{"id":102214,"date":"2020-10-31T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/stephen-a-smith-gives-harsh-assessment-of-nets-mike-dantoni\/"},"modified":"2020-10-31T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:25:28","slug":"stephen-a-smith-gives-harsh-assessment-of-nets-mike-dantoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/stephen-a-smith-gives-harsh-assessment-of-nets-mike-dantoni\/","title":{"rendered":"#Stephen A. Smith gives harsh assessment of Nets’ Mike D’Antoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Stephen A. Smith gives harsh assessment of Nets’ Mike D’Antoni<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Which member of the Brooklyn Nets\u2019 coaching staff will Stephen A. Smith attack next?<\/p>\n

After slamming the hiring of first-time coach Steve Nash as \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d ESPN\u2019s gasbag described new Nets assistant coach Mike D\u2019Antoni as being unfit to be the head coach of a contender after making 10 playoff app<\/a>earances in the role in his career.<\/p>\n

D\u2019Antoni\u2019s four-year run in Houston ended with the Rockets\u2019 third conference semifinal loss in that time. In 2018, D\u2019Antoni led Houston to within one win of the NBA Finals \u2014 his third conference finals appearance \u2014 when his second-best player (Chris Paul) was forced to miss Game<\/a> 7 against a Warriors team considered one of the greatest in NBA history.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s right where he belongs,\u201d Smith said. \u201cHe\u2019s an assistant coach, particularly for Steve Nash. Now, if anybody should hire him as an assistant, it\u2019s Steve Nash. They had great success together in Phoenix, they won 65 percent of their games, they went to a couple of conference championships even though they never made it to the finals and clearly, that was when Mike D\u2019Antoni really made a name for himself revolutionizing the game of basketball on the offensive side of the ball because of what he was able to do with their offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Antoni, who coached Nash with the Suns (2004-08) and Lakers (2012-14), was \u201clucky to get that job\u201d with the Nets, according to Smith. D\u2019Antoni, who went 227-102 in Houston, was unable to agree with the Rockets on a contract extension.<\/p>\n

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Mike D\u2019Antoni and Stephen A. Smith<\/span>EPA, Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBecause here\u2019s the reality of the situation, you\u2019ve been a head coach \u2014 Phoenix, New York, LA, Houston \u2014 never got to an NBA Finals,\u201d Smith said. \u201cObviously, injuries and bad circumstances had a lot to with it. He got close, but never got there, right? And this man is a master of departing jobs right when he knows he\u2019s gonna get fired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is it was time for a new coach in Houston. Mike D\u2019Antoni was led to believe there were a lot of opportunities out there for him. The reality is there are people who are more deserving of these opportunities if indeed you want to win a championship. Mike D\u2019Antoni to me has proven that he can innovate. \u2026 His style of play can be very entertaining. There\u2019s no question about that. And if that is what matters to you, that is a priority, Mike D\u2019Antoni is your guy, whether it is as an assistant or as a head coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are trying to win, meaning win the [championship], no, he ain\u2019t the answer. \u2026 Mike D\u2019Antoni, an assistant in Brooklyn is cool as long as he is not passing over other dudes that have been starving for an opportunity \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Smith criticized the Nash hiring.<\/p>\n

\u201cLadies and gentlemen, there is no way around this. This is white privilege. This does not happen for a black man,\u201d Smith said. \u201cNo experience whatsoever? On any level as a coach? And you get the Brooklyn Nets job?\u201d<\/p>\n

Derek Fisher, Jason Kidd and Magic Johnson were all were named head coaches in the NBA without any previous coaching experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point about white privilege, tell me the black man that would happen for? No resume whatsoever as a coach, at all. And you get a job of this magnitude,\u201d Smith said the following day. \u201cI\u2019m not talking about Derek Fisher, with the sorry New York Knicks at the time. I\u2019m not talking about Jason Kidd, his first era when they were building the Brooklyn Nets squad, I\u2019m not talking about Doc Rivers in Orlando. I\u2019m not talking about those opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking about championship ready, and it would be a shock if you don\u2019t win 50 games and you\u2019re not contending for a crown. Black folks with no resume getting a job like that? I have been covering the NBA for 25 years \u2026 brothers do not get those opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

After being hired, Nash owned his situation but felt the notion of white privilege specifically didn\u2019t apply in this case but admitted it\u2019s a problem he wants to help remedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I did skip the line, frankly,\u201d Nash said. \u201cBut at the same time, leading an NBA team for almost two decades is pretty unique.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Stephen A. Smith gives harsh assessment of Nets’ Mike D’Antoni” Which member of the Brooklyn Nets\u2019 coaching staff will Stephen A. Smith attack next? After slamming the hiring of first-time coach Steve Nash as \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d ESPN\u2019s gasbag described new Nets assistant coach Mike D\u2019Antoni as being unfit to be the head coach of a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/mike-dantoni-nets-stephen-smith.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[77885,70487,72130,77942,67643,72170],"class_list":["post-102214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-31-20","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-houston-rockets","tag-mike-dantoni","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-steve-nash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}