Posted by Allanfan20:

That's true. However, what about Mark Jackson as COACH, not GM though? He too is a Brooklyn man who will kiss nobody's arse. Fratello seems like a decent idea though.

I like the idea of Mark Jackson as Knicks coach. Jackson is my favorite player of all time. Smart.

By the way, he's from St. Albans Queens, though he went to high-school in Brooklyn, at Bishop Loughlin.

oohah

Bill is a good WNBA coach, but that's a far different game from the NBA game.

I don't really have anything against Bill Cartwright per say. Just don't know much about him. I know he did nicely in Chicago and is very smart.

If and when Zeke is canned, Isiah Thomas will be available. I hear he's real good at picking up after other GM's get fired. So I think the Knicks should replace Zeke with Isiah Thomas.

But once he's hired, give him time, it takes time to recover from the bad moves of the former GM. I'd say he should get 3-4 years.

Also, the Knicks will need the right coach for this atmosphere. Some possible suggestions:

Don Chaney
Lenny Wilkens
Larry Brown
Isiah Thomas

Any one of these guys would be a good fit for this team.



[Edited by - basketballjones on 01-02-2007 15:21]

John Thompson, former Georgetown coach. I always wanted him to come and coach the Knicks when we had the Ewing days.

Posted by NJK:

John Thompson, former Georgetown coach. I always wanted him to come and coach the Knicks when we had the Ewing days.

hes getting pretty old now, isnt he??

Posted by mikesknicks:

I don't want them traders Greg Anthony and Mark Jackson no where near this team.

These are the two guys who would have enough pride to turn this franchise around.

Mark Jackson as coach and Greg Anthony as GM.

We don't need another yes man as coach or gm and these two fellas would be good for the knicks.

These two know about the pride and glory of the past knicks.

I say let it happen.

Personally that's the route I would go. I would try to nab one of the assistants from one of the long-term successful coaches. Someone from Phil Jackson, Sloan, Popovich, Riley and the like. I don't know where else to turn. I'm sick of all these retread saviors!! 'll even settle for keeping Isiah(not as GM)We need to understand that there is no magic potion. The coach is less important than fixing our roster.

I'm now going on 6 years saying the same friggin thing and still very few understand. The reason our substitution patterns are so out of wack is not because we have stupid coaches. It's because we have no versatility or balance to our overall roster. In San Antonio, Detroit, Dallas etc my team is good enough not to have to adjust all the time. But if I have to I can adjust on the fly easily. If I need a rebounding line-up I put two guys in and we rebound. If I need defense I put two guys in and suddenly we are a defensive squad. Same thing with uptempo, no turnover line-ups etc. I can do all these things without destroying who we are.

With the Knicks it's different. No combination of our line-up makes us strong on D, cuts down turnovers, can shoot a team out of a zone consistently. We have little versatility. So when teams go to zone, or we are turning the ball over or need stops there is no place for our coaches to turn. They must guess on each given day who will hit a jumpshot, who will play with energy, who will play d. IT's a guessing game. This is why we look like world beaters one night and losers the next. I simply cannot ask a coach to pull the right buttons with a team that has so many weaknesses, every night. Larry Brown, Phill Jackson, Pat Riley, Re Auerbach could not do it. There is no magic coach. We must balance the god dam-n roster. 3 years into his regime and Isiah is finally talking about getting shooters for a big man. Finally starting to realize you need complimentary parts. It's amazing to me that something that is so obvious keeps getting overlooked by everyone. We will be waiting forever for victories and wondering why our guys get better individually but our record doesn't get better if we don't balance the team. You cannot win, when everyone in your backcourt does the same thing.

[Edited by - Bippity10 on 01-03-2007 1:38 PM]

See I still think the focus is too much on finding guys that will win. Instead we should focus on building a team that fits. With players that compliment each other. If you do that your team will start winning. What we are doing is searching and hunting trying to find players that will be good enough to turn us into a winner and it doesn't work. Our backcourt all do the same things. There is no versatility and that is why they are struggling to uplift this team.

Billy Donovan as the next coach would be my pick