Mike D has created more work for himself than needed
Look I like Mike Dantoni he's still a good coach to me, but what he has done in benching Steph is created a must win situation for himself. He essentially made his job a lot harder than it needed to be in terms of on the court performance, and media scrutiny. Look if we play Steph and we are 1-2 then the argument is our team is still learning the system, but benching Steph opens up the argument that we are losing because our current backcourt sucks. Now being that the one game that we got production out of the backcourt resulted in a victory, then it is hard to disagree with that claim. So again Mike Dantoni has made his job harder than it needed to be. No realistic fan expected us to be a playoff team this season, all we wanted was some promise for the future. No fan realistically thought Steph would be the PG of the future for NY, but certainly wanted to see him in this system. I stated before that there could be other factors to Steph's benching like teamate's disapproval of him, but if that's the case then someone better step up for the sake of Dantoni because he is looking really bad right about now!
I cant say for sure we would be 3-0 if Steph was playing or even 2-1, but I can say if he is not benched Mike Dantoni's job is a lot easier!