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» Sunday, March 31 2013

 

» Sunday, March 24 2013

Mike D’Antoni had plenty to say in his postgame press conference, but stayed away from a pointed question where the response would have clearly been to blame Bryant for the team’s late-game staleness offensively. The question was something to the effect of, what did he attribute to the ball sticking on offensive possessions late in that fourth quarter. You can see D’Antoni’s response here, and it’s pretty hilarious. “Oh, I don’t know, that’s a good question,” D’Antoni said, extremely sarcastically. “I wish I knew.” NBCSports.com

 

» Saturday, March 23 2013

In a season in which the Los Angeles Lakers have pushed the reset button seemingly a half-dozen times already, Friday's 103-100 loss to the Washington Wizards left coach Mike D'Antoni sounding like he'd prefer to reach for the off switch at this point. "This is a good team that just for whatever reason can't collectively mentally get stimulated to [play hard] every time," D'Antoni said after the Lakers wasted an 18-point first-half lead. "I told them today, we put our hands in [the huddle], and you guys have probably seen it, we say, 'Championship,' and go out [on the floor]. That's laughable. Championship? You got to be kidding me. Nobody understands the importance of every possession offensively and defensively. Every time they got to come out with some kind of determination to be a good basketball team, and [until] then, we're just, we're fooling ourselves. Right now, that's what we're doing. We're just making a 'sham-mockery' out of it." ESPN.com

"There's no explanation for it," D'Antoni said. "I can't explain it, but every time we get up 16 [points], it's like, 'Well, we're really good and we don't have to play hard,' and we start messing with the game. You start messing with not moving the ball. You start messing with, 'I'm just going to go one-on-one every time.' You start messing with the basketball gods, and they get you. ESPN.com

 

» Friday, March 22 2013

Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni had toyed with the idea of bringing Gasol off the bench as he rounds himself back into shape after being out since Feb. 5 with a torn plantar fascia in his right foot but said after shootaround Friday that the four-time All-Star would play with the first unit. "The reason being he'll warm up. He feels better when he gets warmed up and gets going instead of sitting over there for about 10-20 minutes and then playing," D'Antoni said. "He's more comfortable that way, and that's what we're going to end up anyway, so we might as well go ahead." ESPN.com

 

» Tuesday, March 19 2013

After his team scored a season-low 76 points and was outscored 28-10 in the fourth quarter, Mike D'Antoni said it just about every way you can say it: "I think we ran out of gas. … [The Suns] had more athleticism, more energy and more legs than we did. I think we were tired; we just kind of got stuck in mud." And yet, D'Antoni left four healthy players on his bench until garbage time Monday, subbing them in with less than three minutes remaining and the Lakers trailing by 17 in their eventual 99-76 loss to the Phoenix Suns. The coach, in essence, played just seven players for the second game in as many days and saw no problem in doing so. "It means I got seven guys that I'm really confident with and I'm not going to take out," D'Antoni said afterward. ESPN.com

D'Antoni was defiant about his decision to keep his rotation the way it is. "We're down eight [points in the fourth quarter], what do you want me to do? Take Nash out because he's going to miss the next 3?" D'Antoni said. "I don't know he's going to miss the next 3. Take Dwight out? What are you going to do? That's hindsight, and most people on the other side are real good at it and they're pretty clear, but it's hypotheticals that mean absolutely nothing." D'Antoni said the fact that he didn't consider doling out some minutes to those other players "means that they're not playing well enough to play." ESPN.com

 

» Monday, March 18 2013

 

» Saturday, March 16 2013

The Lakers' 99-93 victory Friday over the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse featured all the elements that make teamwork tick. Dwight Howard overcame early foul trouble en route to 20 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks. Metta World Peace both scored (19 points) and defended, holding David West to 4-of-13 shooting. Reserves Antawn Jamison (18 points) and Steve Blake (17 points) made big shot after big shot. Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni called it "a big win for us." Others took it a step further. "It was our best win of the season," World Peace said. Los Angeles Daily News

 

» Tuesday, March 12 2013

 

» Saturday, March 9 2013

 

» Monday, March 4 2013

 

» Tuesday, February 26 2013

 

» Thursday, February 21 2013

Say what you want about D'Antoni, but at least he has a way of saying things that are brutally honest sometimes ... "If he goes one-on-one and tries to play an 'And-1' kind of game, then he is very normal or bad," Mike D'Antoni said, describing Steve Nash on Wednesday. The coach wasn't taking a dig at his point guard. He was stating what he believes to be fact. But he praised Nash in the next breath. "I don't think he's lost anything ... I know it's easy to say he's 39 and whatever; I don't see it. I just think we haven't played well and it's hurt his game." Sulia

 

» Tuesday, February 19 2013

 

» Monday, February 18 2013

 

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