Knicks · Rambis YOU SUCK (page 1)

Playing Jimmer 2 mins when you lose by 37 pts ??? you see baseball games where a team is getting blown out, a good manager gets the guy they just brought up from the minors into the game to get his feet wet. NO MORE SASHA

Playing Melo 37 mins ??? Stop over playing this guy!!! He has a bad knee and is signed for 3 more yrs

Get Grant some more mins also

Agree already. No change maybe worse. Let's be honest though pat Riley wouldn't win 40 here

Really Rambis sucked the moment he took the reins and declared the "playoffs" as the goal and stuck to the same starting lineup.

Jose should be benched for the rest of his life, and out of a Knicks uniform hopefully by June. A true rebuild would entail giving hefty minutes to Grant and Jimmer to see what you have, but management fubar'ed this shyt completely by even thinking of the postseason. This fake competing shyt cost Melo what's left of his knees, Grant's development, and the ouster of 3 triangle coaches in the span of 1 year.

Time to overhaul the roster again and retool around KP and hopefully install a new system with a proven coach. Wake up Phil Jackson.

Rambis is delusional in thinking that we are fighting for a playoff spot while also learning the triangle for the second year in a row with the worst backcourt in the game.

Lets be honest, Jimmer is not saving this team. BUT he absolutely SHOULD be given the chance to. Give the keys to Jimmer and Grant. Can it get worse in the backcourt?

At least Grant can defend. Calderon was totally killed in the 2nd quarter last night.

Knicksfan wrote:Rambis is delusional in thinking that we are fighting for a playoff spot while also learning the triangle for the second year in a row with the worst backcourt in the game.

Rambis is just an action figure to fill the void.
Nothing that going on with the Knocks on the court matters.
It will be great to get mathematically eliminated rather sooner that later.
It will be legit reason to give Melo and KP some more rest, put Jose on the injured list and use the rest of the season as big practice session.
Obviously nobody will come or tune to see this... and this is the big issue for a bunch of function figures at MSG.

It's the guards! They would make any coach look bad playing like this. I did like seeing Jerian play more confident when he came in. Rambis should sit Jose and let Gallo start. Then let Jerian and Jimmer play. It's way past time to move on from Jose. He's a nice guy and had a nice career for his talent level. He just can't do it anymore.

BigRedDog wrote:Playing Jimmer 2 mins when you lose by 37 pts ??? you see baseball games where a team is getting blown out, a good manager gets the guy they just brought up from the minors into the game to get his feet wet. NO MORE SASHA

Playing Melo 37 mins ??? Stop over playing this guy!!! He has a bad knee and is signed for 3 more yrs

Get Grant some more mins also

Agreed! 150%

Knicks interim head coach Kurt Rambis said Jimmer Fredette won't see regular minutes for the Knicks.
This doesn't come as a big surprise as Jimmer is only on a 10-day contract with the Knicks, but Rambis isn't committed to finding minutes for Fredette. "He’s not going to displace someone who’s played all year and has worked hard in practice,’’ Rambis said. "He’s got to be keyed in to where everyone’s supposed to be. I’m not sure he’s there yet.’’ The Jimmer is worth monitoring in case the Knicks fall even further out of playoff contention, but he can be left on waivers in most fantasy leagues right now

Great sheet Rambis. Keep trying and playing the same crap.

BigRedDog wrote:Knicks interim head coach Kurt Rambis said Jimmer Fredette won't see regular minutes for the Knicks.
This doesn't come as a big surprise as Jimmer is only on a 10-day contract with the Knicks, but Rambis isn't committed to finding minutes for Fredette. "He’s not going to displace someone who’s played all year and has worked hard in practice,’’ Rambis said. "He’s got to be keyed in to where everyone’s supposed to be. I’m not sure he’s there yet.’’ The Jimmer is worth monitoring in case the Knicks fall even further out of playoff contention, but he can be left on waivers in most fantasy leagues right now

Great sheet Rambis. Keep trying and playing the same crap.

Yea why would you continue to play the worst backcourt in the NBA ..... It's broke rambis would be a fool to keep playing Jose.. Jose is so bad he makes me want Felton back and I hate Felton . Jimmer and grant should start and play big minutes, because they can't possibly be worse then what Jose and even AA have been doing on a nightly basis

I'm hating what I'm hearing from Rambis- We aren't making the playoffs, we need to use this time to develop and evaluate players- O'Quinn is with us for 4 years so play him, let him work through his crap. Cutting Grant's minutes back to the bone? How does that make any sense going forward? Saying Jimmer won't get any minutes? Then why the heck sign him?!

Hate to say "I told you so" but.....

Remember that Rambis is the jackass that thought Kevin Love wasn't a player in this league and played a critical role in failing to develop multiple lottery picks (e.g. Derrick Williams, Jonny Flynn, Wes Johnson, Corey Brewer, etc.). The guy only has a job because he's a Phil lacky. I hope they fire him and replace him with Shaw, then hire Luke Walton to be head coach.

Yep yep. Next!!!

I actually think Rambis has done some good things with this team. Sure we may have wanted to see this team move on to playing the kids but at the same time it's important to establish some better habits rather than just throwing the players out there when they aren't doing the right things. He seems to be making changes to how this team prepares and that makes sense on many levels.

His comments about the way the team practices make a lot of sense. It's not just about the kids on this roster. There are players who are going to be here going forward too and they also have to continue to be developed the right way. Doesn't help to just throw kids out there if they don't know what they're doing. If they show it in practice then they can play.

