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Cheap Under Armour Uk .Y. - Phil Jackson said it happens every time he walks around New York.Someone asks the question, How we
gonna be? How we doing? Jackson said.OK, so how are the Knicks going to be?We
believe were going to be a playoff team, Jackson said Friday, and then we dont
know how far well be able to go, but were hoping for the best.It was an
optimistic and possibly realistic view of the Knicks, who went 37-45 last season
and missed the playoffs. Jackson was hired as team president late in the season,
re-signed All-Star Carmelo Anthony, hired Derek Fisher as coach, and engineered
a number of roster moves to make the team younger, deeper and quicker.He also
hopes that makes them better, but the 11-time champion as a coach with the Bulls
and Lakers realizes theres a process to building contending teams that the
Knicks havent been following.Usually teams come into the playoffs and learn from
being in the playoffs, and gradually assume the capabilities of carrying out the
championship, Jackson said. I was fortunate to have a situation in L.A. where a
team had gone into the playoffs. They had been swept a couple of times in the
playoff run, but they had been in the midst of the playoffs and were able to win
the very first year that I coached that team there, which was a ready-made team
basically with tremendous talent. Very similar situation in Chicago.This team
does not got a personality. Its got over 35 per cent of this team has changed,
so we still have to kind of come together in a bonding way that creates trust,
teamwork, identity, some things like that.But at least they have stability. The
chaos of the Knicks 2013-14 season began just before training camp, when Madison
Square Garden chairman James Dolan shook up the franchise by firing general
manager Glen Grunwald and hiring Steve Mills after the Knicks won 54 games and
the Atlantic Division title. Grunwald was a longtime friend of coach Mike
Woodson, who lost his strongest supporter in the organization and had nobody to
publicly back him when the team sputtered at the start.I think it feels much,
much better now, Mills said. I think the addition of Phil to the team I think
adds a different look in terms of creating a culture. I think that was important
to Carmelo and I think its important as how we move forward as a unit. So I
think theres a lot more stability, I see the sort of rhythm to how we need to
build the team.Besides retaining Anthony, Jacksons biggest move was a trade that
sent starters Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton to Dallas that brought the
Knicks veterans Jose Calderon and Samuel Dalembert. But Jackson and Fisher both
expect the Eastern Conference to be tougher than the one that allowed Atlanta to
make the post-season with a 38-44 record last season, so those moves may not be
good enough for the Knicks.Fisher said Anthony is the only certain starter at
the moment. He will begin figuring out the rest Tuesday at West Point, when he
opens his first training camp as a coach.Jackson said it usually takes a team a
month to six weeks from there to jell, which would mean he should have an idea
of what the Knicks have by the time he returns to Los Angeles for Thanksgiving.
But he cautions that things can change.Last year the Knicks had an injury right
away to Tyson Chandler. Everything was kind of upset. J.R. Smith was suspended
to start the season. All kinds of things hindered their progress and it affected
their season, Jackson said. So we cant control that. We try to control what we
can control, and the fact that we have pretty good supporting cast and we have
some young players, we think that we can really get them playing hard and
playing together, and thats what well try to do.
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