mikesknicks wrote:I don't get all the Miller love?
The coach becomes irrelevant without the needed talent to succeed
You could bring Chuck Daly back from the grave and this team would still not make the playoffs.
Miller is getting some burn in the public eye for many reasons
1) He's been loyal and this helps him in general to be seen as a head coaching candidate. Might not help him in this job, but it helps him in the entire league
2) It helps the Knicks to look like they have coaches in their system who are seen as rising stars
3) In most cases, teams have already picked their coach, but they need to formulate a process in public for the sake of marketing the team/keeping the team in the public conversation. Also these teams have relationships with agents, and coaches under those agents are rewarded as a gesture of goodwill to keep the relationship stable. Something to understand is when a player gets into some really ugly dirty **** off the court, he's probably calling his agent first. His agent has to bury that nasty **** and keep it from the team so the team can deny they knew anything for as long as possible.
I know some people want to call Leon Rose another fraud man front for Dolan, but he's just a super powerful and wealthy janitor. No one envies his job in pro sports, he had to clean up A LOT of **** for players.
As an NBA franchise, you need to have a functional relationship with agents out there.
4) For optics, you need to, in this current climate, interview a range of coaches. Old, young, black, white, fat, thin, etc. Let's just very very very real here. Any NBA team who doesn't hire a black coach is going to open itself up for problems, even if they simply picked the guy they think can help them win who happens to not be black. The interview process needs to look exhaustive
5) Every coach you interview, is giving you tells on how he coaches and his methodology, you store that later if you have to play against him later when he's on a different team. Much of the interview process is scenario based.