ridiculous and unacceptable. d'antoni has to play mozgov and randolph. yeah, they are going to make boneheaded moves. so be it. giving stoudemire 6 minutes off per game is a recipe for disaster. we are already seeing it with tonight's performance against cleveland.

and this on a guy who's had major reconstructive knee surgery AND whose contract is uninsured. it should be a team mandate -- if jim dolan's tiny little head wasn't so far up his fat ass, i'd imagine an owner would have something to say about it. (i.e. we have 100 large invested in this ****ing guy, give him a breather every now and then!)

has turned out to be a pretty damn stubborn coach. last year we had nate, jordan hill, and darko all sitting on the bench while hired guns who for sure wouldn't be on the team the next year (larry hughes, al harrington, et al) inexplicably played big minutes. say what you want about those guys, but nate is contributing on a team that has championship aspirations while we have felton playing 40+ a night because we don't have a backup PG. darko and hill, whatever, they are duds but why weren't they playing AT ALL last year? hill especially, you take him 8th overall on a team that is so deprived of any talent and then he racks up like 40 DNP-CDs before getting dealt in a salary cap move. what is that about?

this year we have randolph (who averaged 11/6/1.5 last year in 20mpg!!!!!!!) languishing on the bench along with mozgov. mozgov is from russia and has never lived outside of russia. presumably there's going to be a learning curve, especially since the rules are SO different, especially for a big man (different zone, different rules about charges, goaltending, etc). MDA gives up on him two weeks into the season and already turiaf's gone down twice with injuries and stoudemire is wearing down and its NOT EVEN CHRISTMAS!

if the celtics, who have championship aspirations, can play F-ing erden for 15 minutes why can't mozgov get any burn? if nate can get minutes on a championship contender and BE RELIED ON off the bench, why couldn't we rely on him? i'd much rather have him than billy walker, who also never gets any time.

its just inexplicable. i don't understand the reasoning. the thought process is "we only have 8 guys" is comical and embarassing that he says it with a straight face. if i were a reporter covering the team i'd have a hard time not laughing. the C's didn't play only 6 guys against us b/c shaq and JO were out. they used other players.

you have 15 players on the team mike. you are allowed to play all of them!

FistOfOakley wrote:i'm not for giving mozgov burn. he is horrible and doesn't exactly have much of a track record.

randolph needs to find some PT.

cheers wrote:

Don't tell me AR can ball. He can't. Just because he got time on a bum Warriors squad doesn't mean he has any place on a winning club. That's what Coach Mike runs, winning clubs. Don't give me this garbage. His job is on the line, it's his last year.

If Coach Mike plays the bums like AR and Moz more and loses more games, you know what you guys would be saying? "Oh, Coach Mike sucks!!! He can't win with this roster!!".

Please. Get out of town, quickly, don't even pack your bags on a tractor.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/e/ewingpa01/gamelog/1995/

Ewing avg roughly the same amount of minutes

CrushAlot wrote:Thats the guy I thought the Knicks were getting. There are so many videos of him just showing incredible athleticism it is unbelievable that he can't get some run. Come on Mike give the boy a chance and save your glare and shout for Toney and Gallo when they f'up

Turiaf is the only GS player to give use anything this year, and he's also been slowed down by injury. These 3 guys were the players who should have been providing us with significant depth. Their failure to do so has been a major issue for MDA and our rotation.