HEZI wrote:JayTWill wrote:HEZI wrote:
What is your goal? What improvement are you talking about? If the roster isn’t good enough to win a chip then no coach is getting it to win one so what improvement are you even talking about? You just want to change the coach for the sake of making a change but the expectations of the team remain the same. I don’t see what improvements a coach will make that will realistically bring this roster closer to winning a title.
As far as what roster changes need to be made, that’s on the front office and Leon. The same way he was able to pull moves like getting Brunson, getting IHart, getting Donte, getting OG, getting Mikal, getting KAT, it’s up to him to figure that out. Did you see Hartenstein becoming who he became when we signed him? Donte? Did you expect us to get OG? KAT? He’s very capable of making big changes. Did he make it tougher on himself by capping us out and trading almost all of our draft assets? Yes he did, but he put us in that position and now it’s his job to fix it. I don’t have the solution just like you don’t have a coaching solution but your coaching change still leaves us with a roster that isn’t good enough and what I’m saying is the roster will have to be reconstructed whether you make the coaching change or not.
Just because I don't believe this team will win a championship doesn't mean this team can't be better. The way the team has been performing it feels like it is much closer to an average team than it is a championship team. Part of that is the roster. Part of that is the coaching but you are unwilling to question the coaching for some reason.
Brunson, iHart and DDV cost more than what the Knicks have to offer this year. OG was traded for young players with higher trade value than the Knicks current young players that are glued to the bench. KAT and Mikal are part of the flawed roster created this off-season that you place all the blame on the players for. Somehow you are critical of Mikal for being a "mid" role player and then use that as one of the front office's accomplishments when I asked you how to fix the roster.
I have wanted to move on from Thibs prior to this season. Kenny Atkinson was my choice last off-season. His journey reminded me of Kerr's journey into head coaching from the guys he learned under. Johnnie Bryant is a guy I would not mind the Knicks interviewing with his experience in player development to his time with the Knicks and learning under Quin Snyder, Thibs and Atkinson. What has Thibs done this year with this roster that makes him so indispensable in your eyes other than not being Fizdale or having a better record than some of the terrible records Knicks teams have had over the previous couple decades?
How has the team been performing? They are 3rd in the East and have been top 5 or so in the league for a while. Have had some recent struggles because Brunson is injured and team lacks depth anyway. Atkinson just lost 4 straight with his team healthy and had his team playing zone while the Suns just shot open 3 after open 3 last night. He’s overrated and needs high end talent to win. He walked into the ideal situation where the team was already good, finally got healthy and added more depth. They were going to improve with or without him. He’s not making the Knicks better. He’s not making KAT a better defender, he’s not giving Mikal handles and fixing his broken jump shot, he’s not fixing the weaknesses of this roster. So how are you making the team better again?
Last game I saw a fatigued team that is struggling without Brunson to create offense. They performed poorly on both ends of the court. Thibs solution as always was to shorten the rotation and rely on his most trusted players more. It failed. If the team is struggling with ball handling and offense in the half court why not see if Kolek can give you a spark? If the team isn't bringing the energy and effort defensively why not try Wright or Beauchamp for some minutes? Because Thibs has decided they are not good enough for minutes this year?
They just lost to a team that gave 33 minutes as a starter to Jeffries, a guy that was glued to the Knicks bench for periods of the last 2 seasons. A guy that the Knicks paid cash and draft assets to dump on Charlotte this off-season. He scored more than the entire Knicks' bench combined and equaled the amount of points in 1 game that he had in his entire time under Thibs. He isn't anything special but he played with more energy than our guys.
They scored 99 points in the first game against the Hornets with Brunson healthy and squeaked out a 1 point victory. Thibs ran a shortened rotation with the starters playing heavy minutes.
They won by 24 points in the second game against the Hornets missing Ball and Miles Bridges and Thibs ran a shortened rotation once again with Hart, KAT and OG playing 38-40 minutes and Mikal playing the first 47 minutes of the game. I'm assuming the players AND the coach could have improved on some things done in those games.
Since there is nothing Thibs can improve on what did Thibs do well in the last game in your eyes?
RIP mags
