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4/29/2008  7:47 AM
By MARC BERMAN

April 29, 2008 -- Despite his reputation as a mediocre defensive coach, Mike D'Antoni is on Donnie Walsh's radar for the Knick opening if D'Antoni is fired by the Suns after the first round, according to a source close to the Knick president.

Meanwhile, veteran coach Paul Silas told The Post last night he plans on contacting Walsh in the next few days with interest in interviewing for the Knick job. Silas was a Knick assistant for 10 seasons, but hasn't been a head coach since being fired by Cleveland in 2005.

Though Walsh's interview with lead candidate Mark Jackson last Thursday went well, the source said Walsh has made definite plans to wait until after the first round to see what transpires.

In other words, no Jax press conference this week.

In fact, as reported first by the Post's Peter Vecsey on Sunday, Jackson has lined up an interview with the Bulls for tomorrow.

"He wants to see how the playoffs unfold," the source said of Walsh. "Mark could still very well get the job, but even if you're 90 percent sure, you don't want to just hand him the job right away."

Walsh has now zeroed in on four coaches on the hot seat - D'Antoni, Toronto's Sam Mitchell (whose club was eliminated last night), Dallas' Avery Johnson and Detroit's Flip Saunders.

All four could be fired if they lose in the first round, with D'Antoni already being rumored to land in Toronto to replace Mitchell.

Walsh is close with George Karl and he'd be considered strongly too, but has been told the Nuggets are expected to keep him for next season even if swept.

The Knicks New York Knicks don't consider the Bulls a serious threat to hire Jackson. The Bulls are conducting a massive and marathon search.

In 2000, Walsh didn't hire Isiah Thomas in Indiana until July. League executives and agents say Walsh is extremely meticulous in making decisions. The last Knick coaching search took three months, when Thomas waited for Larry Brown to get himself fired.

"Waiting is the right thing to do," one league executive who's close to Walsh said. "You want to see what your options are."
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My list would go like this if this is really true:

1a-Avery Johnson
1b-Paul Silas, it would be great to get him as an assistant.
2 -Sam Mitchell
3 -Mike D'Antoni
4 -Mark Jackson
5 -Flip Saunders(I really don't like this guy at all)

I have to be really honest here 2 weeks ago this was marks job to lose. He dragged it out, not admitting he wanted the job, postponing the meeting, making Donnie fly out to LA, and now he has a legitimate 4 other guys that are ow truly competitiion for him to the point where he is interviewing for another job.

If Jax was SO in love with the idea of coaching here, why act so nonchalant? Why now all of a sudden start interviewing for other jobs (Chicago) when he kept saying he was in love with the idea of coaching here? Jackson is staring to annoy me just a little.

[Edited by - joec32033 on 29 April 2008 07:47]
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4/29/2008  9:01 AM
None of the above and it'd be nice if Berman, Isola, and the band of merry idiots writing stories. Yes, stories, not articles would STOP nominating all these people and telling us they're actually going to all be interviewed.

Kinda tiring to hear about a bunch of made up BS isn't it?

Especially those who want our staff to look like:

GM-Greg Anthony
AGM-Kenny Smith
HC-Patrick Ewing
AC-Charles Oakley
AC-Allan Houston
AC-Herb Williams

etc..........yeah, wonderful ideas abound.

Yep, that'll fix things and get Zachass and Crawful to play defense, stop chucking, learn what teammates are and do, etc......

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4/29/2008  9:04 AM
Can't believe the Suns would really fire D Antoni. He put that team back on the map, created an exciting brand of basketball but some teams as copied, and should have won the Championship last year if not for Horry.

Kerr is the one that pulled the trigger on that trade for Shaq. Who is he going to possibly hire that will do a better job with that team than D Antoni? D Antoni's basketball mind is innovative, creative and is taylor made for the direction the NBA is heading towards. D Antoni would be my number one choice.

1. D Antoni
2. Avery Johnson
3. Flip Saunders ( I put the blame more on the ****y/overrated players than on Flip)
4. Mark Jackson

I wouldn't want to recycle Silas, who I believe it was Riley who said he didn't work hard enough. Not a fan of Mitchell either.
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4/29/2008  9:04 AM
Can't believe the Suns would really fire D Antoni. He put that team back on the map, created an exciting brand of basketball but some teams as copied, and should have won the Championship last year if not for Horry.

