{"id":25381,"date":"2020-07-11T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-new-leadership-team-gets-crash-course-in-spurs-way\/"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:26:00","slug":"knicks-new-leadership-team-gets-crash-course-in-spurs-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-new-leadership-team-gets-crash-course-in-spurs-way\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks\u2019 new leadership team gets crash course in \u2018Spurs Way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks\u2019 new leadership team gets crash course in \u2018Spurs Way\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n If this extended coaching search Knicks president Leon Rose and William Wesley have embarked on still leads to Tom Thibodeau being hired, the rest of the interviews won\u2019t have been a waste of Zoom time.<\/p>\n

At least Rose and Wesley, who have never worked for an NBA team, got a crash course in \u201cThe Spurs Way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose called the ongoing search that could end next week \u201can education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of Rose\u2019s strategy of interviewing 11 candidates \u2014 including five without head-coaching experience \u2014 is to hear philosophies of other organizations, according to an NBA source.<\/p>\n

Two of those without head coaching experience are assistants Ime Udoka and Will Hardy \u2014 both of whom have San Antonio\u2019s impeccable culture ingrained in them.<\/p>\n

To a lesser extent, so does Mike Miller, the Knicks interim coach who spent two seasons as an Austin Spurs assistant in the G-League and was Rose\u2019s first interview.<\/p>\n

Udoka played three seasons with the Spurs as a teammate of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. Udoka went on to coach them as Gregg Popovich\u2019s assistant for seven seasons and also helped cultivate Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. Udoka, 42, joined the Sixers before this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe assimilated with the Pop philosophy,\u2019\u2019 one NBA executive who is close to Udoka told The Post. \u201cUdoka is a person very driven, meticulous, hard on himself. He\u2019s a perfectionist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Udoka, who oversees the Sixers\u2019 defense, joined another Spurs alum in Brett Brown in Philly.<\/p>\n

Torrel Harris, the agent for and father of Sixers forward Tobias Harris, has been most impressed with Udoka, a former Knick. If the Bulls\u2019 job officially opens, Udoka is expected to be a frontrunner, especially now that former Sixers executive Marc Eversley just joined Chicago.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s great guy, good coach,\u2019\u2019 Harris told The Post. \u201cHe would be a great coach for the Knicks. All players love him. He gets the players respect. The Knicks should definitely hire him.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

So why did Udoka leave Popovich\u2019s side? Some insiders deduce Udoka realized he was not Popovich\u2019s successor \u2014 that Becky Hammon, Tim Duncan or even Hardy held the inside track. Popovich is 71 years old.<\/p>\n

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Ime Udoka<\/span>NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cA different challenge is always exciting to me,\u2019\u2019 Udoka said before the season. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve done something \u2014 you know I spent seven years as a coach [in San Antonio]. Seeing new things, being with new players and bouncing ideas off of different coaches and new philosophies is a way to grow and see things from a different perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hardy, 31, still is in place in San Antonio after being with the organization for 10 years, starting as a 21-year-old intern. He was promoted to the front of the bench only this season but has been an assistant for four years after serving as video coordinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just Pop and [GM] R.C. [Buford], who have been wonderful, but I\u2019ve had coaches I\u2019ve worked for and worked with [and] the list is crazy,\u2019\u2019 Hardy said in an interview with The Athletic before the season. \u201cIt\u2019s Mike Budenholzer. It\u2019s Brett Brown, Jacque Vaughn, Don Newman, Chip [Engelland] and Chad [Forcier]. Ime [Udoka] and Ettore Messina, James Borrego, Becky [Hammon], Jim Boylen. I mean, there are like six head coaches in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what is Rose and Wesley learning about the Spurs through these interviews?<\/p>\n

Submit your Knicks questions to be answered in an upcoming mailbag<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

One NBA coach said some of it is simple but hard to duplicate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Spurs Way is the sum being bigger than the individual parts,\u2019\u2019 the coach said. \u201cIt was never about Tim Duncan or Tony or Manu. Pop was allowed to coach them without individual agenda because the players bought into a system.\u2019\u2019 <\/p>\n

One agent said \u201cThe Spurs Way\u2019\u2019 is not fake, though their astounding 22-year playoff streak is expected to crash amid the Orlando restart as they enter with a 27-36 record.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt exists,\u2019\u2019 the agent said. \u201cWhen it comes to player development, they\u2019ve done amazing. The culture is just great there. When it comes to placing a young player in the NBA, as an agent, you\u2019re targeting two franchises \u2014 San Antonio and Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n

One coaching source added, \u201cThe system is real. If a Hall of Famer buys in, great things happ<\/a>en.Tim was all about winning, a la Bill Russell. The best systems and best coaches can get more wins out of the same group of players than a strategically suspect system or inferior coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spurs class is adjourned.<\/p>\n

Mike Woodson, who is being looked at more so to add as top assistant, had his second interview Friday. The Post reported David Fizdale wanted Woodson on his staff in 2018 but management thought it to be a bad idea.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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