fishmike wrote:Im actually suprised MDA wasnt run out of town sooner for this. When you get a guy who brings 8ppg, 3rpg and shoots 40% you FIND A WAY TO MAKE THAT WORK.

Horrible coaching.

Can we bring up Darko now too?

Nah, can't blame that one on MDA. Darko even ADMITTED to mailing it in and not working as hard as he could have. Said he rededicated himself in Minne and wound up having a decent season

DurzoBlint wrote:

fishmike wrote:Im actually suprised MDA wasnt run out of town sooner for this. When you get a guy who brings 8ppg, 3rpg and shoots 40% you FIND A WAY TO MAKE THAT WORK.

Horrible coaching.

Can we bring up Darko now too?

Nah, can't blame that one on MDA. Darko even ADMITTED to mailing it in and not working as hard as he could have. Said he rededicated himself in Minne and wound up having a decent season

fishmike wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:I think everyone is making anti-mda's point by bringing up only his offensive contributions.

no its stupid. MDA was quoted as saying Chandler was most value player on the Knicks. MDA LOVED JJ, the most offensively inept player we have ever seen. MDA ran out Mosgov for size and rebounding. MDA loved Shumpert and threw him immediatly into the mix. MDA was not a great defensive coach, but he's got a track record of valuing players who defend.

But its all about Melo isnt it? Season 2 and another post season flop and excuse laden season and here we are.

Whats funny is the desperate need around here to make Melo something he isnt. He's a great scorer and great shot maker, but he's 2 dimensional. He scores and boards (sometimes). His defense is occasional. His conditioning has been openly questioned by the coach he endorsed after admitting to mailing it in under the last one. He doesnt make others better, he doesnt create space (ask Novak in the platyoffs). He's just a great scorer and not else.

Yet people here bring up Corey Brewer to attack the coach he quit on... why? Is this supposed to make me like Melo more? Is this convincing me it was MDA?

Whats really funnny is who cares? Who is the audience for these idiotic threads?

We can win with Melo, but he WILL need to change his game. Its on him. Lets hope.

MDA and his no defense has a lot more playoff wins than Melo does. Pretty soon Gallo will too lol

Who cares.

Actually no, Melo 1 playoff win, MDA 0

fishmike wrote:Im actually suprised MDA wasnt run out of town sooner for this. When you get a guy who brings 8ppg, 3rpg and shoots 40% you FIND A WAY TO MAKE THAT WORK.

Horrible coaching.

Can we bring up Darko now too?

You obviously have not watched him - figures.

Its not about how good he is or if he is a star. Why could he not get PT on last years team?

Exactly right. Horrible coaching!

Blinders are dangerous

mrKnickShot wrote:Corey Brewer in 12 minutes has 18 points on 8-10 shooting and played GREAT defense

I was really not against MDA until last year when they were getting killed defensively and (among other things) he refused to play Brewer.

On this board many were extremely upset and many said "who cares, its corey Brewer".

Well ... corey brewer turned out to be a very good player. Did not make any sense.

Jordan Hill - people wanna say he is a stiff, maybe he is but he is certainly playing much much better. Tonight, the stats don't show it but he was the only Laker big who actually played well and played excellent defense. I can understand why MDA did not play him - not sure about the trade though.

mrKnickShot wrote:Corey Brewer in 12 minutes has 18 points on 8-10 shooting and played GREAT defense

I was really not against MDA until last year when they were getting killed defensively and (among other things) he refused to play Brewer.

On this board many were extremely upset and many said "who cares, its corey Brewer".

Well ... corey brewer turned out to be a very good player. Did not make any sense.

Jordan Hill - people wanna say he is a stiff, maybe he is but he is certainly playing much much better. Tonight, the stats don't show it but he was the only Laker big who actually played well and played excellent defense. I can understand why MDA did not play him - not sure about the trade though.

Your 125% right but recall MDA had no use for defenders like Brewer or lost post offense & occasional d' from Z-Bo Zack

MDA wont get another NBA job next season. Maybe in 2014 & hope its with Charlotte Bobcats

fishmike wrote:

DJMUSIC wrote:

mrKnickShot wrote:Corey Brewer in 12 minutes has 18 points on 8-10 shooting and played GREAT defense

I was really not against MDA until last year when they were getting killed defensively and (among other things) he refused to play Brewer.

On this board many were extremely upset and many said "who cares, its corey Brewer".

Well ... corey brewer turned out to be a very good player. Did not make any sense.

Jordan Hill - people wanna say he is a stiff, maybe he is but he is certainly playing much much better. Tonight, the stats don't show it but he was the only Laker big who actually played well and played excellent defense. I can understand why MDA did not play him - not sure about the trade though.

Your 125% right but recall MDA had no use for defenders like Brewer or lost post offense & occasional d' from Z-Bo Zack

MDA wont get another NBA job next season. Maybe in 2014 & hope its with Charlotte Bobcats

total garbage posts from you guys. Funny though. Lets make up a magical world.

Funny how they forget that MDA was the reason we brought back Jared and it was MDA that made the call on Iman Shumpert. Tyson surely didn't suffer from playing for MDA at all. MDA is not anti defense as people keep saying. His biggest fight with STAT in PHX was due to his lack of defense as the guy who was supposed to anchor the defense. We see now that with a guy like Tyson it makes a HUGE difference to your teams D to have a true anchor. People keep lying saying he had no defensive assistant in PHX when he did. The team used the exact same defensive system he's always used this year, but with better defenders we can see it works much better. People wanna say it was Woody, but his system is exactly the same as MDA's. In truth the biggest difference was Tyson!!! You take him out of the equation and this team still stinks on D, cuz as i've said for years, you need defensive talent to be a great defensive team. It's the same with scoring as it is with defense. YOU NEED THE TALENT!!!

Also didn't we already go thru this whole idea that it was a financial reason for Brewer not sticking here? Knowing what the teams plans were, there's no way he was staying around for the money he wanted.

God, he was the most awful coach in this history of this franchise.