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?