Derek Fisher FIRED per ESPN

[42 Monks]

Fisher definitely didn't deserve to get fired I don't know what the fukk people expected. Knicks were playing well above their talent level for the majority of the season.

Was he really supposed to make the playoffs with this squad?

 

[42 Monks]

please don't tell me the same people shytting on Fisher were the same ones caping for Mark fukking Jackson

 

[Typical Knicks Fan]

Fisher definitely didn't deserve to get fired I don't know what the fukk people expected. Knicks were playing well above their talent level for the majority of the season.

Was he really supposed to make the playoffs with this squad?

Yes he did. You can't win playing guys who aren't prepared then make excuses when you lose. I don't know how many times he's putting the blame on the players for not playing with passion and being ready. He would literally play everyone knowing damn well the matchups aren't in our favor. Calderon deserved to be benched and Vujacic have no business playing but they get minutes to start the 4th quarter.

 

[hoodheronova]

Yes he did. You can't win playing guys who aren't prepared then make excuses when you lose. I don't know how many times he's putting the blame on the players for not playing with passion and being ready. He would literally play everyone knowing damn well the matchups aren't in our favor. Calderon deserved to be benched and Vujacic have no business playing but they get minutes to start the 4th quarter.

dude has been horrible from day 1.Plus add the fact that he's a scumbag. Good riddance

 

[42 Monks]

Yes he did. You can't win playing guys who aren't prepared then make excuses when you lose. I don't know how many times he's putting the blame on the players for not playing with passion and being ready. He would literally play everyone knowing damn well the matchups aren't in our favor. Calderon deserved to be benched and Vujacic have no business playing but they get minutes to start the 4th quarter.

Who the hell on that roster is prepared? Your starting PG is a guy who shouldn't have been starting 5 years ago. You cannot win, or even maintain any kind of successful consistency, when you have inept guard play in the NBA. It can't be done.

So you bench Calderon. Who plays? Grant? Grant belongs in the D-League. Who does that leave? All the guys your GM didn't sign.

Your entire roster, for the vast majority of the game, isn't in your favor. Outside of Melo (who's already ) and a rookie who's finally hitting the wall (shyt, imagine if yal DIDN'T have goatzingis...), what the fukk can your roster do?



Seriously, what the fukk is any coach supposed to do with the Knicks outside of Melo and a rookie in the East right now? If Fisher didn't have those fukkboy BUMS more ready to go than the rest of the league to start the season, NY is right there next to Brooklyn and LA in the win column. They stole more wins than any other team to start the year off.

fukking pitiful how yal are trying to scapegoat this dude like your entire season wasn't in the bushes to begin with

 

[Typical Knicks Fan]

Who the hell on that roster is prepared? Your starting PG is a guy who shouldn't have been starting 5 years ago. You cannot win, or even maintain any kind of successful consistency, when you have inept guard play in the NBA. It can't be done.

So you bench Calderon. Who plays? Grant? Grant belongs in the D-League. Who does that leave? All the guys your GM didn't sign.

Your entire roster, for the vast majority of the game, isn't in your favor. Outside of Melo (who's already ) and a rookie who's finally hitting the wall (shyt, imagine if yal DIDN'T have goatzingis...), what the fukk can your roster do?



Seriously, what the fukk is any coach supposed to do with the Knicks outside of Melo and a rookie in the East right now? If Fisher didn't have those fukkboy BUMS more ready to go than the rest of the league to start the season, NY is right there next to Brooklyn and LA in the win column. They stole more wins than any other team to start the year off.

fukking pitiful how yal are trying to scapegoat this dude like your entire season wasn't in the bushes to begin with

Watch a game before you try to critique our roster. We lost countless games not because of the lack of talent, but because Fisher can't adjust during games. Lance Thomas is a bum, but he's an important player because he knows the system and plays on both ends. Grant is not put in pick and roll situation enough to be effective because Fisher refuses to call plays. Forget about end of game timeouts because Fisher doesn't believe in those. Look at our box score and you will see we lose every 4th quarter and that ends up being our detriment

You can't have guys playing hard for three quarters then freeze them out in the 4th because you can't adjust. Porzingis is literally begging for the ball to come his way but Calderon is in the game and wouldn't look his way. Fisher isn't our only problem why we're losing, but he's the biggest. .

