Isiah did help develop young players like O'neal, Tinsley, Artest, Miller, Harrington when he coached the Pacers. Two straight years the teams that eliminated the Pacers went on to represent the East in the NBA Finals. Thomas won his fair share of games with the Pacers and if anything he has proven to develop young players. The Knicks are very young and they will only get younger since they have two picks in the Top 30 this year in the draft.
The first thing about Larry Brown you have to look at his how has he become a Knicks coach. First during his last season with the Pistons he went on record saying how the Knicks was his dream job. Then during the playoffs he was in talks to become Director of the Cavs team and was seen in Cleveland looking at houses to possibly buy. He showed the Pistons no loyality! Then instead of resigning which the Pistons owner was expecting he would do, larry brown instead went on record saying he hopes he could be back to coach the Pistons, when EVERYONE knew it was impossible that larry brown would go back to coach the Pistons. Instead, Brown forced the Pistons to buy out his contract. Then a few days later he signed a huge contract with the Knicks. Pistons owner went on record and said that larry brown is a bad person.
As I pointed out above, the Knicks roster is not terrible. The one thing it is is very, very young! So Larry Brown in my opinion is not the guy to take this team back to the Playoffs. Larry Brown set a record for the most lineups in the history of the NBA! He constantly went to the media to bash the roster, bash players.
Larry Brown is the only one to coach a title in the NBA and NCAA teams to title. But the Pistons team was already back to back 50 win seasons when he replaced Rick Carlise. The Pistons were not doing that great, then they brought Rasheed Wallace on board and then the Pistons went off and so did the Pistons and they won the Title!
Larry Brown just wants his bank account to get deeper, this is all he cares about! He took the Knicks to the cleaners! Now he will be heading to Cali to coach a team willing to pay him silly money!
He is the most over-rated over-hyped coach in all of sports! He comes on board just when he sees something positive is going to happen, he then bails just as he knows the ship is going to sink. All along thinking, he needs more money! He is a bum, always has been and I have personally never liked this guy!