Posted by TrueBlue:
Posted by nixluva:
Isiah should be slammed if he indeed did say that he only likes 3 of the players he brought in!!! It's his team! I've supported this guy for all these years and i've given him the benefit of the doubt on his moves. This year i've hated the work he's done. He's acted like a coward and has tried to shift the blame. Then he's put on all this bravado and basically said that he doesn't need to change the players, but only needs time, so if this is true that he said he only likes 3 of the players, then he needs to go immediately.
It's not the players fault that he didn't add the players needed to make this team work. He had a chance to add more perimeter shooting, a shotblocker/rebounder and even PG help. When he didn't get those players, he said that he would make it work with the players he's acquired. So now that the worst fears of why Zach and Curry may not work have been realized he's gonna try and lay this at their feet. Zach is right!!! Isiah is the one who brought him here. He's just being who he always was, you can't blame him for being who and what he is. If you bring in a guy like him, then you better have a darn good idea of how you're going to use him. It's apparent that Isiah never had a clue how he would use him.
I never thought Isiah was a great GM or Coach, but I was dead wrong about him. He's not even a decent GM or Coach. I was with him on the idea of Lee, Nate, Balkman, Mardy and Chandler. I think those guys have the kind of athletic ability and enough defensive skills to be useful to this team as role players. The thing is that they aren't superstars, so you can't kill them for not being able to lead this team to wins by themselves. It's Isiah's job to find the player or players who can lead this team and help it to win. So it's time for him to go. He's making things worse now, so Dolan has to stop the bleeding.
It would take his firing for you to start selling him out. At least you finally got to this point.
How bad did I SAY UGH make things for the next GM/Coach Luva?
First off I wouldn't say that I sold him out. I'm only responding to the job he's done this year. He's shown himself this year to be a very bad GM and Coach. I actually don't think that every single move he's ever made was bad by itself, he's failed to bring it home. I saw what he did and there were opportunities to make moves that would've worked. He made the wrong moves and coaching decisions this year and it's evident in how the season has gone. To illustrate what i'm saying, let's just say that Isiah had deals he could've made that could've put together a good team. He didn't make those moves and worse he can't find a way to make the moves he did make work. He's actually made things worse in terms of team morale. I'm not in some special category all by myself just cuz I was more optimistic than most. Many of our predictions were in the same range. Very few if any predicted this level of ineptness and no one was guaranteeing a championship either.
This forum was almost in total agreement on what kinds of players Isiah needed to get. He went in a different direction than any of us had been calling for, however once he did I felt there was a way that you could make it work even with the Zach move. I believe Isiah missed the boat in terms of adding players who could help. He could've picked up a PG and a SG to help. If he had gotten rid of James perhaps we could've added players who could actually help balance this roster. There are players on this team that can stay and provide certain roles for this team in the future. So I wouldn't say that Isiah has totally ruined things for the next GM. He just hasn't made things easy for them, but there's talent here. We'll likely get a high pick, so that's a good start.
Whoever we get will have the same challenges any GM has when coming into a losing situation and trying to win a title. It's DAMN HARD! We have no guarantees no matter who we get. Right now I just want to see things get better, so I want a GM and Coach who know what to do.
1/12/2008 8:27 PM