MikeD is squeezing everything he can out of this team. How do you think they're winning DJ?

This team cannot play individual defense and they have nobody that can create their own shot while playing respectable defense on the other end.

What do you do with a team like that?

Well, if you're smart, you put as much length as you can on the floor at the time, and mix in some zone looks and what happens? Holy crap, you play the best defense this team has seen in years.

On the offensive end, with no dominant player, you need to have spot up shooters out there who have high basketball IQ.

MikeD is jamming as many smart, long basketball players as he can on the court at the same time to make up for what they lack.

If you put Nate out there, a lot of that falls apart. He can blame himself, because he has the ability to run the point, but that light bulb has not gone on yet for him for whatever reason.

If you put Curry out there, similarly everything falls apart. Unless he can function in the rhythm of the team, he's not going to get any burn. This team is not built to change tempo every 15 minutes.

What's the point of putting Nate out there? That ship has sailed. You either make him into AI-lite and make him the focus, or you do what we're doing and sit him. Neither Nate or Curry have done enough to warrant being key components of the team this year.

JohnWallace44 wrote:Your posting privileges should be revoked.

Do not thing that remark was called for

Listen I am happy they are winning and how its going but if anyone thinks for 1 sec we really have a PG
here in Chris Duhon as a leader and starter whom makes difference then I guess we're doing better than
I am seeing.

You try to win the game
making remarks he'd rather play Satan than Nate isnt right.

I hear what you're saying about using what he got and the success knicks recently had especially at home msg,

However no one is ever going to convince me Mike saying he'd play satan is the right professional remark to make
you try to win the game. Chandler and Harrington does their thing on the wing are far too much rather hoist than
go to basket when Knicks are in games tight games that could go in their favor.

I Guess Nate is only one that cant play Defense since he got here so perhaps Knicks should cut him.
AI would have not been good enough here either.

Our winning team is Chandler, the consisten David Lee (whom plays D these days), Harrington and Duhon.

Lost souls Larry Hughes, Bender and Jarred Jeffries are consistently inconsistent & are those other role players on
this team whom likely wont be here next year.

Its understandable you win with defense so Knicks play it now better without Nate Robinson on court
better than anyone else in their conference at least to D'Antoni. We'll see how this team does in 2010
personally I think team is gonna break down playing 6-7 guys whom have played better but isnt there yet.

I dont believe NY is good enough to play 6-7 guys seven to eigth weeks in a row without some probability for
injury. Early in the year Duhon was the guy entire NY want to run out of town cause he STUNK. He's doing better
now but aint the answer in a long season. Not enough as_sists, not enough pts, not enough defense and not enough
timely jumpers by Duhon as starter PG like the rest of Knickerbocker team.

Guess later on that will be Nate Robinson's fault also when D'Antoni calls his number in March 2010

CrushAlot wrote:I give credit to D'Antoni for shortening the rotation. I also think guys need structure and discipline but I don't think he provides or communicates these expectations to his team like many coaches do. I also think that playing Satan comment was pretty far off base coming from D'Antoni. D'Antoni doesn't want anyone on his team who cannot police themselves and display mature character without guidance from their coach. There was no way D'Antoni would have brought AI in. There is a reason why Jeffries and Duhon get so many minutes and it is not because they are part of the most talented 5 on the roster.

you're right, agreed 150%
But my thing is to win the game.
If your ship is sinking in Charlotte cause you guys are shooting 15 for 80 and you're losing to subpar < 500 team
then maybe you can put in a player off the bench whom can give you a shot when no one else will that night.

That is my point. If Robinson was needed cause Knicks are laying bricks D'Antoni aint gonna play him
and I fault the coach. I disrespect that.

Last season i disdained Marbury. Marbury probably lied but he wasnt alone. I am also glad marbury is off Knicks and out
of NBA. However when you're Knick team broke down and you're Mike D'Antoni telling Marbs he aint part of nothing then
when you dress 5 guys and ask him or tell him he's gonna play and Marbury refused D'Antoni sets himself up for the nonsense
seen last season.

