Posted by admin under Knicks, Mike D'Antoni
Well it’s official. The Knicks have landed Mike D’Antoni as there coach. I grew up on the Knicks, watched and hurt through the 90’s as Jordan destroyed us year after year and could hardly watch in the 00’s as Isiah led the team to be one of the sloppiest looking bad news bear bunch of misfits ever assembled. But now like the NBA’s Keven Garnett commercial New York Knicks fans can rejoice. I predict that Knicks fans will talk about this day for a long time to come. The day the Knicks were saved from a boring unbelievably bad team to one of the most exciting, fun teams to watch and in a year or two, even winners! For one of the top coaches in the league a proven regular season winner who plays high octane basketball Mike D’Antoni is a deal for the Knicks. The players and fans love him for his style of play, he is the anti-Isiah. In my mind the Knicks could not have made a better addition, player or coach wise, then this for next year.
Hopefully the Knicks can land a premier point guard in the draft like DerrickRose, or Jerryd Bayless. But even with out here is my run and gun Knicks line up utilizing the current roster.
| Jamal Crawford |
80 |
80 |
39.9 |
.410 |
.356 |
.864 |
0.5 |
2.1 |
2.6 |
5.0 |
1.0 |
0.2 |
2.4 |
2.1 |
1.8 |
20.6 |
| Stephon Marbury |
24 |
19 |
33.6 |
.419 |
.378 |
.716 |
0.7 |
1.8 |
2.5 |
4.7 |
0.9 |
0.1 |
2.0 |
2.4 |
2.4 |
13.9 |
|
Nate Robinson |
72 |
17 |
26.1 |
.423 |
.332 |
.786 |
0.7 |
2.4 |
3.1 |
2.9 |
0.8 |
0.0 |
1.4 |
2.1 |
2.6 |
12.7 |
|
David Lee |
81 |
29 |
29.1 |
.552 |
.000 |
.819 |
3.0 |
6.0 |
8.9 |
1.2 |
0.7 |
0.4 |
1.2 |
1.0 |
2.6 |
10.8 |
| Quentin Richardson |
65 |
65 |
28.3 |
.359 |
.322 |
.682 |
0.9 |
4.0 |
4.8 |
1.8 |
0.7 |
0.2 |
1.1 |
1.7 |
2.4 |
8.1 |
|
Wilson Chandler |
35 |
16 |
19.6 |
.438 |
.300 |
.630 |
1.1 |
2.5 |
3.6 |
0.9 |
0.4 |
0.5 |
0.8 |
1.2 |
2.4 |
7.3 |
|
Renaldo Balkman |
65 |
0 |
14.6 |
.489 |
.083 |
.432 |
1.3 |
2.0 |
3.3 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
0.5 |
0.6 |
1.1 |
2.0 |
3.4 |
Then you anchor them down with Eddy Fatty or Zach Randolf (your not as good Shaq and Kurt Thomas)
I am sure they will make some moves though to get an even better bunch of guys but if not Mike will be able to get this group to play better then they ever did as Knicks before. Maybe more like they played before they were Knicks.
