Send Mike back to Europe!!!

[-SDU-]

yeah, the engineer of one of the biggest season turnarounds in NBA history, guiding an amare less team to the conference finals, implementors of a system that has created a 2 time MVP and assistant coach to team USA doesnt deserve our respect or benefit of the doubt

ill say it again

all this whinging makes me realise NONE of you people realise how lucky you are to be fans of such a great organisation, especially at this current time

[tuncaboylu]

D'antoni is an above average coach, bt i don't believe that he's has something special to make his team champions.
There aren't too many special coaches in the league. Let's check , how many different coaches won the championships in last decade:
1992-94: Phil Jackson
1995-96: Rudy Tomjanovich
1996-98: Phil Jackson
1999: Gregg Popovich
2000-2002: Phil Jackson
2003: Gregg Popovich
2004: Larry Brown
2005: Gregg Popovich
2006: Pat Riley
2007: Gregg Popovich.
5 different coaches in last 15 years. They are the winners. Sorry but i don't think that D'antoni can be a member of this group. Phoenix should go after Larry Brown or can give a chance to Rick Carlisle.

[mkot]

Larry Brown will destroy this team. No Thanks.

[KJ7]

^^^That makes me wonder why we didn't put Shawn on Paul. He's usually our go-to guy defensively against smaller, quicker guards and he had guarded Paul several times before. I didn't see him guard Paul once last night, so that was either a blunder strategically, an experiment, or Mike didn't want to show his hand to the Hornets and let them prepare for it next time. Again, we made alot of weird mistakes and it still was a very winnable game. Some folks here need to relax and really watch the game.

He started off on him. Paul didn't take him one-on-one, instead they ran screens for him all night. Because we were switching and pressuring the ball-handler this meant that we had to scramble to cover Chandler who had rolled to a position under the basket.

With Marion and Amare out trying to trap Paul that left Hill, LB and Nash trying to cover Chandler under the basket who was wide open. If we switched it was Amare on Paul and they isolated him.

In the past when Marion has taken on Paul one-on-one he has done a good job but it was evident early on that they had no intention of just letting Paul beat ppl off the dribble, they were going to screen/PnR which made Marion ineffective. Spurs do the same thing these days when we put Marion on Parker which is annoying cos usually he does a good job on those types of PGs.

[-SDU-]

larry brown and rick carlisly? pahlease, they would have suns fans slashing their wrists after 2 weeks

you pointed out yourself, only 5 coaches have titles in 15 years, which is why its so unreasonable to suggest sacking a coach because he hasnt won one

[dm17415]

Popovich and Jackson are considered great because they were lucky enough to coach the greatest players of that generation (Duncan, MJ and Shaq).

[-SDU-]

yet people still want to criticise dantoni for not being as successful as those 2

[Shzm13]

Until he wins a ring, he doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath.

As much as i hate those two bastards.. :-/

[nashill]

yet people still want to criticise dantoni for not being as successful as those 2

its because he is so one dimensional coach.