tremonthustler1
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Which is why a lot of people were mad that he got fired. The slow start was one thing but supposedly Marc Gasol had issues with him so the team picked Gasol over Fizdale.
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Youhadasparkwhenustarted
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He won the lottery but he still probably wants to coach though, and now he definitely doesn't have a shot at another gig. I feel bad for Fiz because even though he his faults as a coach, he was set up for failure from the beginning, just like damn near every other coach that's been hired here for the last decade or two.
Miles Davis
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Hell no. Y’all remember Travis Wear? Shane “baby hands” Larkin? Lou Amundson?
seemorecizzy
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you believe fizz was a bigger problem than steven mills?
JMurder
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I think last year's team is worse considering KP was never playing for us
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
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JMurder
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I was looking through the rosters we've had and we've had some garbage... But there was an all Star or Star player to make it debatable
JMurder
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Idk...I don't think I will know until seasons end. I know that when I looked at the roster we had in October, I would never have believed we were this bad. That's before a game is played. So when games are played and the coaching is bad, I kind of want to see if it's still bad without the coach
Lou Amudson went from the Knicks straight into the Big3 and then The Basketball Tournament
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JMurder
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If Mike Miller coaches well and they fire the FO, we're losing Mike Miller. Other than that, I agree with your post
Larkin is a star in Turkish basketball now
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
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That's what I thought too. I took my post down because I wanted to vet the source a bit but I'll put it back up here so not to confuse people.
storyteller
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So basically Mitch is a good prospect but the team sucks?
It's kinda chicken or the egg. We probably wouldn't need to run this switch everything stuff without Randle playing such big minutes and Portis getting so much time off the bench. You trim each guy's minutes and replace them with more mobile and attentive defenders (that's basically anyone else) and you could go back to letting Mitch either try more traditional defensive approaches as in Drop or ICE based defense. Same with the rotation stuff. You could make some tweaks so that Mitch isn't surrounded by DSJ, Knox and Portis all at once. It's too much piss poor defense for Mitch to be able to cover for them and it leads to more fouls and a lot more situations where he's covering for other guys that are out of position.
Here's the million dollar question though. Was this a Fizdale thing or a demand from the Front Office? I can't say. I mentioned it earlier (on second thought that may have been a comment on Realgm), but I can't imagine that Fizdale who benched Zbo and beefed with Gasol has gotten THIS squeamish about holding Randle accountable. But we'll probably figure out if Randle's minutes were more a mandate from Pills within a couple of weeks. The interim coach can either fix this ish or keep forcing it to work.
Either way...everyone sucks, time to clean house. We probably are better off waiting till the trade deadline with Pills because there might not be enough time for a new GM/President to come in and set anything up when we're in prime position to be sellers. But unless they do something miraculous with the deadline, this team will still be bad and they ought to go too. Even blaming Fizdale entirely, he was their pick. So they either picked a bad coach or handcuffed a decent one. Both are fireable offenses when you were supposed to be focused on a long term build.
storyteller
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Just heard the news brehs
A necessary evil. Glad to see yall taking care of our boy Melo fam, I knew he wouldn't let you down...honestly, that's about all that's made this season bareable lately
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