Great coaches have bad years. It happens.
Sometimes they have bad rosters.
MDA don't play defense. Check
MDA don't adapt. Check
MDA brings players who want a taste of his offensive genius. Check
MDA don't play yoot or develop yoot. Check
MDA don't play "Bad" rookies. Damn right check!
I'd extend him right now if it were up to me. I don't have to wait until the playoffs because I know this team plays hard for its coach. I extend him because it empowers him further. And I extend him because there is no guarantee another coach can hold his team together as he has.
The coach's system accepted a Dleaguer in Lin and the system allowed his talent to be seen and heard!
Not all coach's could have done what he is doing. His players promoted Lin from within!
That is true buy in!
When your team is slumping and falling into the abyss and rallies to bring one of its own off the bench, then your doing something right!
And when your doing something right, good things will happen!
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.
MDA had his issues because frankly the Knicks did not have the pieces for him until this year.
Even Felton last year was not really ideally suited for D'antoni's system.
Now we have a PG that fits the system like a glove.
If I were the Knicks I would give him a 3 year extension, no games.
He is actually doing a really nice job of coaching since Lin took over.
He is calling timeoutas at the right time to break the other teams' runs.
His rotations have been spot on.
I like what this coach is doing with the horses he has.
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.
Nalod wrote: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.
You just went back and recycled all the criticism of MDA, that's not looking forward. No one said he had it easy, just that you can only give a coach a pass for so much.
I'm happy with the job he is doing now and I apologize Nalod for derailing your thread but you could have left off the checklist and the "so there". We're all in this together.
I had initially disliked MDA when he was hired. I think I can safely say I don't dislike him anymore intact I have actually started to like. I have defended him often because like or dislike I thought he was put in a situation to fail for the first two years. He got a raw deal but he went about it like a professional. He has never whined about his predicament to the media like Larry, Isiah and others. He didn't quit and run like Riley and he put up with worse personnel and trade decisions than JVG did.
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 shit 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.
Always been an MDA fan. This is almost like how Coughlin kinda changed his ways. MDA is now preaching defense.
Professionals need good tools to do their job well. If you give a man a screwdriver when he needs a hammer, it's gonna effect how his work comes out. For too long this coach has had the wrong tools in key positions. Soon as you give him a hammer all of a sudden he's hitting the nail on the head. Just look at Doc Rivers and you'll see the same thing happened to him. Before KG and Allen, he was being destroyed by the Media and Fans.
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.
