Bippity10 wrote:knicks1248 wrote:Bippity10 wrote:I have a short memory but I'm pretty sure that Jeff Van Gundy was notorious for short rotations and not wanting to play young guys. These appear to be the exact same arguments against D'Antoni
This is true, but JVG played 8/9 guys no matter what..MDA is playing he's bench 6 to 12 minutes a game, why even put them in there, you bearly break a sweat with those BS minutes
JVG also had better benches. Would he run this team the same way D'Antoni is? Maybe, maybe not. But the evidence shows that he probably would do similar things.
JVG inherited a veteren core group that had been together for years. With the addition of LJ, houston and Childs, he got more defense, more offense, more leadership, then they got camby and spree and became less predictable and a deeper bench..people started grumbling about the half court dump it down to ewing..then the 2nd unit which consisted of spree, camby,and childs would change the flow of the game, people was loving the running and dunking, and they were winning..coming back from double digit deficits
No one on MDA's bench is older the 24 except of mason, we have a very young bench, very inexperince, and 2 key guys on it(AR, BW,) don't even have good college experience, thats why it was a no brainer to start fields..
