Re: 12/10 - 12/16 Game Discussion Thread
It's classic D'Antoni. It's what we learned about him pretty quickly once his personnel changed from garbage players + shooters to star players + shooters.
He won't adapt his system to the talents of is personnel. I've said it before that my opinion is a coach uses his system but tailor it to the talents of his players. I think as restrictive as Phil Jackson was (and I only bring him up because he had a very restrictive system and I feel it would be the argument against my thought, not because of his Lakers connection), he still allowed his players to work within the confines of his system.
Phil Jackson was very good at letting MJ and Kobe be MJ and Kobe while making sure they still operated under the Triangle. And he won because he utilized the talents of his players.
Mike D'Antoni sees Pau Gasol, post up player, and thinks to himself: I like that he can shoot. And there it goes.
I'm not even sure what he means by not wanting anyone in the key. No one can be in the key anyway. There's a penalty for that. So what is he talking about there? Clueless, man.
All he needs to do is let Gasol post up. You can still run the pick-and-roll while that's happening. About 28 other teams do it already to varying success depending on the rest of their talent.
One area Mike Woodson has worked where D'Antoni failed is in the Carmelo Anthony saga. As we all know, Melo likes to post up. But D'Antoni wanted Melo to do what he's trying to make Gasol do.
Woodson meanwhile is still running D'Antoni sets out there. He made some modifications by having Chandler come out a few feet farther from the 3pt line to set a pick, but most of the sets are the same. The adjustment he made was allowing Anthony to post up inside those sets.
And look at Anthony's numbers since Woodson has made that change. Melo has become a 30 pt per game scorer without annoyingly taking too many bad shots (though he will take a couple here and there).
And look at the Knick's record.
Mike D'Antoni is a my way or the highway coach. I'll never stop saying that. He's not even a coach. He's a dictator. The only reason it hasn't gotten worse is because Kobe Bryant can be a shooter inside this system. But Kobe said it himself that he isn't able to post like he wants to. He tells Gasol to put on his big boy pants, but Kobe is ignoring that he's Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol is Pau Gasol. You don't tell Shaq to stand in the perimeter and deal with it when his game is tailored for the post. Why are Gasol's strengths being ignored.
I don't know. None of this is new. We've all been talking about the above for weeks now.
It's classic D'Antoni. Best of luck, Lakers fans.
It's classic D'Antoni. It's what we learned about him pretty quickly once his personnel changed from garbage players + shooters to star players + shooters.
He won't adapt his system to the talents of is personnel. I've said it before that my opinion is a coach uses his system but tailor it to the talents of his players. I think as restrictive as Phil Jackson was (and I only bring him up because he had a very restrictive system and I feel it would be the argument against my thought, not because of his Lakers connection), he still allowed his players to work within the confines of his system.
Phil Jackson was very good at letting MJ and Kobe be MJ and Kobe while making sure they still operated under the Triangle. And he won because he utilized the talents of his players.
Mike D'Antoni sees Pau Gasol, post up player, and thinks to himself: I like that he can shoot. And there it goes.
I'm not even sure what he means by not wanting anyone in the key. No one can be in the key anyway. There's a penalty for that. So what is he talking about there? Clueless, man.
All he needs to do is let Gasol post up. You can still run the pick-and-roll while that's happening. About 28 other teams do it already to varying success depending on the rest of their talent.
One area Mike Woodson has worked where D'Antoni failed is in the Carmelo Anthony saga. As we all know, Melo likes to post up. But D'Antoni wanted Melo to do what he's trying to make Gasol do.
Woodson meanwhile is still running D'Antoni sets out there. He made some modifications by having Chandler come out a few feet farther from the 3pt line to set a pick, but most of the sets are the same. The adjustment he made was allowing Anthony to post up inside those sets.
And look at Anthony's numbers since Woodson has made that change. Melo has become a 30 pt per game scorer without annoyingly taking too many bad shots (though he will take a couple here and there).
And look at the Knick's record.
Mike D'Antoni is a my way or the highway coach. I'll never stop saying that. He's not even a coach. He's a dictator. The only reason it hasn't gotten worse is because Kobe Bryant can be a shooter inside this system. But Kobe said it himself that he isn't able to post like he wants to. He tells Gasol to put on his big boy pants, but Kobe is ignoring that he's Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol is Pau Gasol. You don't tell Shaq to stand in the perimeter and deal with it when his game is tailored for the post. Why are Gasol's strengths being ignored.
I don't know. None of this is new. We've all been talking about the above for weeks now.
It's classic D'Antoni. Best of luck, Lakers fans.
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