The Back article:
"PHil is a bad person".......That might be true. So he stabbed Bach in the back but he got another job because he is good.
Phil then went on to win a lot more after that. So basically do we want a nice person, or do we want to win?
If you can't trust your guys, it won't work. Did Longstreet do what Bach did? Is that what happens, we find a precedent for something and just assume it repeats?
Do you know how hard it was to get Jordan to get into the triangle, they succeeded and then to have a voice telling him otherwise? What if Bach was trying to angle for a head coaching job elsewhere and jordan being a pending free agent was trying to gain his trust, and get him to move? What if Bach's personal ambitions compromised the teams trust? I don't know, but there are always angles and assistants are very motivated to move up the ladder.
In the end some of you are missing something very very important here:
Phil sat down with Janis before he did not renew Longstreet's contract. Did they discuss this issue? Lets assume they did. Lets not pretend we know, but just assume. If so, he made Janis an insider, showed respect and maybe wanted input. Maybe Longstreet had advised KP to skip the meeting.
We can all agree that would have been bad advice no matter what. Maybe Janis was upset by that. But in the end Janis had a sit down with Phil and then this happened. There was something bad in the knicks coaching ranks and in the locker room. We don't know what that was do we?
Something tells me this was more than just petty jealousy by Phil. I know some of you want to believe it was just that.
