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D'Antoni lined up for Bobcats gig?

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As many of you guys know, Mike D'Antoni stepped down from the Knicks yesterday and a report from deadspin.com is reporting that D'Antoni may have stepped down early because he may very well have the Charlotte job "lined up."

From deadspin.com

As for D'Antoni? Our tipster, currently batting 1.000, says that "he has either the Wash or Charlotte job lined up, otherwise he would not have left." For what it's worth.

My Two-Cents

Personally, I could see this happening but I don't know what I think about it yet.

D'Antoni loves point guards and that is clearly seen through his infatuation with guards such as Stephon Marbury, Steve Nash, Chauncey Billups, and his latest infatuation: Jeremy Lin.

In Charlotte, D'Antoni would get to work with a young point guard in Kemba Walker and potentially turn him into a star.

D'Antoni also likes to run an up-tempo offense where the open player shoots the ball, not the superstar. That works perfectly in Charlotte as the Bobcats don't have a superstar.

However cases against D'Antoni are simple... his teams don't play great defense (then again neither do the Bobcats), his teams never can seem to reach their full potential (the Bobcats may have some potential after this years draft), and D'Antoni has coached teams with much more talent then the Bobcats currently have which could cause some problems for him.

I really don't know how I would feel about D'Antoni coaching the Cats right now, it really depends on whether or not we get the opportunity to draft Anthony Davis.

I would be interested to see what he could do with Kemba, Anthony, and Bismack. These three would easily compare to what D'Antoni had in Phoenix with Amare, Shaq, and Steve.

I guess we will see what happens.

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I wouldnt mind it. The thing with Dantoni is- as long as he has a good pg to run his offense, he can make mediocre offensive players look good. But he cant coach defense to save his life. This is perhaps theoretical, but I think that if you give him great defensive players Dantoni could coach a championship team.

Looking back at his Suns teams- he made guy like Marion into effective offensive weapons, but the team was built around guys who couldnt play defense (Nash and Stoudemire). Those are particularly bad players for a Dantoni team to build around IMO because his system tends to overrate his players, whose inflated numbers lead to inflated contracts. Nash wasnt a big problem because his offensive game at the time was irreplaceable, but if they traded Stat for someone like Kevin Garnett (when he was available), I think thats a championship caliber team.

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