Posted by playa2:
Letitbeheard, I don't like Lenny as our head coach, Zeke called this guy last minute I really think we could have done better. Zeke has his own agenda and that is probably use of the brooklyln native crap to sell more tickets (dolans idea), when the guy haven't lived in NY IN OVER 30 yrs. I believe he will try and Groom his homeboy Mark Aguirre for the job and That deception is what I dislike about the hiring of Lenny as a front.
first of all, who do you think was a better choice for this job? was it the czar, do you know how much material i read and heard that knocked his tough "walking the ball up the court" style. it know that could all be a bunch of nonesense becouse we all know that steph is not going to walk the ball up the court.
the nba is also a business. i read that he was also asking for too much money and wanted a 4 year contract along with some say in the types of players that isaih brings in. so that didn't sit well with isiah.
is it brendon mallone? he just got fired so i can't say much about that. i would have liked to see him coach though because he led the expansion raptors franchise to the second best expansion record in nba history(22-60 i think). i would have given him a chance but dolan didn't want thomas to take a chance, he wanted to make the playoffs.
you thought pat riely would come here again? i believe isiah did contact him but got rejected. pat probably feels he has done everything he can do in the nba. he just wants to run the Heat and retire. that's what i would do
isiah said he was looking at some assistant coaches. i don't know what coaches so i can't really comment on that, all i know is that they didn't get the job.
he consisdered himself but had already decided that he couldn't do both. obviously every body thought so including me.
we all know that don was awefull. he certainly had to
go as soon as possible.
as for thomas hiring his friend as a coach, we all know that isiah is going to become the coach in the future. so why not start with assembling your staff as soon as possible. he knew that who ever was going to coach the team had to bring an assistant in. so he hired aguire over lon kruger and dick helm came in for malone.
and as for coming to a quick decission on lenny, the knicks either needed mike to become the coach(isiah's first choice) as soon as possible, as we know, that didn't happen. why not give a call to the winningest coach of all time and ask him if he wants to do it. that worked out.
the knicks definately needed to fire chaney when they did, so the knicks couldn't afford to look for a coach longer because by then, the knicks could have lost more games and a chance at the last playoff spot.
it's hard to make a coaching change in the middle of the season but imo the knicks got what they needed.
1/15/2004 4:24 PM
). Lenny is a good coah, not great, but good, so nothing to complain about there.