Derek Fisher hasn't talked a lot about his time with the New York Knicks, but in an interview that airs on Thursday on FS1, Fisher opened up about his time in the Big Apple and says he should have realized he was doomed from the start.
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Fisher said the first mistake he made was not asking the right questions heading into the job, including if he was going to have to run the triangle offense, the one then Knicks main man Phil Jackson made famous.
“I wasn’t smart enough to ask the right questions going into taking and accepting the job,” Fisher said on “The Fair Game Show,” via the New York Post. ‘What are you going to expect from me? Do I have to run the triangle? If I don’t want to run the triangle, is that going to be a problem for you?’ Those are things that I wasn’t prepared to coming straight from being a player.”
Fisher also thinks that Steve Kerr was probably smart enough to ask the right questions heading into the job, which made him choose the Golden State Warriors over the Knicks. Kerr has been around the game longer and Fisher thinks that probably helped him make the right choice staying away from the Big Apple.
According to Fisher, he wouldn't have taken the Knicks job if Jackson had told him it was a requirement to run the triangle offense.
“Correct,” Fisher said. “Those weren’t conversations that we had. So our communication wasn’t effective that [would have] allowed us to both go into the situation knowing this is what it’s going to be.”
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