greenhughes wrote:prophet_of_rage wrote:it's a bit of both. Phil Jackson has played some gamesmanship to try to deflect blame. The scouting report was a nice bit of fan bait. Basically said all the players were poor defenders. And it covered over the fact that Phil has said numerous times that to teach the triangle it takes a lot of time working on offence and you don't have as much time to practice defence. He skated by not getting his man in Steve Kerr and had to overpay to keep Carmelo or lose the most valuable building block going forward. Then came the talk of the vaunted triangle offence itself and how it failed elsewhere because nobody adopted it purely.
The fans bought that Jackson meant fundamental change and that his arrival meant free agents by the boatload would be coming. So far while he rid us of CAA all he's done is bring in his old gang to replace them and his former players weren't taking any paycuts to come.
We did rail against the prediction that the Knicks would only win 31 games this year. Now we have half the posting fanbase clamouring for a tank.
He did not overpay Carmelo. Stop that.
Remember this was his initial play in trying to resign Anthony
[url]phil-jackson-hopes-carmelo-remains-true-to-his-word-that-hed-take-less[/url]
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/23/phil-jackson-wants-carmelo-anthony-to-take-less-money-to-re-sign-with-knicks/
and then in July it became http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/source-knicks-meet-carmelo-anthony-article-1.1853978
Phil did not pay what he wanted to pay for Melo. He overpaid. Five years at max money for a 30+ player. Sorry, Melo gave up his increase in the second year to max it $5 million under the max through the course of the deal. It is what it is.
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