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Analyzing Knicks' Strategy in Their Ongoing Coaching Search
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6/14/2025
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Am I like I don't look they're trying to see if they can get some established guys it's not working
00:06
out I think they've maybe lowered the bar a little bit too much where like the criteria for getting
00:12
the job shouldn't be currently employed like I don't think they should have asked Quinn Snyder
00:17
for a request quite frankly I'm not sure Quinn Snyder's a better coach than Tom Thibodeau I
00:22
don't know if they should have asked Billy Donovan for an interview I think they've lowered their bar
00:27
a little bit but I don't feel a sense of panic around this the Knicks next coach isn't going to
00:33
be Rick Brunson and we're gonna be like wow they had no plan so they just gave it a Jalen's dad I
00:40
I'll go to I'll go to you first Tom because then we'll get you know coaches a little more uh connected
00:46
view on the situation but how do you feel about the the Knicks path through this coaching search
00:53
so we talked about this last week uh you know right you know the news a little bit fresher but
00:58
this doesn't surprise me I know the headlines of like oh they put in a request they were denied they
01:04
put in a request they were denied again and again like this happens in literally every sport every
01:09
NFL offseason it's like this team puts in a request for the OC it's like they were promptly denied the
01:13
OC's not leaving you know where they put another request where they have the interview and then the OC
01:18
just doesn't leave so this happens across sports all the time is it a little bit more
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eye-catching that it's the Knicks they fired a coach off an Eastern Conference Finals run
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and now they are promptly getting denied time and time again maybe it's just the optics of it but in
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reality it's actually not that bad I would say Malone and Jenkins no surprise are the favorites if we
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have that graphic I know uh one of them is or Mike Brown I think Mike Brown is the worst of that
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like that would be an objectively bad decision to get him I would much rather take a shot on
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Jenkins or Mike Malone and that's just me but to see them get denied from Jason Kidd, Eme, Doku, whoever
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might be that doesn't surprise me in any capacity I think when you look at it people forget that
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Tibbs was a Leon Rose guy and if I'm not mistaken the Knicks took I want to say three months to get
02:12
the when they brought Tibbs in because remember they fired a coach in season and they went a while
02:16
it was like three four months so the Knicks tried to swing and they swung for defenses they struck out
02:23
four or five times now some of the guys they were chasing I'm like you know Eme, Doku, I absolutely
02:31
get it Jason Kidd okay I kind of get it Quinn Snyder not so much but you pass you you cast a wide net
02:40
to see who you can get as a coach and guys pull up that graphic for me real quick because there are
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some people as a Knicks fan I'm like oh god no no you can't uh James Marego Marego no absolutely not
02:56
Rick Brunson I'd rather have Dice Yamamoto who you guys know is he says he was an assistant on the
03:01
staff coach I'd rather have him than Rick to me what's starting to make sense a little bit
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is Taylor Jenkins number one he's won he had two back-to-back I do believe 50 win seasons
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with the Grizzlies number two he's supposed to be good at player development so when you look at the
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younger guys can he help a Huck Porti a Tyler Colick some of these guys ascend their game three go look
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at the fact that Dante DiVincenzo came out and was a big fan of Jenkins when he was an assistant
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to I believe Bud in Milwaukee all right and four Tom Thibodeau may have gotten run out of New York
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because he doesn't play his bench enough and people are arguing that Taylor Jenkins got run out of
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Memphis because he played his bench too much so there could be something there Mike Brown makes
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sense too you would think it would be Michael Malone but if if the Knicks players had anything
04:01
to say about this and I don't care what anyone says they definitely did through their exit interviews
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right because supposedly the owner was in the exit interviews but maybe not Tibbs which is like
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that's kind of wild that the head coach isn't there for the end of season interview
04:15
Michael Malone is Tibbs at a younger age so if Tibbs wasn't getting along with guys like
04:23
Mikkel Bridges you think Michael Malone is no so to me players coach younger connects with the team
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that's why I think if anybody's probably gonna be a team it's the most important point on Jenkins
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he's not currently employed no one can deny them right right no one can buy them permission and
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listen and I and you know I think when Kevin I talked about like I was I don't think he should
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have been fired from Memphis I don't think it made sense I think that organization has a lot of issues
04:53
in regards to their best player maybe couldn't get his best player in check but to me Taylor Jenkins
05:00
is a pretty good coach is he a top 12 coach in the NBA yes but if you look at some of the top guys
05:09
like Tom said they're employed so it's easier to go get a guy like a Taylor Jenkins than it would to be
05:13
try to go get like an email doka
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