Posted by TrueBlue:
That's exactly what he did at those stops also. Have you not heard comments from Billups, Reggie, and A.I.(man broke down in tears on Stephen A. Smith show 2yrs ago) of what they thought of their playing experience under him. They all said he's a tough coach, very structured, and conservative coach that doesn't like to take chances and expects you to play defense but that he grought the best out of them. Billups flat out said he started out hating and grew to love him. It's the very reason you saw many of his former players greet him with hugs before games when he was coaching on the opposite bench. He warred with them challenging them to the point all those players experienced their greatest success under him. That's breaking down to build up.
I just don't recall such a whirlwind out of both of those teams. I do recall players saying he was very tough and demanding but I don't recall things spiraling so far out of control as they did here. I truly believe Larry wanted just about everyone off this team and wanted to bring in his own guys. When it was apparent (and it was early on) that Isiah had a "These are my guys I brought you here to coach THESE players" attitude towards Larry that something went off in his head that had him on a path to try to gain control of the franchise behind Isiah's back.
Not saying I'm correct I'm just saying I think there are a number of facts you can point to in order to draw such a conclusion.
An interesting situation is developing today with this team. Isiah the coach has found out that Isiah the GM isn't very good and to some degree you can draw parallels between Isiah's current situation and Brown's of two years ago. This go around Isiah being pretty much just a coach and Dolan being the GM saying "Nope, you made your bed, lie in it until I can your ass."
Man...what a rough four years it has been under this current regime. You can up that to six to include the late Layden geriatric club we had to schlep through.
I'm really resigned to the fact that this team if it "gets it together" is still going to be a pretty bad team. In that, I'm just waiting for regime change. Hopefully fans like myself won't have to wait beyond the Anucha appeal and secondary hearing that determines if she gets 10M more on top of the 11.6M that is being appealed.
Christmas present for Knick fans maybe? I pray.
