Posted by islesfan:

Waiting until the end of the season to fire Isiah would normally be ok. But if Isiah is going to have an ulterior motive (when doesn't he have one?) and deviate from playing the young guys these last few games then he has to go now.

Last night against the Hornets, Isiah played Chandler 1 minute and Morris got a DNP-CD. That's what I would call a deviation from playing the young kids. Isiah must think that he can still try to prove something by trying to go toe to toe with one of the top teams in the West. Expect more of the same tomorrow against the Magic. Isiah will want to be able to bring up how much progress he and the team has made when he meets with Donnie. You know, because everybody is so stupid compared to Isiah.

Posted by Cosmic:

Posted by newyorknewyork:

One theory is that Walsh wasn't planning on becoming president until the end of the season. But because of the constant speculation and false reports created by the media, they decided to make the announcement earlier than planned. Though it has been announced. Walsh may still wait until seasons end to really get into it.

This is the proper theory. Nothing is going to change here until the season is over with. Walsh himself said that.

You guys who expected Walsh's first words at the PC to be "I HAVE FIRED ISIAH" followed with "I AM DEMANDING (interim coach) TO PLAY MORRIS-LEE-BALKMAN-CHANDLER-COLLINS 48 MPG" are delusional as a result of wanting Isiah gone so badly.

If there's one thing Walsh is not going to do - is pull an Isiah - and fire everyone and deport every player Isiah brought in. That's not how the man works.

He is patient, he is methodical, he is respectful ----- and this is exactly what we need here.

You all need to calm down and be patient and stop already villifying Walsh for absolutely nothing at all.

Half of you think Walsh ordered Isiah to try to win games so he could see what we have here. That's complete and utter bullcrap because Walsh himself is back in Indy tying up his loose ends and packing his things and setting up his family and so on and so forth. Walsh said there would be no immediate changes.

Fellas, there's SIX GAMES LEFT for crying out loud. What on earth do you believe could be or would be accomplished by some massive rash attack on the franchise and roster by Walsh?

LOL... calm down, breathe in, breathe out, find some patience here.


It's been a handful of days and half of you are already calling for Walsh's head because you think he's polishing Dolan and Isiah's balls.

LMFAO what are you guys going to do when you come to the realization that we're embarking on a brand new game plan of which might be THREE YEARS long before we're a good team again?


Give it a rest......... THIS ISNT PLAYSTATION, kiddies, nor the realgm trade checker. This is reality and reality is a patient and methodical man is going to take his time to evaluate what went wrong and what we have before he makes any decisions on change and how much change. He is then going to take his time to make those changes - some of which will be up to three years in the making.


So calm the hell down and stop villifying a man - who wants to do the exact opposite of what Isiah did - and that was come in, pound his chest, fire everyone, and trade everyone out of town JUST BECAUSE they weren't "HIS" players.


Do any of you live in reality anymore? Doesn't seem like it.

The Isiah haters already hate Walsh and think he's already Dolan's boyfriend.
The Isiah lovers are in severe denial needing intervention.

Is anyone like myself left here?

Good grief..........

Posted by nixluva:

I can't imagine that a man in Walsh's situation would want to sully his reputation by being just a yes man. Besides who is he going to be a yes man to? Dolan doesn't know anything and Isiah is under Walsh and on thin ice. To me Walsh is doing this the right way. Patient and thorough. Make sure of what you're doing instead of rushing in and making stupid quick moves.

This thing is gonna take time to fix, so there's no rush, to boot Isiah. Besides as others have said, Dolan likely wants to see if there's a way to get some use out of Isiah rather than just pay him to do nothing. I do believe that in the end if Walsh has a problem with Isiah he'll fire him as he's done once before. I think he's being fair and somewhat merciful too. He's in the unenviable position to have to fire the same guy TWICE!!! A guy he happens to like. So let's give him some slack.

Posted by BRIGGS:

like he was for Bird in Indiana. He's 67 and can help make decisions while Isiah does the personell behind the scenes. Unless IT is in another state--I won't believe that he does not have a serious say in what is going on. Nothing personal against IT--he just needs to be eradicated from the memory banks/ Anything less will promote true doubt who is handling this franchise.