Derek Fisher is out as head coach of the New York Knicks. What does this mean? Well hopefully better things to come next year and going forward. This was weird timing by Phil, I know the All-Star break starts Thursday, so why not wait until then? Was Phil planning for that then just got fed up and went "eh, close enough?" Fisher wasn't much of a coach, granted last years team was a dumpster fire, but started with a team that almost made the playoffs the year before. He did nothing with them so that's when they shipped JR and Shumpert out. This years team definitely has East 8 seed talent, but again they're not playing all that well. Leaps and bounds better than last year, but that's not saying much after they amassed 17 wins. Now they're 23-31 and have been awful lately. They start really slow a lot of the time, and most the time they build a big lead they let it slip away. So I think a lot of that's coaching. NBA coaching isn't as "hands on" as the NFL but you gotta have your guys ready to play and motivated and Fisher never really did either. So now Kurt Rambis has been named interim Head Coach and he has one of the worst coaching records of all time. Now some candidates have been Tom Thibodeau, who's a great defensive guy but doesn't really play young guys that much and plays a smaller amount of guys big minutes. I still think he's a great coach and he's proven he is. Luke Walton has obviously been mentioned, having coached Golden State while Steve Kerr recovered from back surgery. He did have one of the best teams of all time so that makes it a little easier. Still to get those guys to take him seriously speaks to his ability to lead a team, at least in my mind. I hope Phil doesn't make him run the triangle, I hope he's allowed to run a system more like the Warriors run, free-flowing with a whole lotta ball movement. I think the triangle is out-dated and if Phil is so hellbent on running it then his old ass should just coach. Prove to me it can still work in today's NBA. Another name floating around is Brian Shaw, I don't think he's anything special though, he took a Denver team that was a 3 seed in the West in 2013 to a lottery team before being fired last season. I think Phil should look at Mark Jackson, he may not be a triangle guy, but he developed Golden State into a playoff team. All in all I think it's a good move for the long term, especially if we can get Walton. Now I need Phil and the front office to get this year's draft pick back. Or some lottery pick because I really want to see Kentucky's Jamal Murray drafted by the Knicks.
It's been real Fish.
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