<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Be careful what you wish for. The last three fouls whistled on Ray Allen in Saturday's game against the Hornets were borderline calls. Ticky-tack, in the vernacular. They were the kind of calls against a team's best player that turn a coach apoplectic. If he still were coaching the Sonics, Nate McMillan would have been swinging his arms as if he were trying to swim out of his sports coat, running toward midcourt, begging for a technical foul to be called against him. McMillan would have made it clear to the officials, to the crowd and, most important, to Allen, that he wasn't going to accept such sloppy officiating. He would have protected his superstar guard. If McMillan still were coaching the Sonics, Allen might not have picked up his fifth foul with 8:25 left in the fourth quarter, might not have fouled out with 4:26 left. But Bob Weiss is coaching the Sonics now, and he stood still and passionless as a statue as Allen, who lobbied for the Sonics to hire Weiss last summer, piled up the fouls and the ho-hum Sonics dropped their third straight. Where is the fight on this team? Where is the fire from the coaching staff? The phlegmatic Weiss looks practically detached as he kneels in front of the scorer's table, and his languid body language is reflected in his team's passive play.</div> Source
Man that's exactly what I think every time I watch a Sonics game. The guy's got to get mad at his players in order for them to have any motivation to do anything differently.
I'd like to see a little more animation out of Bob too, but as far as he is on one side of the scale, Nate was the other. There is only so much yelling, cursing, and screaming a coach can do before the players/refs just start tuning you out - and I think that was part of Nate's problem during his time here. Somewhere in the middle is probably ideal - maybe Weiss will show a little more passion this game. Actually, I hope we are blowing them out by so much that it would be ridiculous for him to even stand up
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I think this is why Allen and the other Sonics wanted Weiss to coach, so they can do nothing and play however they want without getting an earful from their coach. I do miss how Nate will practically hype me up also by running up and down the sidelines yelling at the coaches and stuff, this team has no energy in some of the games, probably has to do with Weiss.
