Why do you keep repeating the same nonsense. The Lakers went to the playoffs with a 65 year old Steve Nash on crutches. The Knicks went to the playoffs with Chauncy Billups in the emergency room after the Great Raymond Felton was his PG prior to the Melo trade. These are the facts not the alternative facts that you always seem to use.
You must have had many sleepless nights this year while D'Antoni improved a team, that lost the great Dwight Howard in the off season. Yeah the guy that Mike did not know how to coach. How did that work out in Atlanta this year? Melo had one good year after Mike left and Phil wants him out of New York. Except for one season the Knicks have been horrible since Mike left town. The Lakers still are.
If you are honest I expect you thought Mike would fall on his face in Houston, especially after signing both Gordon and Anderson in the off season. These are players that were described as overrated on this board and others. The same was said about Patrick Beverly. I expect you thought that Mike made the wrong choice in making Harden his PG. Mike improved the team that Harden played for the previous season from 41 to 55 wins, while winning splitting COY with Spoelstra. I know you are far more knowledgeable than those that voted for him but it did happen.
I am certainly glad that Pop and Aldridge woke up. You might have had a heart attack, if the Rockets had won. The Spurs finally took advantage of the Rockets biggest weakness after Nene went down. It actually probably helped the Spurs that Parker was hurt. Simmons played out of his mind after Leonard went down as well. The Rockets had to play small and if the Spurs would have tried to play with them I expect the Rockets would have in fact won the series. I actually think it was poor coaching on Pop's part that the Rockets even won two games.
I expect that they will try to do the same thing to the Warriors but the Warriors have two healthy bigs at this point as well as cheap shot Green. Unlike many others I think this will be a competitive series. Many are predicting a sweep by the Warriors.
Too say that Mike would not have done better than Watson did with the Suns roster this year is laughable.
Hahahah, "poor coaching on Pop's part". You are a riot.
First off, anyone attempting to tout that Laker's season as an admirable achievement is delusional, that team failed to live up to expectations to a historic degree. Pau, Dwight and Kobe... and Mike barely squeaked into the playoffs.
In New York when he got fired the Knicks were 18-24, they went onto win 75% of their remaining games... under Mike Woodson, a terrible coach in his own right. The next year they won 54 games.
You can accuse me of "alternative facts" and whatever other nonsense, but your boy just did exactly what he always does in the playoffs. Ran his team into the ground with his awful rotations and got destroyed as soon as the opposition made some adjustments.
Again... Mike isn't a terrible coach, but without an MVP caliber distributor and shooter on the court his teams are pathetic, and even when he does have that advantage his team has a ceiling of "waiting to get thumped by a coach who can adjust".
Fluff him all you want, but a spade is a spade. At the end of the day Mike D went out and failed in the exact same way his detractors have been ripping on him for years for failing.