It cant happen again here, Nate may be a jerk but so is Mike D' and he is a coach whom needs to discipline but teach guys
like Nate. Not what's going on now with Knicks. What is going on with Knicks now is irregardless of the Knicks current rotation
the rotation shorten is a convenient excuse.

Marbury WAS A BAD GUY. Nate is immature but isnt a bad guy or person. Treat the man with a teeny bit of respect.
D'Antoni does not do that. He'll pay later on when Knicks guys get injured for playing too too many minutes even in
blowout games.

Come on Knicks people forumers, open your eyes you mean to tell me ? in blowouts by knicks or even if NY is on short end ?
that beside the rookies Nate Robinson cannot get into a NBA Game? What do u think is going on here ?
This man is in league for 4 yrs and getting paid NBA $$$money contract.

D'Antoni huge ego will be something to watch and if you pay lot of attention to Dwayne Wade comments on the knicks and
wonder which NBA stars want to come here in 2010 and why Knicks are irrelevant for many NBA stars future you have to look
at the organization.

DJMUSIC wrote:

JohnWallace44 wrote:Your posting privileges should be revoked.

Do not thing that remark was called for

Listen I am happy they are winning and how its going but if anyone thinks for 1 sec we really have a PG
here in Chris Duhon as a leader and starter whom makes difference then I guess we're doing better than
I am seeing.

You try to win the game
making remarks he'd rather play Satan than Nate isnt right.

I hear what you're saying about using what he got and the success knicks recently had especially at home msg,

That is not even close to what he said. You're just posting junk if you don't want to do a little Google work to get the quote right.

He said he would play Satan if it would help the Knicks win. Holy cow, what a crazy coach!

He's saying he'd play anyone on the team regardless of their personality if it got the Knicks over the hump.

This team does not have the players to make up for Lee and Nate's lack of defense in order to put them both on the floor for big minutes. This is the team MikeD has to work with. What do you want him to do?

Dude is a completely out of control player now. Only the Knicks know what he looks like in practice. Unless he shows that he's playing at a level that overrides his lack of defense, and his effect on the rest of the offense, then you guys tell me why he should play right now?

Is this board concerned about the Knick's ticket sales among 5-12 year-olds now?

That never works for Jackson or Riley right?

Mike then shortens the rotation, and benches every player that can't play both ways.

Knicks then go on a winning streak.

You're right, what an A__hole

TMS wrote:

JohnWallace44 wrote:God forbid our coach tries to exert control over the team.

That never works for Jackson or Riley right?

when is the last time Jax or Riles ever banished one of their best scorers on the team in this fashion for this extended amount of time just to prove some kinda point? they control their teams because they have the respect of their players... IMO going this route can only make MDA the object of scorn for a number of guys that could otherwise be useful... there doesn't seem to be any kind of communication between MDA & the players sometimes & to me, that is a problem.

it's not to prove a point, man. nate's defense sucks and his offense has nothing to do with the team concept.

why is the problem d'antoni and not the way nate plays?

crzymdups wrote:

TMS wrote:

JohnWallace44 wrote:God forbid our coach tries to exert control over the team.

That never works for Jackson or Riley right?

when is the last time Jax or Riles ever banished one of their best scorers on the team in this fashion for this extended amount of time just to prove some kinda point? they control their teams because they have the respect of their players... IMO going this route can only make MDA the object of scorn for a number of guys that could otherwise be useful... there doesn't seem to be any kind of communication between MDA & the players sometimes & to me, that is a problem.

it's not to prove a point, man. nate's defense sucks and his offense has nothing to do with the team concept.

why is the problem d'antoni and not the way nate plays?

i dunno if u were watching the game tonight but neither Duhon nor Hughes were playing any kinda of defense whatsoever... & both of them weren't hitting their shots... Hughes looked like a hot mess tonight & i actually like the guy... i don't think injecting Nate into this game would have hurt our chances of winning, if anything it could have helped when we were struggling to get baskets during the runs that Nets were going on throughout the game.