More on Fizdale

Was torn about actually adding a picture of Fizdale since the odds of his making a difference or lasting very long are slim at best.  I get the feeling that the Mills/Perry team is going to be big talk, but no big moves.  And by big moves, I'm not talking about bringing in LeBron, I meant hiring Jerry Stackhouse or Jay Larranaga or a strong coach like Mike Budenholzer.  At the outset of their expansive coaching hunt, the Knicks expressed the notion that the new coach would have to realize he was part of a team with Mills and Perry.  I'm wondering if Fiz is the only guy who was willing to do that.  Budenholzer has already proven more than Mills and Perry, so I could see him bridling at the notion. But here's where we are, perhaps limited by the Mills/Perry brand.

As for Fizdale, I guess the thinking is that he's a Spoelstra disciple, and as such, also a disciple of old man Riley.  I prefer the cleaner connections and traceable coaching lines of Stack to the Dean, Budenholzer to Pop, and Larranaga to his Pop and Brad Stevens.  We'll see how this works out.

I think it's important that Fizdale get a legitimate basketball guru on his staff. Whether that comes in the form of an old college coach, or an old assistant -- it must not come in the form of Mike Woodson.

When Woodson originally came back to the Knicks is was to help with Mike D'Antoni's D.  Instead, he took Mike's job, and though the Knicks playing ISO Melo ball won 53 games, they got demolished in the playoffs, because they still wouldn't play D, which was supposed to be Woodson's strong suit.  Also, Woodson loves that atavictic ISO Ball and the Knicks also paid lip service to the idea of being modern.

They say Fizdale is going to Latvia to see Kristaps. I guess that's a start.