Capn'O wrote:Knicksfan1992 wrote:My guess with how this is going is that the Knicks are first reaching out to any coaches around the league that interest them....
They clearly value experience in this hire and obviously active coaches have some experience.
Once that well runs dry then they'll move to either their targets who are currently unemployed, in college, or are assistants who generally get permission to interview.
Which makes sense to me since they are the only available job... It's not like these assistants or unemployed folk are jumping anywhere else lol
They might have set up other talks concurrently but we're just not hearing about the stuff that they're doing with coaches who aren't under contract. This management group doesn't seem to like talking directly to the fanbase. They're more interested in throwing nuggets out there to generate interest while they operate in the background.
I guess I'm not really sure how this is embarrassing or showing of "no plan" as some say.
The Knicks have all the leverage in the market. Again we're the only job available if you are currently trying to be a HC in the NBA.
Of course if they have interest in other Head Coaches you need to reach out to them first because you need permission to interview them.
Like you said, they very well could have a list of assistants, unemployed, college coaches, etc. but they don't have to worry about them at the moment because there's quite literally no where else for them to go.
Also if people are worried about optics or if they're going to piss off other candidates, then I would counter by saying we have a guy at the top who has dealt with plenty of conflicts being an agent for decades. Also if a head coach really doesn't want to come here because they weren't interviewed first then they probably weren't the right candidate anyway lol
