Not a fan of Mike Brown. I think he's a below average coach. Still, how the Lakers handled it is whack. If they didn't like him, they should have cut him during the offseason. Firing him only 5 games into the season, with Nash injured, Dwight off back surgery, 2 new players, AND instituting a new offense and only giving him 5 games to perform? It's ridiculous. Should have fired him over the summer, or at least given him 10-15 games to work out the kinks.
Another Rockets mention by Bill Simmons on sports center talking about how the Rockets could be a good FA destination for Dwight after this year... Here we go again.
I'm going to be bumping the heck out of the thread I made about this if we get to the all-star break and the Lakers still haven't locked in Dwight with a long term deal! As Rockets fans, we should actually be against the firing of Mike Brown and want this little sideshow to go on for as long as possible. The sooner the Lakers get their house in order, the less likely it is that Dwight enters the free agency market this off-season. That's just a fact.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lakers are dumping Princeton offense, sources tell Y! Sports. "This (firing) was about the offense, more than anything else," source says.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/266987386435694592" data-datetime="2012-11-09T19:35:27+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lakers could still run elements of Princeton tonight, only because it's what they've been doing every day. But plan is to move away from it.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/266988407018893312" data-datetime="2012-11-09T19:39:31+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
One thing to note is California just voted to raise taxes on high earners and gave the Dems a supermajority in both houses to soak the rich even more. Might make tax-free Texas appealing to Dwight.
brown was a terrible coach and needed to go but seriously 5 games in? thats ridiculous I wonder what will happen now if the lakers still keep plodding along? who will they blame then? right now it seems like way too much finger pointing is going on and the one thing they all pointed to is gone so what will happen next? i dont know if any good available coach out there wants that job tough - its going to be hot seat from day 1 -- I mean if you have those 4 stars and dont win a championship you'll be considered a failure
@SportsCenter: Stan Van Gundy on Mike Brown's firing:"The most ridiculous firing in the history of the NBA." (via Orlando Sentinel)
With this in mind, who would possibly agree to take over at this point with the trigger happiness of LA management ? Would this firing dissuade the better available coaches or not?
