one of the reasons I believe he is a terrible coach.
Excluding his inability to coach X's and O's and draw up plays that actually execute, he only yells at his young players and usually for stuff that the star players do constantly.
You will NEVER see Mike D yell at Amare or Melo for stupid plays and when they just seem to not want to play defense, especially amare. How many times has melo done something stupid on offense, got mad and fouled the opposing team right after in frustration? THese deserve a cold seat on the bench and Mike D is too scared to do it.
Mike D is a wussie that is having his wussiness rub off on the team.
All of his teams rarely brought hustle and tenacious play. The Knicks have great players and a great roster yet this coach is failing miserably and getting booed in his own stadium like Isiah Thomas did with Jamal Crawford and Eddy Curry.
This guy is terrible.
Please Lord Jesus have this man fired.
I agree that D'Antoni has to go by now. It's gotten to a point where we simply can't keep him anymore.
He did some great work back in Phoenix, but that was 2004 and 2005....7 years ago.
I'd like to know though who our 'great players' are?
Tyson Chandler yes, but there it stops imo.
Lin and Shumpert are great talents, but very inexperienced and not there yet.
Fields, Novak, Jeffries, Jorts are all great role players, but hardly guys that can win games on their own or be considered franchise players.
I think that even with a new coach we'll struggle, unless we trade Meo or Stat (or even both) and revamp the roster.
Somebody here (don't remember who) made a very good suggesions. He said Melo needs a similar team around him like Iverson had in 2001 with the Sixers. One scorer and 4 defenders and teamplayers.
That could work imo.
With Stat it's much more difficult, we'd basically need to get rid off Melo and Tyson Chandler, play him at center and surround him with shooters and athletic forwards (Wilson Chandler, Shawn Marion style) to get some production out of him.