Comments on: 2021-22 Game Thread: Knicks @ Blazers

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 13:04:48 +0000

In HoopsRumors.com:
Another source tells Berman that the Knicks’ chances of trading for Lillard would have been helped by signing DeMar DeRozan, Lillard’s close friend, rather than Fournier in last year’s free agent market. General manager Scott Perry wanted to consider DeRozan, according to the source, but the idea was vetoed by William Wesley, who has become the top decision maker in the front office.

I wonder who is feeding Berman to write this kind of stuff. LOL

By: cybersoze

cybersoze — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:19:07 +0000

We have to be careful about 2 teams stealth tanking… NETS and LAKERS !! LOL

By: Early Bird

Early Bird — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 10:55:28 +0000

Thibs is a good coach, but some of the stuff he does is infuriatingly stupid and cancels out the good.

If we jettisoned the vets, I think he could do wonders with the kids. But he won’t and if he does, half of them will be devastatingly injured.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 09:41:12 +0000

Mitch after the game:

https://twitter.com/23savage____/status/1492759147741339653

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:16:17 +0000

Ex-Knick coach Don Cheney was fired the year after winning coach of the year too (back in ‘92).

Also, though he didn’t win CoY, David Blatt was fired after coming off of a trip to the finals and while enjoying the best record in the conference the next year.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 05:20:22 +0000

Looking up some history, George Karl in Denver was fired the year after winning coach of the year and Mike Brown was fired in Cleveland a year after winning the award.

By: Knick fan not in NJ

Knick fan not in NJ — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 05:13:45 +0000

ess-dog:
Totally unrelated question: Who was the last Coach of the Year to get fired the very next year?

Bruno is correct about Dwayne Casey. I think it’s actually quite common, so much so that when Thibs won the award, I wondered if he’d last the full next year.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:40:23 +0000

ess-dog:
Totally unrelated question: Who was the last Coach of the Year to get fired the very next year?

Dwyane Casey got fired the very same year he won the award, 2018, so I guess that counts.

By: ess-dog

ess-dog — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:25:18 +0000

Totally unrelated question: Who was the last Coach of the Year to get fired the very next year?

By: pepper

pepper — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:04:23 +0000

Donnie Walsh:
***i want to see the look on dolan’s face when leon tells him he has to eat the final three years on thibs’ contract…i wonder if he still gets pissed off when he sees fizdale on the payroll sheet every friday***

When Dolan hired Rose, wasn’t he paying Fisher, Hornacek, Fizdale, and Phil a collective $24,000,000 that year to NOT be part of the team? If he was okay with that, he’s gotta be okay with just about anything.

yeah..given he fired the gm, president of operations and head coach of the hockey club last year…who all likely had some yrs left on their deals…he probably just raises the price of beer and dogs at the garden and that could cover it…