{"id":34463,"date":"2020-07-25T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-hiring-tom-thibodeau-is-a-slam-dunk-in-every-way\/"},"modified":"2020-07-25T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T20:50:00","slug":"knicks-hiring-tom-thibodeau-is-a-slam-dunk-in-every-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-hiring-tom-thibodeau-is-a-slam-dunk-in-every-way\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks hiring Tom Thibodeau is a slam dunk in every way"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks hiring Tom Thibodeau is a slam dunk in every way<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The Knicks hire the right coach here, and that\u2019s where you have to start. Forget the double-elimination interview tournament the team\u2019s brass seemed to be conducting while most of the NBA was busy trying to get back to work, the 11 candidates who wandered into and out of their purview. All of that is prelude.<\/p>\n

This is the main event: They hire the right coach, at the right time, they add a significant building block toward a better place and a better time at Madison Square Garden. They hire Tom Thibodeau, they give him a five-year contract, and they begin the long, painstaking task of becoming a relevant basketball team again.<\/p>\n

\u201cTom Thibodeau is one of the best coaches in the world,\u201d Jeff Van Gundy said a few months ago, and, yes, Van Gundy isn\u2019t exactly the most objective voice on the subject of Thibodeau \u2014 they are friends and they worked closely together the last time the Knicks brought any kind of flair and style and high-end aspiration to the Garden.<\/p>\n

Those seven years at the Garden \u2014 1996-2003 \u2014 Thibodeau not only saw how Van Gundy did the job, how he managed to elicit trust and loyalty from his players and maximize those talents, he also got a taste of what it can be for a basketball lifer in a New York City starved for so long of basketball nourishment.<\/p>\n

Van Gundy became an unlikely folk hero here, beginning as an obscure assistant even the courtside regulars would\u2019ve had difficulty picking out of a lineup and somehow becoming a guy whose name Knicks fans chanted one night in 1999, when his team was on the verge of eliminating the Hawks and advancing to the conference finals.<\/p>\n

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There is little mystery attached to how to win those hearts and minds. Van Gundy won, and he fought, and it didn\u2019t hurt that he somehow won and kept grinding while his bosses were trying to romance Phil Jackson, so there was also an everyman quality to his story. But he delivered. He was an excellent coach. The Knicks played defense on his watch. The Knicks bled and sweat and cared on his watch. It\u2019s not a complex equation.<\/p>\n

The Knicks will do those things for Thibodeau, too, because he comes with his own no-nonsense reputation, because if not for Derrick Rose blowing his knee out one awful playoff game<\/a> against the 76ers in 2012, he might well have led the Bulls to a full post-Jordan renaissance, might well have taken one of the titles the Heat won during LeBron James\u2019 time there, might well have built something permanent at United Center.<\/p>\n

As it was he was 352-246 with the Bulls, a .647 winning percentage that included some of the most amazing on-the-fly makeshift coaching jobs you\u2019ll ever see. In 2013, a broken and beaten-down Bulls team walked into Brooklyn and beat the Nets in Game 7 of a playoff series<\/a>, and afterward Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo sounded like a high school kid caught by a truant officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just performed a clinic in this series,\u201d Carlesimo said. \u201cEverything we tried, they had an immedia<\/a>te answer for. And that team just plays so damned hard. They\u2019re as intense as he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Things didn\u2019t go quite so well for Thibodeau in Minnesota, though the Timberwolves did win 47 games his last full year there. In the NBA in 2020 a coach can only control so much, so there is no stone-cold guarantee the Knicks have just secured a passing-lane trip<\/a> to the top of the East. But he was still the best coach available. That used to matter when New York teams went looking for coaches. For the Knicks, for now, it mattered still.<\/p>\n

They were wise to bypass Jason Kidd and whatever delusions of Giannis Antetokounmpo he might have dangled during his interviews. You hire Kidd you hire his scheming past, his Machiavellian machinations, and that isn\u2019t what the Knicks needed, not on the 20 percent chance Kidd could actually deliver Giannis.<\/p>\n

Thibodeau will demand accountability, and he will be a teacher for the kids. Van Gundy has told anyone who will listen that winning players thrive under Thibodeau, and of course part of the team\u2019s mission will be to get more of those kinds of players. But, for one, it seems a Thibodeau-RJ Barrett partnership ought to be awfully fruitful.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a nice place to start. The Knicks took their time, and seemed to talk to every coach this side of Norman Dale and Ken Reeves looking to make the right choice. It doesn\u2019t matter how they got here, it matters that they got here. They hire Tom Thibodeau. They hire the right coach.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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