What an incredible load of BS. RA consistently coached the team to -better- records than the talent level warranted plain and simple. The fact that AB broke out of his slump after the trade shows his attempts were completely justified. We saw what coaching candidate Lawrence Frank did with his mediocre/poor team the Nets last year (0-16 start) and consistently underperformed with the talent level. Your other examples are extremely poor... Dallas brought had a huge talent pool and we all know how SA got their franchise player. Point had they put RA in with them at the time and no doubt they would have performed at a very high level.
It doesn't matter that Rick is a fantastic coach. If he wasn't enthusiastic about the youth movement then he was no longer a good fit.
Seriously? You should search through the GARM and find all the threads of people b****ing about Adelman. Secondly, look what Lawrence Frank did with that Nets team the season before. So he went 0-16... what happened when he got fired? Oh yeah, they went like 11-66 right? Big improvement, Frank must really suck. Also, what part of my post said anything about Dallas or San Antonio having talent? I said look at the coach and the record the Spurs had when Poppavich promoted himself to head coach. Dallas had a HOF coach and Cuban kicked him to the curb.
Poorly thought out... again. 1. After pop took over for the fired Bob Hill half the team was injured and he sat most of their starters the last month to insure they had a top 3 pick and poof Duncan. Next year they came back with everyone all at once. They literally went from 62-20 to 20-62 and his first full year 56-26 2. Angry posts in the garm are obviously not a barometer on how a coach is doing. 3. Laurence Frank wins last 4 coaching years, 2006-49, 2007-41,2008-34,2009-34,2010-0 (and the east was very weak during a lot of his tenure). My point is related to over-performing with the group given to you. 4. ...and your *math is oh so bad*. 11+66+16 would be 93 games. They went 12-54 after he was gone and yes that and anything is a better ratio than 0-16.
Except that's not why he's gone. He's gone because he understandably didn't want to groom his own replacement next year. It does matter if someone is a fantastic coach, I actually did a double take in disbelief reading that sentence in your response.