Kerr is the one that pulled the trigger on that trade for Shaq. Who is he going to possibly hire that will do a better job with that team than D Antoni? D Antoni's basketball mind is innovative, creative and is taylor made for the direction the NBA is heading towards. D Antoni would be my number one choice.

1. D Antoni
2. Avery Johnson
3. Flip Saunders ( I put the blame more on the ****y/overrated players than on Flip)
4. Mark Jackson

I wouldn't want to recycle Silas, who I believe it was Riley who said he didn't work hard enough. Not a fan of Mitchell either.
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4/29/2008  9:53 AM

It logical that people would talk about the suns coaching given the playoff record.

Same with Karl, and any other 50 win team bounced in the first rould.

Avery's rookie mistakes not closing the door in the finals was epic but that team has been missing pieces for a few years. Grooming Harris only to bring in Kidd when Harris was starting to take hold was short sighted.

Mavs failed when the banked on Dampier as the man in the middle.

Flips team is getting older and he is not defensive minded.

D'Antoni has taken them as far as they can go and the bottom line is the Spurs are just better. Suns run and gun does not win championships. If your commited to Shaq and Nash for another run then Larry Brown would have been the man to bring in. Suns should go with this team one more year with its coach and then start again. It happens, and unless He wants up in toronto, he'll stay. My guess only.

Silas is a good guy but he was not a hard worker as he was as an assitant. He would be a good right hand man for Mark Jax. I doubt he takes that gig.

What will Walsh really want? Mark Jax really has to bankable style, Avery seems to preach Defense but they don't execute, D'antoni is all about offense and I can see why walsh would like him for our one dimensional players.

Tom T. in Boston is the polar opposiste of him.

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4/29/2008  10:53 AM
I could see Toronto being attractive to D'Antoni, obviously because Colangelo is there, but also because they might be willing to spend more money than Phoenix.

Phoenix is always so concerned about the luxury tax that they let key components go, like Joe Johnson and Marion. D'Antoni has been masterful at getting guys like Diaw and Barbosa to step in, but I gotta figure he'd love to have some continuity of roster when things are going well.
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4/29/2008  11:07 AM
are the knicks willing to sit back and give a new guy a shot?

w/ donnie walsh being 67 years old and here for a 3 year deal...and with dolan's somewhat impatience...i think the franchise may lean towards hiring a guy with a resume.

but you never know...maybe the winds are changing at msg...
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4/29/2008  11:15 AM
Posted by djsunyc:

are the knicks willing to sit back and give a new guy a shot?

w/ donnie walsh being 67 years old and here for a 3 year deal...and with dolan's somewhat impatience...i think the franchise may lean towards hiring a guy with a resume.

but you never know...maybe the winds are changing at msg...

I hope so. I seriously think Jackson played himself out of a certain job with what I perceived as nonchalance towards the job. I mean seriously, Jackson is a first time coach and he makes Walsh fly to LA to meet him? That right there has rubbed me the wrong way.

Apparently Jax's interview didn't blow Walsh away the way Walsh thought it would.
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4/29/2008  11:25 AM
Posted by Uptown:

Can't believe the Suns would really fire D Antoni. He put that team back on the map, created an exciting brand of basketball but some teams as copied, and should have won the Championship last year if not for Horry.

Kerr is the one that pulled the trigger on that trade for Shaq. Who is he going to possibly hire that will do a better job with that team than D Antoni? D Antoni's basketball mind is innovative, creative and is taylor made for the direction the NBA is heading towards. D Antoni would be my number one choice.
1. D Antoni
2. Avery Johnson
3. Flip Saunders ( I put the blame more on the ****y/overrated players than on Flip)
4. Mark Jackson

I wouldn't want to recycle Silas, who I believe it was Riley who said he didn't work hard enough. Not a fan of Mitchell either.


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4/29/2008  11:31 AM
if d'antoni is the guy...then the team needs to really get an orchestrator at the pg position b/c without a pg, d'antoni's offense doesn't work well.
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4/29/2008  11:36 AM
Donnie has a great list of candidates to choose from. Sit back and enjoy the show fellas. Knicks are gonna get the right one.......put your Nixluva glasses on!
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4/29/2008  11:40 AM
It will be interesting to see if Kerr sacrifices D'Antoni, for his abortion of a trade. I hope the media doesnt give him a free pass.
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4/29/2008  11:45 AM
My list is
Mitchell
Avery Johnson
Flip
Silas
Jackson
I think Mitchell would be the most effective at getting through to our cast of characters. I recall reading that he was in the military during Gulf War 1 so consider that leadership training as a plus. He was also a teammate of Marbury in Minnesota. He supposedly showed Marbury the ropes of being an NBA player.
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Posted by JesseDark:

I think Mitchell would be the most effective at getting through to our cast of characters. I recall reading that he was in the military during Gulf War 1 so consider that leadership training as a plus. He was also a teammate of Marbury in Minnesota. He supposedly showed Marbury the ropes of being an NBA player.

