Mo Cheeks got fired because the idiot GM gave Zach Randolph an 83 Mil extension and Darius Miles an even more foolish 47 Mil Extension.
randolph is a young, talented big man that can average 20 and 10. hes arguably better than boozer, and boozer got a big contract with utah as well. in fact, name ONE big man that is young and can get 20 and 10 a game that DOESNT have a big contract. teams like utah and portland tradtionally have a tough time attracting/keeping players, so they have to overpay them. randolph is not even overpaid, compared so of the other contracts out there. miles is like a tim thomas, lots of talent, good size at the SF position. its a little bit of a gamble, but portland isnt the first team to gamble on a player like that. isiah thomas gambled on tim thomas. and hes not a total slouch, hes putting up decent numbers, and definetely can get better. 3 years from now his contract might look cheap.
So please don't tell me Cheeks can't coach. He got a fine this year and his players paid the fine. Notice how much worse Portland is since he left?
i never said cheeks cant coach. hes not a good coach, hes not a bad coach., in my opinion. im just saying that being a "players" coach doesnt necessarily work in your favor, and being a "screamer" doesnt necessarily work against you. either style can work. it all just depends on the situation, the individual coach, his players, the management, and bunch of other factors. if cheeks players loved him so much, why didnt they fight every night, night in and night out for him. once i saw on espn tim legler saying that portland has been underachieving the last few years. they have some decent talent, and just never produced. nobody would say that portland has done BETTER than what anyone expected, either about the same or WORSE. so the coach there obviously hasn't done a miraculous job.
Oh by the way, Phil Jackson is considered a "Player's coach". I feel Bob Knight is past his prime for the NBA. The days of screaming at your players is over. The players make way more than the coaches and GMs. Let's face it, it easier to fire one coach or gm than it would be to fire a team.
phil jackson commands a lot more respect from players than mo cheeks, whether it is deserved or not, that can be argued about. hes not afraid to take shots at players (like he did at kobe, and basically just wrote a book about the last season giving reasons for why the lakers didnt win (blaming everyone else except himself)). do you think mo cheeks could handle shaq and kobe together? nobody at texas tech seems to be having a problem with bob knight's intensity. i havent heard any incidents of players forming a mutiny against him. he seems to be doing very well with that program. he's past his prime? then what about phil jackson, who is almost 60? what about larry brown, who is what, almost 70? are they past their primes as well? is he past his prime because he cant recruit superstar players to come to a relatively no name school like texas tech and win ncaa championships year in and year out? i dont think hes past his prime at all.
Please read what I say. PJ and Knight have SIMILAR styles. I get that no two people are the same. I just think the Knicks should find a coach that they perceive will be with the team for a while. Can you honestly see Marbury, KT, or H20 taking orders from Bobby Knight? I can't.
like i said, similar styles dont mean anything. one coach who is a screamer might do very well while another might not. knight stayed at indiana for a very long time, why couldnt he stay with the knicks for a long time as well? isiah is definetely going to think twice about ending knight's stint with the knicks prematurely if things go badly for a little while. knight doesnt give orders just for the sake of giving orders to fullfill his big ego. he usually has a POINT. and many of his tirades are usually directed at the REFEREES. hes just an intense guy. when you have someone with intensity coaching you, you can sometimes want to work harder and play more intenseely. you are less likely to slack on defense, because you know that you will hear about it from a guy like bob knight. a guy like herb or lenny wilkens seems to laid back to ever get in your face if you dont play D. that could help a guy like marbury. with isiah in knights corner, guys like marbury would HAVE to listen to knight. and, at the end of teh day, if your team WINS GAMES, nothign else matters, and trust me, if the knicks start winning with knight as the coach, everything will be gracy and the players will definetely continue to respond to him. they are grown men, they are suppose to be more mature. if knight knows what hes talking about and gets mad for a reason, maybe it will dawn upon the players that maybe hes actually right.
I personally don't want anymore experiments from the Knicks. I want them to bring in the right personnel to re-cultivate a culture of winning. Knight to me would be a step back from that.
knight could very possibly be the answer we are looking for. its just a difference of opinion if someone thinks knight would be bad for the knicks and another person thinks that he could be good.
Them mecca of basketball needs more than Knight has. He is a career college coach. The system he ran at Indiana and now Texas Tech would never fly in the NBA. If that was the case somebody would have brought him to the league years ago.
maybe knight didnt want to come to the nba. im willing to bet that if he did want to, he could. i only would like to see him coaching the knicks, i have no idea what his personal agenda is actually like.
If he attempted to choke any pro athlete they'd find him in the Hudson.
thats the point, no athlete would dare to choke him the first place because they know how intense of a guy he is. he wouldnt choke an athlete for no reason at all. hes not a crazy maniac.
Oh by the way I know that Knight coached IT. Again try to follow what I write if you need clarifican PM me. You know what they say about assuming right? Makes an ass out u & me. When I was taking about support of the gm & ownership I didn't mention anybody in particular. So please don't get it twisted.
so then you agree that knight would have support from management and that would help him better control his players and get respect from them.
I don't think that we need a sideshow on the sidelines either. Sometimes with lack of offense, we don't some idiot coach giving away points with technicals. Just a thought.
hes not an idiot coach. he can intimidate referees and maybe even make them give us a call or two. hes entertaining. he would increase interest in the knicks for sure. he would proabbly improve ticket sales. it would be a good pr move. i dont think you can question that.