I personally like that D'Antoni has underacheived everywhere when he made the Suns relevant and rescued a completely decimated Knicks team.
Calipari.
Every post you make is so refreshing. Telling us all how much smarter you are than the entire profession who hires pieces of **** that can't substitute like your genius would, and intentionally lose billionaires a bunch of money. Srsly, why don't these professionals get everything you do?
Yup. Awesome how he took NYK from nothing to a 32 win ball club. Then 29.
D'Antoni made the Suns relevant. It had nothing to do with a 2 time MVP, or with Stoudemire playing like an MVP, or All-Star Shawn Marion, or Joe Johnson earning his max contract, or Q Rich or Barbosa when they were actually good. It was all D'Antoni because.
They say you have to hit rock bottom first...
How do you know that management hasn't told him they want him to play Millsap and Jefferson so they can shop them?
It's interesting that Mark Jackson and Vinny Del Negro are good coaches now. I'm pretty sure they were hot trash last year. What happened? Did these guys climb a mountain and meditate 40 days or something?
Seems to me the main thing is winning vs talent. Utah is doing that at a better pace, with a rougher 1st half schedule, with zero high profile players, than a good portion of the NBA.
The team by all appearances has no locker room issues, the players expected to improve are doing so, and two huge problems have been getting addressed those being high PnR defense and defensive rebounding.
The Jazz are #9 in the NBA in assist ratio despite the fact that we've got flotsam at PG, run the offense through a guy fans have labeled a black hole, and have zero elite playmakers.
If Ty was the coach JF thinks he is this team wouldn't have even won 15 games so far this year and half the players would be publicly jumping ship.
^thisIt's interesting that Mark Jackson and Vinny Del Negro are good coaches now. I'm pretty sure they were hot trash last year. What happened? Did these guys climb a mountain and meditate 40 days or something?
Seems to me the main thing is winning vs talent. Utah is doing that at a better pace, with a rougher 1st half schedule, with zero high profile players, than a good portion of the NBA.
The team by all appearances has no locker room issues, the players expected to improve are doing so, and two huge problems have been getting addressed those being high PnR defense and defensive rebounding.
The Jazz are #9 in the NBA in assist ratio despite the fact that we've got flotsam at PG, run the offense through a guy fans have labeled a black hole, and have zero elite playmakers.
If Ty was the coach JF thinks he is this team wouldn't have even won 15 games so far this year and half the players would be publicly jumping ship.
D'Antoni - Has underachieved everywere he's been
Doc Rivers - Could only win with an All Star cast.
SVG - Clearly underachieved with a couple Dwight teams.
Mike Brown - umm.
Larry Drew - can't do anything with very talented teams.
Carlesimo - Has gotten fired from every single team.
Byron Scott - Can't do anything with the best point guards in the game at the time.
That's just a start.
Utterly not true. Rivers first coaching gig was with the Orlando Magic in the 99-00 season. This squad was basically a bunch of veteran nobodies and unknown youngsters, and was widely tipped to finish dead last. The roster included vets like Darrell Armstrong (team captain and scoring leader at 16.2 ppg), Chris Gatling, Tariq Adbul-Wahid, Monty Williams and Bo Outlaw, as well as youngsters Ron Mercer (acquired mid-season in a trade for Gatling and TA-W), Matt Harpring (who played only 4 games before being sidelined by an ankle injury), Pat Garrity, Corey Maggette, Ben Wallace, Michael Doleac and Anthony Parker (who was cut after 16 games). Most notably, the roster featured John Amaechi who scored 10.5 ppg with a season high of 31. Rivers somehow got this group to a 41-41 record, missing the playoffs by a single game, and was awarded Coach of the Year.Doc Rivers - Could only win with an All Star cast.