But I understood it differently. Good teams are inherently dangerous, because if you're good it's dangerous to play you, I am in danger of losing to you because you are good. Being just a 'dangerous team' means, to me, that you can have a good game once in a while and have the potential of upsetting me, but you're not good enough to pose a constant threat.

Popovich was a little vague. How do you guys see it?

The Pop quote is at the bottom of this Abrams's article, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/sports/basketball/05knicks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

And Lawrence's stuff is here, http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2011/01/05/2011-01-05_knicks_win_over_spurs_was_great_but_mike_dantonis_team_still_far_from_being_dang.html?r=sports%2Fbasketball%2Fknicks&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fsports%2Fbasketball%2Fknicks+%28Sports%2FBasketball%2FKnicks%29

to refer to a team as dangerous in the context pop used it means that the team is not elite but can get lucky and win a few games on talent, shooting blitzes, etc.

a good team is just that. a cohesive unit that knows how to play a team game.

i believe the quote was a compliment to the knicks - my reasoning for that is that pop was nothing but complimentary to the effort the knicks put on them yesterday. nothing in his presser or persona would indicate it was a dig.

Our execution was right on par with the Spurs and that's one reason that they had trouble with us. This system Mike has is a team oriented style of play and that makes it harder to stop than if we just relied on a star Guard or something. Sure we have to have a star player, but we don't get by only on that. The fact that Felton and Chandler have stepped up to another level may be a new development this season, but it's legit and gives us the ability to compete on a higher level. If Amar'e, Felton and Chandler can continue to lead the team and the rest of the players continue to fill in the gaps around them, who knows how this season may go. It's fun just watching and not really knowing what the ceiling is for this team.

He took his starters out with 3 minutes left and admitted defeat to us!!

Mitch is trying to find something that's not there!!

http://www.nba.com/video/games/knicks/2011/01/04/20110104_popovich_postgame.nba/index.html (Around 1:40)

"They're a very good basketball team. They're not a dangerous team, they're a GOOD team. And there's a big difference. A lot of teams, you know, they can be dangerous on a night, that sort of thing. But they're solid."

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If that doesn't put MDA's credibility in an envelope and stamps it, mails it to all of the coach's detractors, and they open it and read it and accept it as truth, then they are part of the blind, permanently unable to see.

A ringing endorsement of the entire Knicks team, players and coaches alike, from a living coaching legend, leader of the best team in the league, is no small matter. It is one of the highest compliments the current Knicks leadership has gotten since Donnie came to power.

The players have so adeptly put MDA's plans into practice that much props goes out to them, may they all some way be blessed with the NBA's awards and honors at season's end. And may Coach Mike receive the recognition he deserves for being the ideological leader of a resurgent Knicks team that's now only at the beginning of a potentially meteoric ascent to the elite echelon of the greatest basketball league in the solar system.

Meteors never ascend. They fall, crash and burn. Just sayin.