WOW D'Antoni is a horrible coach.

[Jasi]

It's woodsanity

[Clutch]

Like he said, some players weren't buying into his playbook. Who you blame for that varies from person to person.

You can't buy in into something that he doesn't preach.
There's a reason why every D'Antoni's team played poor defense.

[blablabla]

Can we please stop overreacting? It was two games AT HOME, one of them isn't even an NBA team right now.

The 6 game losing streak was mostly on road against tough teams.

this

[LockoutOver11]

lol at post 4, 7, 8, 9...

[Prodigy]

It's woodsanity

That made me laugh :)

[PrimeJohnnyDepp]

It's not just we won them. It's the way we won them.

We started both games strong and effort was there for the all 48 minutes.
You couldn't have seen that with D'Antoni as our coach.
Also our defense was better than ever.

Because player(s) conspired to play worse. Get a clue.

[ZenMaster]

You can't buy in into something that he doesn't preach.
There's a reason why every D'Antoni's team played poor defense.

He's had average defensive teams before.

Plus Woodson was supposed to be in charge of the defense this year no? Even so, Melo has been a terrible defender for 9 years, way way before D'Antoni.

To me everything starts with players giving 100%, some clearly weren't. I don't care if Hitler was your coach, if you're being paid some 20million dollars you better bring the effort. Then if stuff doesn't work at 100% you should look for something else.

People here like to blame coaches for players not giving the effort, but in this case it was only 1 or 2 players who where dogging it. Some of these guys are so fking selfish it's unbelievable, I hope Melo never wins a championship, he doesn't deserve it.

On most good teams the coach has some power so they can hold players accountable. Mike got stuck in a very bad situation when Dolan overruled Walsh and traded for Melo, a player Mike didn't want in the first place.
What was he supposed to do? Bench him and chew him out? That would have sit really well with Dolan.
Mike did the right thing, he asked that they try and trade him, Dolan said no and Mike said fkuck it.

[Eric Cartman]

Lawrence Frank effect. Get a clue losers.

[Punpun]

Can we please stop overreacting? It was two games AT HOME, one of them isn't even an NBA team right now.

The 6 game losing streak was mostly on road against tough teams.

Yeah that Blazer team just took down Chicago.

[Shih508]

Yeah that Blazer team just took down Chicago.

different players different coach + rose didn't play

[Clutch]

Last year's team before Melo trade was giving even less effort.
Players also conspired against D'Antoni back then ?

[ZenMaster]

Last year's team before Melo trade was giving even less effort.
Players also conspired against D'Antoni back then ?

Oh yeah, who do you think where deliberatly dogging it then?

And make sure you don't confuse level of talent with level of effort.

There's also a huge difference between a player like Melo dogging it vs a guy like Nate Robinson or whatever.

[ILLsmak]

Teams always play above their head after they fire the coach. Then they come back down to earth and start sucking again.

-Smak

[Punpun]

different players different coach + rose didn't play

The BUlls without Rose have (had ?) a better win % than with Rose on the team.

[niko]

i dont think it means we are some super team but it does clearly show that it was more than one person tired of the D'Antoni scheme. Personally i think the pace made it hard to play defense if you are running like a psycho on offense.