D'Antoni if he wasnt such a river boat Las Vegas or Atlantic city gambler he'd swarm Pierce with long
defenders since Celtics needed a 3 (three)

only Ray Allen coulda made the shot & time was running out. If you lose without Pierce getting touch
live with it. The game would only be tied then, but Paul Pierce is sole celtic whose lived on those
bomb shots at the boston garden. Over and Over again

MDA gambled with his man up D, poorly switched with the shorter Shumpert

We'll never win games that way and if shows You're being outcoached always by Doc Rivers OR Eric Spoestra of the NBA
easily

This coach will never be a hero with a decision to win a game for his team.

Watch Knicks get bounced! in NBA playoffs if they dont win division Atlantic title to avoid playing
HEAT, BULLs or Celts in round 1 as a road game.

This will be MDA coaching ticket out of here & prove furthermore Jeremy Lin saved this man's job.

Give away Celtics game like D'antoni has done his entire Knick era tenure here is story of HOW GOOD ? or
how bad D'Antoni is really in NewYork

You've got your PG and cannot WIN BIG GAMEs yet! with killa road trips and NBA foes opponents for NYKnicks
in the month of March.

Hard to argue (although I try) what happend.

I think there is so much to what could be.

Rondo misses the second foul shot and Celts get the rebound.
Rondo blows buy defender and goes in for a quick two. Down by a point and 12 seconds left. We get fouled, only hit one. Up by two.
Celts get ball back with 10 seconds left. NO time outs but now they are in a position to only need 2 to tie, or three to win. Win, no overtime!

We can go round and round. Maybe a blanket statement of "we don't foul" is not the best answer as fans feel they deserve a more "gracious" answer from the coach.

Personally I don't care, I prefer a man be set in his conviction than pander to whining second guessers. Naturally if he had a few rings on his finger he can afford to be more arrogant to help his image, but that does not bother me.

In the end he'll be judged by his over all performance and the direction of the team. MSG's gag order really does not give us much insight to anything.

Its NY, the media knows how to press the fans buttons.

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:We can't forget that Shump put the clamp on Pierce on that play, it was a freak shot. Doesn't go in 7 out of 10 times.

What???

Shump was scared sh1tless to foul in the act and the was no CLAMP!

izybx wrote:

MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:We can't forget that Shump put the clamp on Pierce on that play, it was a freak shot. Doesn't go in 7 out of 10 times.

more like 9 out of 10. If pierce shoots that shot in regular play Im sure everyone agrees that hes taking a terrible shot

PP, Allen and Durant hit that shot 5 out of 10 times in these types of situations.

If was far from a terrible shot - Shump gave him a clear look because he was so scared to foul.

As for the way Shump defended Pierce, he just didn't get all the way over in time to get in front of him rather than on the side. Things like that happen in the mad scramble of last second shots.
I actually don't agree with MDA's approach. I would foul but I do understand coaches that don't and there are a lot that don't!

MDA has been to the WCF's 2x so it's not like he has never coached a team deep. Not to mention one of those times he did it with no Amare and with Boris Diaw as his Center!!! If you think that wasn't great coaching you don't know BB! That was not a great team!

mmorman wrote:I think MDA doesn't want to make a decision that loses the game - -he'd rather lose it by not making a decision e.g not fouling!!

True

he really rather win games by a Jumper.

I bet when Pierce got that ball to make a move/play ..Mike told his guys
"Let him shoot" so Knicks was guaranteed to get ball back with time left o

Amazing
it will never come down to making a stop OR defenders making a play from a mike dantoni led NBA team
NEVEr brother!