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Knicks want to speak to every one of the best coaches they can and don’t care if they get denied permission to do so. This is unorthodox but the reaction to it is ridiculous. It was reported they are embarking on a long process to find the right coach. Step 1 is clearly ruling out every top tier coach who’s under contract.

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Now, I'm wondering the opposite. To have a replacement established would have required some behind the scenes maneuvering which besides being a bit sneaky would have poisoned the well if they had decided to keep Thibs (e.g., if he advanced to finals).

I don't know if I'm just rationalizing the situation, but I am going to let it play out and trust that Leon gets more decisions right than wrong

DLeethal wrote:I don't really understand the hate right now as if the Knicks would have pre-interviewed some of these candidates. Obviously the logical first step is to go after the best candidates, in this case the guys who already have jobs, who are also the least likely. Take the big swings first and cross them off the list if they don't work out. Knicks interviewed 20 candidates last time around. So this is the early stage of a long process.

Knicks are a HUGE television/viewer market - if this were the Kings sifting thru coaching candidate options you might find 1 blip on Hoops Hype but with Knicks places like ESPN going to milk that for all it's worth.

Is the process a bit odd? Sure but who gives a crap - I find it interesting they are casually letting all these experienced coaches know that they'd be interested in talking to them. No idea if the interest is legit for every guy or some type of smoke screen to limit potential tampering issues - NO IDEA.

Quin Snyder is a guy I've always liked - hell I like all of Ima, Kidd, Finch, Snyder and Donovan to a lesser degree.

Also very high on T Jenkins.

Nalod wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:Brown just signed a 3 year, 30mm extension last season right?

I’m still riding the Johnnie Bryant train.

Yes. he was fired half a season into it.
Mike is a good coach who might be a good fit.
Im Stil thinking Billy Donovan? He still under contract with Bulls so there is that! LOL

Brown is in fact a solid and versatile (offense/defense) coach but he's a bit MEH in terms of excitement for me.

Would prefer T Jenkins over Brown but again Brown is a solid coach.

BigDaddyG wrote:

VDesai wrote:We also got denied permission to talk to Quin Snyder

Quinn would relapse in less than a month under this type of pressure.

I like watching the way he suffers through games and decisions --- kind of a skinny/meth version of Thibs.

SergioNYK wrote:Both Begley and Hahn have killed the Johnny Bryant idea due to his inexperience so I guess that leaves Brown, Bud, Malone, Jenkins, Woodson and Walton who have been rumored. Let me know if I've forgotten anyone but out of these coaches, how would you rank them? I have it like this ...

1. Malone
2. Bud
3. Brown
4. Jenkins
5. Woodson

Jenkins and Borrego are young guys, guys who spent time with Coach Pop that have had some success. Jenkins has two recent 50 win seasons under his belt. Guy played a deep rotation, developed a lot of young players. Mainly just a victim of having a superstar with a volatile personality. Interesting background, UPenn Econ major who didn't play college ball...got an internship with the Spurs and managed to stand out.

https://www.nba.com/spurs/features/120925_rodriguez_jenkins

VDesai wrote:

SergioNYK wrote:Both Begley and Hahn have killed the Johnny Bryant idea due to his inexperience so I guess that leaves Brown, Bud, Malone, Jenkins, Woodson and Walton who have been rumored. Let me know if I've forgotten anyone but out of these coaches, how would you rank them? I have it like this ...

1. Malone
2. Bud
3. Brown
4. Jenkins
5. Woodson

Jenkins and Borrego are young guys, guys who spent time with Coach Pop that have had some success. Jenkins has two recent 50 win seasons under his belt. Guy played a deep rotation, developed a lot of young players. Mainly just a victim of having a superstar with a volatile personality. Interesting background, UPenn Econ major who didn't play college ball...got an internship with the Spurs and managed to stand out.

https://www.nba.com/spurs/features/120925_rodriguez_jenkins

I love style of play Jenkins had in Memphis, liked the tempo, defense and physicality and use of deep/young bench.

Also a positive to me that he clashed with Ja who is an absolute knuckle head with knuckle head father.

VDesai wrote:Better in depth article about Jenkins
https://www.theringer.com/2019/11/14/nba/taylor-jenkins-memphis-grizzlies-ja-morant-jaren-jackson

Something else to take away from this article:

-Very strong relationship with DDV during his time as an assistant with the Bucks.
-This point about organizational alighnment and the coincidental usage of a quote from Gersson Rosas about Karl Anthony Towns struck a chord:

The new buzzword around NBA front offices is “alignment,” meaning everyone in the organization, from ownership to the front office, medical department, analytical staff, and the head coach, is on the same page. When I asked new Wolves president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas about why he took the job in Minnesota, he mentioned the opportunity for organizational alignment in the same breath as the ability to chart the path for Karl-Anthony Towns. In other words, Rosas wanted a coach who would be willing to work with him in putting Towns in the type of offense that he envisioned.

“[Jenkins] has the overall knowledge of everything that it takes to be a head coach. It always starts with a high basketball acumen [...] but you also need an understanding of what’s happening in the [NBA] landscape,” Budenholzer said. “How are you building culture, how are you building your team, can you work with a front office, can you collaborate—things like that. [That’s the] next step of being a head coach. There’s just a lot more that comes with it.”