[UPDATED] Do the honorable thing, AD: get ejected!...

There are some interesting angles in there, some I hadn’t even thought of. Much better than your last effort calling out Melo.

reality bites.

possibly the series.

I would go as far as to say, the ONLY way the Nuggets win the series is if AD goes for the Doubtle T and heads to the locker room early, like you suggested.

Or Coby Karl… That would be kinda awesome too. Damn.

i also feel bad for AD because he is a good guy from what people say.

but if AD is going to get ejected he may as well do the real honorable thing and make it a punch to Williams douchy face after another disgraceful flop, integrity in the game restored and it all happened because of a punch…who woulda thunk it.

AD getting ejected might even have the surprise effect of gaining a bit of respect from his players. Getting ejected will send a message to the players: “yeah, i’m with you guys.”

Heck, maybe even a technical would do just that.

Some guys were born to be coaches and some guys weren’t. The guys who weren’t never have great success in the NBA. Sure, at times they can be kind of successful given the right talent, but guys like Phil, Karl, Sloan and Brown were born to be coaches and thus, success follows them everywhere they go no matter what type of talent they have around them. I don’t care if AD is a nice guy, he needs to realize that he shouldn’t be coaching before some team hires him, even though that scenario is highly unlikely after this stint. But honestly, no matter how bad the coach is, at the end of the day, the players are playing the game and our guys are doing as bad of a job playing as AD is coaching and the sad thing is they CAN play better, AD can’t necessarily coach better.

… unbeknownst to the players, George Karl will walk out of the locker room, do his hockey-check of the assistants, and act as assistant coach from the bench, inspiring a win. [cue the sappy music]. Then JR and Karl will have a meaningful man hug, and the inspired Nugs will go on to win the championship.

Down one head coach already, you now want the Nuggets to be down two, AND spot the Jazz 2 points in an elimination game where we lost the last one at home by 3?

No thanks. AD is a neophyte and is trying his hardest, no need for him to make it even more difficult on his players. Disagree with me all you want, but losing yet another cog in the machine AND two points is the last thing the Nuggets need in an elimination game.

Adrian Dantley’s ears are getting higher and higher to the point that he’s starting to look like Jim Brown’s Fireball character from “The Running Man.”

Great movie reference.

Where is our own Bakersfield Butcher???

in the fanshots section, i can understand why dantley is about to have a nervous breakdown. we’re falling apart quick. its been a long season with a lot of adversity and its taking its toll on everyone.

allow himself to be fired. Take one for the team

AD gets thrown into the fire with virtually no warning (and no head coaching experience) with a squad that, to put it lightly, is largely a group of headcases and we respond by saying he should get himself ejected? So we should just spot the Jazz 2 techs and lose our replacement coach who still probably knows more than the other assistants around him? Who’d coach for the rest of the game, Chad Iske?

Give me a break. As JR Smith put it (amazingly), “Where would the Lakers be without Phil Jackson?”

And here everyone talks about not jawing at the refs. How about we have Dantley spend his time motivating his players to rotate and play defense better, share the ball, and try NOT to get himself ejected, while also working the officials actively?

Sheesh. Some of the posts on here are as mercurial and wishy-washy as our squad.

But I’d have loved to see Melo take a heavy fine earlier in the season and publicly call out the refs, complete with press conference and game footage if need be. Call it the Rasheed Wallace method – if you’re getting screwed on calls to begin with, what harm can it really do? Now it’s a story, and suddenly the spotlight and the pressure shifts to the officials – knowing their calls will be closely scrutinized by both the league and the media at large, the likelihood that they’ll try to get away with absolute murder with everyone watching goes way down.

Sure, you lose some $ and it probably leaves you prone to the quick T, but Melo draws the fastest T’s league as is, so what’s the downside?

He barely yells. Guy can’t even handle Andersen. What’s ip with that?

Oh snap. I wasn’t supposed to post that. :p
My bad.
Please ignore that pointless comment

he talks about how Isiah Thomas allegedly asked Pistons management to get rid of AD because Isiah didn’t think AD was a guy willing to sacrifice and play as a team.

I would like to see him make more of a ruckus. Yell at some players, stand court-side and yell at the refs on a bad call, things like that. What he is doing now isn’t working so a change is surely in order.

Go Nuggets!

If Karl can somehow manage to simply show up at the Pepsi center.

He can sit up in the club level if he needs to, but I think his sheer presence inspires an ass-whipping like no other with the shot of energy it would bring to the players. That’s inspiration. Of course, I know he can only do so much, but damn, that’d be awesome to witness.

Man I wish that could happen! C’mon coach we need ya!

And I know he’s going to get all of the blame which isn’t fair. To me it’s more about what coach Karl brought rather than what AD doesn’t – he doesn’t have the skill set to deal with this roster plain and simple.

substitute teacher- you hit the nail right on the head with this one. smith gets substituted for during a game and walks off the court. feinstein did a post about how smith should have gotten suspended or traded. that established the front office was not going to back up the coaching staff. by not extending karl’s contract before the season he was already the substitute teacher. your great players do not make great coaches. i agree with the general theory. the part about phil jackson being a tough and scrappy is flat out wrong. before bill walton phil jackson was the nba resident hippy dippy weatherman. adrian dantley being a jerk. flat out wrong. your sources confirmed he was ALOOF. how do you equate aloof with being a jerk? coach dantley is old school and a class act. where he comes from you do not complain to referees or talk back to the coaches. he was an all americacan and notre dame graduate. he won a gold medal in the olympics before pros in the nba played in the games. he was an nba scoring champion, all star and a hall of famer. i have my own personal theory for you feinstein. i call it the larry brown coaches the new york knicks theory. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO YOU ARE, IF THE PLAYERS DO NOT LISTEN AND COOPERATE, IF THE FRONT OFFICE AND OWNERSHIP DOES NOT BACK YOU UP, YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED. larry brown was head coach from the start of the season and was allowed to put his own system in place. adrian dantley was put into a bad situation in the 2nd half of the season. he knew there was no way he could impose his will on a team that did things their own way. let us review your big plan for winning a basketball game. start an argument that will never be won. stop the playing of the game. give the opponent a chance to score at the free throw line. get kicked out of the game. give the nba thousands of dollars. just exactly how that translates into points for the nuggets and stopping the jazz from scoring?

I never thought about the fact that AD probably still has a ton of pride from his playing days as a really great player. Andrew already discussed before how it is an assistant coach’s nature to be loose and forgiving with the players in order to keep their confidence up while dealing with a less sympathetic head coach, who can’t care about anyone’s feelings being hurt. AD has been in that role going all the way back to the Kiki days.

John Hollinger tweeted about an interesting exchange during game 4. He said that after a foul Dick Bavetta had gone over to the Nuggets bench, told the other assistants to shut up and declared “I’ll listen to him but not you” (referring to AD). That tells you right there why the Nuggets aren’t getting the benefit of the doubt in regards to whistles. Go check out johnhollinger on twitter if you want to read about it, but I thought it said a lot. AD is probably a very good assistant and while he never asked for this situation, he needs to do better. Just change something now. The path we are on is going nowhere