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nixluva
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2/16/2012  12:13 AM
There's this notion that MDA waited too long to put in JLin. This myth that he was somehow just a wing and a prayer that MDA just pushed out there in a game and Lin took off. We all know Lin wasn't originally in the plans but is it fair to bash the coach for not playing Lin sooner? Was Lin handled properly given the circumstances? I say Yes!

Let's debunk this crap about waiting too long to play Lin and that somehow he was just pushed out on the floor and miracles happened.

1. MDA WANTED LIN! He didn't have to take him. He liked his skill set and had an idea that the kid fit what he wanted to do. He didn't just take any old available PG.

2. The season started on Dec. 25th. Lin came here on Dec. 27th and didn't get a chance to prepare like everyone else in Camp. Lin wasn't in the mix at the start but that's to be understood. How could Lin play the point for us when he didn't even know the plays and we were already into this fast paced no breaks season??? Dec. 28, 29 & 31 we had games. Was Lin supposed to play in any of these games??? You can't count those 3 games against the Knicks not playing Lin. Let's take a look at the Schedule and days off:


Record
Sun, Dec 25 vs Boston W 106-104 1-0
Lin Picked up off Waivers
Wed, Dec 28 @ Golden State L 92-78 1-1 Lin 1 min. Zero Practice
Thu, Dec 29 @ Los Angeles L 99-82 1-2 Lin 2 min. Zero Practice
Sat, Dec 31 @ Sacramento W 114-92 2-2 Lin 4 min. Zero Practice
Mon, Jan 2 vs Toronto L 90-85 2-3
Wed, Jan 4 vs Charlotte L 118-110 2-4
Fri, Jan 6 @ Washington W 99-96 3-4
Sat, Jan 7 @ Detroit W 103-80 4-4 Lin 4 min.
Mon, Jan 9 vs Charlotte W 91-87 5-4
Wed, Jan 11 vs Philadelphia W 85-79 6-4
Thu, Jan 12 @ Memphis L 94-83 6-5
Sat, Jan 14 @ Oklahoma City L 104-92 6-6 Lin 5 min.
Mon, Jan 16 vs Orlando L 102-93 6-7

3. So why would MDA have to have played Lin up to this point? At 6-7 They weren't in full panic mode. Look at that schedule and the lack of days off and the travel time or the road games. The few days off weren't full practice days. So Lin effectively had NO SHOT to really get a lot of work in up to this point.

4. MDA didn't wait until the whole thing came apart to do something with Lin. Something had to be done to see if they could help Lin get some reps and a better chance to learn the system. Jan. 17th Lin was sent to the D League. Lin's stint in the D League was about six days. He killed it, but his stint allowed him time to practice in the system. Lin may have felt the D league stint was a punishment, but it wasn't. Lin came back and worked with K. Atkinson and practiced on game days against Baron. He looked good and that led to more looks in games. While Lin was gone he missed about some games all of which we lost.

5. When Lin came back he played Jan. 24, 6 mins. @ Charlotte. He played 20 mins in Houston . Still Mike wasn't ready to just hand Lin the ball, but it was a good little look. He got 6 minutes in the next game in Detroit. Then Mike didn't feel comfortable with Lin in the Bulls game which was like a Playoff game. The Next game was the Boston game and Lin got a 7 minutes stint and looked good. After that MDA said that they'd go back to Lin cuz he showed a bit more and gave him a big shot in the Nets game and Lin took it from there.

All i'm saying is that it wasn't just automatic that MDA should've played Lin earlier. Lin hadn't had a chance to really practice with the team cuz basically there weren't any real practice days. That's why MDA sent Lin down to get some work and practice which he did. Lin admitted that it was good for him to go to the D league and learn the system.

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2/16/2012  12:17 AM
Dobby likes MDA and Dobby won't let anyone hurt him!

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2/16/2012  12:24 AM
I'm pretty sure that on Lin's previous 2 teams there were similar issues of timing just not working out and space on the roster etc. I'm just pointing out that here in NY it wasn't realistic to think Lin could just come in here and get a look right away given our situation.

The Knicks weren't really doing bad until they went on that losing streak. MDA sent him to the D league when the team was 6-7, so he didn't wait til it was too late to try and get Lin some work in the system. Up to that point there weren't enough practice days to get Lin acclimated. Lin himself said that the D League stint really made a difference.

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2/16/2012  12:30 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/16/2012  12:31 AM
noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

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2/16/2012  1:05 AM
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

LOLLLL funniest post i've read all year

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2/16/2012  1:43 AM
Nalod wrote:Dobby likes MDA and Dobby won't let anyone hurt him!


LMFAO!!!!

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2/16/2012  2:28 AM
It may be very funny to poke fun at me, but just remember that if you don't have MDA you probably don't have Linsanity. Bash MDA all you want but many coaches wouldn't even have given Lin a shot. Many coaches would've even have brought him in or held on to him rather than go after a guy with a bigger name.

