My Open Letter to Coach Mike D'Antoni
by Skifer27000 on Mar 27, 2011 11:30 AM EDT
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March 27, 2011
Dear Coach D’Antoni:
Were it left to my decision, this would be your last season as Knicks coach.
Last night, the Knicks lost to Charlotte Bobcats 114-106. This, after losing the previous night to the Milwaukee Bucks by the score of 102-96. This loss is the 6th loss in a row for the Knicks and 9th loss in their last 10 games. The Knicks record is currently 35-38. This team will likely get to the playoffs and be promptly and systematically demolished by their first round opponent, be it Boston or Chicago.
So how did this happen? How can a team that played so well early in the year play so poorly now? Sure, you’ll point to the Anthony trade and say that you’ve only had 18 games with him in the lineup and have a bunch of new players to work into your system. I’ll point to the fact that you have the second highest scoring team in the league (106.31 per game) and then tell you that your team gives up the 3rd most points in the NBA (105.6 per game). Were the lack of commitment to defense your biggest transgression, I could live with that as I’m sure most of the fan base could. However, that is not your biggest failure.
I very much understand that stars are stars. Melo didn’t play a ton of defense before he got here. Frankly, neither did Amar’e. I understand that you are not a miracle worker. Your first two seasons in New York have demonstrated that and it’s ok. No one seriously expected you to win with a roster of guys like Chris Duhon, Larry Hughes and Nate Robinson. As a fan, I would be a fool to suddenly expect Melo and Amar’e to change and suddenly begin playing elite defense. Larry Brown tried for years to change Allen Iverson to no avail. Phil Jackson still tries to get Kobe not to play 1 on 5 when things get messy. It is almost impossible to change star players that have been coddled and enabled for the duration of their careers. This does not fall entirely on you. What does fall on you and is your biggest transgression, is your failure to prepare your team to win.
Like most fans, I’m tired of stupid turnovers at key moments late in the game. I’m sick of the lack of aggressive play when Knicks work the ball around the perimeter late in games instead of trying to work the ball inside for better shots. I’m tired of watching a different team make uncontested passes into the lane for easy lay-ups every night. Consider that last night, the lowest scoring team in the NBA (91 per game) hung 102 on your squad on Friday night. Last night, the second worst scoring team in the NBA dropped 116 on the Knicks.
I am especially tired of this team playing incomplete games. Usually, they will play 2 and a half or so quarters of quality basketball only to watch a lead slip away with poor play down the stretch. Although, lately it has also been some poor first quarters as well. Over the last ten games, your team has scored 22.9 points per game in the fourth quarter (and less than 20 3 times) and given up 27.0 in the fourth over that same stretch(and more than 30 3 times). Is it the lack of focus and attention to detail that we see late in games? Is it fatigue? Perhaps, it is the fact that your starters amass obscene amounts of minutes over the course of the season. Serviceable bench players don’t see the floor for any extended period of time for reasons that are only known to you. More on that later, though.
The other night in Orlando, Dwight Howard and Hedo Turkoglu combined for 22 of the Magic’s 49 rebounds. This would be less alarming if Turkoglu did not have half of those 22 rebounds. Hedo Turklgolu is known for several things as an NBA player. Rebounding is not one of those things. You’ll tell me that the team lacks size. I’ll ask you why the size that you do have isn’t playing. You’ll say your big men aren’t always effective and I’ll tell you that it is what you have, use it.
You have 2 guys on your roster that are 6-10 or taller. Yet, in Orlando, Ronny Turiaf only saw 19 minutes on the floor. 6-11 Jared Jeffries only saw 13 minutes on the floor. Friday night, Turiaf and Jeffries saw 15 minutes and 2 minutes on the floor, respectively. Meanwhile, Andrew Bogut looked like a superstar tonight, scoring 21 and posting 17 rebounds, 5 of which were offensive. Last night, Jeffries played all of 5 minutes and your team was out rebounded. I’m dumbfounded when the Knicks lose to teams with size and your size never leaves the bench.
