Panos wrote:Nix, no other poster has been wrong more than you on this forum over the past 5 years.
So careful about brandishing about "a lack of understanding"
I haven't been alone in the positions i've taken, I'm just the most vocal and an easy target. At least I stay here and take the crap coming my way when i'm wrong. If I simply faded and reappeared after things cooled down then that would be one thing. I still stand by my belief that this team should be able to at least play .500 ball. Is that some kind of outrageous stance given the state of the East and that we're only talking about the team being mediocre? It's easy to say that you think a team is gonna suck when they lost big the previous season. Now when they were moving close to the final playoff spot there was a chance if Duhon and Hughes could've played like anything decent for longer than a few games. Anyway...
The point i'm making is that we go thru this at the end of each unsuccessful season, but in this last two years we knew that there was a chance that the team wouldn't do well given the number of FA's to be on the roster. So things never developed and DW cleared more cap space. That was gonna likely happen anyway in order for us to have a chance at Lebron. If this team was still fighting for the 8th seed I doubt that would change Lebron's thinking and that's about as much as we realistically could expect when the season started.
We knew that no matter what happened MDA was gonna be given a chance to coach the new roster next year, so why is the media and many fans looking to see the guy fired? He came here a winner and many of you felt the team wasn't good enough to win, so is it the roster or the coach? Most would agree that the roster is more important than the coach, as Mike Brown seems to prove every year. Then you have coaches like Phil Jackson who are great at coaching talented teams and doesn't want to deal with a rebuild or poor team. MDA may be that kind of guy, but that doesn't mean he can't help the team to succeed when the roster is turned over.
