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.

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.

Nalod wrote:Dobby likes MDA and Dobby won't let anyone hurt him!

LMFAO!!!!

Nalod wrote:Dobby likes MDA and Dobby won't let anyone hurt him!

OjilEye 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.

LOLLLL funniest post i've read all year

BUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA, THE BEST. EVIL!!!

THIS SHOULD BE STICKIED, AND PRINTED OUT AND POSTED ON EVERYONE'S WALL AT HOME OR OFFICE.

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.

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.

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.

LMAOOO!!!!!!! Person I share an office with is wondering why I'm laughing out loud like a crazy person.....this was hilarious

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.

Tha'ts funny stuff