Get Rid of him
He is an average coach who isn't much of a game planer and half time adjustment specialist. He couldn't get the knicks to be competive after the league figured out his only offensive wrinkle: pick and roll. He was unable to concoct strategies defensively and offensively to win one game or make one game close in the Nets' series. He doesn't know the meaning of " the post". Never did he figure out how to get Vin Baker, Mohammed, Sweetney, Kurt Thomas Tim Thomas (four inches taller than Richard Jefferson, and maybe take their leading scorer out the series) the ball in the post. Wilkens is not a game evaluator. If the knicks kept pounding the ball inside against Collins and Williams, they'd have won at least a couple of games in that series and would have been competitive in the others. He elected to have his team shooting long jumpers which ultimately incipients Kidd, Kittles or Jefferson rebounds and fast breaks points for the Nets. I saw an instance where Micheal Sweetney was given the ball in the post on an errant pass while guarded by Kenyon Martin. Sweetney backed him in with ease and scored. He has maybe 40 pounds on Martin. I didn't understand why he didn't see that and continue to attack Martin with Sweetney. Martin is know for dunce fouls. Basically, he's a putrid coach. I'd like to see Byron Scott here or a Greg Anthony or just give to Mark Aguire.