Official Knicks Coaching Search Thread pt. 2 (update: poll added 6/18/25)

[magee]

Micah Nori is ready to be a Head Coach. I don't see his ties with KAT from Minnesota keeping KAT with the Knicks. They'll explore trading him.

[TheGreenArrow]

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[Guano]

I’m excited about them interviewing Nori. Like I’ve said before I’d rather a hot shot assistant with mike brown as lead assistant than either brown or Jenkins has head coach.

Idk why but I'm here too.

Maybe its cause the unknown has more excitement and is easier to believe it will work out than a proven coach who has failed in the past. It "feels" more risky but scared money doesn't make money.

Mystery boxes are a lot more fun. Can’t really nitpick over them cuz it’s all upside and no downside. plus it helps that it just feels like a lot of the top crop of coaches in the nba now that helped put teams over the top were assistants or former g league guys. Outside of the bucks with bud and the lakers fake bubble championship usually head coaching retreads fail. The assistant route also gives me hope they’ve got some new innovative ideas that another head coach might not have.

I agree and am fully on board with this.

But it does feel like the downside is much greater with that mystery box. And with the path to the finals being open for us right now taking a risk might be extremely foolish.

[Wildcat]

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Watching KAT set a screen is painful.

[KnixinSix]

The Nori interview already happened and was happening in real time today, the sources is coming from his agent. If it was from the Knicks side this would have leaked before he was interviewed. Shams didn’t even break the Brown and Jenkins interview story until after beat reporters for the team had already wrote about it.

Shams is a Sham when it comes to Knicks news. He isnt given priority being associated with Klutch.

KP 100% gets nuggets here and there.

[KnixinSix]

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Watching KAT set a screen is painful.

This is another indicator Rose is very commited to keeping KAT moving forward.

[Jalen Bluntson]

I’m excited about them interviewing Nori. Like I’ve said before I’d rather a hot shot assistant with mike brown as lead assistant than either brown or Jenkins has head coach.

Idk why but I'm here too.

Maybe its cause the unknown has more excitement and is easier to believe it will work out than a proven coach who has failed in the past. It "feels" more risky but scared money doesn't make money.

Mystery boxes are a lot more fun. Can’t really nitpick over them cuz it’s all upside and no downside. plus it helps that it just feels like a lot of the top crop of coaches in the nba now that helped put teams over the top were assistants or former g league guys. Outside of the bucks with bud and the lakers fake bubble championship usually head coaching retreads fail. The assistant route also gives me hope they’ve got some new innovative ideas that another head coach might not have.

It's obviously a double edged sword. Choose an assistant and he fails? Should have taken Brown/Jenkins etc. Choose one of Brown/Jenkins etc and it fails? The circular argument will continue either way.

Choose the best possible candidate that can maximize what we have now. That's what we need. Whoever that is. Retread vs fresh face isn't the bottom line. Who is going to help THIS team get to the finals and win. Asst coaches don't get much credit/blame for being on a winning/losing team led by another HC. HC gets all the blame for losing no matter who the asst was.

We need someone who can put the entire roster in the best position to succeed. One who can realize the strengths and weaknesses and make them fit together. One who understands the way the game is played today. One who cares about players health. Both physical AND mental. One who can make in game adjustments. One who has a feel for what's working vs what they want to work that clearly isn't.

We need the anti Thibs. IDC if it's Brown or Nori or whoever. Which one can make this work is what we need. We were two games away from the finals. We don't need to overhaul the team and rebuild. We need to maximize the top end talent we do have and have options off the bench that can help get the job done. It takes more than 7 players to win a title.

[Red Vines]

Safe to say Nori is the anti-Thibs as far as team culture, communication, relationships with players, everyone having a voice, but who knows if he's a championship coach. I would have to know who he could get as assistants. Don't want another "every player loves him" Fizdale situation.

[Gravy]

So they are interviewing an ex coach of KAT, maybe he made the suggestion. We can also go back and see how he used KAT in the games Finch was out.

Another possible nugget of how Rose is committed to keeping KAT and making it work.

Is turning this into a KAT team a good thing?

[KnixinSix]

it's no secret that leon rose has wanted kat since he got here. but that's different than reporting a transaction on the horizon. i'm saying cp said it was about to happen right before it did and no one (including me) thought randle was going anywhere. gotta give credit where it's due. seems like being a company man has paid off

He 100% has legit sources. I had been speculating on the deep Knick connections with KAT for months up until that point and the precarious financial position Minny was in with the upcoming CBA and connected the dots . I was saying for months a KAT trade was the trade that made the most sense. When KP mentioned it and HOW he spoke about it, you could tell he knew it was definitely getting set up behind the scenes. I mentioned it at the time too....

