D'antoni responds to Amare's comments

D'Antoni thinks he's Phil Jackson or Greg Pop these days, calling out his team and stars around the league. This guy needs to shut his mouth and coach. So far he has been a disaster.

Lakers were 4-1 under their interim coach and all he did was let the team play (even without Nash). The pace was slower and they utilized the half-court offense far more effectively. They allowed far fewer points because they didn't have to run for 48 minutes and actually preserved the energy.

MD was a terrible decision for this time in hindsight, I was pretty optimistic at first but I am starting to hate this decision because the guy is a very one-dimensional coach.

[QUOTE=Mach_3][B]Have you ever played basketball at the college level?[/B] or even high school level? The best defenders at any level of basketball will always be a mix of body type (height/length + coordination) and how badly they want to stop the guy in front of them. Mostly the latter. Like others said i'm willing to bet Amare doesn't try/isn't a good defender because playing good defense will never be glorified at the park or in the gym. Everyone wants to see 360 dunks and sh1t not Shane Battier locking up Kobe

[B]Give me Russell Westbrook's height/wingspan and a large stack of money on how many stops i can get and i'll put him on shackles or at least stop him a good amount of the time.[/B][/QUOTE]

yes, I have played on the college level.

but you don't have his height/wingspan all you have is "WANT." Since "defense is about WANT at the end of the day," nothing else should matter.

Defense is about first having the ability to be a good defender. That is a mix of anticipation, coordination, bball iq, saavy and body control. No matter what Kyle Korver was going to do he wasn't going to be all nba defense...WANT isn't the biggest component to defense.

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I'm not a big fan of D'Antoni as a coach, but I love his asshole mentality. He got Amare good with that one :lol

[QUOTE=Heavincent]I'm not a big fan of D'Antoni as a coach, but I love his asshole mentality. He got Amare good with that one :lol[/QUOTE]

amare should just start quoting Howards comments during the next presser, then point to the Lakers record and then put up a countdown until he is fired again.

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]amare should just start quoting Howards comments during the next presser, then point to the Lakers record and then put up a countdown until he is fired again.[/QUOTE]



One track mind.

[QUOTE=Whoah10115]One track mind.[/QUOTE]

actual retard.

[QUOTE=IGOTGAME]actual retard.[/QUOTE]


That's your track? I never called you retarded.


You may have even had a point, but you're so obsessed with repeating the same thing that you repeat it at all costs. D'Antoni could give you CPR and you'd spit out no defense. It's with everything you say and it's just annoying.

Well D'Antoni is a bad defensive coach, but Amare sure has his own problem. He should've learned defense way before coming into the league, not to blame his NBA coach for not teaching him lol.

D'Antoni ethered Amare. i don't see how D'Antoni got clowned.

He comes back with some zingers at times. Remember when they asked him why he dosent play rookies like Jordan Hill and he replied " i only play good rookies". lol