What I don't understand is how come coaches that are either strong on offense like MDA or strong on defense like Thibs, don't higher a strong coach by their side that brings a strength to his weakness. Maybe his staff is built that way, but I would think Thibs could benefit from having a high Offensive IQ staff, where Thibs can just focus on defense and trust his staff to work on the offense. Similar to how they do it in the NFL.

Again, maybe they do this and fans are not part of the inner circle of the coaching staff and their expertise. But this is something I thought about back with MDA was the coach. How come he didn't try and bring on a top defense coaching staff to balance that out.

NYKMentality wrote:

fishmike wrote:how we looking on 60 wins?

It's not over until it's over @ we're a 38 consecutive game winning streak away from 60 wins.

And to answer your question; not so good.

But in all actually reality; at the time of my prediction I thought that both Rose and Kemba would be able to split minutes together @ PG while keeping one another healthy; I thought wrong.

However I will say this. If both Kemba/Rose remained healthy we'd at least be 11 games above .500 and a top 1-3 seed (with a punchers chance @ 60 wins).

And at the end of the day I'm just thankful to watch meaningful Knicks games this late into the season (January 18th) because too many seasons throughout the previous 20 years have I not wanted to watch NY basketball while fielding losing teams such as 17-65.
17-65, 21-45, 23-59, 23-59, 29-53, 29-53, 30-52, 31-51, 32-50, 32-50, 33-49, 33-49, 37-45, 37-45 and 39-43 etc.

Wrong prediction or not, I'm still fired up for 2021-2022's NBA season and hopefully; you can understand.

So you're saying it's possible...

NYKMentality wrote:

fishmike wrote:how we looking on 60 wins?

It's not over until it's over @ we're a 38 consecutive game winning streak away from 60 wins.

And to answer your question; not so good.

But in all actually reality; at the time of my prediction I thought that both Rose and Kemba would be able to split minutes together @ PG while keeping one another healthy; I thought wrong.

However I will say this. If both Kemba/Rose remained healthy we'd at least be 11 games above .500 and a top 1-3 seed (with a punchers chance @ 60 wins).

And at the end of the day I'm just thankful to watch meaningful Knicks games this late into the season (January 18th) because too many seasons throughout the previous 20 years have I not wanted to watch NY basketball while fielding losing teams such as 17-65.
17-65, 21-45, 23-59, 23-59, 29-53, 29-53, 30-52, 31-51, 32-50, 32-50, 33-49, 33-49, 37-45, 37-45 and 39-43 etc.

Wrong prediction or not, I'm still fired up for 2021-2022's NBA season and hopefully; you can understand.

11 games over 500?! Top 3 seed?! We were 10-9 when Kemba got pulled from the lineup...This is Trevor Ariza level of delusion!

MDA had no defensive plan (switch on everything)

THIBS has no offensive plan (read and react as best as you could)

knicks1248 wrote:He is doing about as good a JOB as MDA who took us to the Playoffs 3 of the 4 yrs he was here.

MDA had no defensive plan (switch on everything)

THIBS has no offensive plan (read and react as best as you could)

that is a bit off. he was the coach for nyk in 1 post season and they won 0 games. he quit before the next playoff chance. tt is ahead in playoff wins, which was a bit easy to do and really doesnt amount to much.

knicks1248 wrote:He is doing about as good a JOB as MDA who took us to the Playoffs 3 of the 4 yrs he was here.

MDA had no defensive plan (switch on everything)

THIBS has no offensive plan (read and react as best as you could)

When your team is down their main 2 PGs and your 2 high usage players are awful passers, what genius offensive system do you expect the coach to run?

Knicks run a lot of predetermined sets, Horns, Pistol Action, PnR. They are god awful when they do iso Randle.

What are you suggesting they should run?

knicks1248 wrote:He is doing about as good a JOB as MDA who took us to the Playoffs 3 of the 4 yrs he was here.

MDA had no defensive plan (switch on everything)

THIBS has no offensive plan (read and react as best as you could)

Yeah, for all the good that Thibs brings, namely on the defensive side of the ball, he has zero offensive game plan (like MDA).
They are both system coaches and trusting the lead guys to create. Problem here is though Julius is our best player, he really needs to be coached as his BBIQ is not the best. And our only true PG available (Deuce) the last 2 or 3 weeks saw next to no time. Why not? We are not going anywhere. This season is like the Ghost of Elfrid Payton regarding Thibs inflexibility.

My biggest problems with Thibs are:
1. He plays the vets too much when it doesn't matter (and in general.)
2. He is mostly ignoring the rookies. Playing Julius 39 minutes so often and Obi 10 or so is criminal. Or as in yesterday, playing Taj over Obi.

I don't want to fire Thibs, but I think Leon needs to force his hand with roster changes as Thibs won't change.
And would it be an insult to bring in an offensive coach?

But Thibs like all the knick coaches in the past is stuck in this weird position of trying to win by any means necessary. And historically Thibs trust his vets over rookies, unless his rookies show all star level talent like Rose. Then he rides them. I’m assuming he’s giving Randle and RJ that same treatment. And just rotating the other 3 guys.

EF actually gave some good effort on defense and balanced that out with offense. But it seems that when Kemba plays,along with EF, it negatively affects RJ which is what we saw in the beginning of the season. RJ is more affective when he’s the focal point. The problem with that is we have 4 players in the starting lineup that needs the same treatment to be affective. They are all volume shooters and needs those attempts to get hot and impact the game.

Thibs needs high IQ players that do not need a high volume of attempts to be affective. Which I’m sure is the case for most coaches. Tough spot to be in.

Fun dimes