I too, read this article in another Knick Forum.
being a long time Knick-Fan that seen coach Hubie Brown, Holzman, Riley, Nelson, and JVG do their thang coaching the Knicks.
So this Dan Toni article with an optimistic hope of bringing back the dead dont sell here.
Coach Wilkins and Larry Brown proved that the Isiah roster is a 2 to 3 year Project just to become a 500 team.
The long analysis on Dan Toni is appreciated, but the samething could be said about the cross the river Nets coach Frank.
If coach Frank could have kept the roster lineup of Kidd, Kittles, Jefferson, and K-Mart for 3 to 4 straight seasons alot of the B-Ball world would be comparing him better than coach Eddie Jordan & O'Koren, and their ex-head coach Byron Scott. Making him a celebrity coach.
D'Antoni first full season as a NBA coach he inhereted four players that would make their country Olympic Team. Those four players had a foundation and a style they wanted to play at before D'Antoni became a head coach in the NBA. How many Euro-League players past & future have you seen that has the same intensity on the court as "Marion & Amare"? both players are born to be a "double-double" player in the NBA.
No offense intended but .......
Dan Toni is a celebrity coach.
His first real showing of NBA coaching will come with the Knicks.