With these hires, we have added a wealth of basketball experience and knowledge that will be of great service to our players and our organization,” Thibodeau said in a statement. “All of our coaches have had a high level of success in college, the NBA or internationally. We are assembling a hard-working and well-rounded coaching staff that will embody everything we want to be about: accountability, development, teaching and a winning culture.”

All of the bases seem to be covered..DEFENSE, OFFENSE, DEVELOPMENT, ACCOUNTABILITY, TEACHING.

Now we just need to shape the roster as balance as the coaching staff

Next up, I'm excited to see what they do with the development and performance staff- they seem to have cleared the deck, and there was talk of significantly expanding it (we didn't even have a shooting coach last year, such was the 'player development' con), but not a peep about it. Hope it's in place before the September practices start- only a few weeks to go

knicks1248 wrote:DO YOU AGREE?

1) Spolestra
2) Carlisle
3) Budenholzer
4) Popovich ( I think he's overrated to be honest )
5) D'Antoni

Nurse is still too new. Vogel has done a pretty good job with the non LBJ/AD players, considering LBJ pretty much ****s over all his coaches. Borrego is actually pretty interesting. Given his situation, I still think he's ****ed, but given he's working with close to nothing, you can see the methodology behind what he's doing.

Thibs is probably 16-18 ish range.

But baby steps. The Knicks hired a guy actually trained and experienced for the job. For them, that's a win. You need little victories and the ability to count them when you are so far down the rabbit hole like the Knicks.

Rainman got top 5 and we have not played a game?

I hope its not too late but this front office should start looking at the assets we already have and get a pretty good player development staff as solid and well rounded as the coaching staff to drastically improve the play of our youth.

The coaching staff and development staff doesn't count against the salary cap. Can they identify And hire a specific development coach for each player(Frank, knox, DSJ, RJ,Mitch, Iggy, new rookies) so they have an official personal trainer to develop their skills. This might be their plan from the get go but i can not see the results until now. DSJ got Kieth Smart all summer last year to fix his shot and look how that turned out.

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BigDaddyG wrote:Missed this from Cle. I liked his hustle, but he was trash. The strip club shooting was also a setback, but I wasn't seeing it before that incident happened. Do you guys think our past coaching staffs failed him, Trey, Baker and THJ. You can make a case for THJ as he flourished in Atlanta. But I thought guys like KP, Trey, Mudiay, and Vonleh showed progress here.

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One thing I never understood with him and the night club incident- how can you get shot in the knee but have it cause no structural damage?

Nalod wrote:one can say MDA fails because he never won a chip.
Or he over achieves with what he has and the playoffs are the great truth.
Hate on him you see hit half empty.
Carlisle got his chip and the rest puts him in Karl/Nellie turf.

Rainman got top 5 and we have not played a game?

MDA never won a chip almost in the same way Ewing didn't; one ran into Jordan and the other Duncan. That hipcheck did them in

fwk00 wrote:The Knicks have always had very good Front Office hires. We've had a who's who of coaches, GMs, and scouting. So this is just the laest rebuild and its an excellent group.

What is critical is that they do not misunderstand the maturity of this team. They need to avoid the StarPhuck pattern of signing a big name to a big, untradeable contract, who arrives and turns into a pumpkin.

They also need to ensure that they do not pretend this is yet another YEAR ONE because YEAR THREE will never arrive. This train has left the station. This is the Golden State Warriors *BEFORE* they started winning. Not YEAR ONE but somewhere at the end of YEAR TWO. There is a core that with some good coaching starting on day one and with a few key ingredients added can make the playoffs.

Not making the playoffs will doom this and any Front Office in NY - no exaggeration. This is a very expensive FO rebuild.

We’re not making the playoffs next year. We shouldn’t be the worst team in the league though

Consider the Bulls, Rose had no outside shot, Noah no shot period, Butler (anyone could have had him). Taj Gibson (would he even have been in the league this long). Our recent Knicks coaches would have found a way to screw that situation up.

Hoping that Thibs can extract the best from our guys and go from there. Panglossian view: Frank becomes a stopper at the point, and scores points when people don't pay enough attention. KK spreads the floor as a 4. RJ turns into a bully at 2 and takes 10FT a game hitting 75%. Mitch makes up from KK's mistakes on D. Maybe we get lucky and get DSK from Dallas where there were times that the game seemed so easy for him. then if we get a decent 3, either someone who can shoot, or is hyper competitive on D, it would at least be a decent product

Wolves had far better talent on paper, but it looks like impressions were true: too cool for school, occasional effort on D and loose balls. If nothing else i think we will do better from that standpoint