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Is D'Antoni the problem?


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subzero0
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It happens over and over again in the NBA. Coaches get fired when the team cant win games. But many times after a team has fired one coach and hired another the team rarely improves until one or many player moves are made. There are a lot of fingers being pointed at D'Antoni. But I must ask, how many think that this is really the coaches fault? I cant imagine any other coach coming in here and being successful with this group.

I think the problem with the Knicks are the players not the coach. I dont think red auerbach himself can get this team to win a championship against these other nba teams at least to me. Amare is obviously hurt and has not practiced this past offseason, Carmelo still has the weight on him and cannot carry the team by himself and there is no good point guard here. Our shooting guard, whether it be douglas, fields or shumphert cant hit the open shot. How is that D'Antoni's fault. With all the strategies you can draw up, all of the video sessions you give, if the players cant hit their jumpshots there is really not much you can do about that. But this is just me. Out of my surprise at all the blame being pointed at D'Antoni, I must ask how much of us believe this is the coaches fault and believe another coach will get them to all of a sudden become a championship caliber team and how many of us think that this rests on the players and this team was constructed flawedly?

D'Antoni needs to be on the next bus!
Time to get rid of some players and start wheeling and dealing, this is on them.
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DJMUSIC
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3/14/2012  4:39 PM
nixluva wrote:You have to understand that most of the time i'm responding to negative posts, so it only makes it seem like I like everything that MDA does. Of course he's not perfect and makes mistakes like every coach. He's often had problems settling on rotations and they don't always work. He's of course known for his teams not being great defensively and he's partly to blame since he doesn't really want a grind it out style.

Still overall I support the coach cuz he's a VERY good NBA coach. We've never seen him at his best cuz we keep changing the team on him. IF you can't understand how that can effect a coach then I don't know what to tell you. It's a very logical thing to understand that a lack of roster continuity is bad for a coach.

I want you to go and look up all the players this coach has had since he came here. It's a staggering number of players. Coaches don't like that. Not to mention the lack of a PG. He'll eventually figure out something this team can do to improve this year.

nixluva
we may agree to disagree

but like many others I DO Respect we're all STEALTH knick fans
despite all the mess of org.

One day Knicks will get it right and make fans happy.
Maybe next season ? we'll see

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3/14/2012  4:40 PM
SupremeCommander wrote:
subzero0 wrote:Lenny Wilkens - Fans initially loved him but he was run out of town because he was fingered by Dolan as the problem when Marbury turned against him. However after he left the losing continued.

Larry Brown - Fans initially loved him but he was run out of town because he was fingered by Dolan as the problem when Marbury turned against him. However after he left the losing continued.

Isiah Thomas - Fans initially loved him but he was run out of town because he was fingered by Dolan as the problem when Marbury turned against him. However after he left the losing continued.

Donnie Walsh - Fans initially loved him but he was run out of town because he was fingered by Dolan as the problem when he resisted trading for melo. However after he left the losing continued.

Mike D'Antoni - Fans initially loved him but he was run out of town because he was fingered by Dolan as the problem when Carmelo turned against him. However after he left the losing continued?

Surely, now that D'Antoni is gone we are going to win a championship.

I don't know if I should laugh or cry

Do both as we have to be crazy to keep rooting for this franchise.

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