James Edwards
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Apr
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Yeah, I agree with you. I did not think this would happen. I was 80-20 that he would come back. And I guess when you look at it in totality, maybe the suits thought that this team should be better than 51 wins. Maybe the suits thought that this team, even though it got to the Eastern Conference Finals, once Boston and Cleveland were eliminated, that it should have been represented in the finals.
This is a shock to me. Simply because this is an organization for two decades that was the butt of jokes, that had no culture, that had no stability. And for five years, Tom Thibodeau brought stability, he brought respect, and he brought winning back to New York. And ultimately for me, yes, there were flaws this year. This team wasn't perfect.
But the fact that this guy helped bring good PR back to this franchise and the fact that this team was put together 12 hours before training camp signaled, like, I felt like this guy should have got a year to at least get another run with this team.
I mean, that's a great question. I think part of it's social media. I think part of it is people are too online. I think people listen to fans and media way too much. It's a situation specifically in New York where this team – despite its imperfections, still made it to the Eastern Conference Finals and grew stronger as the season went on.
Yes, there were the offense, the starting group that they invested so much in wasn't good. They had a negative net rating from January 1st on. They weren't very good in the playoffs, right? But This team, Jalen Brunson missed a month at the end of the year. Mitchell Robinson was gone for most of the year.
I think the biggest knock, if you're going to talk about it with Tibbs, is he didn't really experiment with a five-out lineup. Didn't do Jalen Brunson, Deuce McBride, OG Ananobi, Mikael Bridges, and Carl Anthony Towns. That's probably the biggest knock in terms of lineup experimentation. But... give the guy another another give him a summer to to stew on it to think about it um i just i i'm
The thing that Denver did that I love so much, the Denver story is my favorite story in recent NBA history. They had a coach and their core players. They kept them together for seven, eight, nine years, and they finally won. They finally got over the hump. And not everything can be fixed by one name, by one addition, by one new voice.
And that was the other thing a lot of people talking about, kind of the reports are that the team needed a new voice. Well, of the core guys, Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart are the guys that have been around for a while, and they're the biggest Tibbs supporters. Everybody else that's in the core has been here for a year, a year and a half.
So what new voice, like what more is the time for the new voice? I just think, listen, Tibbs, there was flaws this year with his team. But ultimately, this franchise has not been very good for the larger part of 25 years. And I thought he deserved another year to try to rectify any type of qualms or issues that this team had this year.
Maybe that's what it came down to. And maybe. Yeah.
So if we're going to assume that they have a greener grass candidate out there, it would be a bit of a surprise, right? Like Michael Malone's a great coach. Is he any different in his approach than Tibbs? No.
He's outspoken. I don't know if ownership will love how outspoken he is. Then you have what? James Borrego, another CAA guy. Offensive mind. His defenses have been not the greatest. Hasn't had much success as a head coach, obviously, in Charlotte. They didn't do him any favors. Sure. There's this, right?
Yeah, Coach Pop Pedigree. Yes, and then you have a guy like Taylor Jenkins, another guy that was probably a scapegoat in Memphis. We don't know if we know the whole story there, but kind of similar to Tibbs. Tibbs is firing. Apparently, people didn't think he did enough. And then after that, you're getting into first-year head coaches.
You're getting into Johnny Bryant, Sean Sweeney, somebody I really like. But you're going to say that a first-year coach potentially could take this team over the top. Like, maybe it could. Maybe that's a risk to take, right? Micah Norrie, he's another guy in Minnesota. Been with Cat. Great personality. Been up for many jobs. But again, would be a first-year head coach. So...
You kind of look around and you're like, of the proven coaches, unless we're forgetting somebody who's out there, Jay Wright, the Villanova Connection stuff, for sure. Jay Wright was a great college coach. Does that mean he'll be a great NBA coach?
I tend to agree. I tend to agree, and I'm not sure it works for the Knicks and their – They're wanting to keep things in-house. I don't know if that's conducive to that. Listen, I'll say this. I think over the last 10 months, more so than the previous four years, the suits in New York have taken major risks, trading for Mikael Bridges, trading for Carl Anthony Towns, firing Tibbs.
These are franchise-altering decisions, and they have to be right.
Yeah, I think the big thing is maximizing the offense. They invested so much in the five, Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns, OG Ananobi, Mikael Bridges, Josh Hart, giving up first-round picks for basically all those big contracts for all those guys. Obviously, Jalen Brunson took a pay cut, but... That group was not consistently good. That group struggled as the season went on.
So is there a way to maximize their talents? On paper, that is a very talented starting five. Obviously, they switched up the starting lineup in the Eastern Conference Finals, but I would say I think we all would agree that's their core group. And is there a way to maximize that collective better? I think defensively, there's just going to naturally be issues.
Jalen Brunson tries his ass off on defense, but there's limitations with him and Cat at the point of attack and then at the back line. Are they learning? Did they learn throughout the postseason that what Minnesota did was correct, that they need to put a more traditional five next to Towns, and they played Mitchell Robinson.
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