nixluva wrote:TMS wrote:please, if Bender was able to go tonight & Hughes wasn't playing like garbage in recent games, Nate would still have been planted on the bench & you'd still be making up excuses to justify the benching... apparently MDA can do no wrong in your eyes... not all fans share your rose colored view of this franchise & aren't afraid to call someone out for something that they find disagreeable.He used PT to make clear that he will play guys that do what he wants and it's never personal. The only thing that matters is WINS.
u just contradicted ur point with that statement... sitting guys to teach them some kind of lesson IS making it personal, don't u get it? sitting ur most talented players & allowing scrubs like Bender see time is NOT making it all about wins my friend... that BS statement about being willing to play Satan if it meant he could get a win is just more BS that he's spoon feeding to you... let's face it, MDA can't handle players that cause friction for him... i'm sorry if u think that's STUPID, but it's the truth.
TMS I can't believe that you think it's not in a coaches prerogative to decide plating time based on on court or off court behavior. It's not that MDA can do no wrong, but in this case HE DIDN"T do anything wrong, cuz it's always up to the coach who he wants to play or not. MDA never said that Nate would never play for him again. He also hasn't changed his coaching style either, since it's a well known fact that MDA is slow to reintroduce players once they are out of his rotation. Part of that has to do with the results we got with the rotation he had been playing. He evaluated the situation and felt the team could use what Nate does. Now you don't have to like his decisions which you clearly don't, but do you really think that this is a flaw in MDA's coaching ability? The guy is getting results, so what are you using to judge him? Is he supposed to go undefeated in order to please you? 9-6 for this team is a very good month. Maybe we win a game or two more or maybe we lose a game or two more playing Nate sooner. All I know is that MDA has the right to play who he feels gives him the best chance to win. He also has the right to sit guys if they act like jerks and don't defend or play under control. I fail to see your point in any of this.
obviously... the point is that MDA can do whatever the hell he wants, it's his prerogative as a coach... i think he's a damn good coach, never said he wasn't... the fault i find is when he makes up some completely fake bullcrap about it being all about winning & not personal when he's sitting his more talented player in favor of a "company guy" who sucks... this is akin to a manager that will give a raise to an underperforming employee who followed all the rules & didn't cause him any grief over the past year & demotes a guy who brings in twice as many sales as the other one just because he had a few run ins with him, & then justifies it by saying it's all about the company's sales & it's nothing personal... if i were another employee seeing my manager handle his employees like that by playing favorites, i'd lose a lot of respect for him... u all saw how happy Nate's teammates were tonight seeing him go off like that... i have a feeling u could ask all of them if they thought Nate deserved his benching & they'd say no judging from their reaction tonight.
like i said before, if MDA can't deal w/Nate's unprofessionalism, then it makes sense to showcase the guy & try & trade him for a usable asset... that's called eating your pride for the good of the franchise... letting a player as talented as Nate waste away on the bench for a month was not in the best interest of the Knicks' franchise & IMO a selfish move... at that point it was NOT about winning, it was about MDA exercising his juice card... tonight Nate shoved it down MDA's throat w/that performance & all MDA could do is smile cuz now he knows how Nate's ass taste.
After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
1/1/2010 11:49 PM