Its like saying because Jeffries is playing very well this time around means that he was just as good a player the last time he was here. Players elevate their game and so do coaches.

I'm a fan of the job he's doing now. Its not just about having a better roster, its about making better decisions as coach and that's what he's doing for the most part.

GustavBahler wrote:I'm happy with the job D'Antoni's done lately but it doesn't mean that it retroactively makes every bad decision good ones. Decisions I don't care to revisit but if you guys want to, knock yourselves out. I'm looking forward.

Its like saying because Jeffries is playing very well this time around means that he was just as good a player the last time he was here. Players elevate their game and so do coaches.

I'm a fan of the job he's doing now. Its not just about having a better roster, its about making better decisions as coach and that's what he's doing for the most part.

Who really cars about retroactively? Nobody said he was perfect and did not suck at times.

You look at the circumstances and judge how an employee did with his personal and the environment that surrounded.

When you have better players and more of them, you can make better decisions. Any coach can benefit from that.

But you don't have the players, you make worse decisions.

Is he the best situational coach? NO! Probably will never be good at it. Does it hurt us - yes from time to time. But he has faith in his system and like it or not he has been fully transparent about it. The players play hard for him despite what the critics like to point out. And I think he developed all the young players that showed REAL promise ( draft position and other **** like that, now withstanding).

And I think he still has a lot to prove. I have advocated giving him a one year extension and then a non guaranteed multi year deal beyond that to be contingent on what he does this year and 2013. I still think that's fair. Rosters overhaul and all if you have 33 win seasons under your watch part of the accountability lies with you. So I would resist giving him a full multi year extension right now.

It's forgivable to forget now, when Rivers is the king of X's and O's, and his team is the standard for late-game execution (the just-completed Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Miami Heat notwithstanding) and the new blueprint for NBA success.

Over Rivers' first three seasons in Boston, he compiled a mere 102-144 record. The Celtics won the Atlantic Division and were the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference his first season before getting bounced by the Indiana Pacers in seven games. Over the next two seasons, Boston was a combined 25 games under .500, bottoming out with a 24-win campaign during the 2006-07 season, which included a franchise-record 18-game losing streak (back then, no one ever considered the catchphrase, "It's all about 18").

On Nov. 25, 2006, the TD Garden crowd chanted, "Fi-re Doc! Fi-re Doc!" during a one-point win over the Charlotte Bobcats. But even as the Celtics limped through the lowest of franchise lows, Ainge never truly considered a change.

"I saw determination, hard work, persistence and a great leader," Ainge said. "In the face of adversity, there's no one I'd rather have on my side than Doc."

So many NY fans have done the same thing with MDA. They don't realize that when you see a coach or player everyday you will see their mistakes and other coaches seem so great from afar cuz you don't study every single move they make in the same way. Doc was a good coach before the losing and so was MDA. Given the tools both are good coaches and can win at a high level.