Gideon Zaga:
And it took him this long to figure it out, seriously why shouldnt he be fired again?? Our coach just keeps surprising me every single day.

I have trouble criticizing a coach for showing faith in his players. TD was not this inept last season and I think Mike is realizing that he is not right physically.

D’Antoni is a polarizing figure, no doubt. You either love him or hate him. If he plays Lin too early we would have heard acrimony about giving a Harvard scrub who was already cut by two teams this year unwarranted playing time because Mike loves to tinker/is a bad communicator is sending messages ala Larry Hughes/some other random BS.

Comments like this are the other side of that.

“He shows he can run a pick and roll and he’s got some instincts of a point guard and maybe we’ll look at that a little bit more and see where we’re going because that’s what we need,” the coach said.

What a quote that is!

“He actually looks like he can run basic point guard plays, which is a huge improvement over our current point guards.”

“He shows he can run a pick and roll and he’s got some instincts of a point guard and maybe we’ll look at that a little bit more and see where we’re going because that’s what we need,” the coach said.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/10503/dantoni-davis-probably-wont-play-this-week

Gideon Zaga: On a side note, does anybody have any idea on how to fix the Wizards, their woes are smilare to the Knicks plus they are the home grown team you guys like to root for not Dolan’s fringe experiment

Straight up trade of Kyrie for Toney would do wonders for both rosters. Man alive, this GM stuff is easy business!

Bruno Almeida: I’m just pointing that you don’t need a really good PG to win a title, just an adequate one, and those guys are nothing more than adequate PGs (on Kidd’s case I’m obviously referring just to last year, not his entire career)Obviously, there are superb PGs who change everything, the Magic Johnsons, Isiah Thomas and so on, but you don’t need one of those if you have a good team.My point is, we suck because we are a terrible team, not because we don’t have a good PG.

I disagree. We suck because of injuries, but mostly because we don’t have a good point guard … or an adequate one.

Gideon Zaga:
Right, right I can’t even believe you put Avery, Kidd and Fish in the same conversation with the others, are u kidding me, how many playoff dagger or game winning threes has Fish hit, do you know who defended lebron the most in the finals, and don’t even get me started on Avery plus you forget what JJ Bareas penetration did to the Lakers. Man, point guarding or playmaking matters in this game. Remember that one of the two MJs is a big point guard with 5 rings and Kareem never won a ring until magic got drafted.

I’m just pointing that you don’t need a really good PG to win a title, just an adequate one, and those guys are nothing more than adequate PGs (on Kidd’s case I’m obviously referring just to last year, not his entire career)

Obviously, there are superb PGs who change everything, the Magic Johnsons, Isiah Thomas and so on, but you don’t need one of those if you have a good team.

My point is, we suck because we are a terrible team, not because we don’t have a good PG.