madmaxmedia wrote:Kilroy wrote:After Brown was hired I was first Confused and disappointed, then optimistic, and then every time he opened his mouth I got progressively more concerned until they fired his ass...
To be honest, I'm starting to get the same vibe from the other Mike.
I really want to believe anything at all other than this guy can't coach a team without a prime Nash, and that he doesn't feel like he can win without the exact players he had on his Phoenix teams... No matter how old they are now...
But I swear, every time he speaks, that's what it sounds like to me.
I was really starting to feel the same, read this in the morning and it made me feel a little better:
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/stor ... ni-support"I just don't see how a player as smart as [Gasol] is, as talented as he is, as big as he is, doesn't fit into anybody's scheme. Then I've got to re-examine myself and think, 'I can't play with Pau Gasol?' C'mon. He's won two championships. I gotta rethink what I'm doing.""Within the numbers, there's some good stuff -- defensively, mostly -- that, in the long haul, will make us contenders," D'Antoni said. "In the short run, our offense is anemic right now. It's not very good. The ball doesn't move. We don't do a lot of things that we should be doing, and we gotta figure that out. Again, a little bit (should improve) when we get everybody back. But at the same time, we gotta get better than 77 points (against the Pacers). I mean, that's kind of ridiculous.
"Like any coach that comes into a new situation, you gotta break habits without a training camp. Not bad habits. It's just different habits. We want to play a different way. It takes a while. It's like when you start a new golf swing. The first couple times out, you feel pretty good and you're like, 'Oh, boy! This is great!' And by the fifth time out, you're going, 'Oh, man!' You gotta work through it."
Then later he talks about Nash again. But hopefully he is really focused on how they are playing now, not how they will be playing when Nash gets back.
Good post madmax.