Enough!

We get it Larry; none of this is your fault. It’s not your fault that you have had to use 40+ different starting lineups. It’s not your fault that there is no morale on this team. It’s not your fault that on a day when we should be enjoying a great 96-94 win, we are instead focusing again on all the off the court crap that comes with being a Knicks’ fan.

There was Larry yesterday holding another one of his press conferences. Talking about how the team doesn’t try and how his job as a coach is to get a team to execute, not to get them to try. He was talking about how he is going to get rid of the quitters in the offseason and how he hopes he will have the backing of Isiah Thomas and Jim Dolan and insinuating he would leave if he didn’t.

We all fell for Brown when he was named coach. Fresh off back-to-back trips to the NBA Finals and coming home to New York, he seemed like the perfect guy to coach the Knicks. We ignored his history of jumping ship and didn’t question why he would want to leave a powerhouse team like Detroit. The players, the GM and the Owner all deserve plenty of blame for the worst season in Knicks’ history, but the coach is guilty as well, he just doesn’t seem to realize it.

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By Peter Trinkle on April 6, 2006 3:12 PM

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raj

I'm a Pistons fan since birth, moved to nyc from detroit six yrs ago. I think most people in Detroit were totally fine with Larry leaving, especially considering that by the time the Pistons bought out his contract, he already had two different job offers out there (if he wanted to, he could have told the pistons that he was too sick to coach the next season and they would have to paid him his contract, even if he went to be the cavs gm, on top of that salary. I kid you not).

Furthermore, every game always was about him and not the players. At least it seemed that way. Any coach could have gotten the pistons to the finals after we acquired rasheed wallace.

This guy is a proven coach, but he sure can grate folks in the wrong situations - heck, probably every situation. And he totally sucked up the limelight. When the Pistons won the championship with brown, it was about brown winnning the championship, not five players who were castoffs (cept sheed i guess) up until then.

The one thing Isiah should have considered before hiring brown is this: Joe Dumars, a former teammate, didn't like Larry Brown at all. They clashed all the time in Detroit over different team mentalites. Joe Dumars, and I think everyone will agree on this, is the clear winner so far (lets hope D-Town wins it all this year).

And what has larry brown done this season? He's come up with another exit strategy. Unless Isiah does the impossible and trades half the untradeable knicks, larry will probably leave next year, or at most at the end of another terrible season. Its a shame too, the knicks have skilled players . . . usually the coach is tasked with figuring out the rest (above and beyond 20 wins)

You knicks fans will eventaully agree with this sentiment: good riddance, Larry

Kevin Walsh

I've been laughing all year. A multimillionaire owner, a multimillionaire coach and a team full of millionaire prima donnas who won't be coached.

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