Another NBA Coach Fired

to steal any Blazer assistants!!!

that Minnesota will forfeit it’s remaining games against Boston? because I don’t think that’s fair at all.

McHale is the one who made this roster. Let him coach it. Peee – yew. – Elgin

http://www.blazersedge.com/2008/12/8/684804/coaching-for-christmas-wit

Of McCales vast and incredibly lame sweater collection with a poll

Minor typo in your link. Whittman = Wittman

He’s a terrible GM, and now he thinks he can coach as well. Pathetic.

because i really like their team colors.

by a sweet-talking, ash-kissing GM. The only thing that will end the GM’s career is a better ash-kisser somewhere else in the organization.

McHale is one example—Glen Taylor loves him, and nothing will get McHale fired—except for perhaps a coach who is more politically skilled and ruthless. The example of this is Mike Dunleavy undermining Elgin Baylor down in Clipperville.

Not that they thought Wittman was OK, but they feel that the problems are all McHale’s. As Dave said, “you made the bed…” Lots of stories here.

That franchise has taken a beating in the last couple of years.

Actually to be frank i’m sort of happy i’m no longer a sonics fan, considering the total mismanagement of that franchise as well.

When you start firing coaches for not improving terrible rosters, it keeps any good coach from signing on. You’re always going to end up with a mediocre retread or an unproven.

… the fact that he stepped down from the front office could be great for Minnesota— by the end of the year, they’ll realize that he either can’t coach or is a bad front office guy, and they’ll get someone else. What they really absolutely needed was to get him out of the front office, and it sounds like they did.

what would it take to chump these fools out of their lottery pick?

still shaking my head over that one.

McHale in the MN front office was a truly wonderful gift for the rest of the league. With someone else in charge, they might not continue to be a great place to dump problems, may not skip over quality draft picks, and could even stop making stupid trades.

I’m particularly grateful to him for sending us Brandon Roy.

At least they sent us Brandon. We did well with that move.

I miss bad GMs.

O the irony.

How team’s with clearly flawed rosters feel like they are accomplishing something when they fire the coach.

Maybe the coach was awful, I dunno. I DO know that the roster is awful and mismatched though, so just starting right there no coach could make it work. It is inherently flawed by having no one over the height of 6’9" who plays and also being a halfcourt team (so, no running around being crazy like a no-one-over-6’7"-Nelly-ball team), 1 good wing player in Mike Miller and an average wing player in Randy Foye (but mostly playing out of position at PG), no defenders (Brewer is KNOWN for defense but in real life he is too weak and not that good), not much shooting aside from Miller, no interior defense… it goes on and on, and none of it involves coaching.

It’s just dumb.

Well, maybe they are putting him out of his misery and trying to force McHale out the door… but I think the only way McHale leaves is if he wants to. Man, he’s an awful, lazy GM. More reason not to hire someone based on their name and only hire those who deserve the job through hard work and smarts (like, say, just a random example, KP). If your GM would never be hired without being a former star player, your GM sucks.

I said it back in the day, but most anyone could see the Love trade biting them in the ass. It’s a curse to be drafted by McHale or to be traded to Minny on draft day, and any questions I had about Mayo’s game were obliterated when McHale traded him. That’s all a player needs to become a good one.

How are Love and Jefferson supposed to play together? Each are undersized PFs. Each are too slow so they gain no advantage in the quickness category like most undersized PFs. Jefferson CAN play center, but for a career? That ain’t right. If they didn’t intend on trading either player, why would you pick Love when you have Jefferson?

In my talks on the Wolves blog, some of their main posters said Love will become a great backup PF… for which I replied, why would you use the #4 pick on a backup? It makes no sense.

The move for Love and Mike Miller is something a team on the brink does; get a potentially good ROLE player in Love and a solid consistent vet in Mike Miller. Like Rudy Gay for Battier (which Houston did in 2006). For a team that is already awful and needs as much young talent to build around as possible, to take a guy who not only plays the same position as your best guy but is incapable of playing another position… unless he is clearly BPA, it’s a dumb move. And if you thought Love was BPA, you might not have the best talent evaluation skills.

Oh McHale… I hope he doesn’t go anywhere. We need one GM like that in the NBA. I feel awful for Minny fans, but too many defend what he is doing anyways. He just needs more time!

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