Posted by BlueSeats:
There is no such thing as "just coaching".
I did a little research once, which I've lost, but I looked up some 1st year coaches. Not HOFers. 1st year as head coach in the league. Guys like D'Antoni, McMillian, maybe Skiles. I really don't remember - but they all changes 6 to 9 guys onm the roster in their first season. But so many were against that Brown, a top 5-10 coach of all time, wanted to change as many.
You're still trying to fault a guy for having a grasp of the situation at hand.
Hold up, I just want to make one thing clear, I don't want it to sound as if someone else coached that year that'd we have been a great team - I don't want that assumption out there as it'd be false. I predicted 35 wins for the season and we damn well COULD have won 35 games if Brown didn't try to attack and fight every single thing.
Secondly his conduct was as unprofessional as it could have possibly gotten. I don't give a crap if the team was 15 Eddy Curry's you DONT BEHAVE that way in such a position of power.
Thirdly, he absolutely wanted full control. He wanted to tell Isiah everything to do and expected it. When he didn't get it that was the end of it so what does he do? Piss and moan all season undermining the team and pitting players against each other and pitting players against the coaches and management.
Now, you can't sit there and tell me that WASNT detrimental and WASNT a reason to absolutely hate that delusional old windbag.
You don't use Isiah Thomas's crappy roster to go back 3 years in time and say "See? Larry Brown is a legend!" Cause he wasn't here he was a scumbag that wasted an entire year.
You don't use Larry to vindicate Isiah for that season. You don't use Isiah to vindicate Larry for that season.
You just don't because they both sucked. There's no defending EITHER at this point and I fail to see how one can. I also fail to see how it helps our current problems. It doesn't. So why constantly bring up the crusty old man? People use Layden to vindicate Isiah still and that's as much of a joke as people using Isiah to vindicate Larry.
Larry acted like a completely unprofessional clown and had nearly 30 million dollars shaved off his contract in arbitration as a result. That ought to tell you something right there about why you can't use Isiah's crap GM skills as a means to vindicate and excuse Larry Brown from acting like an unprofessional jacass.
........I've said my peace, I'm done with this insane topic.
On to what's important and has meaning for our future: FIRE ISIAH and GET RID of Marbury and Curry as fast as humanly possible and then keep chipping away at the trash that has no desire to play or improve.
12/18/2007 12:53 AM
