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According to reports, Mike D’Antoni has agreed to become the next coach of the Knicks. D’Antoni will receive a four-year/$24-million deal to move from Phoenix where he led the Suns to 50+ wins in every full season he coached.
The Knicks, who haven’t had a winning season since 2000-01, will presumably install D’Antoni’s high-octane offense and attempt to run like Phoenix has the past few years. The problem is, the Knicks don’t have the players to fit that system. (Does Eddy Curry even know how to run?) On the plus side, D’Antoni’s teams have never been known for defense, which makes him a perfect fit in New York.
While D’Antoni is clearly an upgrade over Isiah the success or failure of this hiring will rest on the players he is given to coach. Remember, it was just three years ago that Larry Brown came to town with an even better resume and we all know how that ended.
Donnie Walsh has his coach, but now he needs to revamp the roster and that is going to be much harder to do than using big bucks to hire a coach. And on Thursday, the Post spoke to one Knicks player familiar with D'Antoni's style: Stephon Marbury said, "I have no problem with Mike D'Antoni. I never had a problem with Mike D'Antoni. The way I'm training my body this summer, I'll be fit to do anything. We played up and down and there's a lot of pick and rolls. If we take D'Antoni for coach, that's great."
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Only way this is going to work is to clean house. Otherwise, its gonna get messy quickly.
a waste of time and money until the dolan's are run out of town. stop reporting on these assclowns.
Mike D'Antoni is a great coach...whether or not the Knicks bench is up for the task, is another story.
You could have the best coach out there, but the players the Knicks have suck.
Knicks need to completely clean house with the players they have now.
Mike Dantoni is a mediocre Coach. The knicks have shafted the fans once again. If you look at Dantoni's history pre-steve nash, he sucked. He just lucked out cause Steve Nash came in. He's also a run and gun coach. The Knicks can't run and they can't shoot for shit. The Knicks are only capable of walking non-chalantly to the bench, while getting booed after picking up their fifth foul, then collecting the checks.
A better analogy would be that with lemons you can make lemonade but with shit you can only make shit-ade.
The Suns have how many championship rings?
ebay doesn't count.
Pack your bags fellas you'll be hittin' the road:
"Nice Guy" Eddie Curry
"Ball Hog" Zach Randolf
"Broke Back" Q-Richardson
"Bench Man" Jerome James
"Mr. Expiring Contract" Setphon Starberry
"Zeke was my Hero" Jamal Crawford
"Nobody puts Nate in the corner" Nate Robinson
Keep your lockers for now:
David Lee
Renaldo Balkman
Randolf Morris
Tyson Chandler
Fred Jones
Please Go Get:
A smart/unselfish point guard
A lock down defender or three
A mobile, lights out shooting swingman
An assistant coach who knows defense.
We have at least two seasons of suffering with loosing more then we win, but there is at least hope.
Zeke, Your popcorn is the bomb. Stick to that my brother.
sly
Terrible hire.
Who cares? The Rangers are a better team and hockey is a more entertaining sport.
You absolutely cannot get rid of Starbury. His expiring contract is too valuable. Send him home and pay him $22M to f-interns.
Fred Jones is useless.
Crawford could be good under D'Antoni.
And, the point guard will be Derrick Rose.
With LeBron in 2010, taking Marbury's $22M, this could work out.
HEY!!! You "Sumbitches" stole our COACH!!! ;-)