Saturday, June 14, 2008

Which coach is gonna suck the least?

MSN has run through the new NBA coachs and gave a forcast as to what will happen with each. Uniformly negative by the way. I think they are correct about the new Knick coach Mike D'Antoni who will have a very short tenure on the Knick sideline. He has a short fuse and won't be able to take the Heat of the papers and sports radio bashing him every day. I was actually an Isaiah Thomas fan because I understood what he was trying to do with the team. His big mistake was after he benched Marbury in Phoenix and the team voted him off the island, he never should have reinstated him. He also needed to set up a two unit rotation with either Curry or Randolph as the focal point, but not both at the same time. He would have used Curry and Jamal Crawford to play a two man pick and roll with Lee and Richardson and Balkman to bang and rebound. Then sub Randolph for Curry and Marbury for Crawford with the second unit and let them take advantage of the subs on the other team. That's a workable premise. Of course you have to beat down Randolph and Marbury but I think that's doable. Marbury is playing for a contract and Randolph has to do what he's told cause his stock is so low he can talk his way right out of the leauge. D'Antoni won't do this though. He will try to play Randolph and Curry together and it will be a fiasco. He will be lucky to last the season.

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