Mike D'Antoni on the Evolution of Offense | Thinking Basketball  

Curry better

What’s more legendary is thinking basketball was always apart of mikes story And Ben’s story

And it's striking to see how indeed only Thinking Basketball could get, talk and enjoy a guest like D'Antoni. There would be no point to accept (and hell, he and his thoughts wouldn't get even called) the invite from the popular bums that yap about basketball on YT. It's not even close with how Ben's cultural value strikes compared to the rest.

So funny you think he's iconic and he literally never won a chip due to having no defense

@@zdthekilla6950 yawn

1000 years from now this will be more important than winning a championship.

@@sorenwestwood1514 even 100 years from now the NBA will cease to exist

@@MightbePettingmyCat if people don't stop destroying the planet, that's probably true no cap.

Just shows that people are shallow and just want highlights

@@josipmarasovic7084 But also Ben put this on his new channel which has still very few subscribers, if it was on ain channel probably have 10 times more views

We have a few sections coming up from this show that are enhanced for the main channel.

Why is it a shame?

Learning from the best attitude. Pop is such a great coach. Classic quote.

Lmao 100%

@Luke Walker Name me one coach who can develop 100% for every of his players? I'll wait... And you really named Howard at this point in his career?

@Luke Walker Building around Harden was a problem. You are right. It didn't worked in Houston, Philadelphia and now in Brooklyn... 100% real

@Luke Walker If you're bringing stats, you are the living proof you didn't watched those years. Howard admitted he wasn't himself after he left Orlando and he wasn't the best teammate (I paraphrase, but you get the idea). Howard collected problems with Nash and Kobe during his Lakers first tenure. You can't be in such denial. Howard changed after he rejoined the Lakers for a second stint. He admitted he had to change.

@Luke Walker About Pau, he was the best defensive version of himself in the NBA, the best rebounder in the system and the second scoring option of the Lakers. You're playing with Kobe, what else were you expecting? BTW, after the 2009 NBA Finals, the best version of PAU Gasol was his Bulls days, then with D'Antoni. Don't forget Pau was crippled with injuries during those purple and gold days!

@user-jt1fp8gq5y It is pretty common knowledge that Howard didn't want to be used as a roll option, so how do you work with that? There were a bunch of issues and t wasn't that he oouldn't outright use them.

Diaw was pulling Horry-level type of values when he was focused.

Real recognizes real culture.

Thanks!

Thanks Geno!

It's that Fisher and Horry's fascination. Artest's too.

Working on it!

@@moreTB sounds good 🔥

I would imagine Kobe

Maybe Melo, basically any chucker though

Ben definitely thinking about Dominique Wilkins and maybe Allen Iverson, but early 2000s Jerry Stackhouse and Chris Webber in general fit this mold to a T.

@@MrMatFuchs Perception of Kobe's efficiency is so fascinating to me. Kobe has a higher Career Relative True Shooting Percentage in both playoffs and Regular Season than Dwyane Wade and Hakeem Olajuwon. Kobe has a higher Career defense adjusted Relative True Shooting Percentage in the Playoffs than both Larry Bird and Tim Duncan. Has the same Career Relative True Shooting Percentage in the Regular Season as Bird and Duncan. Meaning Kobe's efficiency was either better or the same as Wade, Olajuwon, Bird or Duncan, but for some bizarre logic gets viewed as some chucker by some, maybe it has something to do with people who still archaic junk stats like FG%.

@@blacknetsmed Thanks for taking the time to comment. Good insight!

what tension?

@@dannyou2043 That was just me overreacting to D'Antoni saying that you can't judge coaches so easily near the end.

he doesnt play……

I think going against the greatest team ever assembled probably has something to do with it too.

He had a good defense in Houston when he had the personnel for it in 2018. If the players are bad defensive players, the team's gonna be bad defensively. It's about the players. Frank Vogel is known as a defensive coach, and had great defenses when he had the personnel for it in 2020, but the Lakers have been bad defensively the past 2 years because their personnel is just not good defensively.