Comments on: Knicks Announce Coaching Staff

By: bud

bud — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:59:04 +0000

i love herb, great company guy. doesn’t really appear to have the abrasive demeanor that successful head coaches as of late seem to have, so who knows if he’s any good, but i’m glad he’s on the staff.

By: stingy d

stingy d — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:39:46 +0000

you know, a couple years back kareem was campaigning to coach the knicks a little bit. he was hot off winning the nbdl championship or something and is next stop after that was basically turning andrew bynum into a real force seemingly overnight. we should have got kareem a while ago.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:51:39 +0000

I’m still not sold on Ewing as a coach. He didn’t have a great reputation in Washington and whenever Yao compliments one of his coaches he always goes for Tom Thibodeau for helping his game the most and not Ewing who was brought there to work with Yao. Dwight has given Ewing some praise but I need more convincing.

A big man coach I’d love the Knicks to hire is Robert Parish. He runs those summer camps with Clifford Ray and wants to get into coaching. I think he’s a good big man coach prospect.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:26:52 +0000

yes, Ewing is definitely not wanted although Orlando made him available, that’s been officially announced a couple of times.

By: TDM

TDM — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:04:37 +0000

Does this mean that Patrick Ewing will definitely not be coming in to help coach the big men? He probably wouldn’t be a good fit for D’Antoni’s style of play, but I would have like to see him back on the NY bench, nonetheless.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:42:58 +0000

“Dan D’Antoni”? Really? Is ex-player John Johnson waiting in the wings?

By: ray

ray — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:31:04 +0000

Teach those boys how to shoot! I want to see D Lee and Balk come in with a much improved jumper….but we’ll se about that.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:28:48 +0000

Iavaroni might just be one of those people who is absolute genius at what he does (defense), but it doesn’t mean that he’s able to work with the players – which may do him in.

I hope not, I’m a fan of him, as well.

And yeah, Dan D’Antoni comes across as basically “cheering my brother on!” in Seven Seconds or Less.

By: caleb

caleb — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:41:49 +0000

I am an Iavaroni fan, too — think he’ll do well in Memphis, eventually.

By: cwod

cwod — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:34:18 +0000

After I read Seven Seconds or Less, of all the Phoenix assistants, I was most impressed with Iavaroni. Just from the book, Weber seemed like an okay coach, while Dan D’Antoni mostly spouted cliches about just wanting it more than the other team.