http://www.democratandchronicle.com...ID=/20060406/SPORTS0101/604060372/1007/SPORTS NBA scouts have to love the defensive skills, energy and offensive potential of Florida Gators 6-foot-11 sophomore star Joakim Noah. Last year at this time, he was coming off his freshman season as a seldom-used substitute. Now he'll be a lock lottery pick in June's NBA draft if he decides to declare. He'd be my No. 1 pick. ... Have you ever heard a manager or coach in any pro sport consistently bad mouth his players the way Larry Brown does with the New York Knicks? Sometimes I think he'd be happy to walk away from this mess if the team offered to buy him out. This is the first season of his reported five-year, $10-million contract. ... Coach Jeff Van Gundy has one year left on his contract with the disappointing Houston Rockets and there is speculation that he'll be replaced this summer. His major problem has been seldom having gimpy stars Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady in the lineup simultaneously.
I love how Yao is suddenly considered "gimpy". The guy is an ironman who had to take a whole 21 games off to not only have a surgery on his toe, but to rehab it and get back in game shape as well. Yep, that's quite gimpy alright...
The Noah news broke around 9 pm last night so he might have written it before then. By the way Noah goes to UF not FSU--BIG difference!
Swift needs to go not JVG. Trade him, waive him, i dont care just piss him off Van Gundy's got one season, 0607, to show he can adjust and return this team to the upper echelon. If he doesnt his time will come.
After beating Golden State last night he needs to be fired. What the h*ll is he thinking by winning games this late in the year. Pack it in a get a higher draft choice. What possible good is winning a game now going to do. Fire this idiot.
What is he supposed to tell the players? "LOSE THIS GAME"? For all you know, it was the players who wanted to win the game. Some of you need to think.
So he deserves to be fired because his major problem was something that he or no coach could have any control over? I don't see the reasoning...
Read as 5 years @ 10M per year. NY is a mess, if the players don't start listening to Brown next season then Brown will find out its easier to fire the coach then firing all the players.
There are two kinds of statements in matters such as this: information and speculation. Putting speculation in a newspaper does not make it information. The speculation on this board is better argued than the speculation in that article. So treat it the way you'd treat somebody starting a "fire Gundy" or "trade Stro" thread.
He deserves to be fired because he plays JH instead of Swift; he deserves to be fired because he doesn't know offense; he deserves to be fired because he is too rigid on his own game plan and doesn't know how to change, or adapt to different situations, great coach knows to change, knows to inspire his team, he knows nothing but his plans and buying old Knicks and play them no matter if they can play; he deserves to be fired because ultimately, he is a playoff coach, not a champion-level coach---the way I saw Pistons played in the last couple of games, there is no way Rox could beat them even Tracy is back; all in all, he deserves to be fired because, (I know a lot of you like him, he is a hard working guy + defense wins championship) HE LOST THE ART OF NBA---PUT THE BALL INTO THE BASKET, INSTEAD, HE DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO PREVENT THAT HAPPEN. Let's face it: we might get lucky (to win the titles) with T-MAC and Yao, because they are truly elite; but if not, that's because of JVG.
Wow, that's nice newbie, I don't think you were saying that this time last year or will be saying that this time next year. JVG is not the reason this season went into the crapper, injuries were, simple as that. If we have a full roster next and we are in the same position then coaching should be blamed but not with the 20 different version of this team we've had this year.
