Posted by misterearl:
fishmike - your contention was that no one of "quality" would take the Knicks job
I simply wanted you to identify who these quailty individuals are
is that saking too much?
Jeff Van Gundy said Larry and Steph remind him of himself and francis, so we can rule him out, he traded Francis and it we'd be back where we started.
A defensive oriented Payton couldn't stand being marginalized in the triangle with Phil, so we know offensive minded Steph would hate it too. No to Phil.
Jerry Sloan has been struggling to motivate his guys all year. Here's a snippet from him: "I knew it was going to be a hard-fought thing to try to teach [young] guys. I'm sure we could probably open things up a little bit and play a different way sometimes. But I'm not sure it's a good teacher for playoff basketball." So we know he wouldn't "adjust" like we need.
Rick carlisle calls every play for his PGs and we know Steph needs freedom, so he's out. Plus he had some thirty-something starting rotations this year, so come on...
Nate McMillan sure seemed like a winner last year with his energetic uptempo system in seattle, but he coached an unmotivated cadre of losers to the worst record in the league this year, so we know he can't do it.
Mike Fratello might have been good but you know he'll never trust Isiah again.
Scott Skiles might be good, oh but he gave up on jamal and Eddy and he expects effort and defense. Nope.
Mike D'Antoni likes to run! Oh, forgot... Steph declined.
Well those are some of the elite coaches in the NBA... but they're too uncompromising... elite won't work here. We need someone more "flexible".
Damn, Herb woulda been great. Oh, but we had a 16-27 record under him? Scratch that.
Lenny had us at .500 -- pity he hated not being allowed to have the upper hand with Steph or have his own assistants, so he quit. Guess we blew that one.
6/8/2006 10:16 PM
