I don't know if he's a puppet or not. I'd hope not.
Regardless I firmly believe this team _MUST_ be torn down and in that it is pointless to hire a DAntoni at 5 years to preside over the coaching of such a situation.
On the other hand, if we do hire DAntoni, we surely are NOT learning from mistakes, are NOT rebuilding, and the same idiots in charge before have infected Walsh into thinking this is a core you can IMPROVE just by making a trade or two and adding the right coach.
That's a gross underestimation of how absolutely TERRIBLE this core of players is.
If we're really trying to win now, and hiring DAntoni would certainly be a signal that we are, we're simply ****ed as fans.
If people believe that DAntoni is some magical creature that can make Zach, Crawful, Jeffries look like Nash, Amare, Marion - then well - they too are in the same sinking boat of lunacy.
One would hope this is just the usual classic case of someone using the Knicks penchant to overpay as a means to get the money they want from the team they actually want to go to.
If DAntoni is hired, I'd have to as a fan see what he can do before outright condemning the move, yet I firmly believe it's a very VERY poor decision to believe the problems that this roster has can be solved by hiring DAntoni and making a trade or two. That's simply not living anywhere near reality.
The two most perfect, REALISTIC, trades + DAntoni = maybe 42 wins and a first round exit in 09/10. If that's the plan, well...we're not going to be happy campers.
Yes, before it's asked, I'd rather win 20 games next year knowing we're REBUILDING than do all we can to try to win 35 and squeak into the playoffs like Atlanta did this season. For that merely cements you right back into mediocrity. This go around it'd be a few seasons of 40-42 win ball and first round exits.
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