00:00Talk to me about the Knicks after the fact of all the changes
00:04and their lofty expectations for next year.
00:08A lot of people think they're going to the finals.
00:11Scott, they should go to the finals.
00:12They have the most talent out of any team in the Eastern Conference.
00:15But you asked me about the coaching change.
00:18It's not a good one.
00:19I'm sorry.
00:19I don't know how anybody could sit there and tell me that Mike Brown's a better head coach than Tom Thibodeau.
00:24And I'm not even trying to disparage Mike Brown.
00:28He's adequate.
00:30He's okay.
00:31Is he better than Tom Thibodeau?
00:33People are going to answer that question and sit there and say to themselves, yes,
00:36they haven't watched basketball over the last 15 to 20 years.
00:39Why?
00:39Because he won 66 and 67 games at LeBron James.
00:43You know, the biggest problem the Knicks are going to have,
00:45their two best players don't play a look at defense.
00:48Is Mike Brown all of a sudden going to change that?
00:50We'll see.
00:51But I don't want to hear the excuses.
00:53It's finals or bust.
00:54Like if the Knicks go to the conference finals next year and lose,
00:57the excuse makers better not be coming out and saying, oh, well, what about this?
01:01What about that?
01:02No, no Halliburton.
01:04If not, then when for the Knicks?
01:06Do you think that they just change coaches every four years and pay the guy a ton of money to jump out a window with a golden parachute like they did Tibbs?
01:14I mean, honestly, because I look at this guy as, you know, coach, coach, coach, and then fourth year, see you later.
01:21Just like all the rest of them.
01:24Honestly, I think it had way more to do with the inner workings at the Garden.
01:28I don't know if it was those exit meetings, Scottie, because the timing, you lose to Indiana, what was it, Saturday night?
01:35They're having their exit meetings with the players on Sunday and Monday,
01:38and all of a sudden they made a coaching change on Tuesday.
01:40So I don't know who those guys might have been.
01:43They might have said some things that maybe pushed Tibbs out.
01:48Maybe it was Leon Rose and World Wide West coming to that conclusion months ago,
01:52not expecting to get to the conference finals, and then it's like, oh, smokes, we made the conference finals,
01:57but we lost, Tibbs are out to make a change.
01:59I think a lot of people looked at that situation and said it was Dolan, Dolan, Dolan.
02:03I don't think he necessarily was against it, but I don't think he was the ringleader that a whole lot of people were making him out to be.
02:09I really think it was a collective operational Nick decision, and we'll see if it ends up being a good one.
