Knicks to Hire Mike Brown as Next Head Coach

[rajajackal]

Wrong. We all know you hate Leon. Firing Thibs was correcting the original mistake of hiring him to begin with.

hiring thibs was not a mistake. thibs was our franchise superstar until we got jalen brunson. he just outlived his purpose and it was time to move on

I think he deserved one more year with a beefed up bench and a severely weakened Eastern Conference. This was all about Leon taking control of the organization.

I would add that the younger players probably had a better shot at getting minutes under Thibs than Brown because at least Thibs was invested in their development having drafted them and personally worked with them on their development.

Brown, on the other hand, has no such connection with any of these players, including the ones we drafted a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, where will the minutes for these rookies and sophomores come from with 11 vets we will have on the roster?

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

[Thepaintismine]

Call it a feeling but I dink Mr. Browns got ice in his veins. Lookin foward to some offensive ingeniousness (mayB thru the assistant and Brown does the D. Cause we will be needing D.)

[BKlutch]

Wrong. We all know you hate Leon. Firing Thibs was correcting the original mistake of hiring him to begin with.

Nah, I’m right and you need to go to bed!!!!

No.... I'm right and you smell like poop!!

Ageism! Not all 90 year olds wear a depends!

[stuporman]

Knicks fans when they see that Brown has Hart in the starting line up opening game

[Jalen Bluntson]

Power corrupts everything. Leon didn’t like Thibs freezing him out of the decision making process when it came to lineups and rotations. Leon must’ve been reading all of the suck-ass comments around here about how great he is instead of laying the blame at his feet for the lousy bench he gave Thibs.

Mark my words, if we’re lucky enough to get to the finals this coming season, people here will kiss Rose’s and Brown’s asses even though the real reasons will be (1) the improved bench, and (2) the weakened Eastern Conference due to Achilles injuries to major stars on competing teams.

Wrong. We all know you hate Leon. Firing Thibs was correcting the original mistake of hiring him to begin with.

hiring thibs was not a mistake. thibs was our franchise superstar until we got jalen brunson. he just outlived his purpose and it was time to move on

Shh. Wingo doesn't know that. I'm winning an argument over here and you wanna bring facts into it!! That's not how any of this works!!

[gavran]

Nah, I’m right and you need to go to bed!!!!

No.... I'm right and you smell like poop!!

Ageism! Not all 90 year olds wear a depends!

That's why he smells like poo-poo.

[Jalen Bluntson]

Nah, I’m right and you need to go to bed!!!!

No.... I'm right and you smell like poop!!

Ageism! Not all 90 year olds wear a depends!

That's the problem! He forgets to put his on!

[WaltFrazier]

hiring thibs was not a mistake. thibs was our franchise superstar until we got jalen brunson. he just outlived his purpose and it was time to move on

I think he deserved one more year with a beefed up bench and a severely weakened Eastern Conference. This was all about Leon taking control of the organization.

I would add that the younger players probably had a better shot at getting minutes under Thibs than Brown because at least Thibs was invested in their development having drafted them and personally worked with them on their development.

Brown, on the other hand, has no such connection with any of these players, including the ones we drafted a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, where will the minutes for these rookies and sophomores come from with 11 vets we will have on the roster?

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

And with the CBA and aprons etc, NBA windows to win are shorter now. There wasn't time to give Thibs another year, unfortunately.

[Jalen Bluntson]

hiring thibs was not a mistake. thibs was our franchise superstar until we got jalen brunson. he just outlived his purpose and it was time to move on

I think he deserved one more year with a beefed up bench and a severely weakened Eastern Conference. This was all about Leon taking control of the organization.

I would add that the younger players probably had a better shot at getting minutes under Thibs than Brown because at least Thibs was invested in their development having drafted them and personally worked with them on their development.

Brown, on the other hand, has no such connection with any of these players, including the ones we drafted a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, where will the minutes for these rookies and sophomores come from with 11 vets we will have on the roster?

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

PS the minutes police were 100% correct and it was not about just playing Kolek. When the guy you just traded 5 FRPs for said something it validated everything. Also, Kolek should have played more.

Thibs bench usage was a joke. It's part of why he's gone. Don't let your opinion get in the way of the truth.

[TheGreenArrow]

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[CharlesOakley]

Our team could not take another season of 5 guys playing 38+ minutes a night and only using 3 bench players max. We had guys on the bench who could help but Thibs didn't see it. We also did not run an NBA offense or practice. Seriously - why would anyone want Thibs back?

[rajajackal]

I think he deserved one more year with a beefed up bench and a severely weakened Eastern Conference. This was all about Leon taking control of the organization.

I would add that the younger players probably had a better shot at getting minutes under Thibs than Brown because at least Thibs was invested in their development having drafted them and personally worked with them on their development.

Brown, on the other hand, has no such connection with any of these players, including the ones we drafted a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, where will the minutes for these rookies and sophomores come from with 11 vets we will have on the roster?

