HofstraBBall wrote:dk7th wrote:HofstraBBall wrote:dk7th wrote:CrushAlot wrote:dk7th wrote:CrushAlot wrote:dk7th wrote:CrushAlot wrote:dk7th wrote:CrushAlot wrote:dk7th wrote:d'antoni haters out in full force, hear what you want to hear, interpret what he is saying how you will. carry on with the useless trolling.
Did you listen to the podcast?
i heard a pretty gracious person who realized he had lost the team and resigned once he realized it. once he saw how well lin did leading the knicks during that stretch, he wanted to make it lin's team and allow lin to play the way he, lin, wanted to play. apparently the adjustments required of melo and amare were too much to ask for the cause of winning or in service of winning, and the writing was on the wall.argue 20-20 hindsight if you want-- lin gets hurt, lin is just an average player with a brilliant streak, etc. it doesn't cover over the fact that d'antoni wasn't powerful enough to make his players do what he wanted them to do, and it reflects poorly on amare and melo.
I heard it and did not feel that way at all. I heard a guy taking little tey refusedo no accountability to a situation that he could have handled differently and putting it on his players. Either don't go there with Woj or own up to your own mistakes.
He said that with the way Lin ran the team, and the remarkable success the Knicks experienced, that he wanted Melo to move to the 4 and Amare to come off the bench. They refused to do what he asked-- their own coach with a proven record of success at that time-- and he resigned. He noted that when Melo moved to the 4 out of necessity that that made a big difference, vindicating his vision for the team.
He didn't say that the players refused anything. He said they didn't want to. Did Noah want to go to the bench in Chicago? How about Afflalo? Who makes that call? Who has the responsibility for setting the line up?
It amounts to the exact same thing.
Again I disagree. It was D'Antoni's job to change the line up if it was the best thing for the team and team goals.
Suit yourself.
Who gives a ****. Love how people ignore the obvious circumstances and facts but continue talking about some bull **** fantasy of what could have been. This just goes to show what a moron MDA was. He thought it was a good move to put a two week wonder in a higher role than two parenial All Stars. Yeah, that is what most experienced coaches would have done? And why are we still talking about this guy? Lin has gone on to prove all the Lin hard-ons wrong. He sucked in Houston. Sucked in LA. And played and average back up role on a walk year. But everyone is still acting like Lin would have gotten us a chip? Stupid to argue he was worth the money Houston wasted on him. And as for MDA, except for his terrible in game adjustments, non existent defensive framework and total lack of player respect, he was a great coach. Still laugh my ass off every time I think of his time out speeches. The "Nutty Professor".
so what you are saying is that melo and amare were justified in "not wanting to" or "refusing to do" what their coach wanted them to do. cool.
You prefer failing, quiting like a biatch then throwing everyone under the bus without taking any responsibility.....
i prefer chain of command and hierarchy but unfortunately in the nba, when the troops are being paid 100 times more than the generals you have these sorts of situations. in a healthy organization the players do what they are told, lest they acquire the reputation of being coach killers. for instance, when paul george groused about playing the 4 larry bird said "he don't make the decisions around here, i do." that's an example of how things work in a healthy, well-run organization. sadly, at that time for the knicks, it was dolan front and center. this was the same perverted scumbag dolan who was forced by stern to hire a real basketball person to replace the sick-headed malignant narcissist thomas. again, sadly, dolan still had not swallowed enough medicine, and since dolan was solely responsible for giving a hand job to melo, a power struggle resulted, wherefrom both walsh and d'antoni found the emergency exit by "resigning."
that's my interpretation of those events. you're entitled to your own interpretation. god bless
knicks win 38-43 games in 16-17. rose MUST shoot no more than 14 shots per game, defer to kp6 + melo, and have a usage rate of less than 25%