I don’t consider myself to be a dumb individual, yet I can’t seem to bring myself to understand your rotation. Certain guys wind up in the doghouse for reasons that are not immediately evident. Anthony Randolph could very well have become a serviceable big man for the Knicks. Yet, while here, he seldom left the bench. He appears to be doing just fine though in Minnesota, he had 31 and 11 the other night in Dallas. Last night, he had 24 points and 15 rebounds. In the month of March, Randolph has played over 24 minutes 4 times. He is averaging 19 points and 6.7 rebounds in those games. Amazingly, he could not crack your rotation similar to how Turiaf and Jeffries seem to go missing at times.
In summation, Coach, I’m not asking you to change your spots. You clearly don’t emphasize defense. However, that is a tough sell for those of us that remember the Riley and Van Gundy eras where defense was not an option, but a requirement. Defense isn’t always about ability. In fact, most times it is about effort. Your team is outscoring almost every other in the NBA and yet they still are below .500 as the playoffs draw near. Even a minor effort at defense over the course of the season could have changed the outcome of numerous games. Just look at what your team accomplished when they decided to start playing defense.
I am hoping that this team turns it around but given the same repeated mistakes over and over again, I am skeptical. You’ve clearly shown the ability to win in Phoenix but never to bring a team to an NBA Finals. Unfortunately, without more than a fleeting commitment to the big men you have and to defense, you may never get that opportunity.
Sincerely,
A Fed Up Knick Fan
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How fed up are you
Clear your head out. There is only one solution:
DOLAN MUST GO.
Until then the bastard son of Red Auerbach and Phil Jackson could not make this work.
by meandterry on Mar 27, 2011 11:40 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
As terrrible as Dolan is,
He isn’t the one actually coaching this team.
No
He just dismantled Walsh’s team (a team able to play D’Antoni ball) and replaced it with this disaster.
Exaggeration will get you no where.
At the end of the day, Walsh was one the who agreed to that deal. He, along with others, thought Carmelo wouldn’t be willing to leave 20 million on the table to become a free agent.
So while Dolan may have been holding a gun to Walsh’s head, it was only filled with rubber bullets.
+1 Impeach Dolan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by 56THE REAL LT on Mar 27, 2011 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions
And how many trophies
Has D’Antoni’s system won? Spoiler Alert: Zero.
Spoiler
not many coaches do.
Doc Rivers was one of the most incompetent coaches in the NBA. Or at least was called that when that roster sucked.
The roster blows dude. The coach has no fault in that. Donnie Walsh acknowledges fault but that’s what he’s supposed to do. He made the trade, or at least agreed to it, so its his fault.
The Knicks roster has been turned inside out, ass fucked and disemboweled multiple times over the years. Every time we start to congeal into a unit, it gets traded away.
Fuck if Pringles is at fault here. If he leaves, I don’t blame him cuz more roster changes are due this offseason.
But no coach, no Phil, no Red, not Greg, not anyone, would succeed in this situation.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
by Rorschach44 on Mar 27, 2011 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
How many trophies did Van Gundy win?
Spoiler ZERO! geesh you act like if a coach hasn’t won yet he can’t coach. That is stupid and childish. If you think there is a better coach out there fine, but really pal the last guy who actually won a trophy here was Holtzman and he actually played a system that looks more like D’Antoni’s than Van Gundy’s pal. The difference tho, his stars were great defensive players!
by Robert Currence on Mar 27, 2011 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions
What is the ultimate goal of every team? To win a championship. No, not everyone gets there but I don’t recall ever saying that you had to do so to be a great coach. But the idea is to win a ring.
And how is that done? By getting the most out of the players you have because let’s face it, no roster is perfect. Can you really say that D’Antoni is getting the most out of this roster? If the answer is yes, then you’re overlooking their ability to play any sort of defense and cohesive basketball. You’d also be ignoring that the team seems to lose in almost the same manner every night of late.
Also, your argument only works if you ignore the fact that Allan Houston wasn’t a great defensive player, Ewing certainly wasn’t at that age and that roster was flawed as hell once VG had to start running Sprewell out at the 3. You’d also have to ignore the fact that D’Antoni has guys that mysteriously don’t get PT for any number of reasons – you want to look at Anthony Randolph thus far in Minnesota and tell me that MDA was right about him? How about how Jeffries has been MIA of late? Everyone makes noise about how small this team is and MA doesn’t do a thing to help that out – unless you consider sitting your bigs helping.
Hell, at least VG made it to an NBA Finals. MDA? Nope.
