kam77 wrote:

TMS wrote:

correct me if i'm wrong but you were the one to initiate this entire discussion with your dig at people who wanted to make this a personal issue between MDA & Nate.

Nate Robinson -- 2 for 11. Yeah.... it was all personal. LOL

was that not you who posted that? i asked u what the relevance was between Nate going 2 for 11 & MDA choosing to bench him for 14 straight games.

No i didn't initiate it. I've had to read stuff here for weeks now about how D'antoni was making things personal with Nate. My thread was addressing that view of things.

And why can't i post Nate going 2 of 11? It goes to show that he didn't turn a corner, D'antoni didn't coach him up, it was the same old nate as always. One night he is great, the next night he is crap.

i didn't say a thing about u commenting on Nate being Nate... i agreed with u on it... the thing i found curious was the dig against people who said it was a personal issue... i didn't see the correlation & still don't see it.

The correlation is that Nate is an inconsistent and shoot-first baller, which accounts for why he was benched when D'antoni was trying to find a winning formula. 2 for 11 just goes to prove the initial reason he was benched.

that's faulty logic... Al Harrington is also an inconsistent & shoot first baller who will give u 40 pts. one night & a 2 for 11 shooting performance the next... saying MDA was looking for a winning formula by benching Nate is a copout... they lost the game that Nate got benched vs. the Magic by a 14 pt. margin & the team played zero defense allowing their opponent to score 118 pts that night, the formula obviously didn't work for that game... so if there were no personal motivations behind it why wasn't Nate reinserted? the next game MDA benched Gallo vs. the Hawks & they won, so why wasn't Gallo left on the bench sitting next to Nate thereafter? that formula obviously worked out... if it's all about winning & nothing else, wouldn't that be the logical outcome of a win in that scenario?

face it, guys just simply started to finally stop playing like garbage after Nate got benched, that was all there was to it... initially Nate got benched for unprofessional behavior before the game... it was the last straw for MDA to take... 2 games later the team started to win games cuz guys started to play up to their potential... i think you're giving MDA way too much credit here... the winning was a coincidental outcome of the disciplinary action he took, nothing more.