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seren wrote:Kidd has a lot of baggage. I don’t get the intrigue other than he is a CAA client I suppose and probably Dolan like him. While I am happy Thibs is gone, I can’t shake the feeling this is all coming from Dolan.
Capn'O wrote:god shammgod wrote:TheGreenArrow wrote:
That’s the tsunami offer??!!!!!!
Fire Leon please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t have 50mil just taking space up on the e cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’ll have 0 avenues to Improve the roster!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a tsunami is a wave that destroys everything including our team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's something so much less intense when this is coming from a guy with a huge pile of coke in front of him.
god shammgod wrote:TheGreenArrow wrote:Capn'O wrote:
That would basically mean Dame comes back.
That’s the tsunami offer??!!!!!!
Fire Leon please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t have 50mil just taking space up on the e cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’ll have 0 avenues to Improve the roster!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a tsunami is a wave that destroys everything including our team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!! KnixinSix wrote:HEZI wrote:GONYK wrote:Just something to consider:
If we haven't formally requested Kidd and thus may be negotiating on him, the same can be true about Udoka or Finch or whoever.
The reporting around this must be read very carefully, because doors that are reported to be anticipated to be closed are not the same as them actually being closed.
It is interesting that Bryant's name never seems to be coming up though.
If Bryant was the guy he would have been hired already. He might be a fall back option but he’s not the plan A or B
Exactly. And further....
if Dallas unequivocally was keeping Kidd they would have shut this thing down before the Windhorst report.
Kidd also has already strongly hinted he is interested in the Knick job. You don't make that public unless you are ready to leave your current job.
god shammgod wrote:the knicks couldn't say no to giannis but it really would take a lot of work to make it all fit no matter who they trade. luckily it aint happening. i'm not even really confident they can get kidd. i think we'll end up with coach bud or some vet coach nobody expects.
god shammgod wrote:is there somewhere i can apply for a pass to bring up randle in any thread i want for just a few days ? lol
god shammgod wrote:is there somewhere i can apply for a pass to bring up randle in any thread i want for just a few days ? lol
Capn'O wrote:god shammgod wrote:the knicks couldn't say no to giannis but it really would take a lot of work to make it all fit no matter who they trade. luckily it aint happening. i'm not even really confident they can get kidd. i think we'll end up with coach bud or some vet coach nobody expects.
I was just thinking it would be Bud this morning.
sol537 wrote:Maybe we get Kidd while having to toss two 2nd rounders to Dallas.
Then Giannis asks out and lists NY as one of his preferred destinations. We work a 3-way or 4-way trade where we send KAT (to PHX or NOP or ORL?) and Mikal (to MEM? to SAS? to DET?) to other teams so MIL gets loads of young players and draft picks in return and we are left with a big-three of Giannis, JB, and OG.
I wouldn't put it past Leon/WWW to orchestrate such a scenario.
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Capn'O wrote:3toheadmelo wrote:Capn'O wrote:
That's usually how firings work. You fire a guy or gal because they're no longer working for whatever reason. Then you search for the new guy or gal. Initiating a hiring process literally is the plan.
It sounds like in this case there was a process to gain full input as to whether Thibs was still working out. You clearly don't like the results of that process but this isn't some unusual thing like firing a coach of a playoff team right before the playoffs, which two teams did this year. That was wild.
It’s not just me though. It’s around the league that feels the same way.Among the first reactions I heard via representatives from rival teams — once they digested the shock — was the oft-repeated notion that the Knicks have to have a replacement lined up if they were prepared to dump the coach who brought them their first sustained success of the 21st century.
All initial indications, however, suggested that the Knicks do not have a locked-in succession plan.
Which only added to the shock.
That's how some teams operate but that's not how the Knicks have ever operated. Any time we've had a coaching vacancy we've done a search, including when we hired Thibodeau. This is particularly the case because it sounds like the Knicks weren't certain about firing him until they conducted player interviews, meaning they just recently made the determination vs. having benchmarks he had to reach to stay. We weren't conducting a search in the background while he was still coach - which is actually respectful - and we have the whole summer to do it. There are actually a ton of guys out there right now and they're looking into who could become available as well.
Nothing really smells off about the process. It's the firing of Thibs itself that people don't like.
god shammgod wrote:mitch/huk
giannis/
og/wright
duece/shamet
brunson/dame
lol
TheGreenArrow wrote:?s=46&t=W09F6FrMDfp5_y1gKYgF1g
sol537 wrote:Maybe we get Kidd while having to toss two 2nd rounders to Dallas.
Then Giannis asks out and lists NY as one of his preferred destinations. We work a 3-way or 4-way trade where we send KAT (to PHX or NOP or ORL?) and Mikal (to MEM? to SAS? to DET?) to other teams so MIL gets loads of young players and draft picks in return and we are left with a big-three of Giannis, JB, and OG.
I wouldn't put it past Leon/WWW to orchestrate such a scenario.