The team Riles inherited in the three years before he got there won 50 games, 45 games, and 39 games. That was the year John Mcloud finished the year after a disasster start by Stu Jackson.
Core of Ewing and Oak up front in a time and place where showtime was not happeing and smash mouth Detroit ball was all the rage.
Different time and era. Riles did a great job with a talented core. When Riles left, the hand checking rules came into play.
If you gonna go out and get Amare and run, thats one thing. If you gonna then gut the team and get Melo and think putting the two together will work thats is the question at hand.
If you take a grayhound like Amare and now bring in melo and want to slow the whole show down is that the best thing?
YOu know, It might not be and perhaps not having an uptempo system in place is not the best thing.
BUt I don't see Amare being successful in anything but an uptempo one. Thats what he did in PHX and was doing well last year.
Seems like panic every game indictment is the reaction around here.
What to do now? Keep working on it!