Thing is that Despite a lack of practice days and MDA being on the hotseat, MDA did actually carve out time and found a way to help Lin to get acclimated to the system, which led to Lin being able to burst onto the scene when he got his chance. Being desperate still didn't mean MDA had to give Lin a shot and let him work thru his mistakes.

I posted the time line and game schedule to highlight just how few practice days where were and how short a period of time it was from when Lin got here to him actually getting his shot. It wasn't as long as some people are making it out to be and Lin was much more ready for his shot after they worked with him and made sure he got some reps and could get more comfortable with the system and what he was supposed to do.

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2/16/2012  5:24 AM
Nalod wrote:Dobby likes MDA and Dobby won't let anyone hurt him!


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2/16/2012  10:05 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/16/2012  10:05 AM
nixluva wrote:It may be very funny to poke fun at me, but just remember that if you don't have MDA you probably don't have Linsanity. Bash MDA all you want but many coaches wouldn't even have given Lin a shot. Many coaches would've even have brought him in or held on to him rather than go after a guy with a bigger name.

Thing is that Despite a lack of practice days and MDA being on the hotseat, MDA did actually carve out time and found a way to help Lin to get acclimated to the system, which led to Lin being able to burst onto the scene when he got his chance. Being desperate still didn't mean MDA had to give Lin a shot and let him work thru his mistakes.

I posted the time line and game schedule to highlight just how few practice days where were and how short a period of time it was from when Lin got here to him actually getting his shot. It wasn't as long as some people are making it out to be and Lin was much more ready for his shot after they worked with him and made sure he got some reps and could get more comfortable with the system and what he was supposed to do.


I don't understand the MDA hate either. I wanted Lin to be freed a long time ago and as a fan wanted Lin get minutes from the start....BUT ....I do see what MDA has been saying on why it took so long. If Jeremy came in with a true training camp then I would be crying that he was mishandled but with the condensed season the timeline makes sense.

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2/16/2012  10:12 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/16/2012  10:12 AM
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eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

LOLLLL funniest post i've read all year

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2/16/2012  10:53 AM
Good job Evil! Great post!

Nix, Your usually spot on but there will alway be fans who think better of any situation and don't understand many business aspects of the game.

MDA would have been fired if the garden died. ITs alive. For all the x's and o's its a business decison.

I love that many coaches don't get the cred they deserve. Phil Jax is always being discredited because he had great players. No winning coach wins with crap. No sustainable legand coach does it with out superstars.

MDA is no coaching god but the bottom line is success does require "Catching a break". Either a roster addition or a superior opponent having a bad moment and an oppportunity arises.

Giants are prime example. They catch a break with Cruz and ride thru an up and down season. Coughlin was on the hotseat with fans, not his front office. The media and fans are reactions. If anyone deserves to be fired it was The clown Rex Ryan who lost his team mid season but fans did not know it until it ended badly. Fans calling for a guy's head who eventually wins the superbowl. Go figure.

Fans here want change and hope. There is no tangable reason why MDA should be fired as the team never gave up on him. Chemistry problems were based on the lack of proper PG.

Going forward this team has challanges. Firing or not extending MDA does no eliminate the Challanges this team faces.

PHX suns were an entertaining fun team to watched as they avged 55 wins under MDA.

IF the guy forgot how to coach that would be one thing. I think a coach plays to his stregnth and coachs a certain way. If he was the wrong guy for this team then I'd say bring in the right system.

Many fans think you add players on paper and it should work. Expectations were high. I get that.

While losing I thought MDA handled it with humor and grace. Other coaches deflect and get angry. MDA said he needed to do better and was pretty upfront about things. Some take that as a sign of weakness.

MDA stayed true to his system and caught a break.

Good teams catch them. They have to. Otherwise they are not good!

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2/16/2012  11:33 AM
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

There's a lot more that he did wrong!

He didn't play Anthony Randolph any meaningful minutes. Anthony Randolph!!! The guy was a lottery pick and most talented big man not named Kevin Garnett and MDA put him in his dog house! Not only that he now has the gall and gumption to play some undrafted Harvard grad who majored in economics!! How can anyone give this guy a pass on coaching???

Heck he couldn't even over achieve with the personnel for a 20 win team and take them to the playoffs in his first two years. And in his third year he had the team on a downward spiral before Walsh saved his ass by trading for Melo.

Playoffs? You wanna talk about playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Doc Rivers had 4 all stars and deep team and MDA had Melo and an assortment of rookies and scrubs and he still let Doc Rivers kick his butt four games in a row!!!!!

Fire this guy already.

TKF on Melo ::....he is a punk, a jerk, a self absorbed out of shape, self aggrandizing, unprofessional, volume chucking coach killing playoff loser!!
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2/16/2012  4:24 PM    LAST EDITED: 2/16/2012  4:25 PM
loweyecue wrote:
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

There's a lot more that he did wrong!

He didn't play Anthony Randolph any meaningful minutes. Anthony Randolph!!! The guy was a lottery pick and most talented big man not named Kevin Garnett and MDA put him in his dog house! Not only that he now has the gall and gumption to play some undrafted Harvard grad who majored in economics!! How can anyone give this guy a pass on coaching???

