Mike Brown is set to become the new head coach for the New York Knicks after a prolonged search. Despite being an accomplished coach with a .599 winning percentage, his hiring lacks glamour as he is perceived as a coaching retread. The Knicks' previous coach, Tom Thibodeau, had moderate success, but the team owner, James Dolan, aims for a more exciting image. This inconsistency highlights Dolan’s approach, revealing a preference for perceived glamour over the proven effectiveness of a solid coach.
Mike Brown has been an excellent coach at other stops who only gets canned when someone tires of him asking his players to defend, and he is on any level an excellent fit for a team that seems well positioned to become a bully in the Eastern Conference.
His career winning percentage of .599 is the seventh-best of any coach with his volume of work, and his results as an assistant under Rick Carlisle, Gregg Popovich, and Steve Kerr are fairly self-explanatory.
Even though the Knicks had success under the retread-y and deeply non-sexy Thibodeau, they didn't have enough success to obscure that non-sexiness, and eventually Dolan decided the second failing wasn't worth the principal benefits.
It is an oddly inconsistent stance for Dolan to take, of course, but certainly a self-explanatory one, because all we were told all spring long was that New York.
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