How would you grade Grunwald?

[MSGer]

Are you kiddin me?
After layton/zeke/walsh?
The only question is if he gets to take the sexy teacher on a date ;-)

[THE MTL]

I give him an A.

1. Letting Lin go was NOT his decision and he would have kept him. So he goes out and gets the next best thing available in Felton.

2. Resigning JR Smith and Novak was huge. However the 4th year in Novak's contract befuddles me.

3. Convincing Kidd and Camby to come bring vet leadership and quality minutes as backup eventhough BOTH stated that they wanted starting job at free agency

4. Getting Brewer at vet min. to replace Shumpert's defense in the beginning half of the season might be his BEST move this offseason.

5. When its all said and done, we have only Shumpert and Novak under contract after 3 seasons. This time has a perfect reset button



Think of all the problems we had going into this offseason. He basically fixed (or almost) every problem we had. No PG, now we have a durable starter. No backup PG, we probi have the best backup in the league. No true vet leadership. solved with kidd and camby. Lacked an SG, resigned Smith and brought in Brewer. Lacked a backup big, brought in Camby who probi is the best backup center in the league. Camby would be a starter in all but 10 teams in the league.

And he didnt just recklessly add talent like Zeke. He tried to get players that would fit and compliment each other. Every pickup plays above-average defense which is HUGE. And then we got 2 playmakers, shooter, defensive specialists, scoring punch off bench, defensive minded coach, etc.

[Captain Moroni]

I give him an incomplete. If Lin becomes a perennial all-star and the Knicks continue to struggle I'd give him probably in the D to C- range. If Lin ends up being a bust and the Knicks go to the ECF this year I'd probably give him a B to A-.

So basically your a chicken. Kind of a win win with you.

[Captain Moroni]

Lot of good young players changed teams.....
I like Felton....move...and JR signing and agree Novak deserves a contract
but grunwald did not compete in the free agent mkt like other
teams did.

I grade Grunwald B minus cause he is a doer and he thinks
out of the box....he is an original

I know, we are 50 million UNDER the cap and he just let awesome free agents sign elsewhere. What a jerk.

[DirtyJerZ]

I give him an A. The thing I like about him the most is that he actually is trying to figure out how the pieces fit together, rather than just trying to add pieces. I think we are going to look back on the Lin thing, and realize it was brilliant. I know we're mixing sports here- but if you were to get rid of Greg Jeffries after the 1988 season, or Kevin Maas after his rookie year, people would have gone nuts- and then we realize later that they never were what they appeared to be in a small sampling.

[KingsOfQueens]

Not a fan of trading Koustas Papawhatever. Other than that, B+. Letting Lin walk was all Dolan, I'm not holding Grunwald accountable.

[milominderbinde]

D. He avoids an F because Lin was likely not his doing. His worst move was resigning Woody. We are now stuck with iso melo which is not a contending style of play. We have a fat mediocre PG backed up by an 39 year old coming apart at the seams instead of an exciting rising star we had full rights to keep. Sorry, but I cannot be positive about this off season. Absolute horrorshow.

[Mbellz3o8]

D. He avoids an F because Lin was likely not his doing. His worst move was resigning Woody. We are now stuck with iso melo which is not a contending style of play. We have a fat mediocre PG backed up by an 39 year old coming apart at the seams instead of an exciting rising star we had full rights to keep. Sorry, but I cannot be positive about this off season. Absolute horrorshow.

Who would you have liked to be coach....I think Grunwald did horrible also but resigning Woody was one good move he made I thnik. There really were many guys I would want besides Nate McMillion/Jax. Say what you want about Woody but the team balled under him

[LeGacy is Music]

I'm glad you know him personally but this post is just dumb. It's hard enough defending the Knicks to other fan bases but why do I feel I'm constantly defending the Knicks to our own so called fans.

I also love how everyone makes Lin out to be this sure thing second coming of Steve Nash. There is a reason he wasn't drafted and skill sets like that usually don't go unnoticed.

The jury is still out on Lin but its dumb to say that the Knicks are screwed without him. Will Lin repeat the same success that he had in 25 games. It was a great story, but for gods sake, the dude has played like 25 games.

I would much rather be in win now mode with 3 experienced point guards. You need experience and leadership to go along with Melo/Stat/Tyson.

"Knicks Fans" the sky is not falling and if it is too much to handle, don't let the door hit you on your way out to Brooklyn. If Brooklyn doesn't work you can always join Jeremy in Houston.

Positive thoughts people, positive thoughts.

Thank you my Good man, I haven't been this excited about the Knicks in a long time, we have a good team I feel we should and can be the two seed in the EC. We know Defense wins games and we have Defensive minded coach. When Danphoney left the Knicks went 18-6 thats really good IMO so to have a whole season with a coach who picked up some offensive schemes from Danphoney, and a coach who isn't going to get in his players faces when they don't follow the game plan. I like it LEtS go KNICKS

[Anji]

LOL @ this "Lin wasn't his fault" S$%!.

You know why Lin isn't back, it isn't because of the owner, it's because nobody would put their job on the line for him. Balls to the wall, nobody in the front office would "vouch" for the mascot. Not for 45million in year 3. Not when you know your the first person to get fired when you can't trade the worst contract in basketball.

A