March 8, 2008
Mike D'Antoni Says...
...the Suns are better with Shaq than without.
All evidence to the contrary. D'Antoni's thesis:
"I don't think there's any doubt," D'Antoni said. "Not play-wise, but on paper and what we see. We can be a better team than we could ever be with the little guys running all over the place. We may not be as pretty, but we're going to be much more efficient."
It's not the lack of "pretty" that people are citing when panning this trade, coach. It's the, um, "losing".