Additional details about how the Knicks brass and gamers felt about fired coach Tom Thibodeau has been revealed.
Yahoo Sports activities’ Vincent Goodwill offered some intel on who was essentially the most eager to indicate the top coach the door on the Knicks.
“What was clear was Thibodeau’s firing being spearheaded by Knicks proprietor James Dolan, sources informed Yahoo Sports activities. Dolan and workforce president Leon Rose held exit conferences with key Knicks gamers and the complaints had been clear.
“Dolan, whom sources stated was by no means an enormous Thibodeau fan by the years, requested the questions within the assembly whereas Rose took a secondary function.”
Goodwill’s report additionally reveals that the way in which Thibodeau will get as many minites as humanly doable from his starters might have led to his downfall:
“A few gamers felt like Thibodeau performed the starters too many minutes and felt he had an incapability to regulate, sources stated, and one other participant stated he didn’t really feel like he might play for Thibodeau if the coach returned subsequent season.”
He added, “Thibodeau did play his starters loads and didn’t develop a bench the way in which different coaches have. Mikal Bridges brazenly complained about taking part in too many minutes and that’s when it appeared issues began to go sideways.”
Again in March, issues acquired furry when The Athletic reported that the Knicks ahead had a ‘dialog’ together with his head coach about lowering the starter’s minutes, however Thibs flat out denied any such dialog occurred in any respect.
NBA legend and Contained in the NBA star Charles Barkley gave his ideas on the firing just lately.
“All people was shocked. They had been higher than final 12 months, and so they had been two video games away from the Finals and so they acquired beat by a greater workforce, so I believe folks had been shocked. It’s a very good job… It’s the New York Knicks.”
