Peter Vecsey ✔ ‎@PeterVecsey1
David Blatt isn't being considered 4 Knicks opening. Never was, I'm told. Strictly a smokescreen, as is search by Jax. Rambis lone candidate

How narrow minded is phil, I can't believe he would duped the fans and team, into making us believe he is out there searching for the best guy for the job. How do you run a triangle seminar without your new coach??

If this is true, this is another sad drama filled management smoke screen. It is so unprofessional, like everything that goes on with this franchise.

This is no different than JR taking a slight discount to make sure is crackhead playing brother is on the roster, or Dolan keeping Isiah around to run this franchise into Cap Hell.

God help me, I'm starting wish bad things on phil....smdh.

I get it though, Phil really wants to coach the team through rambis, or any puppet for the matter, the problem with that, he's not on the road, he's not on the sidelines during games when the game plan needs adjusting on the fly, he doesnt have that guy or guys, that can completely take over without one play being called.

In other words he doesn't have that players that wants to win at all cost, or even know how to win when the game is there for the absolute taking. What we have is a bunch of players that don't really get it, a coach that's scratching his head when the game is on the line..

BRIGGS wrote:100% fine with it. The one thing I hope Rambis improves on is some flexibility in judgement regarding pt for younger players

why would he ever do that when his entire goal is to make the playoffs

knicks1248 wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:100% fine with it. The one thing I hope Rambis improves on is some flexibility in judgement regarding pt for younger players

why would he ever do that when his entire goal is to make the playoffs

It's not guaranteed the veteran is better than the young player. You know Toronto has forced fed Scola to star and rammed Carroll into the sl changing the dynamics of their team which I think has trickled down to their guards

Look at Kaminsky yesterday.

knicks1248 wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:100% fine with it. The one thing I hope Rambis improves on is some flexibility in judgement regarding pt for younger players

why would he ever do that when his entire goal is to make the playoffs

You say that like having the entire goal to make the playoffs a bad thing. If and it's still an if at this point but if Rambis gets the job this probably makes Melo lean a little more towards waiving his NTC because first of all he didn't get any say in the coaching hire like he wanted and if Rambis was someone that he definitely didn't want to get the job then i'm sure he's gonna be very unhappy with that. I truly think Phil wants nothing more than for Melo to waive his NTC and wouldn't doubt if he does some things in a way that he knows Melo wouldn't want them to be done just to push him towards waiving it. Phil knows that the future of this team would be better without Melo and with the young players and draft picks he can get for Melo. Phil has said that he's alright leaving this team without winning anything significant as long as he leaves the team in a good place so as a good team that can win for years to come. I can't remember exactly how he put it but i think you guys know what i'm talking about.

knicks1248 wrote:

Peter Vecsey ✔ ‎@PeterVecsey1
David Blatt isn't being considered 4 Knicks opening. Never was, I'm told. Strictly a smokescreen, as is search by Jax. Rambis lone candidate

How narrow minded is phil, I can't believe he would duped the fans and team, into making us believe he is out there searching for the best guy for the job. How do you run a triangle seminar without your new coach??

If this is true, this is another sad drama filled management smoke screen. It is so unprofessional, like everything that goes on with this franchise.

This is no different than JR taking a slight discount to make sure is crackhead playing brother is on the roster, or Dolan keeping Isiah around to run this franchise into Cap Hell.

God help me, I'm starting wish bad things on phil....smdh.

I get it though, Phil really wants to coach the team through rambis, or any puppet for the matter, the problem with that, he's not on the road, he's not on the sidelines during games when the game plan needs adjusting on the fly, he doesnt have that guy or guys, that can completely take over without one play being called.

In other words he doesn't have that players that wants to win at all cost, or even know how to win when the game is there for the absolute taking. What we have is a bunch of players that don't really get it, a coach that's scratching his head when the game is on the line..

the way an nba team is run is changing. there are now three teams with a coach who doubles as the president of basketball operations, ie detroit and minnesota are emulating san antonio. if rambis is the coach, his connection to jackson has to be thisclose, since jackson cannot endure the rigors of coaching.

so unless you have an issue with how jackson is running the team in the short-, medium-, and long-term, hiring rambis to coach makes sense.

or maybe you are like stephen a smith, who still believes this is melo's team and that all decisions that jackson makes should be informed by that notion. i don't think jackson sees the knicks as melo's team, even with the price tag and the no trade and his tag as the "favorite son." jackson is the boss, and he is going to try and build a winner with or without melo.

i'd like to see melo remain with the knicks, and understand that his role should diminish going forward, if ever so slightly at first. he has shown he can play great all-around ball, if he can only remain disciplined.

CrushAlot wrote:Isn't RC Buford in charge of basketball operations in San Antonio? I think Pop stopped wearing two hats quite a while ago.

regardless of title, popovich is the de facto final decision maker as to who stays and who goes. he hired buford, and remains buford's boss. it all flows from him, and is a big part of the franchise's long-term success. hubie brown went on an extended expose' towards the end of the broadcast today.

since jackson cannot coach any more, you might as well hire rambis. if any player doesn't like it, they'll probably find a way to be off the team.

knicks1248 wrote:

Vmart wrote:Narrow minded. Some of you guys are ridiculous. Rambis is a good coach the one time he had a decent team he had a winning record.

Yeah but took the same exact roster and win a championship.. Rambis hasn't even had a interview prior to Phil Jackson joining the knick.

Is any franchise on any level even remotely interested in Rambis,is not on any teams radar, not even in casual discussions, and if Phil was so certain of rambis he would have been name him the head coach. Why beat around the bush, pretend your talking to other coaches, or having casual conversations.

We don't have an elite roster, so rambis is a joke, because he can't take a avg roster to the next level

Correct, we do not have roster to win anything yet so it make no sense to spend big money on elite coach.
No elite coach will go waste his time with rebuilding roster in the beginning of the process unless to get big $$$.
The time of strapunching of players and coaches in NY is over for now so if this makes you board find some other toy.
NY will be boring for a while and for good reason.

On the subject of Rambis, he's the best qualified candidate because of his rapport with Phil. That's gold. Phil doesn't need the additional headache of butting heads with a coach and Rambis is setting his ego aside. Bingo.

The MSM keeps acting as if there's a silver bullet solution to building a sustainable winning basketball team - a coach, a FA, Melo's consent, on and on.

Good lord, can the trauma queens give the perpetual cynicism a break. It has no merit and its no longer believable.

wargames wrote:Well if Phil is just waiting a few week's and is doing nothing doesn't that imply that he's waiting for a particular candidate to be available for the job?

It's no different than applying for a new job, while working for the old one, except he had to get permission first.