The New Affability

All of our teams have hired new coaches in the past 6 or 7 months, and all of the new guys are more affable than their predecessors.  This isn't to say, the Girardi, McAdoo, AV and Horny were brusque, but any means, but these new guys are far more hale and well met.  Of course none of their pleasantness matters if they can't coach or win, but it's very refreshing.  And the only one among the new bread to be doing his thing right now is Boone, and his Yanks are making hitory most nights.

I was absolutely against the Fizdale hire, and felt (without doing enough research) that he was an over the transom flavor of the week kind of hire.  Btw, I was really surprised Hornacek wasn't a better fit here, but I actually think the whole triangle thing kind of messed him up, and he should have handled KP and Willy better. He was supposed to be a guard whisperer, but no evidence showed up here. Anyway, Fisdale has now spoken to KP and KP tweeted that he's excited.  So Fiz really has hit the ground running, and could be the perfect guy.

On the Giants side, things are running smoothly again, and after participating in a great draft, Shurmur has run a rookie mini camp and three OTA's.  Landon Collins whom Shurmur had lightly upbraded when addressing the Ereck Flowers issue, said today he was loving the new staff because there's no bullshit.  That worked out well. Shurmur was apparently a driving force behind the Barkley pick and as an established QB whisperer, the living repudiation of the "Giants have to take a QB at 2 Crowd."

Quinn just got hired today, but will head off to the NHL combine which starts on May 27. I don't remember AV attending combines, and Torts might have been banned from them or something. It will be interesting to see what kind of voice Quinn has in the draft, and probably fun to see if he runs the traditional post draft prospect camp.  Generally, the head coaches haven't but Quinn has such a reputation for being hands on that I think he might.

Anyway, things are suddenly fresher with the new guys, and though the Yanks were first to pay lip service to the concept of a better communicator, the Rangers and Knicks did as well. And all four teams seem to have gotten one.