knicksavvy wrote:What is all the drama over the next coach of NY Knicks. What if Phil Jackson about to take on head coach?

This has kind of been discussed in one of the other threads- you're title is a bit misleading though!

mmorman wrote:This entire coaching search is a ruse. There's no search, Phil wants to tell you there's a search in hopes not to piss us off so bad.

He "contacts" someone or maybe even interviews someone, waits for someone else to hire them - -until they're all going to be off the board then he'll say no one wanted to come here - -we're lucky Kurt has stuck with us. In the meantime no one else has interviewed Kurt - -why? because he's such a great coach!

“Only people I probably know will be in the interview process,’’ Jackson said. “I will reach out to make connections to some people. I’ve been in this position in the NBA over 50 years. I’ve seen lot of situations where coaches end up coming in without simpactico with the general manager. Someone who has compatibility with what I do as a leader would have to be in sync with what we do.’’

Fans would be like "What!! We let one get a way".
Knick fans are like little kids. They ignore a toy until someone else wants it, then they HAVE TO HAVE IT!
Rambis was 24-13 In strike short season. Lakes started 6-6 and fired Del Harris. Kobe was 20 and they just got Shaq.
When Phil was available, Ole' Kurt got kicked to the curb done dirty. Hey, its a tough business.

mreinman wrote:

martin wrote:

mmorman wrote:This entire coaching search is a ruse. There's no search, Phil wants to tell you there's a search in hopes not to piss us off so bad.

He "contacts" someone or maybe even interviews someone, waits for someone else to hire them - -until they're all going to be off the board then he'll say no one wanted to come here - -we're lucky Kurt has stuck with us. In the meantime no one else has interviewed Kurt - -why? because he's such a great coach!

Not sure why this keeps coming up. No one is interviewing Kurt cause everyone knows he is sticking with the Knicks and Phil. That's an easy one.

LOL ... I am sure that is not the only reason why he is not being interviewed.

He would be perfect for a tanking team (in the Byron Scott role) but don't think that there are any official tanking teams this year (yet).

I'm hopeful that in Phil's genius intellect he's keeping Rambis for the inevitable tank job to get a top 5 pick in the 2017 draft and not signing anyone this summer of value to stash that money for next summer's crop of free agents.

If he's actually keeping Kurt to try to win something this year and sacrifice our draft position in order to get stupid and meaningless wins to the count of 35-40 wins.....He's a dumb motherphucker and loyal to a disgusting fault.