 

[42 Monks]

Watch a game before you try to critique our roster. We lost countless games not because of the lack of talent, but because Fisher can't adjust during games. Lance Thomas is a bum, but he's an important player because he knows the system and plays on both ends. Grant is not put in pick and roll situation enough to be effective because Fisher refuses to call plays. Forget about end of game timeouts because Fisher doesn't believe in those. Look at our box score and you will see we lose every 4th quarter and that ends up being our detriment

You can't have guys playing hard for three quarters then freeze them out in the 4th because you can't adjust. Porzingis is literally begging for the ball to come his way but Calderon is in the game and wouldn't look his way. Fisher isn't our only problem why we're losing, but he's the biggest. .

What did yal really expect this year?

Tell me that. I want to know. Because I could've sworn no one had NYK above 35 wins - and yal were definitely on pace. That hot start got yal fukked up. And instead of giving Fisher props for it, people are turning that shyt against him. As if anyone on that roster outside of Melo and KP would get more than 20 minutes anywhere else in the league.

You are describing BUMS. Saying the Fisher was losing games because his BUMS couldn't get their shyt together. If they couldn't do it 40 games in to the season, why is another timeout gonna do anything? Is calling timeout gonna send Calderon back to 2006? Is a timeout going to make Lance Thomas a real NBA player? Maybe if Phil had some talent on that team, an adjustment would make sense. But you got a coach out there making chickens out of chickenshyt, then you're scapegoating him for not making enough to go around.

fukking ridiculous. And even if you did want to fire him, why fire him now? To let Kurt Rambis take over? Have yal seen that man's resume? Look who he was playing ahead of Kevin Love in Minnesota I just don't see how you blame Fisher. What does he have to work with? Who's job is it to get him people to work with? What were the expectations going into the year to begin with?

There's no such thing as a perfect coach. But when you invest in a rookie coach the way that the Knicks did, you have to be patient (like the plan was in the first place).

This is scapegoating, straight up. fukk Mark Jackson, Fisher got ran out of town for not making Derrick Williams breakout season come true.

 

[pete clemenza]

Basically you want ur big 3 to consist of 2 career losers and nikka who can't do shyt but dunk

Clips ain't going anywhere without Blake. He was easily your best player in last years playoffs (and arguably the entire playoffs)

You played 2 good teams since Blake went down and got blown out both times

I agree but the thing is we don't know if he'll be able to give us anything at all for the rest of the season and that'll be yet another year wasted off some dumb sh*t. Plus with Doc's sh*tty GM moves over the years something is going to give if don't have a good postseason.

 

[Typical Knicks Fan]

No scapegoating, Fisher is garbage.

Galloway is clearly better than Calderon, but for some reason he's still starting. We found a nice Rotation of 8 players but some reason Fisher went back to 10-11. You can't believe in a guy who doesn't show progress and refuses to learn from prior mistakes. He was fired for a reason, but you're in here

 

[42 Monks]

No scapegoating, Fisher is garbage.

Galloway is clearly better than Calderon, but for some reason he's still starting. We found a nice Rotation of 8 players but some reason Fisher went back to 10-11. You can't believe in a guy who doesn't show progress and refuses to learn from prior mistakes. He was fired for a reason, but you're in here

So yal fired him midway through the season for Kurt fukking Rambis?

There is no such thing as a perfect coach. Even Pop benched Duncan. And Fisher, a rookie coach, is getting put under a microscope for not playing the right kind of garbage at the appropriate time?

Yeah. This is gonna work great for NY. I bet guys just can't wait to interview for that job.

 

[pete clemenza]

So yal fired him midway through the season for Kurt fukking Rambis?

There is no such thing as a perfect coach. Even Pop benched Duncan. And Fisher, a rookie coach, is getting put under a microscope for not playing the right kind of garbage at the appropriate time?

Yeah. This is gonna work great for NY. I bet guys just can't wait to interview for that job.

Plus they gotta run the triangle offense

 

[42 Monks]

Plus they gotta run the triangle offense

Bout to give Kukoc 20 million to get it done

Derrick Williams pinch post action from the left

gonna have Grant PnR running sets in a pitchblack gym til he has more than the two good games a month

running the bench offense through Kyle O'Quinn like god intended

 

[TrillCauleyStein]

I love how when d-fish left OKC then became the knicks coach, durant said he would be a great coach....yea..um, that didn't happen

and now KD said Towns will be a HOF'er...lol

Im not believing a thing Durant will say now.

 

[KOBE]

Am I the only one wondering why in the fukk these coaches are getting 4-5 year deals for 20 million when most don't last much longer than 2 years? Who is the competition?

 

[Matta]

I bet you said the same about Fisher

Hell no.. I wouldn't be surprise if he does the same shyt Steve Kerr did

Meet with Phil and then decline