The New York Knicks releived Tom Thibodeau of his coaching duties on Tuesday, according to Shams Charania of ESPN, just days after the coach led the New York Knicks to their first Eastern Conference Finals in 25 years.
Thibodeau was consistently under fire during the ECF for his rotations, lack of bench minutes and his tendency to lean on his starters. Still, this comes as a pretty big shock, considering the Knicks jsut completed their best season in a quarter-century.
Thibodeau might not be the answer, but he wasn't the biggest problem
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The Knicks don't have a good enough roster to make the NBA Finals. That's the problem at the end of the day. The team struggled against the top teams in the East all season long, and it became pretty obvious long ago that a Finals run wasn't in the cards.
The Knicks shocked the world in the second round by beating the Boston Celtics, but then fell to the Indiana Pacers in the ECF — apparently that was enough for NY to move in a different direction.