GustavBahler wrote:Chandler wrote:GustavBahler wrote:There is an old saying that a broken clock is right twice a day. Lets hope Dolan picking Rose is one of those moments. Discouraging that it apoears there was no real search process. Perry wasnt given the season to make a case to be team president. This looks like it was done on an impulse. Maybe as some posters suggested, because of the "sell the team" chants. The biggest drawback to Dolan owning the team is that he treats the Knicks, and MSG like his toy, where other owners treat their team like its their baby.
what makes you think this was on impulse?
I suspect dolan was grade-A pissed during the summer when no star FA was remotely interested in us despite the stories Mills and Perry were probably pumping to him trying to justify their trade of KP
If he was not thinking of the next FO then, he almost certainly was around the time of the infamous news conference when they threw Fizz under the buss
the fact that Miller has been doing a lot better than Fizz probably further infuriated him into wondering about their judgment -- you let Budenholzer go for Fizzdale who's getting smoked by a G-league coach
the final straw had to be Drummond and Russell. Rose probably already had his ear and said fire him; i'll take the job you've been trying to get me to take all year
in principle i'm against the agent-turned-president/GM trend for reasons i won't repeat, but I'm getting more and more optimistic about recent events. It's darkest before the dawn, and i'm seeing that first sliver of light -- call me cuckoo
Who else was interviewed for the job? You hire an agent with zero NBA or front office experience, without interviewing other potential candidates, you're going on an impulse. Even if you have wanted to make a move for a while.
who knows? you think it's a good idea to throw that our for public inspection?
i have the same concern about experience but it's a double edged sword. Every time you get someone with experience you have to ask why he's available in the first place -- someone let him go
we can line up coachhes, GMs and presidents who did great on their first gig; ones who needed a couple of attempts; and ones who were given all the opportunity in the world and still sucked
ultimately the person making the hiring decision has to rely on judgment. To me that's the most troubling (i.e., Dolan's judgment); the guys lack of experience much less so -- it's not like the guy hasn't been heavily involved with the NBA forever
As i've mentioned in other posts, the upside of a guy like Rose is he can sell a vision of the team, and get players thinking about bigger picture. A player's salary is more or less set whether max or otherwise based on his production. Rose can sell an image of all the other $$ and fame the player will get through endorsements merely by making Knicks relevant again. It's not a bad pitch
i think we've put in a bottom, and we only go up from here
Reasonable minds can differ about that
