« Reply #34 on: February 09, 2016, 01:35:18 PM »
You can't lose 5 in a row and 9 of 10 and get blown out in those games and go from playoff contention to out of it as a result and expect to keep your job.
What were the expectations for this team? Melo is hurt, and he missed all of last season. Without him healthy they are clearly a lottery team. Lottery teams go on 5 game losing streaks and lose 9 of 10. The Celtics lost 4 in a row only a month ago.
Put another way: is Orlando going to fire Scott Skiles? Because the same thing happened there.
The Knicks have a star at the back end of his prime and added a number of veterans this summer. They expected to compete. Before the skid they were in the playoff mix, now they are totally out of it. Fisher doesn't get along with the rest of his staff (or at least the guys that Jackson likes) and the whole Matt Barnes fiasco just won't go away. Fisher was in over his head. He was fine last year with the dumpster fire of a roster, but he needed to show improvement with a much better team and he just didn't.
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