I want to take a look at Anthony Randolph in Minnesota
and tell you D’Antoni was right about him. How do you recommend I go about doing this?
I'm watching the Wolves vs. the Celtics right now
AR is a nipplehead.
Last night, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows
they actually got a pretty nice lineup out there right now
of Luke Ridnour, Wes Johnson, AR, Beasley and Darko. It definitely is as cluster fucky as it sounds but for a could possessions it looked impossible to stop.
And Randolph just got stripped on a break by Delonte West trying to go coast to coast.
Yup, he’s a nipplehead.
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Dude you joined here 2 days ago to post a rant about the coach
means you all either a Melo ball hanger, or a Bandwagoner. So Peace, enjoy the ride!
by Robert Currence on Mar 28, 2011 1:10 AM EDT up reply actions
And ....
how many trophies has Melo won. And why are the Nuggets actually playing a more cohesive brand of basketball without him?
Um, actually
he won two titles in Italy.
New York’s current problem is that they have no players. Two big wheels and a collection of lugnuts won’t get you across the finish line.
In the longer run, no amount of crack defensive specialists can cover up for one or even two guys who won’t participate in defensive schemes and rotations. Until Melo turns into Michael Jordan on defense, you guys had better become accustomed to huge leads that vanish in the second half, inexcusible losses to inferior teams at home, and a losing record on the road.
by not that me, the other me on Mar 27, 2011 11:30 PM EDT up reply actions
He hasn’t been coaching for all that long so this question is kind of unfair. There are many coaches who are all about defense and never won. This system was good enough to compete and it always came down to a few mistakes down the stretch for the old Suns. This system was good enough to beat the Spurs, Lakers, Mavs etc, so why couldn’t he win? It wasn’t his system but it was suspensions. Were it not for a miracle 3 pointer by Duncan a few years ago when Shaq was there, Phoenix would have won that serious perhaps. Those who say he never won a championship, and I include fatboy Barkley in this, seem to forget that the Suns were robbed out of a ring by Robert Horry. They had that serious wrapped and it was obvious that Spurs had no answer to Stat at all. No matter how much they tried to guard the pnr, it just wasn’t working. Stat was dominating the Spurs and abusing them. As I said, Horry had become dirty and reached a point in his career where he wasn’t relevant anymore,.
I just hope Pringles sticks with it
this roster is terribly flawed.
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You can complain about defense all day til the players actually prove they can play it
They look like swinging doors on an old-time saloon while they allow player after player sashay right by them. We may just as well lay a welcome mat at the foot of the rim. What’s worse, is the players now don’t fit the system yet, and until the offense flows it will have a direct effect on our energy on defense.
Im not a fan of MDA.
But he’s earned the right to get at least a full season with Melo and Amare.
Its impossible to mesh 2 huge talents like Melo and Amare 3/4 through the season, along with a new PG. Especially when that PG gets injured.
Give him an off-season to tweak his system to take advantage of both the talent and effect that Melo and Amare have on opponent defenses, and give him a training camp to get things situated. Then we can judge him.
Once we can figure how to use Amare and Melo to maximize their effect on each other and the opponents, then the role players will know where to set up to exploit the breakdowns they create.
But right now, MDA doesn’t have the time to implement the things he wants to do and hasn’t even figured out how he wants to use these guys. They don’t know how to use and play off each other. And the role guys don’t know where to set up.
I’ve been bangin the drum for more Amare-Melo PnR. Its simple and its indefensible when they get it down. It’ll help them develop chemistry with each other and it will give the role players lots of space to set up for shots and cut to the rim. When we’ve used it, its worked beautifully. Why we don’t go to it over and over is beyond me.
by Crackback on Mar 27, 2011 1:29 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Yeah, I don't see why they just don't say
the next 9 games it’s Stat/Melo pick and roll all fuckin day, until it works. It’d actually buy them some leeway with the criticism, too
Ive been waiting also for
melo amare pnr..
that could be the most unstoppable pnr in the NBA
by Teutoknicks on Mar 27, 2011 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
i do not agree with you. we should not fire d antoni
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I gotta say
I’m definitely one of the posters here who defends D’Antoni and thought the trade was stupid and such. But I think we all gotta acknowledge, D’Antoni right now is doing a pretty poor job coaching.
