Ouch... what a brutal read. That might have ruined my night. That series in 07 will occasionally pop into my head and really sour my mood.
Dont let JustWinBaby see that, he still loves ol Mike D.
He was an aaaaaaaaaaaawful coach. He brought in a good system for offense and once Nash mastered it D'antoni became utterly useless. He couldnt develop his bench, develop youth, he was hopeless at making adjustments and got embarrassed by the better coaches of the league.
He should thank Nash every day for the ~30 million the Knicks paid him, because without Nash Mike is a well below 40% winning coach.
Yep, it is always brutal reading or hearing Jalen Rose. He is somone that I would not conisder a genius. Sounds more like sour grapes than anything.
Carlilse, while a very good coach is not great by any stretch. He had loaded teams in Detroit and Indiana prior to Dallas. A miraculous playoff run by Dirk and company got him his first ring. I am glad for him but would not put him in the hall of fame, just yet.
I never remember Jalen Rose or Reggie Miller winning DPOY while playing for Carlise. Maybe if they would have been better on that end of the court Carlilse might have won one in Indiana. Sometime it helps to have guys like Chandler, The Matrix and Kidd on your team. They play defense no matter who is coaching.
How many rings did Jalen win in Indiana?
How many more years did Jalen play in the league after he sat on the bench in Phoenix?
How many times has Nash made the playoffs since D'Antoni left town?
It truly is amazing how you continually pick on people that made basketball fun to watch while winning a butt load of games for this franchise. This does not mean that either Mike and STAT were as good as they could have been. But they certainly were not as bad as many make them out to be.
It is amazing how Nash gets all of the credit for wins and none of the blame for the losses. He has the same number of rings as both Amare and Mike -ZERO. Since both Amare and Mike left you would think we would have become a better team based on your thoughts, WTF happened. I guess there are worse players and coaches in this league.
You should really enjoy the upcoming seasons, watching Suns basketball. You won't have to watch Amare play and D'Antoni coach.
You must be in heaven
By the way your 40% winning percentage for Mike probably is accurate but about as unfair as any statement every made. That probably is his combined record in Denver with nothing to work with, in Phoenix prior to Nash coaching a team in total rebuild mode and in New York when the goal was to dump salary/players to clear cap space for 2010 off season.
Keep twisting the facts to make your case, that is what you do, and enjoy Suns basketball. It is going to be fantastic without those guys.
Enjoy
