Is Knight on his way out?

Atowngetdown · Post #1 » by **Atowngetdown** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 3:25 pm

Something significant has happened: The same owners who backed Billy Knight to the hilt in the fight against Steve Belkin in the summer of 2005 have disregarded Knight's recommendation that Mike Woodson be fired. The general manager who once inspired blind trust in his ownership (if not his fan base) has lost his hold and might soon lose his job.

The same owners who declined to utter a discouraging word after Knight passed on Chris Paul/Deron Williams have now broken with Knight on an essential basketball matter

LL Cool Scott · Post #2 » by **LL Cool Scott** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 3:40 pm

Oh, please god...

saloonyk8 · Post #3 » by **saloonyk8** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 5:45 pm

That's the thing I never understood about the Belkin fiasco, if you're a freaking owner, you can FIRE the GM. Instead of going public and vetoing the trade, just say fine, make the trade, and I'll fire you at the end of the season...

Here's why I think they didn't allow BK to fire Woodson:
1.) You hired him, he's your guy, let's see what he can do. And if he can't do it you're both out the door. Besides BK, you've made enough draft/FA errors to justify being kicked out anyway.
2.) No way they're committing more money to a coach, especially to get a decent big name in here.

I have I feeling it's more #2 than 1, but we'll hope for the best.

HoopsGuru25 · Post #4 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 5:59 pm

BK wanted to replace Woody with Drew for the rest of the season so I doubt it's because of money(unless they didn't want to pay Woody to sit at home for 2-3 months). The ASG should not allow BK to make any moves w/o their approval if they are not certain that they won't bring him back.

JoshB914 · Post #5 » by **JoshB914** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 7:39 pm

I hope they realized that BK is just tryring to make Woody the scapegoat. The fact that he tried to fire him after we got Bibby speaks volumes. Maybe he was afraid the realization that when we finally focused on upgrading at the position he has ignored he would look bad. So what does he do? Try to make Woody seem like the problem, then take all the credit when we start playing better and someone else is running the show

raleigh · Post #6 » by **raleigh** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 7:51 pm

Knight has, at the very least, put a competitive team on the floor.

Woodson, at the very best, has managed to make a competitive team thoroughly mediocre.

Knight has been solid in trades, and with no draft picks until 2009, I'd like to see how he builds this team from a borderline playoff team into a contender. Woodson should've been gone years ago.

HoopsGuru25 · Post #7 » by **HoopsGuru25** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 9:07 pm

Firing Woody and keeping BK would be like Toronto firing Mitchell and keeping Babcock. It's a players league and BK failed to bring in the right mix of players. That's the bottom line. Why would you even trust Knight to hire a good replacement given his previous two coaching hires? I'd get rid of both, but BK HAS to go. Woodson is only a small part of the problem.

conleyorbust · Post #8 » by **conleyorbust** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 10:47 pm

hopefully they are both gone, we get a GM that understand what different needs teams have and a coach that understands offense to some degree.

Lue_4_MVP · Post #9 » by **Lue_4_MVP** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 10:48 pm

Can we fire them both?

evildallas · Post #10 » by **evildallas** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 11:00 pm

I don't interpret the situation as Woodson being in a stronger position than Billy Knight. I think of it more as a realization that neither one is in a strong position. When the trade for Bibby went down, I posted that BK probably just got an extension with the move. I failed to consider that the move may have came too late to satisfy ownership. To be honest, it is reasonable to hold both accountable and it is refreshing that ownership doesn't see 1 party as being to be at blame.