I think we all expected a bit of rough times as the team attempts to gel, and right now I think there are many more problems that need addressing before MDA. But if we’re on the topic:
Right now our team is consistently getting beaten by cellar dwellers. The team has not been well prepared in terms of matchups and defensive schemes. When it comes down to big moments in the 4th quarter we haven’t been executing. On offense, despite the adjustments everybody’s trying to deal with, they haven’t executed or ran good schemes consistently. Right now, I just think preparation is the biggest issue.
D’Antoni should most certainly be the coach next year, but he’s gotta step his game up. We gotta start winning and reverse this shit like NOW. He’s gotta strap in and start holding people accountable, and really work overtime to get this team prepared and on the same page
by WSD on Mar 27, 2011 8:48 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
And I know people will say
Well the coach isn’t on the floor, he can’t execute for them. Or, he’s not on defense, he can’t make them stay in front of players, etc. This is all true, but the coach does have a job for a reason.
He’s gotta make sure the team is prepared and all on the same page in terms of that execution. They gotta be mentally prepared for every team and know exactly what they’re doing on offense and defense
i agree. good point. thats exactly his job.
How many times do they start the game or come out of half flat as all hell?
Its like everybody is collectively disengaged. They’re all there, going through the motions and exerting energy, but they’re not in it. They’re all detached. Amare fumbles in the lane, Billups inexplicably passes it directly to the wrong uni, Melo is unable to hold it for the entire shot clock and get in a chuck no matter how bad the shot, Tony runs PnR and doesn’t even give Amare a coutesy glance as he’s wide open in the lane, Pringles watches the entirety of a double-digit lead evaporate before it dawns on him that a time out might be a decent idea…
There’s just no intensity of focus from anybody it seems. Except Carter and Extra E. Those two bring it every night.
by Crackback on Mar 27, 2011 10:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
the reason why there's really not much he can do but sit and wait as we're doing
is that I don’t think the team is not prepared. They are prepared. I see open shots, I see players open, for the most part I see spacing..all this points to them being prepared and lack of execution.
Its also mental toughness. How many times is Amar’e gonna complain on the offensive end and not get back?
You know..maybe it is the coach? Maybe he’s a bit like Bill Sheridan the former Giants defensive coordinator. The X’s and O’s are not the problem. Even for a bit of time the execution isn’t the problem. What he doesn’t do well is the motivational tactics. The psychology bullshit that someone like Phil Jackson does.
Mental toughness. They miss a shot, don’t get back on D and then let up easy baskets. That sticks with them. They play great defense, but either the team scores anyway or they give up the offensive rebound then they get an easy bucket…and then that’s it, basically fuck it is what they say.
Or maybe its not. Maybe they just need to play better. I dunno, but Pringles happy go lucky personality and then that yelling “come on..play better” sort of stuff goes along with that.
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by Rorschach44 on Mar 27, 2011 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I think thats it.
Pringles is known as a players coach….But sometimes thats can be detrimental. Right now the Knicks need a manhood check, and he just isnt that dude. He needs to be in that locker room testing their heart for signs of life. Trying to find out who wants it and who doesnt. Instead of just hopin they figure it out.
Amare was helping Pringles with the whole keep em in check shit, until melo came. Now I think he is chillin out for fear of the NY media trying to create a Melo/Amare beef when there is none. The first time Amare would have tried, or tries, to put Melo and Billups in their place, the media would have had a fuckin parade. I dont think he wants to do that, so he is just walking the fine line and trying to do what he can without pissing anyone off.
So pringles gotta do it. He has to tell them nut up or dont suit up. We already losing, so benching the stars wont even hurt us. If they wont do what needs to be done, put in someone who will bust their ass trying.
The Triple Felt Goose movement shall live as long as I am around.
this.
Its also mental toughness. How many times is Amar’e gonna complain on the offensive end and not get back?
I swear its the most frustrating thing to see. I hated David Lee for it, and it seems that STAT is the same way.
Play the fucking game. No ref has ever heard a grown man bitch about a foul call and though… gee.. maybe he is right. It just pisses them off and you end up getting less calls.
I think it was Bobby V who said: "You are never as good as you are when you are at your best, and you are not as bad as when you are at your worst."
I love Amare
but I HATE when he does that too…..I’m yelling “get back on D”!!
