nixluva wrote:TMS wrote:nixluva wrote:I'm still trying to understand the level of criticism that MDA gets when EVERYONE knows that he doesn't have a PG on this team he can trust to run the team consistently. He had no choice but to try and see if Duhon could get out of his funk and play better. When Duhon is on his game he's the best we have at running the point. It's just reached a point where he had to let it go and that's all there is to it. Perhaps it's just too easy to armchair coach the team and say you would put Nate in there, but what did Nate do early on to suggest he was MATURE enough to be given the reigns for the team? He was acting like a clown and that had to concern MDA. Now he's giving Nate another chance to show something and maybe he'll step up. This wasn't an automatic move to be made much earlier as seems to be suggested by some.
we were losing games all of January & Duhon was struggling big time... it doesn't take an armchair coach to hold MDA up to his own word... all you guys ever say is that MDA goes with his best guys out there & if you suck, you sit... why wasn't Duhon sitting before now? wasn't it obvious the formula MDA was going with was no longer working 2 weeks into January? after losing 6 of 9 games before the recent 3 game losing stretch, was it not fair to say a change was in order? it's true, none of us are as qualified to coach an NBA team as MDA is as you're so fond of reminding everyone in every post you make, but that doesn't mean we're not allowed to question some of the moves, or non-moves, if we see this team struggling to get wins, does it?
I'm just sayin that he's the one at every single practice and game seeing the things we might miss that go into running a team properly. Duhon was worth giving more than the usual look to see if he could get it fixed. Sure he could've given up sooner, but as a coach he knows that there was more upside in trying to see if he could get him going again and keeping Nate and the other guards in their more natural roles as SG's and backups for Duhon.
If Nate does find success it would be a big bonus and a bit of a surprise, cuz he's never consistently shown that he can run a team. This is why MDA would go so long with Duhon when it was obvious he was playing poorly and hurting the team. We were looking for another PG this summer for a reason. If we already had that guy we wouldn't have been so hard up to add one.
i don't expect Nate to play any differently than he's played his entire career... he's not going to be the answer either at the PG position... this is not about placing blame on MDA as much as it is just trying to find some kinda of method to his madness, cuz the things he says & the things he does are very contradictory at times... he says he plays the guys who give us the best chance to win games... do u think playing Bender over Hughes, Hill or even Marcus Landry gives us the best chance to win games? do u think playing Jeffries 35+ a night gives us the best chance to win games? do u think sticking w/Duhon through all his shooting struggles this season has benefitted the Knicks & won more ballgames for us? i think if he would have been more flexible w/his rotations this season, we could have avoided a lot of the unecessary drama with Nate & Hughes as well... again, we're a crappy team with guys who are so 1 dimensional i don't see how MDA could have been so set on playing the same guys every night & shortening the rotation the way he did... our biggest weakness this year has been our lack of defense, & yet guys like Darko, Hughes, Hill, & Toney Douglas, guys who are all defensive minded players, have found themselves out of the rotation for chunks of the season... does that make any sense to u? cuz if it does please explain to me why MDA refuses to use defensive minded players & then harps about the team's lack of defensive intensity after games we lose.
After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
2/4/2010 2:56 PM