Ultimate Knicks Locks my Account - How Stupid is That?

The gang over at UK has a Jones for Fizz and Perry.  I was trying to offer some sanity when I could no longer log in.

I blame Melo.


I, too get more than a little tired of the negative and positive hyperbole that gets thrown around - NY fans do love to bloviate at the extremes.

Yes, this is and will remain the Knicks generation that Phil kick-started and has inspired the FO to nurture. As I watch the playoffs, Phil's greatest mistake may have been in trading JR.  JR is twice the player Melo ever was here, enigmatic and perplexing as that greatness was.  I miss JR like I don't miss Melo.

But Phil's message did penetrate the psyche and philosophy of this team in a way few give him credit for.

OTOH, Mills gets bashed just because NY moves from one innocent whipping person to another in a nano-second.  I actually like Mills and think he's as fine a FO exec as NY deserves.  He' smart, discreet, and he's not a micro-manager - all good, high-under-rated attributes.

Perry for some unfathomable reason is being marketed as the second-coming. He's done nothing to earn the accolades or even blind faith that he is an improvement on the Knicks existing brain-trust.  Perry is surrounded by good people and the improvements Mills, Phil, and co made over the past few years are bearing fruit.  If he succeeds he will succeed standing on the shoulders of those people and policies and not because he's basketball magic.

The coaching fork in the road was telling. The choice between Bud and Fizz was not about basketball competence but about hyperbole. Fizz is a media-darling.  He will bullsh@t with the very best of them - quotable, unctious, and probably disingenuous based on prior history.

Fizz is also in line to benefit from Phil's player curation and Hornacek's player development. I wish him that not because I think he will be a great coach but because I'm tired of cheering for a losing team.

IMO, Budenholzer was the superior choice.  IMO, Hornacek was a superior choice.  But we are where we are.

And yes, the FO is now nearly all black.  If identity politics is driving the FO and player preferences, we are once again in a stupid cycle that will not end well.