We interrupt the praise of Matt Harvey to note the following:
Knicks coach Derek Fisher is considering going to the postseason this year as a spectator and intends to participate in the playoffs next season as a coach.
Really.
Fisher explained Thursday that, despite the horror of 2014-15, the Knicks could be a real factor — as much as a 63-victory factor — in the NBA next season.
Teams have turned around quickly. A good example, although not a 63-victory example, are the Bucks, who visit the Garden on Friday. A 15-67 disaster last season, the Bucks are currently the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. Could the Knicks do that next season?
They could, Fisher said. But he wants more. The Knicks could go "from 15 to 63" victories if they put their minds to it.
"I guess that's possible but we are not here trying to squeeze in, we are not here trying to go from 15 to 36. That's just not who we are," Fisher said. "So it can turn around quickly. It will turn around quickly. But we don't really have to put a number on it.
"We are 6-21 in games [decided] by six points or less this year. So we lost 21 games on two possessions. So we don't have go from 15 to 36 next year. We can go from 15 to 63 if we really want to. But that is up to us."
And it's up to free agents, draft picks, the injury gods — and, occasionally, a whistle.
The Knicks for next season will have a top-four draft pick, about $26 million to spend on free agents and a healthy Carmelo Anthony. Until the starting gun goes off again, the playoffs are for viewing, not participating, for the Knicks. When he played, after elimination, Fisher wanted to watch others compete as much as he wanted to chew aluminum foil.
"It's difficult to watch," Fisher said. "You hate everybody."
But as a coach, it could be a learning experience.
"As a coach there's so much to learn by watching the postseason: How other teams are playing, the type of things they're doing at the ends of games, strategy and even listening to the coaches during timeouts, the way they're addressing their team," Fisher said. "I've even thought about how purposeful it could be to actually be present in person in certain environments, especially for me in the Eastern Conference compared to the West.
"How's it going to feel to be in Cleveland in the postseason? … In Chicago? There's a lot of things for me as a coach this postseason/offseason will hold."
The coach who has four games left in his initial season, said it was "possible" some of his players could accompany him, just to get a feel for what the playoffs are. Sure, Anthony knows what it's like. But so many of the young Knicks have only made the playoffs in video games.
"I just think overall in the East, gaining an even greater understanding of who the teams are, their styles of play, the type of players that they will have returning in the future," Fisher said of the advantages of watching the playoffs up close and personal. "It is really about watching and learning from just a basketball standpoint. … About us becoming more of who we need to be."
Fisher learned during his first year, he said. Above all, he learned about control. What he learned most was how little control a coach has.
"The assumption is that the coach kind of controls things and is the determining factor between success or not," Fisher said. "Coming in, being very excited for the opportunity, you assume that you're going to be able to influence everything that happens and a big part of it is still controlled by others. The other team, the players you have, the type of things you're doing every day, the type of things that they're doing. And so it's still a collective effort."
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