Will Patrick Ewing become the next head coach of the Knicks
Dec 7, 2019 15:20:17 GMT -5
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Post by TC on Dec 7, 2019 15:20:17 GMT -5
“This isn't a great situation for him - if he wants to coach in the NBA, the Knicks job is probably his best shot. He was a nostalgia hire at GU, he'd be a nostalgia hire for NYK too, but maybe he can do something with it. If anything, I'd argue Ewing moving to the NBA would make us more relevant because it would show that an upward trajectory is possible from our HC job.”
I would offer the opposite opinion. If he leaves for another job NOW the narrative will be he jumped off a sinking ship due to a lack of institutional control on his part. Since he has yet to accomplish anything of substance in the eyes outside Healy Gates it would not show an “upward trajectory is possible from our HC JOB” - rather it’s a dead end job.
I've seen "lack of institutional control" thrown around here a bunch of times and that's a precise term and it's not this situation. Lack of institutional control means that major violations in compliance are happening, and I've not seen anything to suggest that anywhere. It's not synonymous with "playing people that should be sitting out for disciplinary issues". What we have seen is that we've been fed a narrative over the past decades about how Georgetown does things differently than other schools and espouses a higher standard. We've been told it would never tolerate a lot of sets of behavior that might be excused at other places - and we're seeing them tolerate it. That's not living up to your own principles. That is not "lack of institutional control".
Second, the NBA does not care about lack of institutional control whatsoever - they do not care that you leave a mess. Kelvin Sampson coached in the NBA. Calipari coached in the NBA. Pitino coached in the NBA. Larry Brown coached in the NBA.