Definitely
We saw that with the pre-trade team as well, so it’s not just a shot at this one. Tough defense for 20 seconds and then a fade-away 3 plops in, or a shot rims out as the shot clock expires and the other team’s big man corrals the board and gets an easy put back. That shit can be deflating.
However, as alot of us have said, that’s where this team disappoints, is because after that they put their head down and the next possession, the other team takes a walk into the paint for a layup.
Maybe it’s D’Antoni’s gameplan that I’m trying to point out? I mean, the team’s they’ve been fucking losing to the last two and a half weeks is pathetic. Actually since the trade happened! 2 games to the Cavs, 2 to the Pacers, 2 to the Bucks, Pistons, Bobcats. Realistically of those 8 games, we should have gone 5-3, which I think would have us all feeling better. I think D’Antoni needs to step it up and say these teams aren’t cake walks and ya’ll haven’t done shit yet to think they “don’t belong on the same floor”.
If only more coaches had time to read books that aren't about sports
we’d have more Jacksons and less Belichick/Parcells/Larry Brown clones who alienate players and don’t know the first thing about psychology and the human mind.
D’Antoni at least doesn’t lose his players, but I share some of your worries, sometimes. I think he has an extremely sound idea of offensive execution being the key aspect of the successful and efficient team, and he’d argue that all teams struggle when shots aren’t falling, which is true. Sometimes, we do lose because we couldn’t make our shots. People get on him for saying that, but it happens sometimes. If everyone is off and the team shoots 35%, you’re not winning, even with world-class defensive effort.
I’d say as a general statement that his teams are well equipped to thrive in desirable conditions, but not as well prepared to survive in undesirable conditions.
"I feel like this: You can't hate me." -Toney Douglas
Parcells and Belicheck are two of the best psychologics who happen to be mean assholes
Pringles don’t have to be that way, but motivation is a lot of the art of coaching.
But thanks for the input, I was anticipating it….
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Parcells and Belichick are psychologists
in the same way that people who advocate defense spending are humanists. They thrash at psychological concepts but don’t quite understand them, and end up using a bunch of war cliches then watching their players devolve into tumor-laden Jello forms once they retire, all in the name of victory.
Jackson at least has an understanding of the human mind and an ultimate goal of building great teams by developing good humans and a collective spirit, stuff that Parcells/Belichick would once again thrash at with cliches. There’s a reason why Jackson alienates fewer players and is able to get the most out of the type of personalities Parcells/Belichick wouldn’t touch.
"I feel like this: You can't hate me." -Toney Douglas
I think you're way off the resevervation with the psychologist idea
Phil Jackson has his fully baked way of psychology, Parcels and Belicheck have theirs.
Parcells will brow beat, chew out and belittle a player, usually a good player, until he honestly feels he’s an underdog and thinks the other team’s player is talking shit…motivivating bubs. All about motiviation.
There’s more to motivation and psychology then the one that you seem to understand and approve of. Really and truly sorry.
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you're probably in over your head
Parcells and Belichick are just glorified military generals. psychology as a field is pretty much defined by dissent, but any expert on human motivation could point out the flaws in what Parcells and Belichick do in like two seconds. they’re clueless, but at least they work in a field of idiocy.
"I feel like this: You can't hate me." -Toney Douglas
Donnie..yea, you're out of your element
Parcells and Belicheck are far from military generals, that doesn’t need your stamp of approval either. They do what they do through motivation, a different sort of motivation but most definitely psychology of a different sort. And it doesn’t need to have some psychology major to point it out…since no psychology major is gonna get through to any run of the mill insane football player
I’m really sorry and all, but I thinks you need to step down from this one.
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Their motivational tactics have a high rate of failure and most of their team's success is in spite of, not because of, them
But they’re loud, so they’re celebrated amongst the dumb-as-rocks NFL oligarchy and they often transition seamlessly into ineffective and overpriced “motivational speaking” in the corporate world (as do their players) which only enhances the meaningless self-aggrandizing nature of the entire charade. Success in the NFL is basically having a rock for a brain, literally. Impenetrable, unable to expand or contract, and apparently blissfully ignorant of the idea that repeated concussions are damaging to a man’s health.
