The End of an Era
With the Knicks season ending loss tonight, here hopefully ended an era of absolutely idiotic roster and cap decision and terrible basketball. With any luck at all, next year, the Knicks will have 2 or three great to good new players to go with the intriguing young core of Gallinari, Wilcox and Douglas. They may even be able to make Curry's expiring contract part of a sign and trade for a good player. It's also probably the last we'll see of David Lee as a Knick. He was one of the bright spots in a very dull era of Knick basketball. But, now that the dark days are over, we'll be covering them regularly -- as if they were a real team again. Because, it looks like they will be a real team again when the new season starts. Go Knicks!
posted by Kalel9 @ 7:23 PM
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I think D'Antoni is extremely overrated (I'm being kind). He's stubborn and is clueless about the role of defense, which is pathetic given the Holtzman and even Riley and Van Gundy tradition. I would tell LeBron and any other top FA to pick the coach.
I think they already did that.
Also, Van Gundy was a pretty bad coach.
Holzman was the only truly great coach the Knicks have ever had.
Riley was one of the progenitors of sluggo ball as Knicks coach, and that crap was terrible to watch.
Like Grunfeld, Van Gundy looks great because of what came after.
Yes, but he wasn't that good. Also, he quit on the team, which was not cool.
I read that Walsh wants to hire Thibideau, but on the radio broadcast of tonight's game, they said that D'Antoni doesn't want to add ACs.
Plus, according to Isola, Walsh supposedly wants to hire Chris Mullin as GM and is awaiting Dolan's approval.
We've known he wanted Chris Mullin in since last summer. I didn't know the thing about the AC's.
It's a little more speculative than I had recalled:
MULLING MULLIN: Walsh accompanied the team to Canada to get one final close-up look at his players and the support staff. There are rumblings that Walsh, concluding his second full season as Knicks president, will look to make a few changes to the organization. That's if Garden chairman James Dolan will allow him.
Walsh is happy with his basketball operations staff but he would also like to install former Golden State Warriors general manager Chris Mullin as the Knicks' GM. According to a source, Dolan has yet to sign off on the proposed move. There is also talk of the Knicks hiring a defensive coach. It has even been reported that the Knicks may take a run at Celtics assistant coach Tom Thibodeau, a former Knicks assistant under Jeff Van Gundy and Don Chaney.
When he was coaching the Suns three years ago, D'Antoni rejected the idea of adding Thibodeau to his staff when it was suggested to him by Phoenix GM Steve Kerr. Thibodeau eventually landed with the Celtics, who won the title that season. Historically, Walsh allows his coach to pick his staff but he may take a more active role this summer in light of the Knicks being one of the NBA's worst defensive teams during D'Antoni's two seasons.
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Come on LeBron James!!
* - The Knicks finished tied with Clippers for 8th worst record but win the tiebreaker over Clippers. So the Jazz will get 9th pick.
And with that, the Isiah era will fiiiiinally be at an end.
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