Posted by islesfan:
Posted by Bippity10:
Pharzeone and Isles: Pull out one post where that was said. Or are you just flaming. Well we know that you guys are flaming, but I didn't mean it that way.
Watch out for the game to game roller coaster. It's going to be a rough one.
Are you serious? Go through DJ's "D'Antoni's offense sucks" thread and see how many times you say that it doesn't matter who the coach is (absolving D'Antoni for doing nothing) because nobody could win (like that matters) with these players (the roster sucks so why bother).
So you interpret that to mean that Bip, the guy who is the angriest about the team quitting on LB a few years ago because he was "mean" is fine with D'Antoni quitting on the team today because they aren't any "good"? What does the team stinking have to do with whether I feel they are "worth coaching" or not? Did I say this "the roster sucks so why bother" or are those your own created words. Come on guy,I know this is typical Isles, but You aren't talking to a novice here.
The past few days you and some others have claimed that D'Antoni has not been coaching this year. The implication is that he has not taught fundamentals, defense, offense etc. But tonight magically 2 nights after a misearable loss he decided that offensive sets and are important and that he preached defense harder. Maybe you feel it's because of your intense pressure from the message boards. My point is that this guy has been pushing these things from the get go. But because we are a bad team, losses and sloppy play is often times the way they manifest themselves.
I'm assuming that you've played basketball before. So I'm assuming you know that it takes more than a couple days for teams to grasp sets and put them into action on the floor. It takes weeks of practice to understand anything new. It takes months to change long time habits. D'antoni has been working on these things from day one and tonight they worked. Two nights ago they didn't. Next game, who knows. Right now we are on pace for 32-33 wins which is right where the roster suggests we should be. As the season goes on maybe we improve and do better than that. Maybe we go in the tank and win 23 games. But not at any point in time does that mean the the team "isn't worth coaching". I dont' care if the team doesn' win another game all year. You can't set a cultural change(which you should know I was the first to mention this) in an organization if the team "isn't worth coaching". This team has bad habits. Habits from years of losing. The coach is working on fixing these and on some nights he will. On others he won't. This is a given. When analyzing his coaching ability and effort it's probablymore accurate to be patient and not your typical irrational fan and analyze his effort over the course of a season, and not game to game.
1/13/2009 12:10 AM
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