Posted by fishmike:
Houston was a top 10 scorer a week ago. If he's dropped to 11 I apologize.
Again, X's and O's is a style thing. Phil Jackson has said over and over he doesnt call plays during games. He doesnt coach during the game at all in fact. He trys to prepare his players best he can and let them play.
Don Nelson STUNCK in GS and wasnt much better here, yet he's one of the NBA's elite coach/GMs in Dallas.
How did the Lakers start without Shaq. Is the 11-19 start because of X's and O's?
Hows Pat Riley doing without Zo? Eddie Jones and Caron Butler are their Houston and Spree, yet with a frontcourt as bad as ours they STINK.
Speaking of the Rockets, they look to be turning the corner, because they were terrible the last two years. Think that has anything to do with Hakeem going out to pasture?
You probably think I am just making excuses for Chaney. I'm not, I am can only go by what I see. The Knicks have NO frontcourt, its a total joke. When McKnee broke most picked the Knicks to win around 25 games, yet Chaney pushed them to 37, and had them in a legit playoff hunt with two weeks to go. Under his system the are among tops in 3 point %, fewest turnovers and 3's made. Most of all the team plays hard and hve come up with MANY suprise wins, NJ,Ind, Sac, San, LAL, Hou, Pho...as a matter of fact the Knicks are the only East team with an about .500 record against the West.
All I am saying is he's improved the club, and right now isnt part of the problem. If Laydumb improves the club and Chaney fails to produce results equal to the talent fire him. Until them I like him as our coach.
So pretty much it boils down to "blame the players, credit the coach"? Sorry, I ain't buying. Chaney is paid for a reason. His job includes preparing his team to play, and adjusting to the game as it unfolds. You can quote Phil all you want, but to put Non Chaney in his category
(or Riley's) is blatantly offensive.
Somone posts that Non is a 'transitional' coach. That's an entirely different thing and I can agree with that. But NY, foolish as it may seem, is always geared towards the NOW, so Non is not brought in to teach, but to WIN.
But since you insist on naming talent, off the top of my head I can tell you Non has lost with Isiah, Hill, Dumars, Hakeem
(when he was the best Center in the game!) and even Allan Housless.
As far as the Rockets: check out their record while Rudy-T was out. But it shouldn't matter, there should be no drop-off cuz the same players are there. Coaching doesn't matter.
You can like Non as your coach; that's obviously your right. I think if he left tomorrow and you brought back this EXACT same team
with a good coach, NY would be in the playoffs.
4/16/2003 2:48 PM
