Since Mike D'antoni has been in the league:
Greg Popavich= 3 championships
Larry Brown= 1 championship
Pat Riley= 1 championship
Doc Rivers=1 championship
Mike D'antoni= ZERO CHAMPIONSHIPS!! Without one NBA finals appearance
Now what were you saying about D'antoni being the best coach in the NBA? Did you mean best coach in the locker room?
I don't coach an NBA team into choking games with 15 point leads in the 4th quarter.
Since Mike D'antoni has been in the league:
Greg Popavich= 3 championships
Larry Brown= 1 championship
Pat Riley= 1 championship
Doc Rivers=1 championship
Mike D'antoni= ZERO CHAMPIONSHIPS!! Without one NBA finals appearance
Now what were you saying about D'antoni being the best coach in the NBA? Did you mean best coach in the locker room?
As long as he coaches this team they will not win a championship.
As long as he coaches this team they will not win a championship.
Jerry Sloan doesn't have a ring either asshole. He's the most legendary coach alive. Who asked you to join the site. Get the hell out of here jackass. We have enough retards on here.
the Knicks haven't won a championship for an eternity that it doesn't affect the fans, they just want some excitement and a couple of wins and change and they will be pacified so D'Antoni will be fine.
When you win a championship it doesn't mean you are a good coach, heck Doc Rivers even won one
Ok you take Isiah thomas and I'll take Mike D and we'll see who is the better coach...we dont have great players...Mike D is doing good with what he has.
If I wanted to watch an exciting Knicks team I would just watch old videos of the Knicks of the 90's.I get tired of watching the rest of the league win championships and the Knicks never even making the promise land.
I think No-D'Antoni is a decent coach, bringing out the best offense in his players. However, any coach who thinks offense wins games, is off his rocker. Any sports fan, no matter what sport, knows defense wins games.
Is it D'Antoni's doing the Knicks chose Gallo over Eric Gordon, who is starting to look like a superstar PG? No-D'ant would have been killed by the Italian mafia if he didn't pick his godson as the #6 pick in the draft. Not his fault.
Is it D'Antoni's fault Walsh traded our 2 highest scoring players a couple weeks into the season, agreeing to take on Mobley without medical conditions? That ruined anything the Knicks had going on to that point. When we finally got our act together, we were hit by the offensive powerhouses of the league (Kobe, Lebron, Celts), just too much for a non-defensive team. No wonder Wade walked over us.
Is it D'Antoni's fault that he refused to play Marbury (even Walsh was surprised) to make him tradeable? Asking Steph to play only because we were short on players was a major diss to Steph, and the fact that we paid him close to a full salary for doing absolutely nothing is a joke. You have to blame Walsh for not discussing with No-D'Antoni the Marbury situation before the year started. How many players in the league, being paid $20Million a year, would have been benched, because the team is going in a different direction? What does that mean?
WHAT DIRECTION ARE WE HEADED MIKEY? No-D'antoni has never made that clear, how has not playing Stephon in the first place been consistent with any winning direction? The Celtics paid 1.3 million for a 20/8 superstar, now THAT is a team with a winning mentality. I just can't stand watching Marbury do well for another team, much less the hated Celtics.
I am SO MAD!
Although I don't like D'Antoni, he's better than Isiah ever was. But then again, Isiah was not supposed to coach in the first place. Another bonehead Dolan move to avoid paying a new coach. I blame Dolan for everything... he's the one who should be fired.
I think No-D'Antoni is a decent coach, bringing out the best offense in his players. However, any coach who thinks offense wins games, is off his rocker. Any sports fan, no matter what sport, knows defense wins games.
Is it D'Antoni's doing the Knicks chose Gallo over Eric Gordon, who is starting to look like a superstar PG? No-D'ant would have been killed by the Italian mafia if he didn't pick his godson as the #6 pick in the draft. Not his fault.
Is it D'Antoni's fault Walsh traded our 2 highest scoring players a couple weeks into the season, agreeing to take on Mobley without medical conditions? That ruined anything the Knicks had going on to that point. When we finally got our act together, we were hit by the offensive powerhouses of the league (Kobe, Lebron, Celts), just too much for a non-defensive team. No wonder Wade walked over us.
