Many of us here agree the coach needs to go at this point, but here are some glaring reasons why coach Jeff Hornacek has failed the Knicks franchise in his two seasons as head coach.
1) Hitting the wall:
The Knicks started off the 2016-2017 season playing decent basketball. Albeit Jackson was still in charge, the team was standing at .500 basketball after roughly 30 games into the season. Then the losing streaks suddenly began and the Knicks finished 31-51 as an extremely disappointing season with a weak eastern conference and arguably Melos best supporting roster since 2012. Fast forward right now and we were a .500 team that has suddenly hit massive losing streaks with a record of 23-30. We lost to the bulls 3 times and hawks who are arguably the worst teams in basketball. We got crushed by the lakers as well, who stink. Two season and two similar trends.
2) Refusing to make adjustments Part 1:
Hornacek simply refuses to adjust his rotations during losing streaks. For example. Michael Beasley is averaging 12 ppg in only 20 minutes a game, yet having a player efficiency rating better than Paul George at nearly 20. He?s shooting over 50% from fg and over 40% from three point land, yet has only started games when player were hurt. When Beasley started he scored over 30 points a few times and was the reason we won the game. (Even Kevin Durant admitted he can score as good as him and lebron)
Still coach plays Lance Thomas 18 min a game when he?s only averaging 4 points and continues to play him in key minutes such as the 4th quarter in Milwaukee game benching Beasley with 11 minutes to go.
3) Refusing to make adjustments Part 2:
The point guard position is arguably the most important position in the NBA and while our decent record at the beginning of the season was due to benching Ramon sessions for Jarrett Jack, the coach is not adjusting now that we stand at 23-30. Jarret jack has had nice games but he continues to play huge minutes when he won?t be here next year and is averaging a measly 7 ppg at the pg position. He?s averaging over 26 min per game and is a terrible defensive guard that can?t defend any quick pg opposing teams throw at us.
Last game against the bucks showed his ridiculous hornacek rotations were.
Frank Ntilikina was having a great game with 9 points, 5 assists in only 17 minutes, instead of playing frank at the end of the game he goes with Jack who played 32 minutes and hardaway who was having his worst game of the season finishing with 34 minutes and shooting 1/14..you don?t play a guy playing that poorly in the 4th over a guy that is having a great game off the bench I?m sorry.
4) The absence of Trey Burke:
Trey Burke has been somewhat of a head scratching case from hornacek. After lighting up opposing teams for back to back 18 point games, Burke has seen his minutes shoot all the way down back to 0 from last nights game. The post game crew of Wally Sczerbiak and Alan Hahn demanded Burke get more minutes and might even be the starter. He was the fast penetrating scoring guard they needed..and now after all the excitement Burke played 5 minutes against Boston and a DNP against Milwaukee when we struggled offensively in both games. Burke averaged a ridiculous amount of points in the g league and we are playing jarret jack nearly 30 minutes and hardaway even more even when he?s having terrible games, something has to give. There is no reason to not play Burke consistently.
5) The handling of Joakhim Noah:
Say what you want about Noah but there were many times this season when we were getting pounded defensively due jack and hardaway allowing players in the paint at will. While Kyle O?Quinn is our best interior defender he has a tendency to foul so much that he doesn?t last in games. Kanter can?t defend, Gomez is even worse. The few times Noah played he was productive and provided a spark rebounding and hustling (just like coach?s buddy lance Thomas). Yet, Noah and coach got into an argument and Noah hasn?t been with the team since. Noah is a veteran and came to NY because he?s always been a knick fan. To have a blow up like this resulting in demolishing the little value he had is piss poor management from coach that symbolizes his job the past two seasons. The situation with Noah should have never occurred and he could have played many times this season when we needed a defensive spark. Coach is pulling the mike dantoni-Stephon Marbury treatment on Noah..the dog house with a locked door.
Coach needs to go. Only hope of making the playoffs is firing this guy to give the team a spark..when we fired mike Woodson we won the next game by 40 points. Let me read all your thoughts.
