't think it matters what he does in practice. I could be wrong but I think the first time I saw D'Antoni scream at Randolph was in the Milan game. I think the writing was on the wall very early on in their relationship. Walsh needs to intervene either by trading Randolph or letting D'Antoni know that he considers him a part of the future and that he isn't leaving and that it is time to start working with him not discarding him. I am pretty sure Walsh isn't going to tell D'Antoni how to run his team so my guess is the outcome is Randolph gets traded and blows up on another team.

That shot was the straw that broke the back. MDA was being driven crazy by Nate long before that b/c of the poor defense and decision making along with the attitude and stupidity.

That benching was well justified. I believed it while it was happening and I stand by it now. Heck... Nate should have been benched for 40 games long before that... like when LB was the coach.

Finestrg wrote:

orangeblobman wrote:AR has to prove to me, and Coach Mike, that he's game worthy. He hasn't proven that yet.

And how does he do that exactly? Get through 1 practice completely mistake free (which I doubt any of our players do -- Gallo, Ray, Amar'e etc..You mean to tell me Ray Felton never throws an errant pass in practice?? TD especially -- you mean to tell me TD never misses an assignment in practice?? Douglas makes mistakes all over the joint)?? And then what will it be if he somehow accomplishes that? Get through 5 practices mistake-free? 10? 15? 20? Nah, this guy showed me that he was already game ready before he even got to NY. I refuse to give Mike a pass on this kid -- AR should've been made to feel comfortable & welcome the moment he got here and incorporated into the scheme of things right away or as soon as he was ready after that minor ankle injury (which only kept him out of the first few games).

It's never too late though -- Dan D'Antoni said a few weeks ago that he actually was playing well in practice & will get another shot somewhere along the way, that it's a long season and things change, guys get hurt, etc..Well, we now have a major frontcourt player hurt, out 2-3 weeks..Randolph's gotta see some time now, for the good of the team..I know he won't though -- Mike will continue to go on without him, subborn & spiteful as ever, acting like he's not even there even though he's got the talent to be a huge difference maker/X-factor for us..Fans are just supposed to swallow the fact that our team's full potential is not being realized and may never be this season..Sad.

It's more a mental thing, he has to understand, he has to dig it. My algebra teacher in 7th grade told me that this abstract thinking that was required in her class will just click at some point, that it hasn't clicked for some of her students. But it will click and you will dig it. So AR4's thinking has to click and he will be balling hard.