Frank Isola wrote an interesting article in the New York Daily News on Tuesday morning, questioning whether Phil Jackson might be interested in replacing Jeff Hornacek this offseason.
It is a question worth asking given the Knicks’ disastrous season after Jackson put a roster together designed to win now.
The reasons Jackson would want to move on from Hornacek are obvious for everyone to see. The defense has been awful. Early in the season, Hornacek made Jackson’s protégé, Kurt Rambis, the team’s defacto defensive coordinator. There were typical denials that it was not at Jackson’s behest, but given Rambis’ history with the Zen Master it wasn’t hard to connect the dots.