Does Phil Jackson deserve credit for the Knicks current success.....

[Skip b]

Phil got shytted on let and right Knick team president, when all he wanted to do was get rid of that cancer Melo and completely stopped giving a fukk out here once the Knicks didnt want to part ways.......And he drafted what is looking like the best player in the NBA right.......

Does Phil get credit for the knicks success if they continue to succeed?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

Yes?? He drafted the 2 players that will be their future and he set the foundation for the club including many of their prominent scouts.

 

[Archangel]

No

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Phil Barely Watched Knicks Games You Think He Was Really Watching Unknowns In Latvia?

We’re An NBA Team With International Scouts

How the Knicks front office talked themselves into Porzingis

Clarence Gaines, Phil Jackson’s top adviser, was so enamored with Kristaps Porzingis, he thought the Knicks should take the 19-year-old if they won the lottery.

Gaines, a Bulls scout during Jackson’s tenure and his only new front-office hire with the Knicks, is considered Jackson’s most trusted personnel guy. Gaines made a scouting trip to Spain last winter to watch the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

“Clarence had gone over and seen him and he sent Phil a text and said if he had the first pick of the draft, this is the kid he would take,’’ Knicks general manager Steve Mills said during Monday night’s summer-league telecast from Vegas on MSG Network.

Despite Gaines’ enthusiasim, Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor would’ve been the pick had they landed the No. 1 pick, Mills indicated
Mills also made a trip to Spain to watch Porzingis in the ACB league, and that’s when 21-year-old center Guillermo Hernangomez, whom the Knicks selected in the second round, caught his eye. The Knicks made a deal with the Sixers to take Hernangomez with the 35th pick, and the Knicks plan to have him on the team in 2016-17. Jackson never traveled to Spain to see Porzingis or Hernangomez.


Mills And Gaines Traveled To Watch KP Play, Phil Never Went Anywhere

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Yes, even though there was some luck involved.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Yes

 

[Jparker]

Phil Barely Watched Knicks Games You Think He Was Really Watching Unknowns In Latvia?

We’re An NBA Team With International Scouts

How the Knicks front office talked themselves into Porzingis

Clarence Gaines, Phil Jackson’s top adviser, was so enamored with Kristaps Porzingis, he thought the Knicks should take the 19-year-old if they won the lottery.

Gaines, a Bulls scout during Jackson’s tenure and his only new front-office hire with the Knicks, is considered Jackson’s most trusted personnel guy. Gaines made a scouting trip to Spain last winter to watch the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

“Clarence had gone over and seen him and he sent Phil a text and said if he had the first pick of the draft, this is the kid he would take,’’ Knicks general manager Steve Mills said during Monday night’s summer-league telecast from Vegas on MSG Network.

Despite Gaines’ enthusiasim, Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor would’ve been the pick had they landed the No. 1 pick, Mills indicated
Mills also made a trip to Spain to watch Porzingis in the ACB league, and that’s when 21-year-old center Guillermo Hernangomez, whom the Knicks selected in the second round, caught his eye. The Knicks made a deal with the Sixers to take Hernangomez with the 35th pick, and the Knicks plan to have him on the team in 2016-17. Jackson never traveled to Spain to see Porzingis or Hernangomez.

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[Skip b]

Phil Barely Watched Knicks Games You Think He Was Really Watching Unknowns In Latvia?

We’re An NBA Team With International Scouts

How the Knicks front office talked themselves into Porzingis

Clarence Gaines, Phil Jackson’s top adviser, was so enamored with Kristaps Porzingis, he thought the Knicks should take the 19-year-old if they won the lottery.

Gaines, a Bulls scout during Jackson’s tenure and his only new front-office hire with the Knicks, is considered Jackson’s most trusted personnel guy. Gaines made a scouting trip to Spain last winter to watch the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

“Clarence had gone over and seen him and he sent Phil a text and said if he had the first pick of the draft, this is the kid he would take,’’ Knicks general manager Steve Mills said during Monday night’s summer-league telecast from Vegas on MSG Network.

