he's done a terrific job assembling a team of disparate parts.
his offense and system and coaching staff developed jeremy lin.
he has the team playing at an elite defensive level.
a team no one thought was deep to start the season looks DEEP as sh!t now, because everyone knows their role.
EXTEND MIKE D'ANTONI
He's got his players' support. Get it done and make it a nonstory.
Lol wishful thinking at best
Hell no. It depends on what we accomplish the rest of the season and in the playoffs.
I'll sign this attendance sheet.
AnubisADL wrote:Lol wishful thinking at best
...only because the owner is an idiot who is enthralled by isiah thomas.
Didn't Nalod start a thread on this?
Either way, MDA is a good coach - glad there is finally some support for him around here.
no doubt crzy.. agree 100%
no matter how bad of a job anyone thinks he did with previous teams, he's done a wonderful job with this one.
If Phil wants in, the job is his.
Beat the heat on the road...then we talk
babyKnicks wrote:Beat the heat on the road...then we talk
We did that last year! 
Really tho winning against the top team in the east that is banging on all cylinders is a big haul, but I don't think it means anything if we lost except that it was a tough road game. This team is not even close to clicking on all cylinders yet so the Heat game won't be a final judgment on what this team can really do.
I wish we had Shump cuz his D puts us over the top and makes us a really tough team to score against. I do like JR's D tho. He's a VERY good defender. Very Active and athletic.
Didn't catch that earlier, so Shump is definitely out tomorrow?
loweyecue wrote:Didn't catch that earlier, so Shump is definitely out tomorrow?
Actually I don't know for sure. My guess is yea since he's not gonna do the Slam Dunk Contest. I guess they would want to give him time to heal 100%. I don't know that for sure, only a guess.
Extend him, he finally has a team, and he was willing to stay through all that crap. With this depth, his system will dominate much of the time. Wait till they get to practice.
PhilinLA wrote:Extend him, he finally has a team, and he was willing to stay through all that crap. With this depth, his system will dominate much of the time. Wait till they get to practice.
yeah, if this was a full season with regular rest, i think the record would be much better. losing to the nets on the third game in four nights doesn't bother me much, especially with shump out and deron motivated to show he's no chump.
agreed - MDA has put up with a LOT of crap and has put together two completely different teams in the last two years that have been a lot of fun to watch, with a lot of potential. best part is - there's no big trade to screw things up coming now!
Take the Knicks to the East conference finals at least and then extend him, if they get knocked out in the 1st or 2nd round get me Phill Jackson
I think you wait and see what happens. No one was posting this on Monday night. The Knicks are on a great run and are back at .500. A winning season and playoff success would be the first steps towards getting an extension in my opinion.
Playoffs!! Success? Extend.
An owner would be an idiot to extend at this point before he has to. See how this mesh works out, be successful in the playoffs (at least win a round?? PLEASE?), then extend. Oh, I forgot, the owner is an idiot so who knows.
Why as fans do we care when he gets his new contract? So he can be calmer and concentrate more on coaching? I would rather he coach with a fire under his ass.
crzymdups wrote:he's done a terrific job assembling a team of disparate parts. his offense and system and coaching staff developed jeremy lin.
he has the team playing at an elite defensive level.
a team no one thought was deep to start the season looks DEEP as sh!t now, because everyone knows their role.
EXTEND MIKE D'ANTONI
Does he get the credit for assembling this team? Not sure he does - Grunwald is the GM.
EXTEND GRUNWALD!!
crzymdups wrote:PhilinLA wrote:Extend him, he finally has a team, and he was willing to stay through all that crap. With this depth, his system will dominate much of the time. Wait till they get to practice.
yeah, if this was a full season with regular rest, i think the record would be much better. losing to the nets on the third game in four nights doesn't bother me much, especially with shump out and deron motivated to show he's no chump.
agreed - MDA has put up with a LOT of crap and has put together two completely different teams in the last two years that have been a lot of fun to watch, with a lot of potential. best part is - there's no big trade to screw things up coming now!
I think the fans that have bashed MDA don't realize how much work it takes to keep building up a new team every few months. That's literally what has happened here. Think about how you'd feel on your job if every time you got midway or more into a project someone came and scrapped it and told you to start over with a different set up parameters??? It's insane how much change there's been. STAT said it already feels like the 3rd team he's been on here in NY!!! How do you think MDA feels. The man deserves a sign of loyalty and respect cuz very few coaches PHIL INCLUDED would've put up with this mess and the lack of respect!!!
