Posted by NYKDUNK:
Anyone but Lenny would work for me. Unless the plan is to keep losing...
What we really need is a coach who preaches defense like a broken record. Doc Rivers would have been great, but Byron Scott would work just as well. I could care less if we lose as long as the defense is doing everything they can. That was simply not the case with Lenny this season and the Knicks will NEVER play good defense under Lenny. If Lawrence Frank is axed, Isiah really should get him too. Not that I think it will happen. Of course, if there is one guy out there that can handle both coach and GM, it may well be Isiah, but I doubt he will fire Lenny. The Knicks have a history of illogical thinkers in the front office. This offseason will be a golden opportunity to get a real coach who is up to date with the NBA these days. So of course, the Knicks will pass it up.
why would doc rivers be so great?
he got his team to .500 one year. then they completely were hit with the injury bug combined with POOR player personnel decisions (which he had a hand in) that resulted in a poor season where he lost his star player and got fired.
hell, don chaney got last year's team to overachieve (like doc did) and had to coach a team that was patched together by layden earlier this season before layden got canned.
that's what i don't get, why do you want to already get rid of lenny to bring in a coach that hasn't really done much? doc rivers is not a coach that's ready to make a team an nba title contender (not yet at least) so why not let lenny stay on (while the team is in flux) and then when we're ready to make that last push, we bring in a coach then.
a coach can preach defense all he wants but if the players he have don't play defense or are not familiar with each other yet to play team defense, then it's not his fault.