NY Knick Fans should have Faith!
This is Hakim Wray- Mad Maestro Sports.
The NY Knick fans have clearly fed into the continuous negative press against Isiah Thomas from the NY media over the last three years. When in history has a GM or Coach ever been so second-guessed and criticized for every decision and non-decision before. One has to wonder if there is some kind of benign jealousy over this man having so much authority in a town that still struggles with race relations. There are virtually no people of color covering the Knicks however; all but one player on the Knicks is a person of color (David Lee). No one wants to suggest race as an issue for the overly critical media, because when you win no one says anything too harsh because the fans and readers would see right through the motives of a lot of these beat writers.
The suggestion that Larry Brown was more suited for this job and group of players is absurd. His coaching style is “his way or the highway,” that’s not going to work in today’s league, the players aren’t like they were in the seventies, eighties and even the early nineties. Brown will probably coach somewhere next year but he will have to change his style to match the team not the other way around like he tried to do here in NY. And, he has to stop picking fights with his star players (Reggie Miller, David Robinson, Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury.) He wasn’t even liked by the starting five that got him his first ring in Detroit. The USA basketball team got a bronze medal in the Olympics after grabbing gold in three prior Olympics, that wasn’t because Brown didn’t have the talent, the players didn’t have time to mesh together and several players didn’t agree with Larry’s coaching style so he didn’t play them (Carmelo Anthony, Dewayne Wade, Stephon Marbury, Lebron James). Come on Pamela Anderson could have coached those players to victory, all she had to do was say to them “go out there have some fun guys and let’s bring home the gold.†Instead Larry Brown is trying to teach a rigid point guard led offense when he doesn’t have one pure pass first point guard on the entire team. His longest tenure was six seasons with Philadelphia 76ers and he feuded with Allen Iverson the whole time, Larry Brown has been hyped up as a Hall of Fame coach but if you look at his history, his career winning percentage is slightly above .550 not exactly Hall of Fame and he goes from team to team alienating players with his Napoleon control freak personality. Brown has no loyalty to any team let alone his players or GM’s. Isiah Thomas hooked him up with a cushy five year deal worth 50 million based purely on respect, not winning percentage or number of championship rings and what does Larry Brown do he tries sabotage Isiah in effort to get him fired so he could have his job as GM. If wasn’t for Dolan seeing thru Brown’s scheme and 10 out of 14 NY Knick players saying they thought it was Larry Brown’s fault that the Knicks only won 23 games in 2005 when the exit interviews were held at the end of the season, Isiah would have gotten shafted during the summer and Brown would have took over until he decided to quit, once he realized the Knicks were headed to another losing season under his tenure. Brown has and always will think about the best interests of Larry Brown. The Knicks will be better off just forgetting the year of Next Town Brown. That was the biggest mistake Isiah Thomas made in his tenure as GM, he tried to please the fans with a big name coach, when he knew this team was rebuilding.
The NY Knicks have been a bad team since Van Gundy left, yet the fact that they are not meeting Knick fans expectations makes this Knick team get booed at home and it falls on Isiah’s shoulders. Layden left this team a mess that many educated Gm’s in the NBA aswell as beat writers suggested it would take five years to repair no matter who was in charge because of the 100 million dollar payroll and untradeable players. Isiah has added an additional 35 million to the payroll but the cap is at 60 million and they were not getting under the cap. What would you rather wack players like we once had or a new foundation to start with either way we are rebuilding?
Last night was a terrible defensive performance by the Knicks, but also a great performance by a Washington team that has been underachieving all year long. This is a rebuilding team meaning they will win some and lose some on the way to consistently winning. If you have ever played on any team in your life that won games you would know that chemistry is the most important part of the team. The Knicks are building that and figuring out who will play together. Even though the Knicks have an 8-14 record they have learned a lot in those losses that will help them become a better. Real athletes know and understand the importance of building chemistry and it doesn’t matter if your team has too many guards or too many forwards, it just matters that they trust one another and understand what people are capable of.
The Knicks have four players that have shown us that the future is bright ( Eddy Curry, David Lee, Quentin Richardson and Renaldo Balkman). If Stephon could get it together that would be a great fourth quarter lineup. I still prefer to start with Jared Jeffries in place of Balkman, once he is off the injured list. So many people wanted Tyrus Thomas over Eddy Curry. Eddy Curry has developed into a very good low post player who can become dominate once he gains the confidence. Curry is still playing raw and unpolished, yet he is able to put eight straight 20 point games and double doubles in his last three games. Tyrus Thomas is riding he bench averaging less than 4 points and 3 rebounds a game. David Lee is a consistent hustle rebounder and will average a double double by the end of the year. Quentin is making a case for most improved player.
And, Balkman knows how to finish strong, play defense, rebound and push the ball up the court for a fast break.
The Knicks will begin to win with more consistency once Jared Jeffries hits the floor, because our defense will be better and the team will be better balanced. Have faith Knick fans and stop listening to people who watch games for a living and have never played a day in their lives. The only advantage when it comes to having basketball knowledge that they have over the average spectator is that they get paid to watch and critique games, whereas the average fans just has to suck it up or let out their frustration in a blog.
Hakim Wray – Mad Maestro Sports
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