David Fizdale is the Knicks new coach, let's hope his wife is on the front row

This afternoon, as I watched the Cavaliers dismantle the Toronto Raptors, I listened to the press conference announcing David Fizdale as the new head coach of the New York Knickerbockers. Whose wife is a dime piece, I must add.

I witnessed Kevin Love, Kyle Karver, JR Smith, LeBron and George Hill carve the young Raptors up like a Thanksgiving turkey while in the background hearing Fizdale speaking about opening up the game with the Knicks. Wanting to run more and play good defense.

That's all well and fine, but I sincerely hope Fizdale and the Knicks front office don't make the mistake of attempting to build a team to take on Cleveland.

All the Cavaliers starters are in their mid to late 30's so building a team to play against this model would be fruitless because all these guys will be no longer in the league when the Knicks players hit their prime.

The mission has to be studying the Celtics and Sixers who have big men who can play around the basket and dominate.

Maybe the notion of running a Riley style of offense hoping to run these big guys into the ground with pressing defense sounds good to Dolan, but the Celtics, Raptors and Sixers are extremely young. Trying to out condition their opponents sounds cute, but that's not going to work these days.

Fizdale is going to have to hypnotize Kristaps Porzingis and program him to believe that he is Larry Bird and get a couple of bruisers to help him dominate the backboard for time of possession and high percentage shots. It's the only formula for success in the East in the short term.

As much as the Raptors feel like shit management is not going to blowup the team, and they will be the most athletic and youngest team going into next season. No bullshit, I think adding Carmelo Anthony would take the Raptors to the next level.

Cleveland didn't beat them by attempting to out run them. Cleveland played slow down offense, with the ball constantly moving for open jump shots and guys cutting to the basket for easy layups and dunks. Meanwhile, all of Cleveland's young players were relegated to the bench to watch and learn.

It was old school basketball that allowed the Cavaliers to sweep Toronto. Having LeBron helped too but it was a clear demonstration of a superstar surrounded by smart players making sound basketball decisions every minute of the games.

Let's see if Fizdale can teach that around these parts.

Kawhi Leonard to the Knicks for KP?!?

Frank Isola reported a few days ago that the Spurs are so in love with Kristaps Porzingis that they'd be willing to trade Kawhi Leonard to the Knicks for KP and the Knicks first round draft pick.

If Isola reported it I don't how true it is but let's say he knows what he's talking about in this story.

The Spurs are dying to get rid of Leonard and feel that shipping him off to New York, where they'd hope that he'd lose for the rest of his career, would be very appealing to the Spurs and coach Pop. But I have one question for the Spurs.

If you love KP so much why do you need the Knicks first round pick also?

I'll tell you why.

They believe, and recent history certainly does back them up, that the Knicks won't be shit next season even with Kawhi so not only would they get a seven footer of their dreams they'd get the pleasure of seeing Kawhi suffer and a lottery pick.

No Pop, Leonard is in his walk year so if I were running the Knicks and couldn't get Kawhi to agree to a new long term contract before the trade I would have no part of this "deal". And you damn sure wouldn't be getting a first round pick too.

But if we could do a one for one deal and Kawhi wants to be here I'd make that deal so fast I'd reverse time.

There is no reason in hell why the Knicks would do that trade and the first round draft pick unless James Dolan is really that fucking stupid. Well, we'll see. We know for certain that Isaiah is still holding him by the waist and whispering into his ear on all matters Knicks.

It's going to be an interesting off season at the Garden after all.