Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by coolbeans:

^ mda was outcoached. sixers had no answer to the knicks length, and it showed on defense. instead of mda bringing the knicks inside the three point line and taking advantage on offense. mda handed the sixers an easy brick win-- sixers grabbed and ran the knicks bricks back for an easy two.

You don't know what MDA was doing with his team. To suggest that he doesn't know what he's doing is ridiculous! Go read his Bio and see what this man has done in his career and then think again. We're freakin fortunate to have a coach of his caliber with the embarrassment of Dolan's running of the franchise into the ground. This is not indicative of what MDA's teams usually do. The players are failing to play up to their potential at this point. He didn't just now forget everything he knows about coaching. He's not on the floor failing to execute the plays.

If you know anything about MDA's system he doesn't call out every play like JVG or other old style coaches. He teaches players to think the game for themselves and either you learn to do that on a high level and win, or you don't. This is a process!

i'm a d'antoni fan - i want that guy coaching the raptors - but like many coaches - he needs to prove himself at another spot to show he wasn't just the right guy at the right place at the right time.

riley had a HOF starting 5 in la - but he was proven as great after his stops in ny and miami.
larry brown has won in many cities with many different type of players/teams.
sloan had two HOF'ers, lost them and is right back winning 50 games a year.
adelman won 50+ games with 3 different teams.

these are great coaches.

what makes d'antoni a better coach than someone like doc rivers or byron scott? imho, he still has alot to prove.

Posted by martin:

Posted by kam77:

Phil Jax calls the D'antoni offense "Speedball". It's a gimmick. If you gave Dantoni Tim Duncan he would probably not change his style.

what makes you come to that conclusion?

Posted by Bippity10:

You ever notice how everytime a coach comes here the conclusion is that they really aren't that good? Lenny Wilkens, LB, D'Antoni. They all apparently can't coach. The only guys that could coach were Van Gundy and Riley. They also happened to be the only guys that came here with a top 50 player of all time on their rosters.

Posted by SupremeCommander:

at least use the good photo

Posted by s3231:

Tell me something, why would D'Antoni adapt to his players when 75% of these guys may not even be here next season?

If D'Antoni had enough talent to get this team deep into the playoffs, I'm sure he would change/tweak his system to accomodate the players. What he has instead is a team that clearly has to overachieve to grab the final playoff spot. Walsh is building this roster to accomodate D'Antoni's system. Hell, Walsh brought him here to institute that same system.

We didn't have a winning team when D'Antoni was hired so why would D'Antoni change his system if the result will be losing either way? We are clearly building for the future so I don't see why people get so worried about 3 preseason games.

Exactly.

I am all for a coach compromising, adapting to his players and whatnot...but they have to be actual players.

You can't reasonably ask mda to 'adapt' to these players....he must push the system, absolutely. now, suppose, say, we sign a legit superstar, then we can ask for adaptation if it is neccessary. The team as it is now just doesn't warrant anything but an iron fist on MDa's part.