Would Mike Dantoni be doing better than Scott with this laker team?

[JellosJigglin]

Don't even mention the word "defense" when comparing these two coaches. MDA gets such a bad rap for his lack of defense, and yet Scott has this team dead last defensively. They are both horrendous defensive coaches. Scott puts on a mean mug and talks about "manning up" and gets a free pass for his teams being complete matadors. He replaced Boozer and Hill in the starting lineup with Randle and Hibbert and somehow managed to get even worse defensively. So for the purpose of this thread, defense can be completely ignored. It's a wash.......sort of.

Byron has this team shooting dead last in FG% and that is creating easy opportunities for the opposition. It's not a coincidence. When you score more, the opposition has to inbounds the ball, giving your defense time to set up. For a team that already blows on defense, the poor shooting just compounds the problem. MDA would have this team playing much, much better offensively, and that in turn would improve their defense by cutting down on runouts.

The issue with MDA was he had no clue how to adjust to having a bigman-dominant team. He needs a roster that is perfectly constructed around his system. That's where you have to admire a guy like Pop, who can succeed playing slow-it-down Twin Tower basketball, or uptempo three-point-centric basketball. You play to your players' strengths, and MDA is extremely limited in that sense.

But for THIS roster, the players are better suited for MDA more than for Byron. There are a lot of PNR guards on this team, and bigs that like to play midrange and out. Huertas/Clarkson would play the roles of Nash/Bell. Anthony Brown would be the 3&D guy off the bench similar to James Jones. Randle would be riding the pine until he learned how to hit a jumpshot and Nance/Black would get starters minutes.

As far as Byron goes, I think he's "okay" as a guy that can manage a locker room. Since he's been here there haven't been any blowups, or team mutiny, or death stares, or players talking to the media. It's been pretty mellow, and that is half the battle for an NBA coach. It's actually quite remarkable considering how crappy he treats his players (i.e. benching them without explanation, lack of communication in general, constantly blaming them in the media). He just sucks at the other half, which happens to be the half MDA excels at. The game-planning, strategic x's and o's side.

[PKABOOICU]

yes absolutely...D'lo would flourish

[Jody Smokz]

He was on NBAtv raving about DLo and Randle a few weeks ago. Signed up with PHI for a reason so I'd say yes.

Dantoni hated rookies worse than Phil... So no.

[warrenpeace]

Don't even mention the word "defense" when comparing these two coaches. MDA gets such a bad rap for his lack of defense, and yet Scott has this team dead last defensively. They are both horrendous defensive coaches. Scott puts on a mean mug and talks about "manning up" and gets a free pass for his teams being complete matadors. He replaced Boozer and Hill in the starting lineup with Randle and Hibbert and somehow managed to get even worse defensively. So for the purpose of this thread, defense can be completely ignored. It's a wash.......sort of.

Byron has this team shooting dead last in FG% and that is creating easy opportunities for the opposition. It's not a coincidence. When you score more, the opposition has to inbounds the ball, giving your defense time to set up. For a team that already blows on defense, the poor shooting just compounds the problem. MDA would have this team playing much, much better offensively, and that in turn would improve their defense by cutting down on runouts.

The issue with MDA was he had no clue how to adjust to having a bigman-dominant team. He needs a roster that is perfectly constructed around his system. That's where you have to admire a guy like Pop, who can succeed playing slow-it-down Twin Tower basketball, or uptempo three-point-centric basketball. You play to your players' strengths, and MDA is extremely limited in that sense.

But for THIS roster, the players are better suited for MDA more than for Byron. There are a lot of PNR guards on this team, and bigs that like to play midrange and out. Huertas/Clarkson would play the roles of Nash/Bell. Anthony Brown would be the 3&D guy off the bench similar to James Jones. Randle would be riding the pine until he learned how to hit a jumpshot and Nance/Black would get starters minutes.

As far as Byron goes, I think he's "okay" as a guy that can manage a locker room. Since he's been here there haven't been any blowups, or team mutiny, or death stares, or players talking to the media. It's been pretty mellow, and that is half the battle for an NBA coach. It's actually quite remarkable considering how crappy he treats his players (i.e. benching them without explanation, lack of communication in general, constantly blaming them in the media). He just sucks at the other half, which happens to be the half MDA excels at. The game-planning, strategic x's and o's side.

Brilliant post.