{"id":35661,"date":"2020-07-28T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jeff-van-gundy-slams-slander-around-knicks-tom-thibodeau\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:44:00","slug":"jeff-van-gundy-slams-slander-around-knicks-tom-thibodeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jeff-van-gundy-slams-slander-around-knicks-tom-thibodeau\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jeff Van Gundy slams \u2018slander\u2019 around Knicks\u2019 Tom Thibodeau"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jeff Van Gundy slams \u2018slander\u2019 around Knicks\u2019 Tom Thibodeau<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 27, 2020 |<\/span> 10:44pm |<\/span> Updated July 27, 2020 | 10:47pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n ESPN\u2019s NBA restart conference call was hijacked by questions about the Knicks coaching search and their new hire Tom Thibodeau.<\/p>\n

And Jeff Van Gundy took full advantage to fiercely defend his buddy and former assistant in New York and Houston about allegations he overplayed his top players and was too demanding, calling it \u201cgreat slander.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Van Gundy also had advice for Thibodeau and Knicks fans. They need to be patient because of a roster that \u201cneeds a lot of work.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked if an NBA coach can still be a taskmaster such as Thibodeau, Van Gundy went on a rant, saying it\u2019s \u201cslander\u2019\u2019 to criticize the 62-year-old New Britain, Conn., product on that front.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think players have changed nearly as much as organizations and coaches have changed,\u2019\u2019 Van Gundy said. \u201cYou can\u2019t demand less of players and then complain that they\u2019re willing to do less at times. I find it does a disservice to players. I think good players in any era want to be challenged and pushed to be their best and they want to play on teams of significance. This idea that Tom doesn\u2019t know how to pace his team is one of the great slanders that has been perpetuated by the media<\/a> on a coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Post reported last week that Knicks management\u2019s only concern is whether Thibodeau\u2019s hard-driving style still relates to millennial players after he was fired in Minnesota in January 2019. According to a source, it is the reason vice president William Wesley would like Thibodeau to assemble a more diverse staff with different personalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all coaches have to learn to adapt and adjust to the slights and not fight them because you can spend a lot of time fighting against some slanderous stuff that is said by really the unknowing,\u2019\u2019 Van Gundy said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like people have gone into Tom\u2019s practices and watched.<\/p>\n

\u201cBill Parcells said this long ago and it\u2019s so true: \u2018One of the most important jobs of a coach is to pace his team correctly.\u2019 That doesn\u2019t just go to game<\/a> minutes. It goes to practice minutes. It goes to how much contact you do in practice. It goes into a lot of things. And I think, unfortunately for Tom, since they couldn\u2019t get him on the results they tried to get him on other stuff.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fine line between patience and not demanding enough from a Knicks franchise that has missed the playoffs seven straight seasons. They\u2019ve been part of the postseason just four times since Van Gundy resigned in 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201c[President] Leon Rose did a great job in identifying many capable coaches and then picking one in Tom that\u2019s absolutely elite,\u2019\u2019 Van Gundy said. \u201cThe roster needs a lot of work. You win with great players. They need to fortify the roster over the next few years. But if everyone is patient and realistic and allows Tom to work, they will reap the benefit because he\u2019s exceptional in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Gundy, asked if Thibodeau has the patience to work a Knicks\u2019 rebuild, pointed to the mess he inherited in Minnesota and eventually broke the franchise\u2019s 13-year playoff drought before an ugly ending.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took over the worst team in basketball in Minnesota,\u2019\u2019 Van Gundy said. \u201cI think you want a coach that\u2019s both patient and impatient. He\u2019s not afraid of the challenge. You have to be patient. But if you\u2019re too patient you don\u2019t drive change where the culture has to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think that all happ<\/a>ens without patience, no, that happens with impatience, too. You have to be demanding that these things happen right off the bat and I do think that Tom is eminently qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Jackson, who interviewed for the Knicks job in 2008 and 2018 but not this time, only had complimentary words for the former Knicks assistant whom once coached him in New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it was a great hire,\u2019\u2019 Jackson said. \u201cTom Thibodeau is a great basketball mind. Extremely successful. Has done it before. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll do a fantastic job of turnings things around and I couldn\u2019t be more happier for him.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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