Dog....you just made excuses for Phil
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The damn president of basketball operations was forcing the coach to run his dated offensive system. Imagine RC Buford telling Pop to run the offense thru LMA
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He hired Kurt Rambis to "run their defense)....Kurt Rambis has the worst winning percentage of all time. He's a notoriously horrible coach....but he's a Laker and one of Phils guys...so he has a job.
Phil hired ***** Derrick Fisher. That's a bad hire no way around it. Idc about "novice coaches". There are plenty of them that are good when they are allowed to....you know, "coach".
Phil's stubborn insistence of using the triangle...and forcing players to play in it severely handicaps the knicks offensive potential...and leads to chaos. There's a reason D Rose said he wanted more P&R. Kristaps isn't even being used to his maximum potential. Team chemistry is bad because the damn GM wants to coach without coaching.
And he alienates his star player from the jump. Phil's dislike of Melo impacted his ability to build or effectively trade for him. Not to mention publicly floating trading away Kristaps. That's just dumb man.
No way you can spin it. Phil **** up in NYC. You gotta be the only person in the world that thinks he did a good job.