Posted by Nalod:

Posted by buddapaw:

Posted by Nalod:

Posted by gr33d:

Posted by Nalod:

HE turned a crappy roster who played with heart into the laughing stock of the league.

On paper we look good. The payroll is the highest ever!

Look, if you hate Larry, so be it. We all have our views.

Demonize larry and try to discredit his history. At the same time, Cannonize Isiah when most write he did a so-so job with his pacer team. His teams started the years strong and melted down in the second half. why? Why was he fired? Why did he not get a coaching job afterwards?

Before you go on about how he saved our team with the roster changes, why is it the rest of the world considers us the laughing stock of the sporting world?

I don't hate Larry, in fact I was all in favor of bringing him aboard. Nor do I judge his past success or failures with other teams, I'm concentrating on the NOW. The NOW for me, is that Larry can't co-exist with our current roster imo. He underestimated the power of the NY press and made rookie-coach mistakes. We underacheived last year and Larry was directing traffic, bottom line!

I don't believe roster changes saved us. Isiah is one thin ice, I stated that earlier.

Let's say we were under the cap now and had the first pick in the draft. What superstar free-egent and lottery pick would turn this thing around? LOL, we'd be just good enough to NOT have a shot at Oden next year, that's where we'd be. Timing has a lot to do with being successful, that's all I'm saying.

I don't know if IT is the long-term solution, but I'm not convinced Larry is either. And honestly, I don't care what Knick haters think of the team, screw them! Every team makes mistakes at some point, yet we're used as the league-wide examples. Everything we do is under a microscope, what else is new?

With all do respect, the NOW you speak of has been the instant gradification problem Dolan is forever trying to acomplish. Larry ate a 23 season for a reason. This team would not have done all that much better if we had another coach. its possible the rookies might not have played as much and we might have imploded even worse. Its not a given we were a 35 win team. IF Larry was about a foundation then we had to dig deeper to anchor one then orginally thought. Dolanites want quick results and the appearences everything is fine no matter how weak the underlying structure is.

Foundation? wanting the likes of Ratcliff and Snow? It could also be possible that they would won more than 35 games. This is Larry Brown, he loves every other player in league as long as they are not on his team.

Typical default to the "radcliff and Snow" thing.

First off, Snow would be a good addition to this team.

Second, it did not happen.

Thirdly, it would be no different than a top coach like Bill Parcells bringing in his types of players to every team he's coached. Typically they aren't the best players but role players who understand what the coach wants and can educate their teammates about what the coach expects.

Posted by BlueSeats:

"[Isiah's] very creative, he comes up with a running offense," Pacers's Donnie Walsh said. "He's no Larry Brown, though. But he's farther along than you'd think, coaching just three years."

[Edited by - BlueSeats on 06-21-2006 12:32 PM]

Posted by BlueSeats:

Posted by oohah:

Posted by BlueSeats:

"[Isiah's] very creative, he comes up with a running offense," Pacers's Donnie Walsh said. "He's no Larry Brown, though. But he's farther along than you'd think, coaching just three years."

I believe this is high praise for Isiah's coaching acumen.

He's no Larry Brown, though.

I interpret that to mean that he thinks he's a nicer guy than LB!

oohah