<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Last summer Isiah Thomas and the Knicks hired Larry Brown over ex-Piston Bill Laimbeer, and according to a report in the New York Post, Laimbeer believes that if he was hired instead of Brown things would have turned out differently. "I thought if I got the opportunity to coach here, I would have done a fine job," said Laimbeer, in his fourth full season as the head coach of the WNBA's Detroit Shock. "They fell into a bad mix here last year with the coach and the players." Last night did not provide much evidence to support Laimbeer, as Detroit fell to 19-9 with a 75-67 loss to the Liberty (8-21) in front of an announced crowd of 8,640 at the Garden. "They had a 'players versus coaches' mentality here and it showed," Laimbeer said. "For everything he's done, Larry Brown is not the easiest coach to play for." What would Laimbeer have done that Brown failed to do? "You've got to get the guys to buy into what you're saying and Larry didn't do that," Laimbeer said. "I'm confident enough in myself that I think I would have. The players would have liked playing for me." </div> Source
I dunno, what do you think about this, nbaballer? Sounds like a guy who just wants an nba job. Who in their right minds wants to coach Isiah's abomination?
I believe he has no never coached an NBA team so how can he say he could do better. He says, he would get the guys to buy into what he is saying, and I'm sure LB never tried that. Until he coaches an NBA team I don't really think his opinions counts. I would just love to see him attempt to coach the Knicks after Isiah is fired. I remember him being a dirty player, so imagine the hell he would raise on the players when they would do something wrong. More exciting Knick drama.
Or when the Knicks are down he could get the players to throw some flagrant fouls. A nice elbow to the chops should keep whoever is going off on the Knicks sidelined for a while.
Well, anyone could have done better than Larry Brown last year. 42 different starting lineups = stupid. Absolutely no justification for it.
man... 42, how in the world do you develop chemistry with your starting five if it's always different?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Flashback:</div><div class="quote_post">man... 42, how in the world do you develop chemistry with your starting five if it's always different?</div> Well it wasnt always a totally different line up. Three of the positions were pretty much kept the same barring injury. The only positions that were in a constant state of flux was the shooting guard and small forward and that's because noone was good enough to take the starting jobs. Anyway I think Isiah Thomas should be fired.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Tribute to H2O:</div><div class="quote_post">Well it wasnt always a totally different line up. Three of the positions were pretty much kept the same barring injury. The only positions that were in a constant state of flux was the shooting guard and small forward and that's because noone was good enough to take the starting jobs. Anyway I think Isiah Thomas should be fired.</div> Other than point guard and center, it was always different. No one consistently played power forward.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">Other than point guard and center, it was always different. No one consistently played power forward.</div> Antonio Davis was the mainstay at powerforward until he got traded. When he got traded there wasnt a consistent start simply because, like the shooting guard and small forward positions, noone distinguished themselves and earned the position. Anyway I think Isiah Thomas should be fired.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Tribute to H2O:</div><div class="quote_post">Antonio Davis was the mainstay at powerforward until he got traded. When he got traded there wasnt a consistent start simply because, like the shooting guard and small forward positions, noone distinguished themselves and earned the position. Anyway I think Isiah Thomas should be fired.</div> Everybody sucks.
I believe with losing teams, fans are going to blame almost everything because it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. Just look at the heat Warriors coach Mike Montgomery got for not changing the lineup enough. Some if it changed but then it went back to the way it was, but it was the same kind of stuff fans got upset at Larry Brown for being "weird" and also not playing the rookies enough. It may seem like oversimplification on how one rates coaching performance (I tend to ignore the season record, play by play, game by game analysis and look at what the GM has done to fit the mold of various, perennial playoff teams), but I feel like a team's success in actually getting to the playoffs, has to do with the players brought on board. That is the responsibliity of the GM and both franchises have really crappy GMs that seemingly don't know what they are doing for the short and long term benefit of these franchises. What is mystifying is the ownership that actually thought these guys would be a good idea based on their fame as nba players. I'd rather have a key figure in the Spurs or Dallas organization run my franchise than some guy with a name and no game.
