Lawrence: Bringing in D'Antoni wrong move

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Sunday Stories
Published 5/11/2008 by rstiles (noreply@blogger.com) at Stiles Points - "So let it be written, so let it be done"
... "But D'Antoni is not a good fit for these Knicks. Give D'Antoni a Hall of Fame point guard, a bunch of scorers who can get up and down the floor and find a good shot in seven seconds or less and he'll get you 57 wins out West, maybe 60 over on this side of the NBA. That record of success is nothing to sneeze at. He's a Top 10 coach today, easy. Just one question: When do those players start arriving at the Garden? When they finally get cap space in 2011?" ... Mitch Lawrence Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times writes how the ...

The Sunday Click -- The Busy Time, On and Off the Court
Published 5/11/2008 at Fan Voice: Recent Topics in The Court Reporters: The NBA.com Blog
... chairman James Dolan ended up paying the great Larry Brown almost $30 million for one year of lousy coaching. Dolan now gets to pay Isiah Thomas $20 million for reporting to Donnie Walsh about the current weather conditions in Antarctica. So when money's no object, what's another $24 million for Mike D'Antoni? There was no perfect candidate for the Knicks' coaching job because the roster is so bad and in need of a wrecking ball. But D'Antoni is not a good fit for these Knicks. -- Read More And neither does Peter Vecsey of the New York Post ... After spending the last 24 ...

Ah… The Bittersweet Taste of Ambivalence
Published 5/12/2008 by David Crockett at KnickerBlogger.Net
... about the hire. I both love it and hate it. Ambivalence: The condition of holding opposite feelings for the same person or object Love . I’ve been begging the Knicks to run for quite some time. Although the current roster is missing Steve Nash the Knicks could increase their pace from a middle-of-the-pack 13th into the top 7 just by deciding to play faster. Running would maximize the strengths of the young core, Curry’s and Randolph’s loafing be damned. When pundits opine about how poorly D’Antoni fits the roster , they are usually referring to Marbury, Curry, and Randolph. ...

The NY Columnists Love Affair With Mark Jackson
Published 5/12/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... D’Antoni averaged 58 wins over the last four years in Phoenix. (The Knicks last won 58 games in 1993.) The Suns played the most exciting basketball in the NBA. Three straight times in the postseason, the Suns were bounced by a team that reached the Finals. Which is why we’re a bit perplexed the negative New York media is already anti-D’Antoni. A sampling of weekend headlines: FACE IT: WALSH BLEW THIS CALL (NY Post) Bringing in Mike D’Antoni wrong move for the Knicks (NY Daily News)