Knicks are a third seed for a reason. Does anyone actually believe that this team as constructed is better than the Cavs or Celtics??? So how exactly is, if they advance to the semifinals & lose to Boston a bad season if the Celtics are superior team?
First we, the casual fans have been talking about they needed to avoid the Celtics and instead the Knicks worked their asses off to improve their record by one game to face them.
Second McBride should have taken Hart’s place with the starters months ago. Let’s go deeper the way it looks that Mikal & OG have fallen back as soon as Brunson got comfortable screams a coaching issue. Sometimes as a coach his job is to figure out ways for Brunson to be less ball dominant.
Don’t get me started on the lack of KAT/Mitch minutes with the rest of the starters.
Kolek has shown promise, but is buried on the bench most games
Wright played really well when everyone was injured, but Shamet got 15 minutes to get 3 rebounds the last game .
The Knicks might have been destined for the 3rd seed but they shouldn’t look like a treadmill team. Especially when there are options on the bench Thibs refuses to try.
Yeah...realistically the only scenarios where Thibs gets fired this year involve losing to Detroit in Round 1.
Based on what? Lowered expectations?
I think the FO traded their second best player, another starter, and 5 first round picks last season. Thibs had them looking good to begin with and as soon as other teams adapted to that….. he had no answer. So on one hand we’ve seen that this team can produce. It’s just, after other teams adapted, Thibs had no idea how to compensate and adapt to those other teams.
The fact that people want to blame the players when there was a point these same players was putting up the best offense in the league is crazy. They might still be the best offense if Thibs put McBride with the starters.
Don’t get me started on how Thibs has been running drop back defense and trying to rely on KaT to anchor that and he never fukking considered having a team with Mikal, Hart, and OG do more switching or god forbid run zone on teams that can’t shoot the three.
The last issue is the biggest red flag. After the trade deadline when instead of the Knicks getting another center because they traded Sims for Wright (who plays well but Thibs has buried….) Thibs tells the FO to get PJ Tucker because they need leadership. There isn’t a bigger red flag shyt aint right if the coach is getting a 37 year old Tucker to be locker room leader for a bunch of guys who are like 29 years old. The roster isn’t even knuckleheads, everybody is mature, normal guys. So Why the fukk does Thibs need a locker room leader unless he has started to lose the locker room?
So unless this team gets to the at least the ECF Thibs is probably out of here, the signs are all there. I think people respect Thibs, so they can be in denial, but it’s time he joins the FO.
