Mike D'Antoni Discussion: post in 7 seconds or less

Chillbongo wrote:

Weezy wrote:2.'Antoni will not, and should not be fired. I hate the hiring, I don't like him as a coach, but you cannot hire an NBA coach to what was it, at least a 3 or 4 year contract, and fire him after 23 games. You can't do it, a coach deserves more time than that to at least prove himself. The franchise would look like a joke if they did that, some coaches would probably never want to come here after seeing it, and they'd be paying 2 coaches to NOT coach, ridiculous.

Yeap my mind is blown....why did we give him a 3 year deal? Why?

No seriously, how was this a rational decision? Someone who understands owning an NBA team & GM-ing better than me, please explain.

Wouldn't a one year + team option make so much more sense?

exactly...like a then-unemployed MDA would say no...now we're stuck

I am so tired of this guy. Run small ball, play no defense, force a team of old guys to run, and play Kobe 40+ minutes every game and burn him to the ground... remember the Golden State Warriors under Nellie? That's what this team is.

maybe he shouldnt have cancelled practice yesterday and actually practiced defense

CaCHooKa Man wrote:maybe he shouldnt have cancelled practice yesterday and actually practiced defense

+ Infinity

This guy sucks.

Next two games against SAS & OKC are another loss coming, make it 6th straight loss for the Lakers and we're gonna miss the playoffs.

MDA GTFO please !

Replacing him soon, please !

Give me Brian Shaw.

This guy should fry.

But can we really justify firing a coach one year in after the way we let Mike go? Lakers management really got us in a jam here.

15-21

I can't take it if we miss the playoff, really can't !

lakerswiz wrote:where are the people that wanted dan tony over phil jackson?

yeah where are you idiots at

can't blame mda for this game. we're gonna get some beatdowns in SA and OKC.

at least jamison played

side note: i'll always remember waking up to the mda signing similarly to the day we signed shaq, the day we traded for pau, game 7 against the C's, etc.

Pig Miller wrote:side note: i'll always remember waking up to the mda signing similarly to the day we signed shaq, the day we traded for pau, game 7 against the C's, etc.

i'll never forget that terrible morning

waking up to such tragic news

yes cause Phil would've been able to come with a plan for these slow old bums out there on defense, MDA wasn't the right choice but there's no fixing this D.

this guy always thinks they lose because of the offense

This team is garbage. You don't know anything about basketball if you think magically replacing Brown, D'Antoni or any coach with Phil would cure this team.

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:This team is garbage. You don't know anything about basketball if you think magically replacing Brown, D'Antoni or any coach with Phil would cure this team.

And what's that based off of? Play style changes everything. Maybe they're not contenders, but they can win games. More games than they are now.

There was a reason why the Knicks team doing so much better once MDA gone right? why the Lakers still going after him was beyond me.

lakerswiz wrote:where are the people that wanted dan tony over phil jackson?

In Lakers office, surrounding Jim Buss now.

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:This team is garbage. You don't know anything about basketball if you think magically replacing Brown, D'Antoni or any coach with Phil would cure this team.

you just showed you don't know anything about basketball with that post

to say that phil wouldn't have been an improvement over dan tony is pure comedy

really thought he should have played ebanks. whos played more and started more than anyone else dantoni played. we needed his rebounding and athleticism aswell as his d obviously.

i thought it was stupid of dantoni to keep the guys he did out there so long. dantoni should have played ebanks and i hope he does against the spurs and okc. metta and ebanks on durant is WAY better than morris on him which he'll do stupidly.

why didnt jim get phil. so stupid

Forget Phil... I am sure there are other coaches out there ( not so big names ) that would've done just fine with this job, and used common sense when running an old team that's got excellent post players. Mike Brown didn't understand offense... D'Antoni doesn't understand defense. We just can't get catch a break.

432J wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:This team is garbage. You don't know anything about basketball if you think magically replacing Brown, D'Antoni or any coach with Phil would cure this team.

you just showed you don't know anything about basketball with that post

to say that phil wouldn't have been an improvement over dan tony is pure comedy

And you just showed you can't read

Phil is a better coach but there's nothing to indicate this team's issues are strictly because MDA is doing something egregiously wrong. Even his supposedly D-less Nash Suns didn't play defense like this. The team is just a mess and no coach could get this team where we all expected it to be. The way they are playing basketball right now I would really question your intelligence if you can seriously sit there watching games and think this is a result of coaching.

lakerswiz wrote:

khmrP wrote:yes cause Phil would've been able to come with a plan for these slow old bums out there on defense, MDA wasn't the right choice but there's no fixing this D.

I'll spare the essay, but

LOL

says the guy who expected Brown to be there to hold up the Trophy in June

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:

432J wrote:

JoelMyersScrotalSack wrote:This team is garbage. You don't know anything about basketball if you think magically replacing Brown, D'Antoni or any coach with Phil would cure this team.

you just showed you don't know anything about basketball with that post

to say that phil wouldn't have been an improvement over dan tony is pure comedy

And you just showed you can't read

Phil is a better coach but there's nothing to indicate this team's issues are strictly because MDA is doing something egregiously wrong. Even his supposedly D-less Nash Suns didn't play defense like this. The team is just a mess and no coach could get this team where we all expected it to be. The way they are playing basketball right now I would really question your intelligence if you can seriously sit there watching games and think this is a result of coaching.

it's not ALL a result of the coach but the majority of it is

phil would have had no problem teaching nash and howard the triangle. kobe, pau, and artest already know it, and nash was hurt so he could have learned it even easier. obviously the D is pathetic but to me that just shows how old this team is. the league has really changed the past decade or so and it's now ruled by athletic little guys who can run instead of big guys. the center is pretty much a dead position. this team is too old to defend against those quick guards. dan tony is the main reason why the game changed and now him and his team are victims of it. combine dwight still bothered by his injury, pau being a female, and nash missing tons of time with having the worst possible fit at head coach and you have the disaster that is the 12-13 lakers