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anybody else heard Flip Saunders will be new head coach next years?
fact or fiction?
thoughts?
fact or fiction?
thoughts?
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.Originally Posted by MyTsharp
Where's Jeff Van Gundy?
My-T.
Originally Posted by jupeezy
avery or van gundy....flip will NOT help this team IMO
Okay so I wasn't the only one. A true Bullets/Wizards fan, I'm just wondering when they're gonna get a coach with some Balls... FlipSaunders wasn't the coach in Minnesota, Kevin Garnett was... He wasn't the coach of Detroit... the team was their own coach... He doesn't coach, atbest he facilitates. I mean Eddie wasn't the best, but he did well, and I was rooting for him cause he's a co-alumni of mine, dude wasn't given afair chance...Originally Posted by SoleOnEyez
ugh. I still dont think they should have fired EJ. Eddie Jordan is a better coach then Mike Brown ever will be.
Flip is soft. Has anybody considered Mark Jackson?
RamZs8906 said:
I'm just wondering when they're gonna get a coach with some Balls... Flip Saunders wasn't the coach in Minnesota, Kevin Garnett was... He wasn't the coach of Detroit... the team was their own coach... He doesn't coach, at best he facilitates.
Which makes Flip the ideal coach...
When Gilbert is making $100+ mil on your roster as the "leader"...
Now, this is a players league. Go to college basketball if you're really concerned about acutal coaches/coaching.
I mean Eddie wasn't the best, but he did well, and I was rooting for him cause he's a co-alumni of mine, dude wasn't given a fair chance...
You went to Carroll High?
And I agree with you as well (although "Method Man" will fight us on this to the death). For an organization with the win/loss record we had last 25years before Eddie came, we sure got big headed IMO. There is "mountain top" for us. Playoffs, 2nd round at best.
Who will we be picking with the 5th-6th pick of the draft?Weain't getting number 1.
Is there another Calbert Cheaney, Tom Gugliotta, or Tom Hammond on the horizon?
David Stern will say:
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And with the 6th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft The Ashington Izards Select Tyler Hansborough.
Adam Silver will say:
With the 45th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft The Woeful Wizards select someone from the Maryland Terrapins (Johnny Rhodes is shunned again)
Yeah... that.
Originally Posted by RockDeep
Double J.... While I agree with most of the things you say..
Are we talkin about the same team here? The Wiz? 50 wins? What was their best under Eddie 42?? Well I think Orlando gets better.. Chicago gets better.. Cavs ONLY get better and as always Joe Dumars pulls some tricks out of his bag and drafts and signs some Talent to get DaTwoh back to its old self....
I didn't even mention Miami....Atlanta and Philly...and lets not forget the Bobcats... Oh me oh my...
Cavs
C's
Orlando
Miami
Chicago
Detroit
Atl
Philly
The rest..
Bobcats
Izards
And you say 50 games? Shoooooot...
But I am with you on the color change.. I mean come on...
Which makes Flip the ideal coach...Originally Posted by eyes of hazel
RamZs8906 said:
I'm just wondering when they're gonna get a coach with some Balls... Flip Saunders wasn't the coach in Minnesota, Kevin Garnett was... He wasn't the coach of Detroit... the team was their own coach... He doesn't coach, at best he facilitates.
I mean Eddie wasn't the best, but he did well, and I was rooting for him cause he's a co-alumni of mine, dude wasn't given a fair chance...
You went to Carroll High?
And I agree with you as well (although "Method Man" will fight us on this to the death). For an organization with the win/loss record we had last 25 years before Eddie came, we sure got big headed IMO. There is "mountain top" for us. Playoffs, 2nd round at best.
Who will we be picking with the 5th-6th pick of the draft?We ain't getting number 1.
Is there another Calbert Cheaney, Tom Gugliotta, or Tom Hammond on the horizon?
Yeah, I'm a Carroll grad (waits for the comments from DeMatha (F/St)ags and Gonzaga Purple Pigeons)
And sadly, you're right about the 1st overall pick... The draft is now, and will always be fixed. The commisioner will only allow the 1stoverall pick to go to a Marketbale city or Marketable situation[i.e. Wizards getting 1st overall when His Airness is the Pres. of BasketballOps] (bolded and underlined for emphasis).
But I'll def take Jordan Hill out of Arizona at the 5th or 6th spot. I mean we need a real Power Foward... No disrespect to Jamison aka Mr. Right PlaceRight time, but he doesn't fight anybody for those boards...
Thabeet is soft, don't want him, Blair, while wide isn't versatile enough for his height (like say Mr. Ayo Big Baby Davis)
If its me:
PG Arenas
SG Butler (would rahter have him checking the best offensive guard on the other team)
SF Jamison (except against Cleveland)
PF (Insert name of Wizards to Draft Pick or Blatche after a summer living in a weight room)
C Haywood (Unless Magee has an off-season workout regiment like Steel [D. Howard] did)
Head Coach Mark Jackson
5000
On the one hand, Saunders is more than a solid hire. He's a system guy; the Wizards' core group of Arenas, Caron Butler and Antwan Jamison are system players. They were in former coach Eddie Jordan's hybrid Princeton offense for four years (the hybrid involved plenty of clearouts and dribble-drives for Arenas). This is a group that feels best about itself when it's running and scoring; we saw the predictable results of trying to force-feed a team that's offensive-oriented into being a defense-first unit in Phoenix. Saunders can X and O with anybody.
"We are what we are," a member of the Wizards' group said.
As I told you a couple of weeks ago, a Pistons player told me that Saunders's reputation as indifferent to defense while he was in Detroit was terribly overblown, a reaction by Detroit's veterans to no longer having Larry Brown blasting them in every practice for every missed assignment. (Let's get real: the Pistons are a high-maintenance bunch, as this season's implosion should make quite clear.) In his three seasons in Detroit, Saunders' teams were third, second and first in the league in points allowed, and went from 18th to sixth to third in the league in field goal percentage allowed.
As of this writing, the Wizards are 24th in points allowed and 28th in field goal percentage allowed. How much worse could Saunders possibly be?
and....
To his credit, Arenas told me a couple of weeks ago that he has no interest in being Agent Zero right now, and doesn't know if AZ will re-appear next season. In the two games he played, he had 20 assists and 1 turnover. He looked much more interested in facilitating others than getting his own shot off. Part of that was he can't get off right now, as he gets his wind and timing back. So, what will he do next fall if he's back near 100 percent, again able to blow by defenders and finish at the rim?
Maybe Arenas is not the same person at 27 that he was at 23. Lots of guards, like Chauncey Billups, for example -- who swears by Saunders, by the way -- become more team-oriented as their careers continue. It might be that we're looking everywhere else to find someone who can get in Arenas's head when the right guy looks at him in the mirror every morning. If that's true, then Saunders will do just fine.
If that's true.
Hmmm...Arenas is known to talk out of the both sides of his mouth, but what if he DOES want to be something like a pass-first PG? Could beinteresting....here's the link for the whol article:
http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/david_aldridge/04/14/aldridge.saunders.041309/
Well Kwame wants to be good Center... but Im not sure thats going to happen anytime soon. Patrick Ewing wants to be a leading candidate forCoaching openings... but ehhh...Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
Take this for what it's worth...it's a article by David Aldridge on the Flip hire...some interesting points:
Hmmm...Arenas is known to talk out of the both sides of his mouth, but what if he DOES want to be something like a pass-first PG? Could be interesting....here's the link for the whol article:
http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/david_aldridge/04/14/aldridge.saunders.041309/