Is it D'Antoni's fault that he refused to play Marbury (even Walsh was surprised) to make him tradeable? Asking Steph to play only because we were short on players was a major diss to Steph, and the fact that we paid him close to a full salary for doing absolutely nothing is a joke. You have to blame Walsh for not discussing with No-D'Antoni the Marbury situation before the year started. How many players in the league, being paid $20Million a year, would have been benched, because the team is going in a different direction? What does that mean?
WHAT DIRECTION ARE WE HEADED MIKEY? No-D'antoni has never made that clear, how has not playing Stephon in the first place been consistent with any winning direction? The Celtics paid 1.3 million for a 20/8 superstar, now THAT is a team with a winning mentality. I just can't stand watching Marbury do well for another team, much less the hated Celtics.
I am SO MAD!
I agree...Its been too long since the Knicks have won a championship. I started watchin in 94 when they went to the finals and...yea, yall know the rest.
The question is, is Mike D'antoni capable of coaching this team to a championship with the right players? Or does he not coach enough defense?
I can see a good argument both ways. Phoenix came very close a couple times to beating the Spurs, if the suspensions didnt happen 2 years ago who knows what would have happened.
I dont like D'antoni as a person. I think hes a jerk and hes too tense. I hate watching some of his interviews. We dont exactly have the best players here right now, so as much as I would like to say hes not the right man for the job, i cant provide enough evidence to back that up.
The only thing I can do is bring up the team from 2 years ago that won 33 games under Isiah Thomas...a team that probably would have won 3 to 5 more games and maybe made the playoffs if it wasnt for injuries. And in no way am I defending Isiah, but which roster was better? The team from 2 years ago...
marbury
Crawford
Q-Rich
Frye
Curry
Balkman
Nate R.
Lee
Steve Francis
Rose
Jeffries
Cato
R Morris
Jerome James
Is that team better then our current roster?
Looking at that roster, the first thing i notice is the credit Marbury deserves for helping Curry average 19.5 points, and almost leading that team to the playoffs. They probably would have been in if it wasnt for injuries. Marbury played his heart out that year, which knicks fans quickly forgot. I never liked him that much myself prior to that year.
Back on topic...I like the current roster more.
Nate and Lee are older, and better
Harrington >> Crawford
Frye is useless
We didnt have Wilson Chandler
The only thing that I dont like more about our current roster is that we have an average point guard (Duhon) running the team, instead of Starbury. But other then that...
Will the Knicks win 9 more games and tie our record from 2 years ago?
Is that a valid method of measuring how good of a coach D'antoni is?
its so sad that knicks fan forget this. i remember a while back i posted stats from this season...Marbury played his heart out that year, which knicks fans quickly forgot. I never liked him that much myself prior to that year.
you cant really jjudge by tht record, b/c our overall record sucks. But we are NOT a better team witout steph. He is a top 10 pg no doubt. When healthy he his the best player on this team. Steph steps up when needed the most. Do i have to bring up the stats from last year again??? There is no way this team is better without stephon marbury. period. wate a minute, i will bring up those stats one more time for all the haters:
DECEMBER
12/1 - 13 pts, 6 assists
12/2 - 15 pts 4 asst
12/4 - 16, 6
12/6 - 16, 4
12/9 - 2, 9assists
12/16 - 31, 8
12/18 - 29, 8
12/20 - 10, 9
12/22 - 19, 8
12/27 - 41, 8
12/29 - 14, 8
JANUARY
1/2 - 17, 8
1/3 - 17, 7
1/5 - 28, 4
1/10 - 24, 6
1/12 - 28, 5
1/15 - 25, 8, 4 STEALS
1/17 - 9, 8
1/19 - 23, 7
1/20 - 22, 6
1/26 - 9, 13
1/28 - 15, 8
1/30 - 22, 1
FEBRUARY
2/3 - 14, 2
2/6 - 15, 7
2/10 - 7, 6
2/13 - 8, 9
2/14 - 7, 8
2/23 - 22, 8
2/25 - 22, 2
2/28 - 23, 6
MARCH
3/2 - 34, 5
3/3 - 38, 9, 5 STEALS
3/6 - 40, 3
3/10 - 15, 5
3/14 - 31, 9
3/16 - 8, 5
3/18 - 21, 9
3/22 - 17, 6
3/26 - 32, 4
3/28 - 16,8
3/30 - 43, 3
APRIL
4/4 - 30, 6
4/6 - 6, 0 (12 MINUTES)