Nalod wrote:Im coming to the conclusion that MDA does not have to go.He should leave.
There have been a few precious times in his 4 years whether by design or injury where you see it all come together. His body of work in PHX and at times here demonstrates it can be done.
In fact, NY loves this kind of play.
If there is a brand of "Knicks Basketball" its not the Ewing era of slow ball waiting for him to get into position, or smash mouth low score Riley ball. Knicks ball is the prime Red Holzman Era.
"Hit the open man!"
And if you did not play Defense, you got taken out.
Players who sacrificed their individual stats to accomplish. They are remembered not for the stats or all star games, but winning and doing it with style as a team!
The Suns were one of my favorite teams to watch and the open style of play reminded me of the Holzman era but with less defense. For a few years the Sunswere annual contenders. I'll take that over dysfunction any time. They moved the ball and Nash was a Maestro!
I think we were on the right track with Amare and role players but its clear Melo is not the type of player that can play within such a system.
The big picture was not about Gallo, or Felton as championship pieces, but the allocation of assets used in that trade to bring in the wrong type of player.
Donnie had a vision. Maybe it was not preMelo Drama but it was a work in progress and as we have seen big name players did shake loose. CP3, Deron and Dwight. Im not saying they become knicks or expound on the Amnesty benefits of exiling Chauns for Tyson.....but look at the team as currently constructed. Its laden with ill fitting talent. Amare-Melo-TC all great players. Together not so.
Does it remind us of perhaps who is really running things? A man who collects talent without thought of how it fits?
Isiah.
He constructed teams with so much wrong talent that HOF coachs like Wilkens and Larry Brown looked bad. Isiah himself a good coach looked bad. Dolan got brazen and the rumors were there that Isiah was in his ear urging him to do this.
Melo is a bad fit. A headache for all who coach him. Nice kid and I think he means well. He wanted the spot light and the money and who can blame him.
One of the greatest stories in a long time for NY was Linsanity. The team went on a run even with Amare. Amare can play with Nash, he can play with Lin. Melo comes back and "Murders Linsanity" (someone in the UK said this)!
As for MDA? Coach K's right hand olympic coach and the one he calls an offensive genius. Team plays good defense so we can't blame that effort. In my mind its not MDA that is the problem.
MDA has the wrong Management behind him and won't succeed until they are in concert with his efforts. He can take the Novaks, Shawn Williams, Landry, Mozz and win with them. He can't use the skill set of Melo and blend it in.
I think we have another fine coach who comes to realize what a joke Dolan is and like others was seduced by the big money and the lure of winning in NY! The one that can do that will be a wealthy legend.
The biggest Ego around is Phil Jax. If Dolan Hires him he better be prepared to get out of the way. I would think Phil Jax is smart enough and has enough juice to put it all up front in writing.
Can Phil be larger than all of them and put it together? I don't know. I don't pretend that MDA is the problem either and his simple removal is the key. Is the Isiah plant, "Coach Woodson" the answer? I don't know, but I do know that what I am seeing on the court right now is not fun to watch.
I am all for this coming together and perhaps in time it can even with MDA. Give him the juice to bench Melo.
If MDA can't get that kind of power then its clear, he should leave cuz it won't work with Melo being a ball dominant player.
You mention Jackson he is going to make Melo ball dominant and win with him being ball dominant.
