mike d'antoni

Say this for Dwight Howard: he is consistent.

He fails and he blames everyone and anyone but himself. Anyone could see this coming. Howard's latest failure isn't blamed on himself but rather, you guessed it, Mike D'Antoni, the current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers

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Mike D'Antoni's problem as an NBA head coach isn't just a lack of defense; it's a lack of discipline.

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To say the the Los Angeles Lakers have failed to meet expectations thus far this season is a massive understatement. A team that was favored to win the Western Conference before the season started is now four games below .500 and were defeated last night by a 4-17 Cleveland Cavaliers squad after another poor defensive effort.

Naturally, this does not have Lakers head coach Mike D'Antoni in a good mood, as evidenced by this exchange with LA Times columnist T.J. Simers.

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The Los Angeles Lakers pulled a shocker by naming Mike D’Antoni their new head coach.  D’Antoni was stunned himself.

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It was a weekend filled with its fair share of upsets on the football field: Texas A&M defeating Alabama in Tuscaloosa, the Bengals and Saints won games as home underdogs against the Giants and Falcons, and the Texans won a rainy and sloppy game in Chicago. But perhaps the biggest upset of the sports weekend happened off the field, in the offices of the Staples Center in Los Angeles, as Mike D'Antoni has been named the new head coach of the Lakers instead of legendary coach Phil Jackson.

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Imagine this. You run a business or manage a business. One of your employees totally quits on you and the result is you get fired. Now that same quitter professes how much he likes you and respects and can't wait to be together again. While this isn't an exact replica this pretty much lays out the scenario for USA basketball in the upcoming Olympic games from London!

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Now this could be typical agent blabber or perhaps it is real.  According to Jeremy Lin's  agent the guard says it isn't 100% that he'll return to New York next year.

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Well for some Knick fans that called my radio show Monday blaming the Knicks narrow-33 point loss narrow (sarcasm) on officials today you can lay blame on a fire extinguisher. Yes that naughty useless device that gets in the way of a mad basketball players hand

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Mike D'Antoni decided to resign as head coach of the New York Knicks on Wednesday.  This is a good thing for the Knicks.

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Wednesday was a roller coaster ride for the New York Knicks.  They were riding a six game losing streak, and lost their coach that morning.  Finally they would put something positive together at night.

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In a very strange turn of events, head coach Mike D'Antoni has resigned as head coach of the New York Knicks just hours after reports that he has lost control of the locker room.

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Amazing how fast the Knicks went from team harmony to team dysfunction. In a matter of 2 weeks all that was good for the Knickerbockers has gone south. Linsanity? No Linsaster!

From any account no one on this team is happy, the coach is the lame duck, the star they brought in has gone in the tank and the ship be sinking

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