"I feel like this: You can't hate me." -Toney Douglas
rorschach wit the real talk post.
that mental toughness for 48 minutes just aint there. we had it from melo in the orlando game but its very seldom we see it from anyone on a regular basis. we need it from stat n melo all the time, they need to lead by example and visibly display their tougness and motivation. the rest will follow.
on the coaching side. i’m tired of the mikes clapping and yelling “lets go” after fuck ups, too. he needs to ditch the nice guy approach and express what he’s for real, for real feeling. if he feels like chokin jared after takin a (very) ill advised shot, he should tell jared “i wanna choke the shit outta you right now. no homo.”
by bobitostretch on Mar 30, 2011 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Look folks from where I sit all of you Fire D'Antoni folks need to chill
or openly admit that you are rooting for Isaiah’s return. Because frankly that is the only way he is not the coach at the start of next season. Now if things go bad after say the first 25 games then you might get some real traction on this fire the coach business. But really folks who are you going to get to replace him? You guys want championships and with a 49% raise in ticket prices are you guys really gonna be satisfied with some little known assistant in his first head coaching gig or a college coach, managing two superstars? I don’t think so! You are gonna want a name, like Jerry Sloan, who is probably gonna be the Bill Cowher of the NBA over the next couple of years, lurking over every coach whose team is struggling. Well do you honestly think that Dolan is gonna pay Pringles 6 mil not to coach next year and then fork over the 7 or 8mil it is gonna cost to get Jerry Sloan to walk into this madhouse? Think again, even Dolan balks at wasting that kind of scratch. Does D’Antoni’s defense need to get better? Hell yes. However, I think Bob Ryan hit the nail on the head when he said, that the Knicks have less to worry about with Carmelo and Amar’e co-existing together on the offensive end, they are elite scorers and they will figure out how to get their points before it is all said and done. But Billups, Anthony, and Stoudemire are all below average defenders, who need to be in a cohesive defensive scheme, that hides their defensive weaknesses. And the Knicks do not have enough time to develop the Chemistry, Cohesion, nor do they have the personnel to pull that off this season. You want better defense well you need more players to get that done! There was a reason that Mozgov was the hold up in this trade folks, and it is not that he projects to be a superstar. But rather with a poor on the ball interior defender like Amar’e, and weak perimeter defenders like Carmelo and Billups, you need an interior presence to get some semblance of defense. Mozgov before the trade was making progess in doing that. Mozgov was not just playing Center, but D’Antoni had started putting him on the best low post scorer (remember the 2nd Philly game, when Mozgov was able slow Elton Brand up just by staying Big and forcing Brand to shoot over him when they guy had basically raped Amar’e the game before, and for much of the 2nd game?) 7’1 and 265lbs can do that for you! An interior presence allows Amar’e to do what he does best on defense be a weakside help defender where he can use his ability to block shots for maximum benefit. Also having that big body clogging the paint now paired with Amar’e lurking for the block, discourages perimeter players from abusing their advantages on Billups and Carmelo outside. We lost to Detroit, do you remember how Mozzie’s presence in the paint discouraged Detroit from going inside and forced them to rely on perimeter jumpshooting. Think Chris Wilcox goes off in the 4th if he had to contend with Mozgov’s size? Folks a guy does not even have to be good sometimes just being big is enough to get the job done! The Defense will improve when we can get a big or preferrably a couple of Bigs who if they can’t do anything else can use their size to our advantage! Until then chill out!
Dude you gotta leanr to break up your text
New paragraphs or even just separating different thoughts into different sections. I’m sure there’s some quality stuff in here, but 98% of P&T is gonna skip over this because it’s just overwhelming
by WSD on Mar 28, 2011 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
99%
i can not spend the time or concetration reading soething that long and un-broken up. i hate books, and never read them for school, and posts like those are somewhat like books. i’m sure there good, but i am not going to read them
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They call me the Bear Giant, You know what the Bear Giamt does? He bashes Eagle's Fans with a Superbowl Ring
*Note to all eagles fans*
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by 56THE REAL LT on Mar 28, 2011 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions
i had a similar mozzie discussion
wit my barber today. if we had mozzie, we wouldve won a couple more games. oh well. but i’m hopin to see jordan at training camp, i feel like its a must.
by bobitostretch on Mar 30, 2011 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
For the turf MDA crowd
Not sure who said this:
“For every problem there is always a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong.”
I said this:
Frustration is a great motivator, detracts from the IQ though…
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