http://www.nypost.com/seven/1126200...cks_garden_______heaps_praise_on_d_140925.htm We don't hear him talking about Lawrence Frank like this.
But Mike Brown is coaching the top offensive team in the league this year, by a pretty margin as well!
Offensive mastermind that knows nothing about how to play defense. Well, I guess you have to take the good with the bad.
Touche. However, I'm a believer that you don't need great defensive players to be a remotely okay defensive team. Defending is the most fundamental thing you can do in the NBA, and regardless of the talent you have on the defensive side, you shouldn't be giving up 105+ppg. D'Antoni's teams have never been good on defense, and it's not just because of lack of talent, it's because he's a horrid defensive coach. For a case in point, look at the Suns. Essentially the same roster as last year (post-Shaq trade of course), and they're a much better defensive team this year under Terry Porter. They still aren't a great defensive team by any means, but they're not giving up 105+ppg like they did under D'Antoni.
Did anybody else notice that Lebron said he was the leader of team USA? I wonder what Kobe has to say about that. I don't think D'Antoni is an offensive mastermind. Phoenix wasn't anything special offensively (in this era) before Nash. With Nash, Marion, Amare, Diaw, Bell, Joe Johnson, etc of course the team was going to be great that's an offensive allstar team. Same thing with team USA, of course they were going to be great offensively, this is silly. A lot of the time Nash wasn't even running plays, he would just improvise. Why should D'Antoni get credit for all this?
