"Issue with Jeff is the FO didn't trust him and left him with a challenge to "prove himself." Can't really prove himself when he's given junk...it's like fake hustle, like the three point heaves right after the buzzer sounds at the end of the quarter. It didn't really stop Jeff from trying, though, and even though I get really mad at that, it's the FO's fault when Jeff plays THJ 30 minutes a game still, or when Courtney Lee is playing 20ish minutes a game or Kanter records a double double against some scrubs. Some won't be here next season. Others are flawed and getting paid big bucks, and we know what they are. We can't really blame Jeff for following the instructions or trying to fulfill the challenge they left him.
If they had just said, "KP is down. Tank," our position for the future would look very different. Now, I will say that the Knicks lost their fair share of games and they did lose a lot, but we all know basketball is a game of inches. We all appreciate hustle from players, the guys who dive to the floor or push themselves for a defensive stop. If you look at every game thread, it's full of people overreacting to one play or the next in a 48 minute game. In the same way, we lost that game of inches in tanking. That extra bit of losing, of not investing in older losing players who are here short-term...that could have mattered. That absolutely does matter. Those 1 or 2 extra wins that we got...that's led us to talk about Mikal and Sexton and Trae, instead of Bamba or JJJ or MPJ. As for people who talk about "culture" and how we need to try winning games, I feel like we've won more and tried more against some of these tanking teams, but some absolutely have a better culture than us: Mavs and Hawks come to mind. It's not the winning games that leads to a winning culture, but it comes from the leadership that sets a tone, that can get a team onboard and rowing in the same direction.
Conversely, the coaches with job security and a strong connection to the FO tanked the hell out of this season. Carlisle, that random overrated Bulls coach, Budenholzer, etc. Those guys altered rotations to tank, because they had trust in their job security and alignment with the FO. Mark Cuban even admitted to the tank, while Robin Lopez admitted that he understood what the Bulls were doing and wanted to sit out. Everybody in those organizations knew the goal, and they were committed to it. They trusted the process.
We were not aligned this season, and although I disagree with the Knicks' plan so far, it's better to be aligned than to have such a disconnect between the FO and coaching. So yea, fire Jeff, who was given an unwinnable task and screwed up our future a little trying to fulfill it, and then hire the coach these guys want. And then hopefully we can judge the guys on top for their work, instead of always blaming the coach."
He is outright perpetrating a fraud saying they are close to contenders. 
No one believes Jeff and he is just embarrassing himself if this is true
