Exactly right, let the man do his job.
By that logic we should not criticize any player, coach, or GM. I mean, they know more about the game than we ever could right?
The young guys earned minutes by listening to Brown for the past two months. Not sure why people have such a hard time understanding this concept. You cannot just hand players minutes they will not develop. These guys play unbeleivable hard(see Mo Taylor who has gotten rid of the lazy reputation) for Brown because they know if they don't they won't play. Vet, rookie doesn't matter. You do things the Brown way you play.
It's not that anyone has a hard time. It's that your point is entirely speculative and based on assumptions that none of us can possibly know. It completely ignores the facts that we can all see: the biggest change to the team has been the way Larry has coached the games--benching the vets, turning those minutes over to the young players, pushing the ball more. I don't know why it is so hard for you to see that.
You can use tonight as evidence. We could not hit a shot for the first 5 or 6 minutes. LB went through 10 players trying to find someone who is playing well. Then we start playing well and pretty much only about 8 players played the rest of the game.
And tonight's lineup changes are evidence of what exactly?
I've been coaching for 8 years and I've learned one thing. When you have a young team you don't settle on a rotation and then they start playing well. They start playing well, earn their time and then settle on a rotation.
Except according to what we can actually see rather than make up, that is not what happened with the Knicks. In fact the opposite happened. They settled on a rotation/style and then they started to win. Unless you are privy to what happens behind the scenes your 'point' is pure speculation.
Also, are you saying thar AD and ROse had earned more time than their couterparts for the first 20+ games of the season. INteresting take considering how god-awful they were.
There is a reason why LB's teams start horribly and then get hot. It's because he does not care about game to game wins. He cares about developing a long term winner!!!!!!!! That is why he is a great coach. 8 seeds and pleasing fans and reporters means nothing to him. His job is to win a title.
Larry Brown who is most famous for moving along, his biggest concern is developing a long-term winner? Like at Philidelphia? The whole start slow, then get hot is a fiction that has been fed to us by the media. I don't know why so many have bought it. Take a look back at his career, not just the past 5. All of your points about LB are purely speculative, and do not address what we have all actually seen.
The young guys are playing well now becuase of what Larry Brown put them through the first 2 months of this season. There are very few rookies who come into this league and have impacts right way and the reason that the Knicks have 2 rookies in the Starting Lineup is becuase they had to work hard in practice, listen to the coach and were more hungry then vets to play the 'right way'
The reason the Knicks have 2 rookies (Should be 3) in the starting lineup is because the guys playing in front of them were terrible. Rose lost his minutes not because he did not play the 'right way', but because he did not produce. Same with AD.
What is this ephemeral 'right way' that they are playing now, and what evidence do you have that they were not playing the 'right way' before? Do you really believe that Lee was not hungry at the beginning of the season? He was complacent? Why did it take nearly 28 games of the vets playing the wrong way for the minutes to get turned over to the youth?
Can anyone answer without 'speculating' (A nice word for making things up.)?
I'm not saying that Larry Brown is the sole reason the rookies are playing, I think they were smart draft choices but I definately think he is part of the reason that they are being as effective as they are right now. Larry Brown was voted by league GM's as the best coach in the NBA for a reason, lets let him coach and stop second guessing him.
If you want to believe that the Rookies were unable to play ata high level until LB waived his magic wand, I guess I can't convince you any different. And if you want to believe that LB is perfect and therefore should not be criticized by the likes of us, please tell me, who may we criticize? Also, how am I or anyone else stopping him from doing his job?
It's pretty obvious that the Larry Brown is working for this team when many people on this forum were aggrevated by every move he made early in the season, even knowing full well how teams in their first year under Brown play poorly. The Larry Brown way works, stop second-guessing and let the man coach.
The only thing that is obvious is that LB is doing everything different since last week. Did you notice that? And by the way, the LB teams play poorly in their first year is a fiction. Some do some don't. Look at his record before you make those kind of statements.
If you want to believe in LB as others do in their own particular religous icons, that is your right. But please don't tell us independent thinkers to stop thinking.
I said this a few times during the Larry Brown saga over the summer, we had a "Larry Brown" Draft. aka, we drafted players who went to school for 3 or 4 years to top notch programs, who were known for hustle and effort and playing hard. I believe Zeke liked our players, but also picked them with an eye towards making the roster a little more appealing to Brown.
More speculation based on?
It was only a matter of time before he played these guys. He came in to training camp day one and said DLee looked like Bobby Jones and Nate Robinson was "crazy" (while smiling and shaking his head).
Bobby Jones was a pretty good player so I don't understand how that means little/no playing time. If you mean to compare NR and Lee, how come NR has gotten his time throughout the season but Lee only started getting his last week.
Brown loves these kids. I think he was protecting them, trying to have them earn their roles and teach them a few things. I actually don't think they would have played so soon if guys like Malik Rose weren't so awful.
I guess that could be true...or... he just figured that losing 9 games in a row was unacceptable and he decided that the Knicks could not do any worse playing the youth and pushing the ball. And he was right.
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[Edited by - oohah on 01-11-2006 04:45 AM]
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