few things he said:

- LB and isiah are very close and LB wants to make sure that they win in ny, not only for the team but for isiah

- LB and isiah met at a retreat after zeke was fired from indy, and they found out that isiah was a GREAT bball mind and knows what he's doing

- LB wants to see who he has first and who'll be receptive to him before they make moves

- LB had a tremendous amount of respect for steph, especially b/c steph TRIED to be the PG he wanted and took it very hard when they lost

- he expects the first 1-2 months to be rough, and then by the all star break, the team will start getting it and then by the end of the year, the team will be really really good

Not coincidentally, I read somewhere that Brown is intent on helping Calipari resurrect his NBA career.

Per Hubbie Brown...
http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/50955.htm

"You need a teacher with organization and discipline and the most important thing is he's going to make them all accountable," stressed Hubie, who recorded more than 500 head coaching victories in the NBA and the ABA - where in its last season, 1975-76, Larry's Denver Nuggets beat Hubie's defending-champion Kentucky Colonels in the playoffs.

Larry Brown lives and dies with defense. And the Knicks' roster, well, it's not the Detroit Bad Boys of the '80s and '90s.

"It's going to be a great learning experience for players under contract there. You never assume people cannot do things. Every coach brings an approach and a philosophy at both ends. Larry Brown is a disciplinarian and he's got a style, a winning style," Hubie added.

And all of Larry Brown's strengths will enable him to handle the glare and the unrelenting spotlight of New York. Above all, he will make the Knicks winners, Hubie predicted. That will ease the glare and lessen the spotlight considerably. The onus is on the players to perform.

"There's not going to be a laissez-faire attitude toward the last six minutes of a game, toward winning. There will be accountability," Hubie insisted. "Put all this in cement: He is not going to adjust to them. They are going to adjust to him."