Larry Brown Fired!!!! Isiah takes over....

F

floydian

G-League
#1
#1
You knew it was going to happen it was just a question of when.

Now makes you wonder if Detroit will go after Larry Brown again.

Knicks fire Brown, name Thomas new coach

The New York Knicks fired coach Larry Brown on Thursday, replacing him as coach with president and general manager Isiah Thomas.
The Knicks finished 23-59 in Brown's first and only season at the helm.
"Larry has had a long and storied career. We hired him last summer with the expectation that he would be with the Knicks for a long time. Sometimes decisions work and sometimes they don't," MSG Chairman James L. Dolan said. "After careful consideration, despite the best intentions from everyone involved, this current structure did not work for us last season and I did not think it was going to improve next season."
Thomas, who joined the Knicks as president and general manager on Dec. 22, 2003, previously served as a head coach with the Indiana Pacers for three seasons from 2000-01 through 2002-03. His Pacers teams were 131-115 record, making the playoffs in each of his three seasons.
"No one in our organization is happy with last season and we all accept responsibility for our performance," Thomas said. "This has been a difficult time for the entire organization and our fans. Today begins the 2006-07 season for the Knicks, and I strongly believe we are on the right track to take major steps in our rebuilding process to achieve our goal of being one of the premier teams in the NBA."


http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2496106
 
Geoff

Geoff

Starter
#2
#2
oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh.....

this is going to be SUCH a BEAUTIFUL train wreck. I was a Knicks fan, still am in a sense, but this sort of thing is too gloriously dreadful to not enjoy. They should have cameras following the team every step of the way, it would be a heck of a reality TV show.
 
NoBonus

NoBonus

Starter
#4
#4
So, Isiah is following the Pat Riley model... thinking a GM makes a good coach... we will see how well Janet Jackson... er, .. I mean Isiah Thomas will do. The real question is what will be considered "success" for "Zeke". AND will Larry Brown coach in the NBA again?
 
Warhawk

Warhawk

Give blood and save a life!
Staff member
#5
#5
Geoff said:
oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh.....

this is going to be SUCH a BEAUTIFUL train wreck. I was a Knicks fan, still am in a sense, but this sort of thing is too gloriously dreadful to not enjoy. They should have cameras following the team every step of the way, it would be a heck of a reality TV show.
Click to expand...
I think you're probably right. This will be like watching COPS. It's kinda fun watching stupid people sometimes. :D
 
KingKong

KingKong

Starter
#6
#6
NoBonus said:
So, Isiah is following the Pat Riley model... thinking a GM makes a good coach... we will see how well Janet Jackson... er, .. I mean Isiah Thomas will do.
Click to expand...
The difference is that Pat Riley already had major success as an NBA coach. The Knicks will scary next year, and I don't mean that in a good way.
 
Viking

Viking

Starter
#8
#8
And the 2006 NBA Coach of the Year award goes to... ISIAH THOMAS, for being the only coach in NBA history to end the season with a negative win record!


" -3 - 82? How did he accomplish that?"
 
VF21

VF21

Super Moderator Emeritus
SME
#17
#17
Thank you, ________ (fill in the name of the Supreme Being or deity of your choice)! Danged nice of Isiah to announce this AFTER our search for a new coach had been completed.

And I agree with Geoff...this is going to be a BEAUTIFUL train wreck to watch...

 
venom_7

venom_7

Starter
#19
#19
This will be hilarious. I see Brown going to coach the Rockets or the Sonics perhaps. He might take the Twolves, who knows. Maybe he will try the warriors :p
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
#21
#21
venom_7 said:
This will be hilarious. I see Brown going to coach the Rockets or the Sonics perhaps. He might take the Twolves, who knows. Maybe he will try the warriors :p
Click to expand...
Philly?

Although I think that franchise had more than enough of him too.

Problem is that Brown took such an enormous dump on both himself and the Knicks franchise he's kind of Sprewelled or Artested himself. Talented coach, but every franchise even thinking about it will be sitting around wondering do we want to go through all of his B.S.?

Zeke sucks, but believe it or not, he could hardly do worse. One of, if not THE worst coahcing performances I've ever seen in the NBA. Just a debacle.
 
Last edited:
VF21

VF21

Super Moderator Emeritus
SME
#22
#22
I think he would fit in very well in Dallas. (And yes, feel free to hum the theme song from the TV show at this point...)

:D
 
SLAB

SLAB

Hall of Famer
#23
#23
This is just priceless.

I love trainwrecks, and Larry's dream job ending like this is nothing short of a 12-train pileup.

And now we get to see Zeke?

I wonder if now since he's the coach he'll realize what a bone-head move he made when he signed Jerome James for big bucks? Or when he plays Steph and Francis for long minutes and the eventuall "I need the ball more" argument happens? Or when all the other shot-hungry guards demand their shots? Or...You get the point.

This will be fun.
 
VF21

VF21

Super Moderator Emeritus
SME
#24
#24
SLAB said:
This is just priceless.

I love trainwrecks, and Larry's dream job ending like this is nothing short of a 12-train pileup.

And now we get to see Zeke?

I wonder if now since he's the coach he'll realize what a bone-head move he made when he signed Jerome James for big bucks? Or when he plays Steph and Francis for long minutes and the eventuall "I need the ball more" argument happens? Or when all the other shot-hungry guards demand their shots? Or...You get the point.

This will be fun.
Click to expand...
I'll be waiting for the first time the new coach looks at his bench and screams, "Who hired you idiots?@!?!?!?!!?"
 
acisking

acisking

Bench
#25
#25
Bricklayer said:
Philly?

Although I think that franchise had more than enough of him too.

Problem is that Brown took such an enormous dump on both himself and the Knicks franchise he's kind of Sprewelled or Artested himself. Talented coach, but every franchise even thinking about it will be sitting around wondering do we want to go through all of his B.S.?

Zeke sucks, but believe it or not, he could hardly do worse. One of, if not THE worst coahcing performances I've ever seen in the NBA. Just a debacle.
Click to expand...
Agree completely...Brown destroyed the Knicks last season. The team Isiah put together was obviously flawed, but I would argue that many other coaches might have had better success last year simply because they wouldn't isolate themselves from the players, causing all the drama that Brown created last year. That, coupled with his overbearing tendency to limit players offensively plus his bad habit in criticizing his players publicly (especially his stars), led to all sorts of problems that they could easily have avoided and likely cost them a few wins.
 
Last edited:
acisking

acisking

Bench
#26
#26
VF21 said:
Thank you, ________ (fill in the name of the Supreme Being or deity of your choice)! Danged nice of Isiah to announce this AFTER our search for a new coach had been completed.
Click to expand...
Personally, I just don't like the way Brown coaches. Kills teams defensively and creates rifts and problems everywhere he goes. Brown is the perfect coach for a team like Detroit (with no superstar and a need to focus on defense). However, most other teams would not work well under Brown's sytem, regardless of his impressive resume.
 
VF21

VF21

Super Moderator Emeritus
SME
#27
#27
I don't like the way Brown coaches either, which is specially why I'm so grateful he wasn't available until AFTER the coaching vacancy on the Kings had been filled...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.