I think that we have some good players but they continue to make the same mistakes. When a coach continue to go down that path of 3 point shooting and when the players are off they don't have an answer. I think coaching is a problem because the players can go into the huddle with the coaches and still come out making the same mistakes.

eViL wrote:i'd say that our effort in creating and participating in gamethreads is lacking. it's the UK forums fault.

Papabear Says

Ok Evil LOL By the way how is you music coming along?

rmears718 wrote:The coaching (Mike D'antoni in particular) for being too stubborn to realize that a certain player(s)(Exhibit a. Danilo Gallinari)simply is not the answer @ Small Forward & simply over matched; as a starting Small forward. Overall, a failure to utilize player's strengths (Exhibit B. Enforcing that the pick & roll should be initiated -closer to the post). "Let's not wait for the Knicks to be 10 games - under 500" ...Donnie shorten the leash!

Gallinari is averaging 26 minutes a game which is equivalent to bench minutes. How is Mike being stubborn with him?

Personally I'd blame it more on Gallo. Not only has he not improved his game, he has actually taken a step backward and is not being aggressive at all.

eViL wrote:great papa. we just got done with our new CD. we're just waiting on the artwork. we'll be sending it out for reviews this week. we wanna build up some press before we decide to release it. it's going very well. how are you? working on any good projects?

go on here and listen to "when it all falls apart" if you wanna check out one of the new songs. the new mixes sound better, but you'll get the idea:

http://www.jango.com/music/Do+You+See+the+Dark?l=0

Papabear Says

Hey that good! I have a song on the R Kelly album entitled Untitled and the song is called Be my #2"
I all have a song with Jasmine Sullivan , ace Hood , and Rick Ross called Champion. You can hear them on you tube. Hey Evil I will look you up and hear some of your tracks.

nixluva wrote:

Vmart wrote:I blame D'Antoni for not having a back up plan when the threes aren't raining. Poor preparation not having the players focused to play and execute the game plan. The inability to make in game adjustments. I blame MDA for not having the players take what they do serious.

Not for nothing, but how can you adjust when Not only aren't you hitting shots, but you already haven't been able to run PnR? Those are the two main ways we score. We don't have a real post up game.

The players not being focused only really was evident in the Philly game. I think they just got blitzed by the Bucks, who had been shooting horribly and just got hot all at once. That can happen to any team. I see a team that is playing hard, but not always Smart. You can see that they take it serious and are playing hard. It's not a case of the team just not caring. You can see they want to play well and win. Everything just isn't clicking right now.

If the Knicks can't score with P&R and shooting from the outside then its on MDA to come up with a third way to get points or ways to stop the other team from scoring. Anyway you look at it it on the coach to bring in plans not just P&R and jacking threes those are only two elements of many elements of basketball. To me a team that plays hard is a team that comes together when things look bleak. They find ways to get it going not settle for the next available jumper to bail the other team out. This is where coaching comes into play MDA should have told his players no jumpers no threes everything going to the basket draw fouls. Adjustments that is the key and that is on the coach.