Will D'Antoni Be The Next Coach To Go?

Hope phil doesnt go to NY

Melo and Amare is a really bizarre combination. I don’t see how that could ever work unless everyone else on the team is all-star good to cover up that incompatibility.

The only way two great players aren’t able to compete together is if they play the same position. Melo and Amare don’t, so they should be able to compete. A good coach should be able to work around that problem, and it should be a joy for him to do so.

For some reason, D’Antoni made Chandler the main ball screener this season, even though Amare is much better in the pick and roll, and better offensively altogether. Having a more capable PG will help, but their record should be a lot better and it’s the coach’s fault that it’s not.

this team won’t start winning games at some point. that trade impacted them more than i thought it would, other than gallinari i didn’t think any of those players were more than marginal starters.. but melo has been and will probably be again among the top 3 players in the league

but i also think the players on that team just don’t suit D’Antoni’s style.. who are the 3-point shooters? can baron davis really be a good point guard again? inexplicably he was making it work with Felton but Davis has really declined in recent years.. anyways it still would not surprise me at all if they finished ahead of the C’s, although I still think the C’s would sink them in the playoffs.

Is for D’Antoni to be available and the Heat to fail so badly in the playoffs that Lebron James is able to force Spolestra out and, looking back fondly at the 2008 Olympics when he played with Bosh and Wade, successfully insist that D’Antoni, an assistant coach for the national team that year, is hired as the new head coach.

before the Carmelo trade (I live in New York so I have no choice but to keep up on them). Felton, Galo, and Wilson Chandler were playing really really well and Stoudemire was unquestionably the heart of the team. They seemed to have great chemistry and could have made some noise this year if they could’ve added pieces (Chandler?) to that core.

I hate Carmelo and what he’s done to this team. Maybe a different coach could have helped these guys mesh better, and yes, it’s hard to win with literally no point guard, but mostly I blame Carmelo: ball stopper, crummy defender, boat rocker. I do think you can win with Carmelo, but you’d have to build the team around him, according to his strengths and weaknesses (like the best AI Sixers teams). Obviously, the team is not built that way.