Knicks Culture?
That said, for not much trouble, they're really bad right now. Mills hired himself to replace Phil Jackson last year, then hired Perry to be the GM. They managed to move Melo, which was long overdue, but then gave away Hernangomez, and pulled a Zeke, but trading for busted lottery pick Mudiay. At least they didn't give away any ones, which was the metier of most of the past administrations.
Chewing on what seemed like a suboptimal result of an exhaustive and exhausting public coaching search won't help anyone, so the big question here is: is David Fizdale the kind of coach who can install a defenive mindset and a modern offense? Budenholzer's love of the triangle might have DQ'd him. Fizdale has no such connection to and hopefully doesn't eschew the three ball, like Phil Jackson did.
Fizdale is said to be School of Riley/Spoelstra and is definitely from the San Diego U Toreros which has been a coaching cradle for unimpressive guys like Bernie Bickerstaff and Mike Brown. So he's not as over the transom as he seems at first blush. If he can instill the Riley Era defensive orientation to the Knicks, he'll have half the battle won. Now, if we can only get the players to run Riley's Showtime Offense, it could be a great brand of basketball.
We'll have to see. But it is a pretty blank canvas, has all it's picks and can make cap room whenever necessary. We'll see how this goes, because this would be a great situation for a great coach.
posted by Kalel9 @ 10:26 AM
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This is hopeful:
https://t.co/gJoB5YPzBg?amp=1
Before the dispute with Gasol, Fizdale was considered someone who had great relationships with players. Two league sources said many current and former Grizzlies players enjoyed playing for Fizdale and liked him personally.
“He gets along great with players,” one NBA source said. “He’s a good developmental guy and is good at working with the players. He comes from Miami, where they put an emphasis on that. He’s still unproven as far as X’s and O’s. But he’s good with players.”
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Warriors coach Steve Kerr echoed those sentiments.
“David Fizdale is one of the best coaches in the league,” he said. “He’s a brilliant guy. He’s got an edge to him.”
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“I’m still writing down notes as we speak of different things that I would do differently,” Fizdale said on the podcast. “The thing I really regret is I went in there trying to force-feed the leadership, force-feed this is who I want you to be, force-feed where I see gaps in the culture and that I think we should fill these gaps with this, and I didn’t let that develop organically.
I'm rooting for him, but we'll have to see. It would be great if he really maxed this opportunity.
“He’s always searching on how you can get better,’’ Perry said. “You think every coach searches, but he’s always searching for that information. We can play this way, but if it doesn’t work, we can make those adjustments. How can we get better, even if it’s marginally better, even if it’s one step, what does that look like?’’
One factor in Jeff Hornacek’s dismissal was his inability to make enough in-game adjustments. Hornacek rarely admitted to a coaching miscue. Perry said Fizdale will.
“The biggest asset is when he makes a mistake, he owns up to the mistake,’’ Perry said. “You will see it a number of times in his press conferences. When something happens during a game that was his fault, he will say it’s his fault and he’ll have to get better. That’s unusual for coaches. You’ll find out he’s a tremendous communicator and will not run from problems.’’
Where did you see this? And are they ever gonna introduce this guy?
Sorry
https://t.co/gJoB5YPzBg?amp=1
I think the article says as early as Tuesday.
Knicks Hall of Famer Bernard King to SiriusXM NBA Radio on Frank Ntilikina: "I think ultimately you're going to see a very dynamic player, and he's going to become one of the best point guards in the league long term."
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