Doug Collins goes off on Sixers

Haymitch · Feb 27, 2013

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Can someone post the link to the YouTube. Embedding ain't working for me.
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Please?

YallMean · Feb 27, 2013

Exit speech. Welcome back to TNT.

BEAT LA · Feb 27, 2013

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Exit speech. Welcome back to TNT.
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I think it was. This was his I'm done with coaching, please take me back TNT.

da_juice · Feb 27, 2013

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I think it was. This was his I'm done with coaching, please take me back TNT.
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That team's gonna struggle. Collins is basically the centerpiece of that team (which is kinda sad).

da_juice · Feb 27, 2013

By the way, there's a good Grantland Piece on this.

A_3PO · Feb 27, 2013

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He's got a 52% career lifetime record and always seems to be emotionally drained. he's had some modest successes but also a fair amount of mediocrity - is it his fault? I'm not really sure. Seems like he's incredibly mercurial though and I don't know if that helps much.

His career path has been so weird:

-Forced out by Jordan in 89.
-Modest success then mediocrity with Detroit as Coach/GM.
-Then handpicked by Jordan for the pointless Wizards Jordan un-retirement ticket sales tour.

Now this. Just kind of odd all the way around.
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Never figured out why MJ hired him in Washington after what happened in Chicago. That blew my mind. I thought the way the players clearly despised him at Washington (besides MJ) was the death-knell to any future NBA coaching career. Time must erase memories.

filamswag · Feb 27, 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI

MIAGI99 · Feb 28, 2013

Great broadcaster but as a coach, meh. Quite possibly the dumbest thing you can do is call out your players in the media. Only reason I think he did it is b/c this is the last resort for him to reaching his players, I'm guessing.

mr. 13 in 33 · Apr 11, 2013

It’s pretty clear the Sixers are done with Doug Collins and Doug Collins is pretty done with the 76ers. This fits the Collins burnout pattern — three seasons with the Bulls, three seasons with Detroit, two with Washington, now three in Philly.

But of course, it’s not going to be that simple because there is still money on the table.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the Sixers hope Collins just decides to walk away at the end of the season (via CSNPhilly.com).

According to multiple league sources, the 76ers organization privately hopes that coach Doug Collins decides not to return for the 2013-14 season and, regardless of his decision, it does not intend to extend his contract – which has one year remaining.

It will be an interesting game of cat-and-mouse when this season ends. Collins is unlikely to quit and leave $4.5 million on the table, but he is just as unlikely to agree to coach the lame-duck year of his contract.Later in the morning a source told John Finger at CSNPhilly.com that the call was all Collins on next season.

If Doug Collins does not return to coach the Philadelphia 76ers next season, it won’t be because the Sixers want him out, according to a league source. The source said the Sixers are completely supportive of Collins as the coach of the team as he heads into the last season of his contract.

Of course, that’s what Sixers sources have to say — Collins is still popular with fans. They need to pick their PR battles.

This season has worn on everybody in Philadelphia — the coach, the players, the front office and the fans. They came in with high expectations after making the playoffs last season then adding Andrew Bynum to the mix. But Bynum and his bad knees never got on the court and the Sixers have been in limbo. They will miss the postseason.

Collins is an old-school hard*** who pushes his players hard and pushes management just as hard. He’s been good for the Sixers as he helped build a foundation in Philly — he helped instill discipline in an organization, he made the players accountable. But his style wears thin after a couple years. What would prompt him to walk away? Here is what he told CSNPhilly.com back in February:

“As long as I am having fun and feel like I am making a difference, I will try [to keep coaching],” he said. “The moment I feel like I am not making a difference in the young players’ lives or doing my job to get the winning in a place that it should be, then I will make that decision.”

This season took a toll on him and he has the look of a guy ready to move on, but it’s his call now. From the Inquirer. Collins, who will be 62 this summer, will be the one making the decision. Management is not eager to get into a public-relations war with a popular former player and charismatic local hero. The two sides would have to come to an agreement to settle the contract, but if that is the price of a peaceful parting, the organization might consider it a bargain.

That’s my guess, some kind of buyout and the Sixers can move on with their summer of big questions: What to do about Bynum as a free agent? Do you trade Evan Turner? And what style of team are you trying to build, anyway?
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http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....ers-hope-doug-collins-walks-at-end-of-season/

anthony59237 · Apr 11, 2013

liked him as a color commentator better anyway. hopefully he can get back on tnt

YallMean · Apr 11, 2013

Hardazz? Really, NBC sports is allowed to say that?

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