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

PS the minutes police were 100% correct and it was not about just playing Kolek. When the guy you just traded 5 FRPs for said something it validated everything. Also, Kolek should have played more.

Thibs bench usage was a joke. It's part of why he's gone. Don't let your opinion get in the way of the truth.

mikal is a pussy so i'm not really surprised he was whining. our stars (KAT and jalen) didn't mind the burn. the problem was clearly that the offense wasn't clicking or making KAT's and jalen's lives any easier because thibs let them freelance

[rajajackal]

Wrong. We all know you hate Leon. Firing Thibs was correcting the original mistake of hiring him to begin with.

hiring thibs was not a mistake. thibs was our franchise superstar until we got jalen brunson. he just outlived his purpose and it was time to move on

Shh. Wingo doesn't know that. I'm winning an argument over here and you wanna bring facts into it!! That's not how any of this works!!

i don't think i've ever seen you win an argument cause you get so mad so quick

[Gravy]

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Knicks fans when an assistant's name they've never heard of comes up

[GONYK]

I think he deserved one more year with a beefed up bench and a severely weakened Eastern Conference. This was all about Leon taking control of the organization.

I would add that the younger players probably had a better shot at getting minutes under Thibs than Brown because at least Thibs was invested in their development having drafted them and personally worked with them on their development.

Brown, on the other hand, has no such connection with any of these players, including the ones we drafted a couple of weeks ago.

Finally, where will the minutes for these rookies and sophomores come from with 11 vets we will have on the roster?

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

PS the minutes police were 100% correct and it was not about just playing Kolek. When the guy you just traded 5 FRPs for said something it validated everything. Also, Kolek should have played more.

Thibs bench usage was a joke. It's part of why he's gone. Don't let your opinion get in the way of the truth.

Let's move Thibs discussion to the Thibs thread

[rajajackal]

Call it a feeling but I dink Mr. Browns got ice in his veins. Lookin foward to some offensive ingeniousness (mayB thru the assistant and Brown does the D. Cause we will be needing D.)

pause but true

[Jalen Bluntson]

i wouldn't be upset if he got another year on an emotional level because he earned it and i'm a fan

but, trying to be objective, this core showed that it needed an organized offense imposed upon it if we wanted to draw its potential out. everyone freelancing occasionally clicked, but there were too many cooks in the kitchen without a chef to lead them

we slowly went from thibs/bryant/woody/payne to thibs/bryant to just thibs and his lackeys. so i'm not convinced an offensive coordinator would have a true voice if the front office pushed for one. this move, i think, is the result of the front office simply wanting to derive more value from the roster it composed

side note: the minutes police were always wrong. this isn't about playing kolek. it's about playing organized basketball

PS the minutes police were 100% correct and it was not about just playing Kolek. When the guy you just traded 5 FRPs for said something it validated everything. Also, Kolek should have played more.

Thibs bench usage was a joke. It's part of why he's gone. Don't let your opinion get in the way of the truth.

mikal is a pussy so i'm not really surprised he was whining. our stars (KAT and jalen) didn't mind the burn. the problem was clearly that the offense wasn't clicking or making KAT's and jalen's lives any easier because thibs let them freelance

Mike is here now. Clearly it was more than Mikal who had a problem with Thibs.

Actual history has both Brunson and KAT talking about the minutes and being exhausted long before Mikal said a word. Hart also frequently made comments about the minutes. Once Mikal said something everyone got on his case.

KAT was injured playing too many minutes late in a Chicago game that was over before he got hurt. That injury lingered.

Hart was dealing with overuse injury in his knee and tore his abdomen last year.

OG had a non contact injury playing the most minutes of his career. He looked cooked in January.

Our entire starting 5 was in the top 20 of minutes played. No other team had anything close. It cost us wins in the regular season when teams were openly stating they game planned to beat us late on tired legs. Losing teams used this strategy against us. It came back to haunt us in the playoffs because we had no chemistry with the bench and Thibs couldn't adjust to get wins.

Anyway. I'm hoping and praying Mike Brown does nothing close to what Thibs did. The entire industry was talking and laughing and mocking him for it, but Mikal is a pussy? No.

Edit: just saw the GONYK post.

Discussion is over. Minutes police were 100% correct. Welcome to NYK Coach Brown!

[Red Vines]

This could be the most exciting season in decades imo. If JB & KAT actually work together in a system it's going to be crazy.

[Wildcat]

I'm bummed NO being dicks with Borrego. Got sold on him.

[Jalen Bluntson]

This could be the most exciting season in decades imo. If JB & KAT actually work together in a system it's going to be crazy.

Brown has to make this work. We need everyone to have a role in the offense that isn't standing in a corner all night. Actions and options off player and ball movement. The potential of an all inclusive offense is unstoppable. We can't have the league make one adjustment and we struggle the rest of the season.