Just play along with the premise. What if LB and Isiah are in deep discord over the use of the roster and LB isn't on as solid footing as some of us presumed. (That might even explain why Steph feels secure in dogging the LB style, as some of us think he is.) Lets further assume that if LB will not get the roster moves he wants he will resign, with the blessings of his doctors and wife. As such the Knicks would not be on the hook for the rest of his contract.

Whether all that is plausible or not, lets just pick up from the hypothetical point where Larry choses to resign from the Knicks this season.

Of coaches available now, who would you want?

Does any one think Isiah would be a good option as a GM/coach? Is that too much power for one man? Would he serve the organization better as just the coach, or just the GM, or neither, or both?

my god what a fickle crowd we have become.

Isiah has to know that he is limited and would never let Brown step down so quickly or take the helm without a surefire sigh that they were doing well.

Posted by martin:

my god what a fickle crowd we have become.

Isiah has to know that he is limited and would never let Brown step down so quickly or take the helm without a surefire sigh that they were doing well.

I'm not fickle. Other than a downward evolution of my feelings toward Marbury which occurred steadily over his first 4-12 months with us, my feelings have barely budged on any of our players or coaches. Oh, I also once thought F-Will and later TT could be productive for us.

I am hardly advocating a coaching change, but thru this constant turmoil the rumors of fallout between Isiah and Larry are inevitable. I'm just fishing for thoughts on who people think would be better suited to coaching this roster, with the understanding that past favorites, like Flip or Doc, are not currently available.

Posted by SlimPack:
while I still think that larry would be better in the long run, I think that if we had to go with another coach, we may as well chose one that can bring fully take advantage of this team's strengths

Sure, but that's easier said than done.

After the debacle of last season I think many of us felt the first order of business should be tightening up our D. Hence the early use of malik and AD.

curry in the deep post should be an obvious advantage for us, but he's rarely available.

Pick and Roll between Steph and Frye seems like an obvious threat, but I don't know what things were like here last year, but on realgm and K4L too many people couldn't wait to ship KT out cause he played too far from the paint and played like a "***** SF". If I'm not mistaken fishmike's hatred of KT surpassed even mine for Steph. I'd hate to see Frye fried for playing to far out just to work with Steph.

Jamal... still don't have him figured out. Not sure how best to utilize him. I think at PG, but I'm not sure.

So much is made of Browns "foolishness" for starting a defense and intangiables guy like AD, but SF is our position of greatest weakness/need and I see no obvious remedy there.

I guess if I had my druthers with what we have now I'd play JC, Steph, Ariza/Lee, Frye, Curry at the 1-5 respectively. But having said that I don't know JC can handle the point, I don't know that SM can play and guard the two, SF is weak regardless, Frye is green, Curry is rarely able to play let alone log big minutes. Maybe when curry is out you play Frye at center and Lee at PF.

In any case I'm not sure any of that makes for a winning combo. At least LB is trying to establish a post game and defense first. It's not working out so well, but I can't really fault the concept.

As far as mis-utilizing Steph... I have a hard time believing he doesn't wasn't Steph to penetrate or shoot. he just wants Steph to get his in the flow of the offense, and to make passes that lead to passes, rather than dominating the ball in an attempt to set up all scores. That said, I am surprised we don't see more pick and rolls, and I have no explanations for that, unless LB doesn't feel our bigs can roll.

if Brown were to retire this year- and I think this is a more likely scenario for next year- I think its either Isiah that has to take over or Herb that gets the gig.

Westphal would be a great choice- herb interviewed him at one point- so its likely he would be added to herb's staff.

We might win a couple games this year!

Posted by BlueSeats:

Posted by martin:

my god what a fickle crowd we have become.

Isiah has to know that he is limited and would never let Brown step down so quickly or take the helm without a surefire sigh that they were doing well.

I'm not fickle. Other than a downward evolution of my feelings toward Marbury which occurred steadily over his first 4-12 months with us, my feelings have barely budged on any of our players or coaches. Oh, I also once thought F-Will and later TT could be productive for us.

I am hardly advocating a coaching change, but thru this constant turmoil the rumors of fallout between Isiah and Larry are inevitable. I'm just fishing for thoughts on who people think would be better suited to coaching this roster, with the understanding that past favorites, like Flip or Doc, are not currently available.

man, just be patient. like someone said the other day, LB always has a record like this when he first takes over a team. LB and Isiah arent going anywhere. get over it.

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by BlueSeats:

Posted by martin:

my god what a fickle crowd we have become.

Isiah has to know that he is limited and would never let Brown step down so quickly or take the helm without a surefire sigh that they were doing well.

I'm not fickle. Other than a downward evolution of my feelings toward Marbury which occurred steadily over his first 4-12 months with us, my feelings have barely budged on any of our players or coaches. Oh, I also once thought F-Will and later TT could be productive for us.

I am hardly advocating a coaching change, but thru this constant turmoil the rumors of fallout between Isiah and Larry are inevitable. I'm just fishing for thoughts on who people think would be better suited to coaching this roster, with the understanding that past favorites, like Flip or Doc, are not currently available.

man, just be patient. like someone said the other day, LB always has a record like this when he first takes over a team. LB and Isiah arent going anywhere. get over it.

huh? it was a hypothetical.

i support brown. he might just be the best thing going for this team right now.

PJ carlisimo. Hes a popovich assistant (that means defense) and he knows how to work different kinds of offenses.