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Philw said:
Wow, big news. Although not entirely suprising, sounds like there's lot of bad stuff going on behind the scenes there...
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Yeah I guess it wasn't really surprising as they'd been talking about it for a while, but just a totally inept decision.
  • One of the best young(er) coaches in the NBA
  • Loved by the players and the fans alike
  • Was able to let the likes of Thompson, Barnes and Green all develop, whilst still letting Curry do his thing
  • Brought Golden State their first 50 win season for 30 odd years
  • Takes the impressive and desperate Clippers to game 7, all whilst having a shallow squad due to injuries
And he loses his job. Baffled to the thought process from management on this one...
 
Losing all 3 playoff games at home is the most Wizard thing ever
 
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maverick94 said:
LeBron says that he won't play next season if Donald Sterling still owns the Clippers.. Now I'm faced by a dilemma haha

http://www.slamonline.com/online/me...on-donald-sterling-still-owns-clippers-video/
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maverick94 said:
Yeah I guess it wasn't really surprising as they'd been talking about it for a while, but just a totally inept decision.
  • One of the best young(er) coaches in the NBA
  • Loved by the players and the fans alike
  • Was able to let the likes of Thompson, Barnes and Green all develop, whilst still letting Curry do his thing
  • Brought Golden State their first 50 win season for 30 odd years
  • Takes the impressive and desperate Clippers to game 7, all whilst having a shallow squad due to injuries
And he loses his job. Baffled to the thought process from management on this one...
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Scalabrine the assistant coach who got fired (probably on orders on management) was taping the coaches meetings. He shouldn't be working anywhere after that. Apparently the front office wasn't happy with his offense. I think its mostly the new breed of billionaire owners who come in and think because their rich that they are smarter and know better the day they buy the team. The offense was OK though and he raised the game of their defense significantly during his stay. This despite having 2 players on the floor (Lee, Curry) who are one of the worst defenders in the NBA. Plus not having a center either didn't help and they still took the Clippers to 7 games. Then hired Kerr who well has no experience (Jackson didn't either) and stunk it up as a GM in Phoenix. The only thing he has is that Phil Jackson likes him. Knowing the NBA Phil Jackson could have probably said he wanted David Moyes to coach the Knicks and there would have been a bidding war for him.

Granted winning doesn't make you a good coach. Randy Witman of the Wizards is god awful. He draws up plays that never work. Plus he does things like: After Beal (only their best player and only 20 yrs old) get injured and was worried that he might never play again Randy then went ahead and played him most minutes in the league. I'd have loved Jackson in DC. Both DC and Golden st have similar squads.
 
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