Nalod wrote:crzymdups wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:Nalod wrote:I'd like to hear he signed his contract.
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I'm sure a lot of questions will be answered in his press conference... when it happens.
Id rather we try to fill in the blanks and get angry.
Plenty of reports have said that many Knicks team executives even thought that Phil would hire Rambis and that was the point of the Triangle mini camp - people from Ken Berger, Ramona Shelburne, to Howard Beck - some of the most respected general NBA reporters in the league. Plenty of reports have also said that it is believed Dolan may have blocked the hire for whatever reason. Phil took a road trip to think it over and comes back and interviews Vogel and Hornacek and supposedly will hire Hornacek. I applaud what seems like a good decision.
In the end it doesn't matter, but I think something weird happened. This idea that it was a straight forward search without a few twist and turns is silly. There were clearly some twists and turns. And I don't get why it was so bad to speculate about what those twists were. I admit I was upset about the idea of Rambis, because I saw regression in the whole team, particularly in guys like Afflalo and KP and even Melo. I think he would've been a disaster of a coach, particularly for KP. Rambis's idea that KP should have been a small forward and maybe should come off the bench were absurd and showed how backwards and conservative his thinking about the game is.
The supposed "Phil lovers" started out by saying Rambis would be a good coach and it wasn't fair to judge him on his record in Minnesota because of the roster or New York, because of the roster. I was told that a head coach doesn't even really matter. Then when he hired Hornacek I was told it was a brilliant hire and I had no idea what I was talking about. In the end - none of us had any idea what we were talking about. We were all speculating. I was speculating that Phil wanted Rambis and Dolan told him no. Some here were speculating that Phil wanted Rambis and was committed to the Triangle and Rambis knew it best. In the end, it doesn't matter, but nothing I said was wildly wrong and in fact it may actually be what happened. Supposedly Rambis is pissed. It remains to be seen if he is back with the team or not. I sort of wonder if the coaching staff roster - whether Hornacek has to keep Rambis as top assistant - is the hold up here.
Anyway, I'm sorry my curiosity about what goes on with this team bothers you so much. You're free to ignore my threads and read the free agent speculation threads instead. I just happen to think Portland will match on Crabbe so I'm not that fascinated in talking about how we should sign him over and over again. I thought the head coaching search was very interesting - as Briggs' thread right here suggests - it has a lot to do with how we'll play next season and which free agents are good fits. Now we can move forward. And we move forward with a good young coach who has overachieved with limited rosters in smart and innovative ways. I think coaches matter. And I do think things happen behind the scenes on this team that we don't know about. People here make blanket assumptions that Isola is dead wrong all the time and making stuff up. You really think he just makes stuff up? I think he has some sources - they may be bitter sources within the organization who take a negative view of things, but I believe they are in fact part of the puzzle. And I like playing with the puzzle pieces to try to make a picture. If I'm wrong, does it really hurt anyone? Is it really that much different than folks saying last summer that they thought we'd sign Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green? It's all speculation. That's half the fun of sports. Adding some narrative to grown men playing a game. I've seen plenty of threads where you've speculated about the goings on both on the court and behind the scenes in the front office. I don't think I've concern trolled you very much when you've made those threads. If I'm not interested, I just don't reply.