Sam would knock Steph the **** out the first day of training camp. Steph "respects" anyone until they ask him to actually do something. Lenny, Larry, Flip (who he can't stop whining about, but threw under the bus when he played for him), etc. There's a difference between the 19 year old Steph that Sam dealt with and the 31 year old Steph that currently anchors the Knicks sunken ship. When Sam dealt with him back in the day, Steph had no choice but to listen between Sam and Terry Porter. Sam wouldn't put up with his **** or anyone else's and there wouldn't be any limp handshakes on the bench after Steph storms off. If the Knicks are planning on keeping Marbury, they better bring in a guy like Sam, Silas or Mark on the bench even if it's only as an assistant.
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Its tempting to want to see an experienced disciplinarian come in and start putting baby powder on his palms, but there is something appealing about a high ceiling candidate in Mark Jackson. Nothing is expected of the Knicks in the next couple of years, so that could provide Jackson with on-the-job-training. He can work through the expected growing pains and learning curve.
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4/29/2008  1:19 PM
Mitchell is sounding better and better as this thread evolves.
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4/29/2008  1:35 PM
Posted by Uptown:

Can't believe the Suns would really fire D Antoni. He put that team back on the map, created an exciting brand of basketball but some teams as copied, and should have won the Championship last year if not for Horry.

Kerr is the one that pulled the trigger on that trade for Shaq. Who is he going to possibly hire that will do a better job with that team than D Antoni? D Antoni's basketball mind is innovative, creative and is taylor made for the direction the NBA is heading towards. D Antoni would be my number one choice.

1. D Antoni
2. Avery Johnson
3. Flip Saunders ( I put the blame more on the ****y/overrated players than on Flip)
4. Mark Jackson

I wouldn't want to recycle Silas, who I believe it was Riley who said he didn't work hard enough. Not a fan of Mitchell either.

Disagree on D'Antoni he's good for a specific style not for the team we have. He'd might be a good fit 3yrs from now. We need a hard nose no non sense type of coach at this point. The kind of coach who'll fight a player...Smitch, Silas, and Jackson all fit the bill.

D'Antoni can stay in Phx or go to Toronto. I don't want crybaby coaches either and D'Antoni is the Queen of crybabies.



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4/29/2008  2:23 PM
Posted by sebstar:

Its tempting to want to see an experienced disciplinarian come in and start putting baby powder on his palms, but there is something appealing about a high ceiling candidate in Mark Jackson. Nothing is expected of the Knicks in the next couple of years, so that could provide Jackson with on-the-job-training. He can work through the expected growing pains and learning curve.

knicks have david lee, nate robinson, wilson chandler, renaldo balkman, and mardy collins on their roster. they will have a 2008 #1 lotto pick. possibly a 2009 #1 pick as well.

on the job training is one thing when it comes to in game coaching, x's and o's, etc. but i think one thing this coach must be very good at is developing talent. and right now, there's no way of knowing if mark jackson can develop a player.
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4/29/2008  2:26 PM
Posted by djsunyc:

if d'antoni is the guy...then the team needs to really get an orchestrator at the pg position b/c without a pg, d'antoni's offense doesn't work well.

Theres only 3 true orchestrators. Paul, Deron, and Nash. The rest are PGs that will put a damper on D'antoni's offense.
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4/29/2008  2:33 PM
Posted by joec32033:

Mitchell is sounding better and better as this thread evolves.

i like sam mitchell. he motivates his guys and for the most part, his players respond. he is somewhat of a mismatch with toronto's roster but he makes it work. i'm not 100% sold on his x's and o's but i understand he's a developing coach as well. he will make you accountable. you play hard, you play. you make mistakes, you sit.

bosh, tj, jose have blossomed under him as a coach.
bargs + joey graham have not.
and he's been extra hard on jamario moon and it has paid dividends.

so i think he would be a good hire...and the guy charlotte wanted 4 years ago but toronto came calling first.

plus, he is very charasmatic and will make you laugh in the post games with the way he totally condescends the press.
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