The departure of Tom Thibodeau of the Knicks is another error born of the era of impatience

Leon Rose, president of the Knicks, decided to do without the coach’s services that returned New York to conference endings after 25 years outside.

New York Knicks dismissed to Tom Thibodeau And beyond the decision taken by the president of the Leon Rose franchise, successful or wrong, one thing is obvious: the era of impatience does not expect anyone, much less in the most important markets.

Five years passed from the arrival of Thibs to the franchise. An obsessive man, with rigid maxims difficult to break, including the contraction to defense and excess of minutes by the pieces that make up the titular quintet. That may have been what made Rose doubt about Tibodeau: with him we will fight until the last round, but we will not break the wall. We will not cross the Rubicon. However, its resolution may have been too hurried for a team accustomed to failing half a century ago and that only in the last two postseason had begun to twist the course towards success.

25 years passed since the last conference finals and the last time they had stepped on the NBA finals was in 1999 with Jeff Van Gundy In the team. Since then, 19 coaches spent in the New York bank and none of them was even close to the success that the sports father of Jalen Brunson, Clutch man and new King of Madison Square Garden.

It is understood that it must have been a skin issue. Or at least style. The AM850 statistics department that Thibs closed its stay as the Knicks Coach with a 57.9%triumph percentage, the maximum of any coach who did not reach the NBA finals with at least 300 directed matches.

What was missing to do Tibodeau? What bothered Rose to remove him from office? In 2024, a survey published by The Athletic site, Anonymous, between NBA players, showed that 46.8% of the players voted for Thibodeau as the coach with whom they would not like to play. This response was attributed to your obsessive work method, to wear, by squeezing the players to the limit of their possibilities.

Thibodeau is not for anyone.

Brunson and Josh Hart They lifted the coach sadly In your social networks. Thibodeau meets Brunson since his father, today technical assistant, was a Knicks player back in 2000. Thibs was, at that time, Van Gundy’s assistant. Had not yet arrived Derrick Rose or Chicago Bulls To his life. Even the Knicks were takeoff platform and no landing track. The decision of another Rose, Leon, to remove it from his position, not only means changing his coach but also destroying a booming culture, which began with the birth of the town team in the playoffs of the 2023-24 season and that ended with the successful course 2024-25 that included a triumph against the champions Boston Celtics.

Mikal Bridges (3036) and Hart (2897) occupied the first and second place, respectively, in total minutes played in regular season. The titular quintet of the Knicks, composed of Karl Anthony-Towns, OG Anunoby, Hart, Bridges and Brunson, shared the court for 940 minutes during the regular season, 226 minutes more than any other quintet of players in the NBA (the headlines of the Timberwolves played 714 minutes together).

Despite playing 100 games between the regular and the postseason season, the greatest amount in the NBA, the second unit of the Knicks scored 2067 points, the minimum of the League (20.7 points per game from the bank). Not only that: the Knicks began last season as one of the best offensive teams in the League (seconds in the general) and collapsed after the weekend of stars (22 °).

The data is the data, and these numbers somehow condemned Thibs, which threw a pair of drowned bodies because he saw that, in the last stretch of the race, with what he had, he did not arrive at the edge. Los lifeguards of little air were called Landry Shaamet, Delon Wright, Cameron Payne and Miles McBride to a lesser extent. When he wanted to expand the rotation, it was too late to compete.

That said, loading the inks only to the coach is at least debatable. Because the decision to sacrifice Draft picks was not his but of management. So, a mirror would not come bad when evaluating results: to bring Towns and Bridges, they not only left on the way to Julius Randle and Donte Di Vincenzo but also two future second round picks in the change of the Dominican wing and four first round picks without protection in the former Eave Brooklyn Nets (2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031), in addition to an unprotected selection exchange in 2028.

In All-in’s commitment they were all, not just the coach.

We all know that in a giant square such as that of the Big Apple, the seats are always red. Eyecting is somehow part of the process. But in this case, the exit of Thibodeau is not only hurried, but is perceived as an error.

We already know who left, but we don’t know who will come. What we do know is that this roster, in the future, will look quite similar in the initial quintet. Financial engineering must be of excellence, because the campus will begin the preseason with a salary of $ 200 million and four positions available on the campus.

Extend the depth of the roster, oxygenate the squad and start a new movie without Thibs. That will be the plan with the coach that touches.

The time, wise and implacable, will not give breath: sooner rather than later we will know who was right.