Posted by djsunyc:
you know, with a coach as heralded as d'antoni, you think they could've been a little more patient to see what they had...
I think everyone is forgetting about the bad vibes around the team. There was no desire to go to bat with that team, win 35 games, grab an 8th seed and pray to god all season that the team doesn't implode and create another headline grabbing mess. It was time to clear this roster. Get some time for Gallo(if he had been healthy), Nate, Lee and Chandler. It was time to move on from the vets and "see what we had" with the young guys, not a group of malcontents.
There is a method to the madness, but we refuse to admit how low we had sunk. We still are on this imaginary trip in which that team was actually good, "they just needed the right coach".