Posted by purple012870:

b/c most of the guys on this board are too busy fantasizing about Ty Thomas

LOL! How true and how sad. Whether you wanna give Isiah credit or not, the myth that has become Ty Thomas after his 6 and 4 domination, is really amazing.

I was fine with Isiah's coaching until I heard this crap:

"It feels good to get Isiah and the team started right," guard Jamal Crawford said. "(But) we have to learn to finish. We had them down 19. We should have pushed it to 30."

Thomas said the close call wasn't all his team's fault.

"It was nothing we did wrong," he said. "It was everything they did right. They were making shots and taking it to the rim."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=261101029

One game into the season he's making excuses for guys. I was hoping that crap would have changed. Why not say "we need to hit our FTs and do a better job on the glass down the stretch. We do that we coast in this one."

Instead he's got to coddle? Have we seen that help? Whats he going to say when they lose? It wasnt their fault because the other team did some "right things." ????

fishmike, I think thats the perfect situation. The coach trying to cover for his guys a bit at the same time, the guys owning up to their mistakes. I did get annoyed after hearing Isiah but as long as players like Jamal know they shouldn't let that happen....

Posted by fishmike:

I was fine with Isiah's coaching until I heard this crap:

"It feels good to get Isiah and the team started right," guard Jamal Crawford said. "(But) we have to learn to finish. We had them down 19. We should have pushed it to 30."

Thomas said the close call wasn't all his team's fault.

"It was nothing we did wrong," he said. "It was everything they did right. They were making shots and taking it to the rim."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=261101029

One game into the season he's making excuses for guys. I was hoping that crap would have changed. Why not say "we need to hit our FTs and do a better job on the glass down the stretch. We do that we coast in this one."

Instead he's got to coddle? Have we seen that help? Whats he going to say when they lose? It wasnt their fault because the other team did some "right things." ????

You know what, if he lies to the media and is honest with the team behind closed doors, that's fine by me. Don't you think after last year he's going to be extremely careful about calling out folks to the media? There's no need to after a game like that. There's no need to ever with the vultures in NY. Let them make their own stories.

The reason we lost that lead was lack of confidence when the Grizz started making their run. I'm fine with Isiah trying to build their confidence a little. And I'm thrilled if he goes all year without criticizing a player to the media. He called out Curry in the media without ripping him to shreds and so far gotten results. I think he and Brown are both media savvy, but Isiah has far different goals when he's talking to the media than Larry did last year. They won. Everyone knows they escaped that game, there's no use ripping the team in the paper afterwards. Rip them on the practice court.

Give Isiah credit?

What has he done in 2.5 years - other than make the team older, slower and less appealing?

Credit?

Never

Come on now. What he says to the Press is not what he is saying to them in the locker room. Did you see him when Nate got the T? IT was screaming at him in his way, cool and composed. Nate got the message. Then when nate came out, IT sat next to him and continued to let him now that it will not be accepted. Did you notice nate did not come back in, until he had too?

It is all part of IT's plan. He is showing the guys that he has their back with the media. In turn, he will EXPECT them to have his back and to perform all out for him.

I think it will work.

New Best Friends: Q and Starbury. Did you see them last night.

Yes, the team collapsed but they got it together and won. Last year they would have lost by 10 in OT.

Isiah gets credit for getting one win. The Knicks are now undefeated for the 2006-2007 season.

i give him credit for having these guys playing for each other & the cameraderie i see that wasn't there last year... but i had a hard time distinguishing this team's deficiencies w/the ones that LB's team had last season... they still don't know how to finish games, they still don't play any perimeter defense whatsoever, they still take ill-advised shots during big possessions & they still don't take care of the ball.

if Isiah can get these guys to fix those issues, then i'll proclaim him the Coach of the Year, but 1 win in triple OT vs. a team w/much less talent & missing their star player doesn't warrant high praise for him just yet... Isiah does get credit for getting Eddy Curry to start playing the way he's capable of though, but again, it's 1 game... let's see him sustain that over the long haul.

I give him credit for bringing the team together. Thats something many people would have thought impossible. And I give him credit for installing a fluid offense that gave us a 19 point lead.

BUT

When the knicks started to play like doodoo in the fourth he needed to call them down. We should have been running down the clock every time down the court, especially when the lead was 13 with 4 and a half left. Instead you have frye shooting threes with 20 seconds left on the clock.

But he did a repectable job, i like what i see.