Heck he couldn't even over achieve with the personnel for a 20 win team and take them to the playoffs in his first two years. And in his third year he had the team on a downward spiral before Walsh saved his ass by trading for Melo.

Playoffs? You wanna talk about playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Doc Rivers had 4 all stars and deep team and MDA had Melo and an assortment of rookies and scrubs and he still let Doc Rivers kick his butt four games in a row!!!!!

Fire this guy already.

lol.

glad my post got people laughing, but i'm sorry to have distracted from Nixluva's good points.

but seriously people, Mike D'Antoni stuck with the wrong mix of guys for too long. he didn't try enough stuff. he should have played a lot of different rotations and changed the starting lineup from night to night. i'm mean, c'mon? how do you people not realize his coaching failures?

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2/16/2012  4:28 PM
eViL wrote:
loweyecue wrote:
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

There's a lot more that he did wrong!

He didn't play Anthony Randolph any meaningful minutes. Anthony Randolph!!! The guy was a lottery pick and most talented big man not named Kevin Garnett and MDA put him in his dog house! Not only that he now has the gall and gumption to play some undrafted Harvard grad who majored in economics!! How can anyone give this guy a pass on coaching???

Heck he couldn't even over achieve with the personnel for a 20 win team and take them to the playoffs in his first two years. And in his third year he had the team on a downward spiral before Walsh saved his ass by trading for Melo.

Playoffs? You wanna talk about playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Doc Rivers had 4 all stars and deep team and MDA had Melo and an assortment of rookies and scrubs and he still let Doc Rivers kick his butt four games in a row!!!!!

Fire this guy already.

lol.

glad my post got people laughing, but i'm sorry to have distracted from Nixluva's good points.

but seriously people, Mike D'Antoni stuck with the wrong mix of guys for too long. he didn't try enough stuff. he should have played a lot of different rotations and changed the starting lineup from night to night. i'm mean, c'mon? how do you people not realize his coaching failures?

Dude should have tried the "home town Brown shuffle"!

Larry Brown would start you if you played or lived near by.

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2/16/2012  4:42 PM    LAST EDITED: 2/16/2012  4:43 PM
eViL wrote:

but seriously people, Mike D'Antoni stuck with the wrong mix of guys for too long. he didn't try enough stuff. he should have played a lot of different rotations and changed the starting lineup from night to night. i'm mean, c'mon? how do you people not realize his coaching failures?

Seriously, the same posters who won't let this issue go and keep starting new threads are surprised and get offended, mocking other posters, when they don't get the feedback they want.

If you don't like responses you're getting, don't keep bringing up this same tired subject over and over again. I'm pretty sure everyone else will give it a rest if you do the same.

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2/16/2012  4:50 PM
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.


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2/16/2012  5:05 PM
All we hear about is how Lin was being left on the bench to rot and should've been put in sooner and how close he was to being waived. The thing is he wasn't waived and he did get a shot to play. Lin got more of a shot than any of his previous coaches gave him. Thank God he wasn't waived and MDA did put him in the game. This has been an Epic change of fortune for a franchise that has had just about everything that could go wrong, go wrong over the years. In a weird way TD sucking SO BAD is what really made this Possible. So you just never know how things will turnout.
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2/16/2012  5:22 PM
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

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2/16/2012  5:32 PM
eViL wrote:noble effort Nixluva. but i must tell you, this is what you should expect as far as responses go:

i think you're completely wrong. first of all, Mike doesn't coach. he just looks at the guys before the game and says "play basketball." then he stands on the sideline and says "let's go" 50 times a minute.

second of all, he never actually meant to play Lin. during the Nets game, Lin mistakenly thought Mike pointed to him, and so Jeremy got up and went to the scorers table. Mike felt bad but knew he was getting fired anyway so he didn't do anything about it. he was too busy finishing off the cover letter for his Toronto Raptors job application.

third of all, no defense. that's implied when Mike says "let's go." what he really means is hurry up and let them score so we can get back on offense. and plus, he played Larry Hughes too much, he ran Chris Duhon into the ground and he didn't give T-Mac a chance to prove he's still got it. oh and Jordan Hill. he was such a failure at coaching Jordan Hill that he made all of Jordan Hill's subsequent coaches failures at coaching Jordan Hill.

fourth of all, SSOL backwards is LOSS. which i guess makes sense because if you run the system backwards, presumably, you'd lose points at rapid pace.

fifth of all, if you were running a restaurant, and you wanted to add a delivery facet to your business, but the guy who designed your menus misprinted the telephone number, and you don't get any calls, you might mistakenly think that people don't want delivery, but you would be mistaken because it was a mistake. people do want delivery. it's just that you don't have the right number on the menu. so what are you supposed to do now? sue the guy who designed the menus? you just wanna run a successful restaurant.

eVil, this is some of your best stuff bro. LOL

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