Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
Stan Van Gundy is no stranger to being brutally honest.<\/p>\n
The former longtime NBA head coach, who\u2019s now an analyst with TNT, gave a candid take on Knicks fans during a Q&A with The Post\u2019s Steve Serby as part of a lengthy discussion about the team ahead of its 2025 NBA playoff run.<\/p>\n
Van Gundy, who coached four NBA clubs and was president of basketball operations while coaching the Detroit Pistons, discussed the pending series between the Knicks and his former team, which will begin next weekend.<\/p>\n
Asked if he has \u201ca sense for the love affair between\u201d the Knicks and their fans, Van Gundy seemed to question the premise. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell, they\u2019re passionate \u2026 love affair?\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know. Love affair when they\u2019re playing well, and hate affair when they\u2019re not playing well. The Knicks fans and the Philly fans, they are \u2026 they\u2019re front-running fans. They\u2019re in love with their team when things are going well, but they\u2019ll boo their team off the floor when they\u2019re not playing well. That\u2019s not a crowd that\u2019s focused on lifting you up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knicks fans, while generally the subject of criticism nationally, aren\u2019t often side-swiped as \u201cfair-weather\u201d as implied by Van Gundy, brother of former Knicks head coach Jeff Van Gundy.<\/p>\n
Knicks fans immediately went on the attack on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnick fans have sat through and cheered on 17 win teams. We\u2019re the least front running fans in the NBA,\u201d one fan wrote in response on X.<\/p>\n
Other fans began posting photos of said 17-win team and other less-than-stellar starting lineups the organization trotted out there between 2014-19, in particular, a dark period in the team\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe literally watched starting lineups of this caliber for multiple seasons at a time, but sure, we\u2019re front runners \u2026 go home Stan, you\u2019re drunk again,\u201d one fan wrote, posting a photo of a Knicks starting five featuring Langston Galloway, Alexey Shved, Andrea Bargnani, Lou Amundson and Lance Thomas. <\/p>\n
During a 17-win season in 2014-15, the Knicks were fourth in average attendance in the NBA, and in their second 17-win season of the morbid five-year run in 2018-19, they were ninth.<\/p>\n
Regarding the actual series between the Knicks and Pistons, Van Gundy insists it won\u2019t be easy for New York, which secured back-to-back 50-win seasons for the first time since a four-year run between 1991-95.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know this: Tom [Thibodeau] and his coaching staff aren\u2019t gonna overlook anybody,\u201d Van Gundy insisted. \u201cTom never has. I think they\u2019ll have great respect for Detroit and what they\u2019ve done, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about that. And I think the Knicks have veteran guys who have been through battles, and they\u2019re mature. They understand that you respect everybody. There\u2019s no way you could look at that Detroit team \u2014 how well they\u2019ve played, how hard they play, how hard they compete \u2014 and think anything\u2019s gonna be easy. There\u2019s just no chance of that.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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