What a worm!!! The hate you have for our greatest player ever is disgusting. You, and your kind, are not Knick fans. At most, you're all johnny-come-lately. Ewing has not been gone that long for any real, proven Knick fan to sh1t on him with such glee.
You're saying Ewing is a bad coach because his players didn't win a glorified pick-up game, with no real value to those playing in the game? Please, dude... save yourself from yourself.
You're not a fan of this team, unless we're talking about you serving as an instrument used to cool off Knick players or its real fans.
Ewing= pure, true Knicks (what real fans want to get back to): grit, heart, in the face of adversity and haters. If that's not clicking with you, then you're not a real Knick fan.
D'Antoni= an anti-Isiah reaction, with no command of respect from true Knick fans. Your, and your like's, allegiance to his every word and decision proves you have no history or roots with this team. As such, you jump from one dude to another, like the proverbial common whore.
You and your KOL lovers fail, as always.
Ewing, Jr., not Anthony Roberson, Gallo, or any other dude that is only now being heard of, deserved a shot at playing for the Knicks. All true, 82-game-watching, depressed after playoff elimination, long time Knick fans know and feel that.
Ewing, Sr., our greatest player ever, deserved, at minimum an interview followed by an assistant job. True Knick fans know he should have been our head coach.
You can't show up to a family, buddy, and say you're family, without recognizing the people in that family.
So... you fat gringo, go jump off a ledge-o.
Here's my issue with that OG...you say he deserved, at minimum, an interview? Fine, but would you have been happy if he got a cursory interview with no shot at landing the job?
That is, in the NFL right now, there's the Rooney Rule. It's well known that teams interview black coaches to get the Rooney Rule complied with even though they are not truly considered for the job. Dolan is Dolan, he wants an established guy as coach, look at our last few: D'Antoni, Isiah (who had past experience in Indiana), Brown, Wilkens...
Dolan wanted to hire a guy with experience, if Ewing got interviewed he would have stood NO chance at getting the job. To me that's worse than not getting an interview at all.
You seem to be stating you'd satisfied if Ewing got a cursory, glancing interview for aesthetic sake (clarify if this is not what you are saying), just as long as he GOT an interview. If Ewing is getting an interview, I want him to be seriously considered. But with Dolan there, there's no way he would have gotten truly serious consideration. To me, a cursory interview like coaches get in the NFL is worse than not getting one at all.
I'm a D'Antoni lover? Really? I guess you just ignore when I've criticized a ton of his decisions as of late...I just don't think anyone could win with this roster, and see no real use in firing him. It just would make us worse off because Dolan would still have to pay D'Antoni AND a new coach, and Dolan is a cheap piece of shit.
Patrick Ewing, JR. > Gallo? Please...get a grip dude.
And again, I'm not shitting on Ewing as a player. But what evidence do we really have that this guy would be a solid head coach? Stan Van Gundy saying so? That's it? All I'm saying is that his "resume" can easily be explained by external factors...His lone head-coaching experience, in a pick-up game, was ugly...and that's being nice about it.
I understand Ewing is pure grit in the face of adversity. I remember those Knicks teams from Oakley-Ewing even to Sprewell-Houston-Camby, they played rough, they didn't let you in the paint, and if you got into the paint they made sure you didn't want to go back. I remember 1994...But the rules have since changed, refs have become extremely protective of the offensive player, that kind of bumping doesn't fly any more. Do I like it? No. But that's the nature of the game nowadays. It's become less physical and more finesse. Those Knicks teams would get into quick foul trouble if their games were called today. I don't like it, but that's the way it is in the face of recent rule changes.
We have no evidence of HOW Ewing would act as a head coach, really. That's my point. So to say he definitely would draft Brook Lopez and he definitely would make this horrid roster a winner is making too many logical leaps. If you can't see that, you have failed.