Phil Jackson: One of the things that bothered us this year was that we didn’t have an identity

Knicks president Phil Jackson said that the team did not have an identity this season.
The Knicks missed the NBA playoffs for the fourth straight season.

Per The Vertical, “What Jim Dolan and I talked about originally was trying to develop a process where we were developing players and had an identity. That’s one of the things that bothered us this year, was that we didn’t have an identity. It’s basically about ball movement, body movement, a style of play, all part of what we’re trying to do.

“But we understand that a lot of these people are young people – it’s going to take three or four years for them to develop. So in that process it may be beyond my tenure here, in which the team becomes vibrant, competitive, has a chance to go beyond just being in the playoffs. That’s OK with me. I didn’t come here just to particularly win a championship but to do things that were directed by my instructions by Dolan – let’s have something that is identifiable in who we are and how we play.”