knicks1248 wrote:

Rookie wrote:Dear Knicks, please wait before making a hire of Kerr. There will be more candidates becoming available, coaches with more coaching experience. It must be nice to write on your resume 'Phil likes me' these days. But, what we need is a coach. A coach with experience, especialy in NY where the media and fan base never give you a chance from day 1.

This team has been preaching patience for years. Well, now it is your turn Knicks. Please be patient and wait untill all of the coaching candidates have become available. There will surely be some coaching carnage after the playofs. I encourage you to wait till all of the candidates have become available before making a hire of Kerr. While he might be the best dressed candidate right now, a few weeks from now he may also be the least experienced coach available in a deep pool of very qualified candidates.

we have had every kinda of coach you can imgine

most wins as a head coach = lenny wilkens
champinship title = Larry brown
assembled his entire roster= I thomas
high flying euro style coach= MDA
Bafoon company man = Chaney
Defensive minded motivator = woodson

in fact the one coach who had ZERO heed coaching experience( JVG) is still the best caoch we've had since Pat riley

Also to have a Coach and a President with the same philosophy is like you and your wife/GF agreeing on everything..

Furthest thing from the truth... sounds silly to comment on a 37(?) win season as such but the job Chaney did the year after the McKnee trade was one of the best coaching jobs I have seen from any Knick coach. They started like 1-8 or something before Sprewell came back but played .500 ball the rest of the way. They led the league in fewest TOs, 3 point% and a had a frontcourt of Othella Harrington (starting PF), Kurt Thomas (starting center) and Spoon (first big off the bench) and his PGs were some combo of Ward, Eisley and I think Mark Jackson. Getting that team to play .500 ball for 70ish game was a great job. He had nothing to work with and played to that squads strengths which was get Houston/Spree as many open looks as possible and play D.

Ah yes... those were the days