Ed would make a great assistant coach, as would Pat. Neither are head coach material. Tom is the best assistant coach in the league as far as being able to move into a head coach position. One of the worst things the Knicks ever did was let him go. Jeff's problem was that he never had a strong offensive coach along side him.

Hire Tom, make Pat a top assistant with a focus on developing the bigs and hire an offensive guy like Armond Hill, Igor Kokoskov, Phil Hubbard, Mario Ellie (who'd probably only leave Avery for another assistant job if it were the Knicks offering), Paul Westphal (though I doubt he'd leave Dallas) or Phil Weber.

I have been saying Tom T for two years now.

NO guarantee he would be a JVG clone. BUt not all white defensive asst coaches are the same. The best take bits a pieces from mentors.

Remember JVG was born from Pat Riley's rib.

Lets be real, Larry is HOF with major cred and Isiah was not a bad coach and this team just won't respond to either.


I think its fair to say it ain't the coaching!