OT- D'Antoni resigns

[tzznandrew]

Screw Calipari - bring back Zeke! He'll bring LeBron along!

Calipari likely would at the end of LeBron's contract. There are too many connections.

 

[speedoo]

Screw Calipari - bring back Zeke! He'll bring LeBron along!

LOL. If Dolan had his way....

 

[UConnMike04]

It's both their faults. D'Antoni knew what he was getting when they traded for Melo. He's one of the best iso/post up scorers in the league. D'Antoni tried to turn him into a perimeter player, which he's not. Also, 'Melo acted like a dick and who knows what is true. One of em had to go bc getting Melo in that system was like trying to get a square peg in a round hole. Blame goes 50/50 for neither budging much on the system.

 

[Ed-D]

Melo is a chump but d'Antoni is not a great coach. Just look at how his teams play defense (or don't play defense). It's pathetic. They should unload Melo.

 

[Scoe]

You could see this coming I was trying to give Melo the benefit of the doubt when he came back from his injury, Dantonio is a coach who makes no adjustments but Melo also needs to make adjustments to his game, if he wants to be a winner he needs to make sacrifices. Thank god I have March Madness and NFL FA to keep my mind off the knicks.

 

[UC990411]

Over / Under on when the first D'Antoni to replace Calhoun thread pops up?

 

[Adios]

Calipari is the favorite, over Phil Jackson.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/14248/a-look-at-the-next-head-coach-of-the-knicks

What's going on over at Kentucky now....

 

[mauconnfan]

Amazing how the Knicks fortunes have changed in just a few weeks. It was all smiles for D'Antoni until Carmelo came back, feels badly for the next coach who has to deal with Carmelo and Dolan.

Who can blame him - he can't actually coach the team that's up to the players right?? Funny crap he's a good guy but how can he know as much as Carmello?

 

[UCweCONN]

Here is my take on the D'Antoni resignation. I listened to the FAN today and the press conference and was surprised that no one mentioned this possibility. I think that D'Antoni wanted to trade Carmelo with the trade deadline approaching. He probably told management that he just can't get Carmelo to buy-in to the team concept, that Carmelo was the problem with the team, and that they should trade him before the trade deadline. Knicks management loves Carmelo (for whatever reason but remember they loved Isiah Thomas too) and probably told him they wouldn't trade Carmelo and that if he can't win with Carmelo they'd find someone who could. At that point D'Antoni probably resigned.

I don't think D'Antoni had a lot of control or say in personnel moves either. I also don't think he wanted J.R 'Ass-man' Smith who the Knicks inexplicably signed while Jeremy Lin was in the midst of Linsanity and they already had too many guys who needed to get minutes.

 

[zls44]

D'Antoni would have been right. Anthony was a dumb trade and is a total disaster. The Knicks will never win a thing with him.

 

[Fishy]

Phil Jackson ain't coaching these Knicks.

Let's be honest, Phil Jackson's next job is gonna be a cushy one. He wants to coast to the Finals, not coach up a team with essentially a rookie point guard, a max-money small forward with the IQ of a squash and a bunch of other spare parts.

They just drove their coach screaming from the building. Phil Jackson is not walking through that door.

 

[Adios]

Phil Jackson ain't coaching these Knicks.

Let's be honest, Phil Jackson's next job is gonna be a cushy one. He wants to coast to the Finals, not coach up a team with essentially a rookie point guard, a max-money small forward with the IQ of a squash and a bunch of other spare parts.

They just drove their coach screaming from the building. Phil Jackson is not walking through that door.

Calipari will probably get offered $10 mil a year.