nixluva wrote:You think any player is gonna blame MDA for this as opposed to our players? WHo has a winning reputation, these players or MDA? Clearly most of the best players have already spent time with MDA and they love him. Lest we forget that he was part of the Olympic team.

kinda hard for u to defend the guy when he admits himself he's disappointed in the job he's done as our head coach since he's been here.

nixluva wrote:You think any player is gonna blame MDA for this as opposed to our players? WHo has a winning reputation, these players or MDA? Clearly most of the best players have already spent time with MDA and they love him. Lest we forget that he was part of the Olympic team.

I cant believe that comment, its as much as foolish as a waste of wind of what you've just said.

Face facts Olympic team OR not the coach has been as horrible as Zeke Thomas worst yr and Thomas had worst team roster wise
than this knick team even before Tmac got here.

You want to Defend MDA ? and his Olympics go right ahead.
You want to accept NO D, or Fight ? in this town go ahead it may be your prerogative it aint mine
Team sux and coaching this season sux & I'm going to run my mouth on it whether its liked or not.
JVG or Riley would not accept this with same roster. You always play for something like NJ did tonight.

That 50 loss team is BETTER than knicks this time of year in the season.
If you like that from your coach go right on brother, enjoy him!

nixluva wrote:I'm just sayin that anyone with a brain isn't gonna believe that MDA is as bad as he's looked here with this team.

Just you admitting that he has "looked terrible" is the first step.

The next step is to admit that he has "been terrible".

And this is not just about wins. this is on many levels.

oohah

DJMUSIC wrote:JVG or Riley would not accept this with same roster.

neither of them would have stuck around to coach this mess of a team either... but i agree, if the teams they coached ever played w/this complete lack of heart & intensity, they'd have these guys running drills til their legs falled off.

sidsanders wrote:i dont hate the coach, he is doing a bad job though. this team looks un-prepared, poorly coached many games. dude hasnt helped wc/dg/td at all. that is the most egregious error (both the coaches and FO). the guys who are gonna be here needed to get better, and either havent really or dont/didnt play. if the last 2 years were just biding time, shouldnt guys who were gonna be here have been built up in that time frame?

Not to defend MDA but the statement that I bolded is what we've been saying about this team for 7 years now. Brown, Isiah, MDA, its all been the same.

nixluva wrote:I'm just sayin that anyone with a brain isn't gonna believe that MDA is as bad as he's looked here with this team. DW already said that he knows MDA can coach and that he's gonna stick with him. There's never any excuse for horrid performances, but this isn't like MDA has just rolled the ball out and didn't try. The guy has pride and I know this has got to be killing him. I've been in bad situations that I couldn't fix and had to just endure the whole thing until it was over.

I just don't get the hate for the guy. It's not like we haven't see the team play far better in times past. When the players are doing what they've been coached to do, the team has looked good. Just cuz now that we've been in a lame duck type season where players know that this thing is gonna be broken up and have clearly stopped fighting, people wanna drop kick MDA.

I for one want to see this guy coach a good Knick team and see how it looks.

Uptown wrote:

sidsanders wrote:i dont hate the coach, he is doing a bad job though. this team looks un-prepared, poorly coached many games. dude hasnt helped wc/dg/td at all. that is the most egregious error (both the coaches and FO). the guys who are gonna be here needed to get better, and either havent really or dont/didnt play. if the last 2 years were just biding time, shouldnt guys who were gonna be here have been built up in that time frame?

Not to defend MDA but the statement that I bolded is what we've been saying about this team for 7 years now. Brown, Isiah, MDA, its all been the same.

no doubt... though i note my big concern is that the young players who are under contract are not getting the time or not being well coached. if they are being coached, then the talent we have is poor and the FO is failing on talent acquisition. none of those are good. i dont get how they tried to talk playoffs, when it was clear to me as a fan they didnt have much chance at it. so why they didnt play the young guys and find some keepers (who may be cheap which helps the FA plans) made no sense. we got to see bender/duhon/house/tmac/harrington/etc...

sidsanders wrote:

Uptown wrote:

sidsanders wrote:i dont hate the coach, he is doing a bad job though. this team looks un-prepared, poorly coached many games. dude hasnt helped wc/dg/td at all. that is the most egregious error (both the coaches and FO). the guys who are gonna be here needed to get better, and either havent really or dont/didnt play. if the last 2 years were just biding time, shouldnt guys who were gonna be here have been built up in that time frame?

Not to defend MDA but the statement that I bolded is what we've been saying about this team for 7 years now. Brown, Isiah, MDA, its all been the same.

no doubt... though i note my big concern is that the young players who are under contract are not getting the time or not being well coached. if they are being coached, then the talent we have is poor and the FO is failing on talent acquisition. none of those are good. i dont get how they tried to talk playoffs, when it was clear to me as a fan they didnt have much chance at it. so why they didnt play the young guys and find some keepers (who may be cheap which helps the FA plans) made no sense. we got to see bender/duhon/house/tmac/harrington/etc...

They had to keep trying or at least saying the right things. You have season ticket holders and fans coming to games so you have to try and talk positive. Even if you know it may be hard to actually get it done.

I'll say this. Before we ever traded anyone this year, the start of the season was sent up in flames when Duhon and several other players came out slumping. Remember that Gallo was just getting up to speed and so was Chandler. It took them a while to get going and unfortunately when they were ready, Duhon never really got out of his funk and that was the season right there.

For this team to make the playoffs things had to go nearly perfectly to start the year and give them a chance to win. It just wasn't in the cards but in the end we still had every intention to move contracts and clear cap space, so here we are looking towards the summer.