The question of whether to fire D’Antoni is a question of ideology. Whereas he’s taken a band of one year contractual players who as Van Gundy suggested couldn’t get a starting job on a playoff contending team, and gets the most he can offensively. However it’s how he gets them to score is his downfall. His entire offensive system is based on jump shooting, of the 3pt. type. Part of the reason the Lakers are out rebounded on the offensive boards is because he’s got the floor spread with no rotation. The players are placed on the perimeter and there’s no movement they stand and watch. The ball usually goes to one side and the weak side is non-involved. Again with no incentive to move the transition to defense is even harder. They are out of position, they have to break inertia, and run even farther because of their offensive positions. We can understand that there’s no shot blocker but there’s no movement to intercept the ball in the lane.
I do believe Mike D’Antoni is the problem. His system is counter productive to anything but the 3 point shot and the give and go is fundamentally flawed without people to run it. Defense is non-existent and no offensive rebounding, so what do you have?
Replay019
Try winning games with a starting 5 of Marshall, Meeks, Johnson, Kelly and Sacre. This team was made with 1 year contracts….it’s easy to blame the coach, but tbh, that’s pretty unfair.
Rigged4fun
Whether you’ve been watching the games or not, the Lakers have been losing primarily at the end of the 4th quarter. That’s primarily because they don’t have the players to close out the game. But it goes deeper and that’s my point. It’s the scheme of play, and that falls on the coach.
john cox
SOOO True this team could be 500 with a NBA coach,and there is no Future with Mike no D,he’s a great guy but doesn’t have an NBA system…
These injuries are part of this run and gun system…
He needs to go NOW!!!
Danny E. Pagan
Lakers have the worst roster in the League, they filled with castoffs and Dleaguers and over the hill injured players but hey you gotta blame D’antoni cuz that’s the popular thing