mike woodson job search tracking thread, plus triangle offense knowledge assessment quiz (nba offseason news 2014)

I guess, but Mozgov was the guy the Knicks had been refusing to trade until they relented.

The proposal, which was first reported by CBS Sports, will send Danilo Gallinari, Raymond Felton, Wilson Chandler and the Knicks’ 2014 first-round pick to Denver. The Knicks would also trade Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry’s expiring contract to the Minnesota Timberwolves, who would send Corey Brewer to the Nuggets. The Knicks would receive Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams and Renaldo Balkman.

The Knicks aren’t willing to include center Timofey Mozgov in the deal, the source said.

Centers are enough of a rarity and develop so much more slowly than guards and forwards that it makes sense to take time and know what you've got in a young center before using him as a throw-in on a trade.

Dolan is so great, I bet Phil is the f out of there and back on his ranch by next all star break

The only part that makes me mad is that he's going to hire Kerr and leave him stranded with that mess instead of on tv where he belongs

I wonder if Woodson ever gets hired again after what happened this year

Seems like with spoelstra's success and Hornacek this year teams are way more comfortable trying new younger guys (joerger too) instead of a retread

Woodson and Mike Brown should chill together, maybe become cops or something

"Glasses & the Goat" this fall on fxx

ha yes exactly

i had to google to check whether brown had been fired yet. i'll say this, he has a lot of really nice neckties.

i think a good organization will still remember that Woodson had one really good season with the Knicks; don't see why he can't be an assistant coach again

he lucked into that season more than anything else

it's still an accomplishment, post-Linsanity and what-not. he actually made JR Smith into a playable guard!

eh he was doing well with d'antoni idk, looking at his stats he's actually been pretty consistent over the years, even after taking on more minutes as a starter in nyc

consistent's not what i meant, i mean i don't think the knicks org had any effect on jr whatsoever

besides playing more minutes obviously, but he never started in denver anyway so there's nothing to compare it to really.

yeah i mean woodson didn't turn smith into a good player and then into a bad player. he's been clueless with his lineups from the get-go. he was forced into a smallball scheme that worked but he was never really comfortable with

my impression of JR Smith has always been that he's way-above-average talented and a complete uncoachable shithead.

it's frustrating to see talented dudes like that just coast but can't blame him, worked out pretty well

money wise

it could've been the minutes, but i remember JR's shittiness on the knicks that season more than him doing good; the next season he was hitting game winners left and right

100% agreed that he's clearly both talented, and a shithead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmfzudWIYAAsf5J.jpg

phil and melo, having an intimate dinner, discussing philosophy. #KnicksDynasty

d'antoni euthanized in los angeles much to the joy of lakers fans who will find another scapegoat when their old ass team wins 30 games next year

Magic's gleeful reaction to it was a pretty bad look I thought.

laker management did him so dirty.. as they did mike brown and phil to an extent. fuck the lakers.

xp yeah that was weird

yeah nagl

d'antoni euthanized in los angeles much to the joy of lakers fans who will find another scapegoat when their old ass team wins 30 games next year

― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, May 1, 2014 10:26 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have 5 guys on the roster for next year and one of those (swaggy) will probably opt out.

and nash may wiggle his way out

they have 5 guys on the roster for next year

Hello, Melo!

chuck otm

“Magic Johnson is bigger than that. Mike D”Antoni is a good coach. They didn’t give him a lot to work with," Barkley said on TNT, via Mark Medina of the LA Daily News. “The Lakers weren’t to win with Phil Jackson either. They don’t have good players. We know Phil Jackson is arguably the greatest coach ever. The Lakers don’t have players. They’re not a good team. I don’t even know if Phil Jackson wanted that job. The Lakers stink and they’re going to stink."

if you could get through that agonization conversation about "pressure" they had, he did eventually get around to this statement, it's otm

listening to laker fans fantasy gm on the radio is a tedious exercise. they also pillory jim buss and compare him to his dad who they forget was working under an entirely different set of rules and they could just buy their way out of all their problems.

what's fantasy about it? next year la will be westbrook, kobe, lebron, love, and chris kaman.

c'mon: CHRIS KAMAN. get excited, people.

Bill Simmons ‏@BillSimmons 14m
I feel good about this prediction: Thibs becomes this summer's Doc (traded for a future 1st round pick), then Chicago hires Fred Hoiberg.

alrighty then

bill simmons also felt good about his prediction that the bulls would be the nba's best team this year.

well to be fair their best player did blow his knee out

can't see forman/paxson letting thibs go like that

for the right first round pick i would trade just about any coach in the league, pop aside

i mean shoutout to thibs but the guy has never figured out a way to build an offense that would have a real shot at winning the title. i would take a lottery pick for him.

76ers should trade their 8 second round picks for Thibs

the sixers had one of the worst offenses ever this year. thibs is probably the last guy they'd want

he's had his star offensive player get injured, and the guy they brought in to be 2nd offensive option is fucking Carlos Boozer.
I wouldn't swap a known top coach for an unknown top draft pick.

problem is that management has been overly focused on "character guys" to such an extent (it's worked well for them for the most part, turned around the team from Eddie Robinson/Eddy Curry days) that they have 13 "character guys" who can't create their own shot to save their life. Their starting 2 guard recently said he often forgets that he's an offensive player too. I don't think Thibs has helped steer them away from this mindset tho obv.

sixers are adding Noel and a top 5 pick minimum next year so they'll be better than the historic garbage they were this year

the sixers had one of the worst offenses ever this year. thibs is probably the last guy they'd want

― k3vin k., Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:33 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they had many of the worst things ever this year

I'm pretty sure the only pick the lakers can trade right now is the 2014 pick (after they make it) which is way too fucking much to give for a coach

but a pick way in the future? yeah why not.

lol looks like it would be the 2019 pick

woj has an article today suggesting the lakers should go after derrick fisher which, like, yessssssss embrace the madness

lmao pleeeeease

i just read that article and that would probably be the most suicidal move the lakers could make. what the hell does fisher's history with kobe matter? kobe is under contract, he's not going anywhere

thanks for not glossing over my posts spottie. :)

does look cool btw

Wow, this looks cool: https://www.statmuse.com/beta?ref=W1lgsO6kOH

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

when they started showing the shot charts i was like whoaaaa

got the waiting list email for the statmuse thing, if it's at all on the level my goddamned life is over for at least six months it looks fucking bazonkers

Hope none of y'all get access spamming this thread with basketball reference links was bad enough

video looks pretty sus curious to see if it works or what

no reason it shouldn't work. it's prob just still in early development

there are like a million reasons why it shouldnt work?

all that natural language processing alone is pretty difficult to believe even

ya the pretend natural language with the commas just so are a bad sign, drop down menus prob way more usable

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B052uBjCcAA9i2H.jpg

feel like there's about 10 ilx threads that could use this photo

NY Post: Swift to amare after ACL tear: "shake it off"

who's gonna start the regular season thread?

you are

NOPE
2014-15 NBA regular season thread: 82 games of injuries and inevitabilities

d'oh!

um the regular season hasnt started yet?