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Thats it right there. No use arguing with Melo though ....he is one of them dudes no amount of reasoning or logic changes his mind when he has convinced himself of something

[rajajackal]

Nah that was shams who kept saying for years the Knicks want KAT.

it's no secret that leon rose has wanted kat since he got here. but that's different than reporting a transaction on the horizon. i'm saying cp said it was about to happen right before it did and no one (including me) thought randle was going anywhere. gotta give credit where it's due. seems like being a company man has paid off

Post that Watch it be “Knicks have interest in KAT”

nah i ain't doing the work i'm going to the beach

[KnixinSix]

So they are interviewing an ex coach of KAT, maybe he made the suggestion. We can also go back and see how he used KAT in the games Finch was out.

Another possible nugget of how Rose is committed to keeping KAT and making it work.

Is turning this into a KAT team a good thing?

Brunson is the alpha and KAT is the #2. They want to optimize roster construction around those 2.

-Thats why there were reports That Jaron Jackson junior would be an absolute dream pairing with KAT.Because he is the perfect compliment to KAT in the front court.

-Kessler/Jabari make a ton of sense too.

-Does a possible Giannis type deal sway that? Its Giannis so with that gravity maybe...but it'd be the last option with OG+ or a Mikal, Hart, Robinson + package being the preferred pieces.

[KnixinSix]

Safe to say Nori is the anti-Thibs as far as team culture, communication, relationships with players, everyone having a voice, but who knows if he's a championship coach. I would have to know who he could get as assistants. Don't want another "every player loves him" Fizdale situation.

Nori with Brown as the associate HC?

[Jalen Bluntson]

Safe to say Nori is the anti-Thibs as far as team culture, communication, relationships with players, everyone having a voice, but who knows if he's a championship coach. I would have to know who he could get as assistants. Don't want another "every player loves him" Fizdale situation.

Safe to say? Based on what? I know nothing at all about him other than his quick trigger phrasing of a situation.

[jvsimonetti0514]

Idk why but I'm here too.

Maybe its cause the unknown has more excitement and is easier to believe it will work out than a proven coach who has failed in the past. It "feels" more risky but scared money doesn't make money.

Mystery boxes are a lot more fun. Can’t really nitpick over them cuz it’s all upside and no downside. plus it helps that it just feels like a lot of the top crop of coaches in the nba now that helped put teams over the top were assistants or former g league guys. Outside of the bucks with bud and the lakers fake bubble championship usually head coaching retreads fail. The assistant route also gives me hope they’ve got some new innovative ideas that another head coach might not have.

I agree and am fully on board with this.

But it does feel like the downside is much greater with that mystery box. And with the path to the finals being open for us right now taking a risk might be extremely foolish.

Oh yeah. I meant that we wouldn’t know what Nori’s downsides are yet. I’m sure we’ll get some hints about his coaching philosophy eventually but it be good vibes until game 1.

[WargamesX]

So they are interviewing an ex coach of KAT, maybe he made the suggestion. We can also go back and see how he used KAT in the games Finch was out.

Another possible nugget of how Rose is committed to keeping KAT and making it work.

Is turning this into a KAT team a good thing?

No but they are deadset on doing it….

[Gravy]

Another possible nugget of how Rose is committed to keeping KAT and making it work.

Is turning this into a KAT team a good thing?

No but they are deadset on doing it….

Everybody wants an anti-Thibs team but the negative of that sounds like soft, lackadaisical players ok with losing; i.e., the Cavs

[The KnicksFix]

Micah Nori is not a bad coach
He was the architect of many of the offensive schemes for Minnesota but I don’t know if he’s THE COACH I want

[FrozenEnvelope]

Micah Nori is not a bad coach
He was the architect of many of the offensive schemes for Minnesota but I don’t know if he’s THE COACH I want

Nori as the Knicks coach after losing to Charlotte making it 3 losses in a row..."What do you also call a Hornet? A wanna bee HAHAHAHAHAHHHHH"

I think we'd all get sick and fed up with all the joking and quotes real quick.

[WargamesX]

https://www.minnpost.com/sports/2022/02/the-balloon-artist-how-wolves-assistant-coach-micah-nori-became-chris-finchs-most-trusted-confidante/

"This is how Finch describes Nori’s resume with the Wolves: “As lead assistant he kind of has oversight on everything. But he drills down on offensive and defensive special situations; end of quarter management, end of game management, also substitutions, that kind of stuff. He and Pablo (Prigioni) share the offensive responsibilities as a 1-2 combo. Sometimes one is working on our concepts and our flow and the other one is working on our set plays, and they go back and forth. He does about a half-dozen scouts on teams where he is already super familiar with the personnel. And he has oversight over the video room, just because we have lot of young people there, and he’s been around the league for so long and has a great feel for best practices and how to develop a young crew.”

Interesting stuff. He might not be a HC but he does a lot of HC things for the wolves.