Doesn't say when Melo gave the ultimatum. When it must have been obvious MDA was not returning it made no sense for him to stay.
Coaches used the end of a season to evaluate and perhaps experiment. When it was known Woodson was to be the next guy, it makes no sense to humiliate MDA and fire him, so let him move on, let woodson perhaps end the season with continuity and all go on.
The ultimatum could have been there and not a "Flash point" to where MDA just ups and quits.
MDA was not the guy for that roster and it was apparent when they traded the house for Melo that MDA never had leverage. If and When Melo was not buying into MDA, it was problem. Expiring coach and a younger melo was the right choice for knicks at the time.
Currently, 33 year old Melo with two years left does not have that leverage anymore nor the time frame to build with or around him. He can still play but he is not changing his spots, stripes or his game.
meloshouldgo wrote:CrushAlot wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:CrushAlot wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:CrushAlot wrote:StarksEwing1 wrote:GustavBahler wrote:Kharma is a B. D'Antoni was at what might be the pinnacle of his career, things were going great for him this year. Instead of taking the high road, MDA chooses to pile on Melo in an interview. He did this knowing that Anthony has gone through maybe the worst year of his personal and professional life, and MDA had one of his best.
How exactly did he pile on melo? In the article he said Melo is a good guy and he still talks to him. All he said is that they wanted to play different styles and melo pretty much won out which was true.
He said that Carmelo gave the Knicks an ultimatum, Melo or D'Antoni. He waited 6 years to say it and he did it when Melo was having a horrible year as Gustav said. It also is bs. D'Antoni was a lame duck coach and the gm had already hired his replacement and amnestied his point guard. D'Antoni ended his Knick career 6 weeks before his contract expired.
Billups wasn't his point guard. truthfully Bllups didn't want t leave Denver but was dragged into the trade. MDA id a good dude so sorry I don't see how he "bashed melo" like a few claim. Lets be honest melo hated his system and it showed. It is what it is
Toney Douglas ended up being his point guard when Grunwld amnestied Billups to sign Tyson. We're any of those moves made in support of D'Antoni's style? How about the GM hiring his college roommate as associate head coach in charge of defense? Or the gm leaving D'Antoni as a lame duck? He came out and said a player said it is him or me and that is why he quit. The guy's replacement was sitting next to him but the Knicks were going to let Mike finish out his last year. He waited six years until he finally was winning to blame Melo. Mike piled on Melo in my opinion. I believe 'bash' is the term you chose.
im sorry i still dont see it as "piling on" or "bashing" or whatever term u prefer. He said melo is a good dude and he still gets along with him. I think most people would Agree that melo is a pretty good guy but he can be stubborn when it comes to certain styles or systems he does not want to run. George karl,phil,and dantoni have all said it.
The team was built in a traditional manner not a D'Antoni seven seconds or less type roster. D'Antoni was in the last year of his deal. Walsh was gone. Grunwald went all In on the front court. D'Antoni wasn't winning again as the coach. He resigned but he had no juice. His jobs my was done in 6 weeks, he wasn't winning and what he was doing wasn't working again. Saying Melo gave an ultimatum is blaming Melo. D'Antoni saying he still talks with Melo etc. doesn't change what he is doing. D'Antoni always leaves the door open to be called a good guy when he behaves like an @ss.
Saying Melo gave him an ultimatum is blaming Melo? How about its telling the fukking truth? You want D'Antoni to be accountable? How about Melo? When was the last time you asked poor misunderstood Melo to be accountable for not playing defense, not doing what the coach asked him to do and for being a complete @$$hole?
JH never said melo was not playing like he was suppose to (offensively), Fisher never said that and neither did woodson..it has always been reported since phil got here, that all the veterans, showed some kind of resistance to the triangle.
Phil's only complaint about melo was that he holds on to the ball couple of seconds to long SOMETIMES.
In MDA's case, melo definitely went against the grain, im sure linsanity had something to do with it, but even in his very 1st season, I recall AMARE constantly stating players (ddnt say names) did not trust the system, which was probably Billups and Melo.
