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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5298513, member: 71"]
Moving on from Thibs in and of itself wasn't a bad move as where the Knicks need to improve in order to go deeper in the playoffs are:

A) offensive creativity - they can't just run the shot clock down to six seconds and hope Brunson can find something.  It's too easy to stop in playoff basketball

B) player development.  There are a number of pretty good bodies on the bench that spend nearly the entire game on the bench.  As Thibs always plays his starters the most minutes of any team, there is no way to tell if the bench is capable.  It's easy to say he doesn't use his bench because he doesn't have one but that may not be the case.  They'll need to be able to go more than six deep and they'll need a different head coach to do so.

My guess is they really only had two or three targets and knew they would likely be denied permission in their first pass.  They now are intentionally muddying the water (I'll wager that a few of the names they floated were never going to be considered) in order to be able to gice a fair offer (a couple firsts?) for the coach and be able to tell the team (likely Dallas) that they'll look elsewhere if the asking price is too high.
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