Rating and Debating: What does D'Antoni do with Toney Douglas?

TD’s not DWTDD, and jeremy Lin has showed some flashes to where he laughably is thought of as a better player, when the truth is he’s not. THere’s really nothing there.

Like I’ve said elsewhere, lack of enough ballhandlers and 3pt shooters is what’s killing us. As in they’re a staple of what Pringles wants his team to do, and we don;t have any. Jared Jeffries is leading the team in 3pt %. Jared Jeffries.

as a shooting guard.

Since his confidence has been utterly and completely destroyed by being asked to be a point guard / leader out on the floor, it will take him about 10 games to start hitting those open 3’s that we need so badly. By then we will be in danger of missing the playoffs entirely.

It might help him to sit him entirely for a few games, or it might help him to ship him to the D league for a few games. I don’t fuckin’ know. I’m Toney’s biggest fan – I think he’s a good player, and I’m a bit pissed at D’antoni for not playing Lin sooner.

I still remember how harshly everyone was bashing Landry earlier on.

Knicks better suck it up after the last two losses. These games had playoff like intensity and don’t think the lowly Nets aren’t going to bring that kind of intensity themselves. Reading their comments in the Daily News, you get the impression they’re coming in like this game is their season.

Baron Davis keeps talking about how he loves MDA and has waited his whole career to run his offense, yet he won’t get back on the court. He better get back now or he’ll be running Mike Woodson’s offense. (if he has one)

whether thats just right now or for all eternity simply doesn’t matter.

another thing that doesn’t matter is whether toney is a theoretical better player than jeremy lin. right right now- lin fits a need and toney does not. toney’s defense is not noticeably better than lin’s and his offense is noticeably worse.

lin should get toney’s minutes, and bill walker and toney should enter a time share for those minutes- until someone proves they deserve it more than another.

is young and if he can get back to what he was or even being better he needs game minutes to do that. We have seen what he can do, we know he can do it.

Lin, yeah he looks decent and I’m not against playing him, but lets be honest, they guy was not drafted and spent time in the D-league. Just because we have seen him in some garbage time and saw some box stats from college and D-league does not mean this kid is a good substitute for TD.

That Tony D Would have stepped up to his namesake and played his best ball of the year.

I was wrong! Horribly and miserably wrong.

last night who want TD completely off the team. Maybe there’s a reason I usually don’t visit the game threads. But still, TD is a valuable player. He’s just not playing where he should be. It isn’t Toney’s fault that the roster is severely lacking a true PG and bench scorers.

The way I see Toney succeeding is this: Baron comes back, solidifies the PG position. D’Antoni tells Toney: “Toney, go out there, just worry about harrassing the opposing guards. Be aggressive on D. Don’t worry about running the offense. Play like DWTDD.”

Before the season, we all knew that there was a huge question mark at the point guard position. We’d hoped that Toney would show us a little more this season. Well, obviously that’s not going to happen.

I can’t take it any longer. I was hoping that no one would find out my deep, dark secret, but the time has come to step out.

I have a PhD. in Mike Dantoni, whew, there I said it, that was tougher than I imagined

I am and expert in Mike Dantoni: I have watched every game he has coached in the last 8 years (I am a Knicks fan that lives in Phoenix), I love basketball and the Suns were the only thing on so I watched them.

I have been to many live Suns games (Including playoffs against the Lakers and Spurs)

I had courtside seats once near the Suns bench (I had then Senator John McCain on my right and Bob Costas on my left) Very awkward they conversed straight through me like I was made out of a screen material.

Most importantly, I had a connection that got me the courtside seat during the Suns/Knicks game.

I have a billion stories as to why Dantoni is an absolute non-coaching idiot, but I do not have the time to write a book at this moment in my life.

I offer this one story to all the Pro-toni’s out there to consider. Witnessed by myself, John McCain and Bob Costas.

Mikey D. drew up a last second play on his clipboard and immediately showed it to Steve Nash after he called a time out.

I watched Nash look at it and shake his head “no, no, no,” then he snatched the eraser out of Dantoni’s hand like he was the ball boy and Nash quickly scribbled out some play.

Nash took it over to the team huddle and explained it to all the Suns players. I could not see unfortunately what he drew, but it doesn’t really matter.

Nash rubbed off a couple screens and recieved the ball at the top of the arc. A wide open look that saw noting but the bottom of the net. A perfect play! Costas and McCain even joked “through” me that Nash is the real coach of the Suns.

It is true, Steve Nash is a genius! A once in a hundred years rarity. He was a player/coach like in the old days. If you know anything about Nash, you know he is humble. Hell, he is even refusing to ask to be traded out of the current miserable team he is on now and ask for a chance to join a title contender. That is the kind of guy he is.

He really loved Dantoni as a person and would always give all the credit to Mikey D. for anything positive. Nash does not want the attention or the limelight.

All the Suns fans, myself, Sen. John McCain, and Bob Costas know the truth though. Steve Nash coached that Suns team and Dantoni was the manager who managed minutes and substitutions.

Blast me if you want to, but make sure you have more than an 8 year PhD in Dantoni before you do.

I feel better now that I am out of the closet, so refreshing!

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Oh well, we all knew he wasn’t coming to our scrub fest
It’s possible this is all over P&T already, I checked a little but I don’t have time to keep up with every comment anymore

“Let’s win tonight Knicks, we have to play with heart, smarts an together. We are only as strong as our weakest link. Lets go!!”

I wonder who the weak link is that he is referring to?? Hmmmmm ……….

is that we have very few options right now and the ones we have are all shitty.

We have seen the best and worst of TD. Say his ceiling is a 7 out of 10 and his basement (last night) is a 2.

Well the thing is we’ve seen Lin get a little burn and he was looking around a 3 or 4, maybe a five or six last night. You gotta give him the chance to see if his ceiling is an 8 or above and if the 3/4 was his basement. I doubt he’s an 8+, but the only way we’re gonna know is by game-time.

At this point I don’t see any point in TD trying to show he’s capable of 8+ and I’ve literally no hope for Bibby at this stage. We’ve got to hope Baron’s window is a tight 6-10 when he eventually gets back. If not then this is ANOTHER transitional year.

from BD to JR Smith!

What is wrong with you people? This post should earn Seth three stars in next year’s Michelin Guide.