Holy Crap, the Knicks are Insane
Yeah, I've been meaning to write a blog entry about the now-concluded Finals, about the new champions, yadda yadda, but that will have to wait, because today I read that the Knicks have fired Larry Brown and are making Isaih Thomas head coach. This isn't too great of a shocker - Brown didn't have a repore with his players and had a terrible season record (due in part to a terrible cast of characters and an insane President and GM in Thomas, whose front office acumen makes me think a trained seal might do a better job) and many have said that Thomas has privately expressed an interest in returning to coaching... but... this makes no business sense.
Who's running the Knicks? Whose money is funding this insanity? Who hires Brown for four years and then cuts him the next year with $40 million dollars still on contract? Who pays the kind of salaries to the Knicks pathetic roster that's backcourt heavy and full of selfish players? And who keeps cutting checks to Zeke, who has in large part made this mess and whose coaching tenure is only slightly less disparaging than his record heading the CBA? (He had a great team with the Pacers and, in two years, took them nowhere except to early exits from the playoffs. And they had a talented front court that included Jermaine O'Neal and Brad Miller in a size-starved Eastern Conference!)
Zeke was a helluva player on the court, but his front office and coaching resume is rather bleak. What amazes me is that time and time again, he's given the same opportunities that he's previously choked on. It's hard to imagine how someone could be smart and savvy enough to make their riches, only to “invest” in Isaiah Thomas. What are the Knicks thinking?
Will Zeke have better luck coaching the Knicks than Larry Brown? Probably, he's a former player and probably won't be such a tight ass as Brown is known to be. Despite that, though, the Knicks will still suck and have a disappointing season. Not even the greatest coach - which Thomas is clearly not - could make the current Knick roster into a playoff-calliber team. Madness, I tell you.