yesterday, douglas was hitting jumpers off the pick. hawks started going over the screen in the 3rd quarter and that was the last you heard from douglas offensively. let's see if he runs anything different for him to get some open jumpers.

fishmike wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

djsunyc wrote:that's how many plays i saw tonight from d'antoni.

he ran an inbounds play to toney douglas twice.
he ran a screen play for al harrington twice.

that's it.

the rest of the game, 4 guys on the perimeter, 1 big trying to set a screen and a whole lot of nothing after it.

one on one trying to score. guys pulling up from 18+ feet out. gallo left to fend for himself. not one person crashing the offensive glass.

meanwhile darko has his ass permanently cemented to the end of the bench with jordan hill twirling his dreds.

and y'all think d'antoni is gonna use eddy? lol.

not good.

is anybody coaching the team?

If I owned this team he would be fired--simple. I don't like anything about how this guy runs the team. terrible coaching and the players dont play hard--what is left?

We need to change to a more conventional coach who believes in having two big players @ PF and C and demands and gets respect from his players to go 110% tilt. This is the worst we have been in 10 years.

I think he's absolutely the right coach right now. Who believes this current group of players is going to play hard like that? 75% of the team is gone next year. You run these guy down in practice and they arent doing anything for you. DJ/Briggs... are you really saying that Tom Thibodeau is going to push Al, Duhon, Lee, Hughes, etc to be a good defensive team?

MDA isnt the guy thats going to squeeze blood from the stone. Your 100% right about that. He needs guys that are going to play hard because they want to win. Thats not our team, and thats not this roster

+1

It's time to start building a basketball PROGRAM here. Lenny Wilkins and Larry Brown also "needed to get fired." Bottom line is this thing is rotten to the core. Are there coaches better than and GMs better than Walsh? Yes. Am I willing to let the painful process of rebuilding unfold before I levy my harshest criticisms? Absolutely.

People forget that this should've happened on Layden's watch. This should've happened when Ewing retired instead of riding the Luc Longley/Glen Rice/Travis Knight train. And he deferred the inevitable and Isiah followed suit and now it is THIS bad. Sucks, but "FIRE THE COACH" isn't a soultion--it's part of the tried and true problem here.

By the way, I think it is effing hilarious the turncoat who's stated he wants to coach his new "favorite" team is screaming for said coach's head

SupremeCommander wrote:My eighth grade traveling team had no stars and we ran the triangle offense every possession. We sucked donkey balls.

Fire the coach!

avery johnson wouldn't be 1-8 with this squad.

Lenny Wilkins got canned in the same timespan with a better overall record, a play-off berth all while working with a truly cancerous knuckle-head squad led by crawful and mebury, a backbiting/backstabbing GM in thomas, plus dolan in full meddling mode and he didn't commit half of the questionable media or coaching decisions that MDA has.

fire yesterday

Gallo/Chandler need to be posted. The pick and roll needs to be run with other players. Try gallo, chandler, douglas. I don't know why Duhon started last night either.

Everyone knows that stupid play we insist on running with Lee and Duhon.

Douglas/Hughes/Gallo/Chandler/Lee
Nate/Harrington/Hill

That is the rotation going forward I don't understand what's going on out there. Right now our future is Toney Douglas which is very scary we need to get more people involved and actually push the ball. When was the last time you saw these losers bust their asses up the floor. When Eddy comes back i think Chandler goes to the bench he isn't driving he isn't being aggressive and he is settling for jumpers.

It's pretty simple we get ahead when we are aggressive and we get behind when we start launching jumpers.

Why are other teams turning it up in the 2nd half.

It's almost in mike system you either go all out in 1st half and flounder in the 2nd half , or don't show up in the 1st half but play like their lively hood depended on it in the 2nd half.

So my question is could this team be out of basketball shape ?

Caseloads wrote:another question - why is wilson chandler so lost?

because he plays off of the lead scorers on the floor and those players are often lost

eViL wrote:

djsunyc wrote:i am a d'antoni fan. i want him coaching in toronto.

but let's be objective about it - the guys hasn't done anything noteworthy here. he's getting paid top notch and nothing's improved with the team. players haven't improved and he's not even using his whole roster. so stop defending the guy like he's done everything possible and he's the victim here.

how about increasing the teams scoring average in his first season by almost 10pts. and not to mention, despite increasing the teams pace dramatically, turnovers decreased marginally. all with... wait for it... LESS TALENT than his predecessor.

Isiah's last year with the Knicks
D'Antoni's first year with the Knicks

dig around and see what you will find.

here's a preview: with less talent than the year before, the knicks managed to climb from 23rd in offensive rating to 17th -- AND -- from 29th in defensive rating to 23rd. i didn't even have to look hard to find something noteworthy.