He's not coaching to win like most NBA coaches have to. Perry and Mills have given him an early season pass on winning games. Come December he better have figured out what his rotations are and start playing winning bball otherwise the honeymoon will be over in NY. We'll be reading in the NY papers that he was overrated and MEM did the right thing in firing him. He might not actually win any games with this team but if he can develop Nits, DD, KK, MRob and Trier into solid 30 mpg players like guys like McGruder, Richardson, TJ, DW are for Miami he can prove his value as a coach.
After the Knicks 6 game of the season .. i see many reason why the Memphis Grizz Fired Fizdale .. in the Knicks poor 2nd half performance in the previous 3 games vs Giannis Bucks, Pat Riley Heats, and the NBA Champs KD 25 pts in the final quarter of the game .. coach Fizdale (like Hornacek) need to be
Demoted to one of the assistant coaches on the staff.
I'm sorry to say, Fizdale is not the head coach we really want developing the young-core Knick players ..
It's showing clearly that Fizdale has not spent much time working to get the Knick starter lineup a format on ball-movement to create several offensive plays to form a system where each starter player has a option to score. Having scorers Kanter & Timmy in the starter lineup and not having a well design pick n roll, or well screen play for a open 15 footer, or a boxout play for a alleyoop to Kanter in the post .. there's to many things the lineup should be doing to help each other score and defend that are not happening as a team.
Coach Fiz has our starter lineup depending on 3's and isolation performance to score Knick points in all 6 games this season.
The Knicks bench players are happy to get playing time in any of Fizdale experiment lineup.
The bench players does the same as the starters for points shoot 3's or isolation plays for jump-shots.
The cry for Dotson to be in the starter lineup from shooting 45% from the FG in 6 games are understandable when Timmy has been shooting 40% from the FG in our 6 games.
The tandem guards of Burke & Frank need to be given plenty of playingtime in the backcourt having Knox or Mario as the SF!
Not Timmy at SF, not Dotson at SF, not Trier at SF, and not Lee at SF. The Knicks coach Horn did not give Burke & Frank enough time to develop into a backcourt because we added Mudiay, and coach Fizdale has not let Burke & Frank run the backcourt in any of the 6 games we played in favor of giving Timmy 32+ minute of playing time in each of the 6 games this season.
The Knicks being the youngest team in the NBA, are not a good excuse for their poorly 2nd half performance this season.
The NBA has several other young teams that are performing 10 times better than the Knicks by performing to their head coach planned system that comes with several set of offensive-plays to score plus certain young teams been improving on defensive stops.
The young Sacramento Kings last 3 games (2-1)
The young LA Lakers last 3 games (2-1)
The young Hornets and Mavs may be (1-2) in their last 3 games, their losses were close games.