I liked that he spoke out for Amar'e. hopefully Amar'e reads it- he looks to be in a permanently foul mood these days (don't blame him).

IT never to return.

Utter BS when talking about the importance of patience!

JD: I didn’t time it, per se, like that. I’m surprised other folks were surprised about this. The general manager’s work doesn’t really occur at that time of year. If you’re going to change general managers that’s probably the right time to do it. The next available trade date is Dec. 15. You’ve just finished free agency and all that. It’s a lull period. The timing didn’t really have much to do with that. It was more about an initiative I have going on with both teams that I hired McKinsey & Company [a Manhattan-based global management consulting firm] for, because as I’ve gotten to look at both our organizations, it’s become apparent that we really need to reprocess both teams. We were using a lot of — not old, but “classic” methods and now with technology, and what’s available to a team to help improve, I didn’t think we were taking advantage of those things.
MV: So in evaluating these business solutions you came to the conclusion Glen Grunwald was lacking and Steve Mills a better fit?
JD: I hired McKinsey in the summer, and Glen is more of a “classic” GM, and he just wasn’t the guy to lead this initiative for the team, and it had to be someone in that position who could do it because I wasn’t going to do it. It needed someone behind it, someone who understood it, and that just wasn’t Glen’s forte. I think he was a good general manager, he’s got a great eye for talent, he knows basketball well, but the job description changed.

So I wanna see what this new "Initiative" actually produces for this team. Dolan has put his money and faith behind these guys. Nothing else Dolan has done has worked. I can understand him wanting to try something new.

smackeddog wrote:

nixluva wrote:I'm actually curious now about his new modern approach to team building he's talking about. We'll probably see an example of this at the trade deadline. There will be a lot of HUGE decisions needing to be made over the next few years.

JD: I didn’t time it, per se, like that. I’m surprised other folks were surprised about this. The general manager’s work doesn’t really occur at that time of year. If you’re going to change general managers that’s probably the right time to do it. The next available trade date is Dec. 15. You’ve just finished free agency and all that. It’s a lull period. The timing didn’t really have much to do with that. It was more about an initiative I have going on with both teams that I hired McKinsey & Company [a Manhattan-based global management consulting firm] for, because as I’ve gotten to look at both our organizations, it’s become apparent that we really need to reprocess both teams. We were using a lot of — not old, but “classic” methods and now with technology, and what’s available to a team to help improve, I didn’t think we were taking advantage of those things.
MV: So in evaluating these business solutions you came to the conclusion Glen Grunwald was lacking and Steve Mills a better fit?
JD: I hired McKinsey in the summer, and Glen is more of a “classic” GM, and he just wasn’t the guy to lead this initiative for the team, and it had to be someone in that position who could do it because I wasn’t going to do it. It needed someone behind it, someone who understood it, and that just wasn’t Glen’s forte. I think he was a good general manager, he’s got a great eye for talent, he knows basketball well, but the job description changed.

So I wanna see what this new "Initiative" actually produces for this team. Dolan has put his money and faith behind these guys. Nothing else Dolan has done has worked. I can understand him wanting to try something new.

Thing that doesn't make sense is, how the heck is Steve Mills better qualified to lead these changes?!

gunsnewing wrote:So Dolan is saying Mills spent all these years studying analytical? Because his approach last time didn't really go too well I'd say.

Watch.. The Knicks idea of sabermetrics will be to give Melo $30mkl per without a fight

Howard beck is calling BS on this claim by Dolan- said Grunnie was into analytics and was the first Knicks GM to emphasise them.

smackeddog wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:So Dolan is saying Mills spent all these years studying analytical? Because his approach last time didn't really go too well I'd say.

Watch.. The Knicks idea of sabermetrics will be to give Melo $30mkl per without a fight

Howard beck is calling BS on this claim by Dolan- said Grunnie was into analytics and was the first Knicks GM to emphasise them.

Agree with Beck that this is utter BS. Grunwald is closer to 50 than 80 for Chrissakes, contemporaneous with the ascendancy of advanced statistics. This was a crony move by Dolan pure and simple.

Really sounds like an egotistical control freak with a Napolean complex. Hey Jim consider using your cash on Sam Presti--look what he built in Oklahoma with very little cash--ten years of great basketball. With all of the back and forth--we couldve just hired a guy like him and let him do his thing. The main reason why we were good for a decade was the draft and Pat Riley's management system . Teams that are good in pro sports have good men behind the team. Is Steve Mills a proven GM who wins---ah no. And please stop kissing Carmelo's buttocks--he is NOT Lebron James. We will live with you giving Carmelo 30 mmm into his mid 30's of which he will be good for 3 years on a downhill slope and the Knicks will be a .500 team.

Mills has his own ideas, of course. To start, he expressed a desire to incorporate more analytics into the fabric of the team. He said he believes in the power of numbers, citing the influence of Dean Oliver’s seminal book on the topic, “Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis.”

Knicksfan wrote:

playa2 wrote:

Knicksfan wrote:

I wish Amar'e was healthy to make his contract worth it, bu tthe truth is, his deal has been a mistake as most of this team's moves.

I think "nobody" at owner is an improvement over "Dolan" as owner. Vast improvement.

You might be speaking from a fans perspective, but Dolan is speaking froma business prospective. Two different agendas Amare brought him more star power, even if it didn't mesh.

Not exactly a fans perspective but basketball perspective, but while I agree that he is talking from a business perspective, the questions are being made in a basketball sense, so he is trying to create the illusion of being in a great position basketball wise, while it isnt the case.

Yes I agree with you 100%

It's his team and his perspective is the only one that matters until fans begin to stay away from knicks games.

gunsnewing wrote:So SAS AND CO are lying that Dolan wants Shumpert gone? If you want to get younger you don't trade Shumpert

Who says Shumpert is can only be traded for an older player?

Jmpasq wrote:
I just hope I out live him its my only chance to see a championship in my lifetime

You might get your wish, Dolan looks these days like he just came back from a 3 week bender in Atlantic City. With our luck the job will go to his son and we'll have the east coast version of Jim Buss.