Posted by Uptown:

Posted by 4949:

Posted by Uptown:

4949-

Heres my point. With all the coaching candidates available, it seems as if Walsh' interest in them is luke-warm at best. Why does Avery Johnson's people have to reach out to Walsh instead of the other way around? Johnson has the best winning % of all available coaches and yet he's the one that has to call Walsh.

Carlise has been available all year. Knicks has one conversation while the Mavs, whose job became free just this week had a series of meetings with him then hired him.

We've seen coaches interview for jobs while there team was still in the playoffs (Brown, Riley) so why can't Walsh request an interview with Thibideau or at least send out feelers? Why not request an interview with Ewing?


The reason why I titled this thread: Name Jackson coach already....is because it seems as if regardless of who the candidates are, its seems as if Walsh intends on giving Jackson the job anyway.

This list seems like a charade. A show. To make the fans think he's doing his due diligence. At the end of all these interviews, Jackson most likely will emerge as the coach of the Knicks. So if thats Walsh's intentions to hire Jackson regardless, I say, cut the charade and just hire him already. If its not his intentionto hire Jackson, I would like Walsh to be more pro active in his search.

Hope that makes more sense.

You could have just as easily named it 'Make D'Antoni the coach already'.

Huh! Somehow my point continues to allude you. How about you change your name to 50/50. Sometimes you get it sometimes you don't

Posted by 4949:

Well, I don't see how he'd have too many expectations, seeing that 'everyone' knows how screwed up this team is. How could' he or anyone have any' higher expectations for now? My point is about the future, starting in two more years. I just think we should establish someone who's proved he has the qualifications.

GM's and coaches rarely have a good relationship and that usually comes via winning, in which we have non of. I think if isiah was still in charge, then I just couldn't see someone like D'Anotoni wanting to deal with this ****.

The whole world' knows that Walsh is starting this team in the right direction. It's not like jax is the only one that knows about Walsh's plan and he ain't telling no one, because he wants to be the coach. The fact remains, Walsh has several candidates and jax isn't the only one on that list. I think Walsh will wait a little longer to make a good decision.

The way I see it, if Walsh really wanted jax, he would have signed him by now. Not a good sign for jax and his fans. I mean if Walsh was so heads over heels about jax, then why would he make him wait? Makes no sense at all.

So you know Walsh is thinking hard about who he wants and like I said, if Walsh doesn't get what he wants, then jax is the emergency back up and jax is clearly standing in line, waiting and hoping that Walsh will sign the sucker.

If I remember correctly, I do believe Riley left' because the Knicks wouldn't give him a front office job. A piece of the action from above, like he has in Miami. And JVG. The media didn't burn him out. It was the forseeable bull**** that was coming. The crap we now know that took place in the last several years. Plus, I think being smashed in the face by a big Camby right pretty much said it all.

It's bad enough that you want to bring jax in, but wanting to bring in someone like Ewing makes me ill. These guys ended up being losers, and never won a ring. I never was one for stance or intimidating looks. I have always been one for 'what have you done for me today'.

Obviously, you want people who are from here, or who had a career here. I just want someone who has already proven that they can coach and win games. I'll guarantee you, that if jax had D'Antoni's record, back ground then I'd be pushing for him to be our coach also.