Despite Gaines’ enthusiasim, Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor would’ve been the pick had they landed the No. 1 pick, Mills indicated
Mills also made a trip to Spain to watch Porzingis in the ACB league, and that’s when 21-year-old center Guillermo Hernangomez, whom the Knicks selected in the second round, caught his eye. The Knicks made a deal with the Sixers to take Hernangomez with the 35th pick, and the Knicks plan to have him on the team in 2016-17. Jackson never traveled to Spain to see Porzingis or Hernangomez.


Mills And Gaines Traveled To Watch KP Play, Phil Never Went Anywhere

So Phil is slighted because he sent his guys oversees to scout....

 

[BXKingPin82]

Phil Barely Watched Knicks Games You Think He Was Really Watching Unknowns In Latvia?

We’re An NBA Team With International Scouts

How the Knicks front office talked themselves into Porzingis

Clarence Gaines, Phil Jackson’s top adviser, was so enamored with Kristaps Porzingis, he thought the Knicks should take the 19-year-old if they won the lottery.

Gaines, a Bulls scout during Jackson’s tenure and his only new front-office hire with the Knicks, is considered Jackson’s most trusted personnel guy. Gaines made a scouting trip to Spain last winter to watch the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

“Clarence had gone over and seen him and he sent Phil a text and said if he had the first pick of the draft, this is the kid he would take,’’ Knicks general manager Steve Mills said during Monday night’s summer-league telecast from Vegas on MSG Network.

Despite Gaines’ enthusiasim, Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor would’ve been the pick had they landed the No. 1 pick, Mills indicated
Mills also made a trip to Spain to watch Porzingis in the ACB league, and that’s when 21-year-old center Guillermo Hernangomez, whom the Knicks selected in the second round, caught his eye. The Knicks made a deal with the Sixers to take Hernangomez with the 35th pick, and the Knicks plan to have him on the team in 2016-17. Jackson never traveled to Spain to see Porzingis or Hernangomez.


Mills And Gaines Traveled To Watch KP Play, Phil Never Went Anywhere

 

[Everythingg]

Yep. And if we take it a step further, if he would have been allowed to oust Melo when he wanted to, the Noah/Lee signings wouldnt have happened. Not saying Melo deserved the shyt talking but that was probably a result of Dolan insisting on Melo being on the team going forward...

 

[L&HH]

Phil Barely Watched Knicks Games You Think He Was Really Watching Unknowns In Latvia?

We’re An NBA Team With International Scouts

How the Knicks front office talked themselves into Porzingis

Clarence Gaines, Phil Jackson’s top adviser, was so enamored with Kristaps Porzingis, he thought the Knicks should take the 19-year-old if they won the lottery.

Gaines, a Bulls scout during Jackson’s tenure and his only new front-office hire with the Knicks, is considered Jackson’s most trusted personnel guy. Gaines made a scouting trip to Spain last winter to watch the 7-foot-3 Latvian.

“Clarence had gone over and seen him and he sent Phil a text and said if he had the first pick of the draft, this is the kid he would take,’’ Knicks general manager Steve Mills said during Monday night’s summer-league telecast from Vegas on MSG Network.

Despite Gaines’ enthusiasim, Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor would’ve been the pick had they landed the No. 1 pick, Mills indicated
Mills also made a trip to Spain to watch Porzingis in the ACB league, and that’s when 21-year-old center Guillermo Hernangomez, whom the Knicks selected in the second round, caught his eye. The Knicks made a deal with the Sixers to take Hernangomez with the 35th pick, and the Knicks plan to have him on the team in 2016-17. Jackson never traveled to Spain to see Porzingis or Hernangomez.


Mills And Gaines Traveled To Watch KP Play, Phil Never Went Anywhere

Yeah but Phil hired that scout. No Phil, no Clarence

 

[Skip b]

Yes, even though there was some luck involved.

Luck.....


Phil was held back being that he couldnt get rid of a guy he shytted on from before he was knicks president.......

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Nope

Phil proved himself to be a fraud

 

[NYC Rebel]

No he doesn’t. He picked right with KP, but that was it.

He destroyed the morale of the team by his shytty actions. Tried to forcefeed the triangle onto his players AND coaches which also hurt the team.

From coaches to players, they all look liberated with him gone.

 

[charmander]

phil jackson died for the sins of the knicks

he was a prophet, he understood melo was a blight and a plague and put his reputation on the line to rid new york of him

the knicks don't deserve such a visionary