Kurt Rambis revealed that 59 games into the season the Knicks “are not connected” which is why the interim head coach has the players scrimmaging more since he replaced Derek Fisher.

“Even though we got some older veteran ball players on our team, this is a relatively new team,” Rambis said on Thursday. “I use the word immature but I don’t mean not having the maturity as individuals but just the growth process and how long these guys have been together and know how to work off of each other and help each other.

“They are not connected that way yet. You don’t get enough of it just by playing games, we got to be out there on the court so that they can actually work on timing and talk about timing and hey this is what I was thinking, what were you thinking on that play so they get better communication so they have an understanding out there. So that is something that I am trying to get time out there on the court so that growth process can speed up a little bit.”

It is Rambis’ belief that in order to develop chemistry the players need to work together more as opposed to simply working on their individual games.

“I wanted to change when we came in here is to get more scrimmage time, where defense is out there and they got to read and react and deal with physical contact but also put more guys in 2-on-2 and 3-on-3 situations which is what we are doing out here because those are actions happen in games rather than guys just working by themselves,” he added.

“Our coaches are pretty good passers. It’s our players that need to work their passing. So they are the ones that have to be working on moving the basketball too and that ability to move the ball to your teammate in right place, right time, right rhythm, all of that stuff is part of being connected and playing together.”

Talent-wise, the Knicks (24-35) should be competing for a playoff spot with the likes of the Pacers, Hornets and Pistons yet Phil Jackson’s club sits in 13th place. The Raptors are certainly a better team than the Knicks but are they 14 games better?

“They got to think like winners and believe like they are winners,” Rambis said. “I agree with you. We have talented guys on this ball club but talent is not enough. This talent has got to play together.

“When this talent is combined with the unity that you have to have out there on the court, then we will be fine. When we are doing it right, we are playing really well. But we can’t just sustain or maintain it.”

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I don't care for Rambis long term but he's made some good adjustments. The all star break probably gave our guys a little time to work on some concerning areas. Melo was not only ice cold vs indy but he was the main culprit defensively all game. He was just dogging it.

I knew he was not the answer, and I figured he had a lot to do with Fishers rotation. These idiots are in love with SASHA because of his Laker days and his knowledge of the triangle, which has been the worse system for this roster over the last 2 months.

Not playing DWILL and GRANT, and now JIMMER, that's all I needed to see, to know that RAMIS is an ASSSS

knicks1248 wrote:I knew he was not the answer, and I figured he had a lot to do with Fishers rotation. These idiots are in love with SASHA because of his Laker days and his knowledge of the triangle, which has been the worse system for this roster over the last 2 months.

Not playing DWILL and GRANT, and now JIMMER, that's all I needed to see, to know that RAMIS is an ASSSS

Its F'in crazy. You see the Nets cutting Johnson so they can play the young guys. NO REASON to play Sasha. NO WAY. Need to play Grant every game. Last time he played Grant had 9 pts 4 assists in 4th quarter. Next yr Grant will be so much better by playing the last 30 games this season. Do what is right for the FUTURE of the Knicks. FUNKING CRAZY!!!!

BigRedDog wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:I knew he was not the answer, and I figured he had a lot to do with Fishers rotation. These idiots are in love with SASHA because of his Laker days and his knowledge of the triangle, which has been the worse system for this roster over the last 2 months.

Not playing DWILL and GRANT, and now JIMMER, that's all I needed to see, to know that RAMIS is an ASSSS

Its F'in crazy. You see the Nets cutting Johnson so they can play the young guys. NO REASON to play Sasha. NO WAY. Need to play Grant every game. Last time he played Grant had 9 pts 4 assists in 4th quarter. Next yr Grant will be so much better by playing the last 30 games this season. Do what is right for the FUTURE of the Knicks. FUNKING CRAZY!!!!

and this summer when we see toronto walk away with our #1?

knicks1248 wrote:I knew he was not the answer, and I figured he had a lot to do with Fishers rotation. These idiots are in love with SASHA because of his Laker days and his knowledge of the triangle, which has been the worse system for this roster over the last 2 months.

Not playing DWILL and GRANT, and now JIMMER, that's all I needed to see, to know that RAMIS is an ASSSS

I am frustrated by seeing Sasha and have no clue why DWill or Grant didn't get minutes (could be lack of defensive energy in practice?). But not sure why anyone would get all worked up about Jimmer.

Cartman718 wrote:

BigRedDog wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:I knew he was not the answer, and I figured he had a lot to do with Fishers rotation. These idiots are in love with SASHA because of his Laker days and his knowledge of the triangle, which has been the worse system for this roster over the last 2 months.

Not playing DWILL and GRANT, and now JIMMER, that's all I needed to see, to know that RAMIS is an ASSSS

Its F'in crazy. You see the Nets cutting Johnson so they can play the young guys. NO REASON to play Sasha. NO WAY. Need to play Grant every game. Last time he played Grant had 9 pts 4 assists in 4th quarter. Next yr Grant will be so much better by playing the last 30 games this season. Do what is right for the FUTURE of the Knicks. FUNKING CRAZY!!!!

and this summer when we see toronto walk away with our #1?

At this point what does that have to do with anything?

martin wrote:I am frustrated by seeing Sasha and have no clue why DWill or Grant didn't get minutes . . .

Look . . . things are connected.

And you can't fix or develop everything simultaneously.

You can't have 5 players out there all trying to develop confidence in the Triangle at the same time.

Vujacic is invaluable in that he cuts that 5 down to 4 . . . immediately.

I wish we had another Triangle veteran or two to do more of that -- Ariza or Gasol or Shannon Brown . . .