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1) Hitting the wall:
The Knicks started off the 2016-2017 season playing decent basketball. Albeit Jackson was still in charge, the team was standing at .500 basketball after roughly 30 games into the season. Then the losing streaks suddenly began and the Knicks finished 31-51 as an extremely disappointing season with a weak eastern conference and arguably Melos best supporting roster since 2012. Fast forward right now and we were a .500 team that has suddenly hit massive losing streaks with a record of 23-30. We lost to the bulls 3 times and hawks who are arguably the worst teams in basketball. We got crushed by the lakers as well, who stink. Two season and two similar trends.
2) Refusing to make adjustments Part 1:
Hornacek simply refuses to adjust his rotations during losing streaks. For example. Michael Beasley is averaging 12 ppg in only 20 minutes a game, yet having a player efficiency rating better than Paul George at nearly 20. He?s shooting over 50% from fg and over 40% from three point land, yet has only started games when player were hurt. When Beasley started he scored over 30 points a few times and was the reason we won the game. (Even Kevin Durant admitted he can score as good as him and lebron)
Still coach plays Lance Thomas 18 min a game when he?s only averaging 4 points and continues to play him in key minutes such as the 4th quarter in Milwaukee game benching Beasley with 11 minutes to go.
3) Refusing to make adjustments Part 2:
The point guard position is arguably the most important position in the NBA and while our decent record at the beginning of the season was due to benching Ramon sessions for Jarrett Jack, the coach is not adjusting now that we stand at 23-30. Jarret jack has had nice games but he continues to play huge minutes when he won?t be here next year and is averaging a measly 7 ppg at the pg position. He?s averaging over 26 min per game and is a terrible defensive guard that can?t defend any quick pg opposing teams throw at us.
Last game against the bucks showed his ridiculous hornacek rotations were.
Frank Ntilikina was having a great game with 9 points, 5 assists in only 17 minutes, instead of playing frank at the end of the game he goes with Jack who played 32 minutes and hardaway who was having his worst game of the season finishing with 34 minutes and shooting 1/14..you don?t play a guy playing that poorly in the 4th over a guy that is having a great game off the bench I?m sorry.
4) The absence of Trey Burke:
Trey Burke has been somewhat of a head scratching case from hornacek. After lighting up opposing teams for back to back 18 point games, Burke has seen his minutes shoot all the way down back to 0 from last nights game. The post game crew of Wally Sczerbiak and Alan Hahn demanded Burke get more minutes and might even be the starter. He was the fast penetrating scoring guard they needed..and now after all the excitement Burke played 5 minutes against Boston and a DNP against Milwaukee when we struggled offensively in both games. Burke averaged a ridiculous amount of points in the g league and we are playing jarret jack nearly 30 minutes and hardaway even more even when he?s having terrible games, something has to give. There is no reason to not play Burke consistently.
5) The handling of Joakhim Noah:
Say what you want about Noah but there were many times this season when we were getting pounded defensively due jack and hardaway allowing players in the paint at will. While Kyle O?Quinn is our best interior defender he has a tendency to foul so much that he doesn?t last in games. Kanter can?t defend, Gomez is even worse. The few times Noah played he was productive and provided a spark rebounding and hustling (just like coach?s buddy lance Thomas). Yet, Noah and coach got into an argument and Noah hasn?t been with the team since. Noah is a veteran and came to NY because he?s always been a knick fan. To have a blow up like this resulting in demolishing the little value he had is piss poor management from coach that symbolizes his job the past two seasons. The situation with Noah should have never occurred and he could have played many times this season when we needed a defensive spark. Coach is pulling the mike dantoni-Stephon Marbury treatment on Noah..the dog house with a locked door.
Coach needs to go. Only hope of making the playoffs is firing this guy to give the team a spark..when we fired mike Woodson we won the next game by 40 points. Let me read all your thoughts.
#knickstape
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