According to the latest buzz, Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni will add a coach to his staff to focus on improving the team’s highly-suspect-and-I’m-being-charitable defense. That’s a logical, but somewhat surprising step. D’Antoni has resisted making a similar hire in the past. Then-Phoenix general manager Steve Kerr reportedly pressed D’Antoni to add Tom Thibodeau to his [...]
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There’s been a fair amount of talk about Mike D’Antoni adding a defensive coach to his staff for next season (though the coach has resisted the idea in the past). Here’s a name to consider: Charles Oakley. Oak is just finishing his first season on the bench with Paul Silas in Charlotte – and it [...]
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There’s a pretty lively debate running about the Knicks’ next-to-last possession in Game Two of the Boston series. Too much of it has been framed like this: My take? ‘Melo made the right basketball play — passing out of a double-team to a teammate in position to hit a layup is basketball 101. The bigger [...]
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There’s an increasing amount of buzz suggesting Kentucky coach John Calipari is headed back to the NBA – and soon. The teams coming up in the rumors most often are Miami and New York. There’s an open question as to whether or not Erik Spoelstra is up to the task of coaching “The Heatles” – [...]
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Knick fans pining for the days of Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason and Xavier McDaniel take heart – you’ll be seeing lots of tough, physical defense in the weeks ahead. Unfortunately, the old “no layup rule” will be enforced by New York’s opponents. If the last two games are any indication, the league has decided that [...]
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The Charlotte Bobcats have parted ways with legendary coach — and notorious basketball vagabond — Larry Brown. Paul Silas will take over the team on an interim basis. The Bobcats reached the playoffs last season for the first time in franchise history and hoped to build on that success this year. But the team has [...]
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It’s the biggest, longest-running knock on Mike D’Antoni — he doesn’t coach defense.Someone should tell the Chicago Bulls that. They might be surprised to hear it, after D’Antoni’s Knicks held Derrick Rose, Carlos Boozer and the rest without a basket for over eight straight minutes in the fourth quarter, pulling away for a 103-95 Christmas [...]
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