<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. ? Privately, this is what advance scouts who have watched Sam Mitchell for three seasons were curious to see. They saw him with Bryan Colangelo's resurrected roster, and a depleted Atlantic Division, and thought it would be most intriguing to see what happened with the Toronto Raptors coach in the playoffs, when he had to make adjustments and counters under the scrutiny of a seven-game series. As postseason failures go, Mitchell's has been spectacular so far. What had been merely a troubling Eastern Conference series turned traumatic on Sunday night, a 102-81 Game 5 loss to the New Jersey Nets that was a 30-point game until Jason Kidd and Vince Carter left the Meadowlands court for good. The Nets have taken away everything ? Chris Bosh in the post, T.J. Ford on the drive and, maybe most of all, the will of the Atlantic champions. They go back to Toronto for Game 5 on Tuesday with so much riding for this franchise, a season that was such a renaissance for the Raptors turning into a referendum on Mitchell. Whatever leverage Mitchell gained with a franchise-record 47 victories and the Red Auerbach trophy largely has been lost in the avalanche of this three-games-to-one deficit to sixth-seeded New Jersey. The Nets have neutralized Bosh, flooding the All-Star in the post and using Kidd to cheat on him because the New Jersey point guard has refused to respect Ford's jumper. Mitchell needs to get Bosh the ball where he can do damage. What's more, the Nets are forever adjusting to Toronto's changing defenses, constantly getting uncontested shots in this series. Kidd and Vince Carter are playing out of their minds, but that's partly because Mitchell's team looks intimidated and unwilling to challenge New Jersey. There's a lot on the line for Mitchell here. Several league sources insist that he's the top choice of Pacers president Donnie Walsh to replace Rick Carlisle in Indiana, and maybe that's still the case considering that the Pacers are looking like a rebuilding project. For now, they don't need Mitchell to be a playoff coach there. Nevertheless, the rapidly developing Raptors do, and Colangelo, Toronto's president and general manager, must consider how much he wants to commit contractually to Mitchell at season's end. Before Game 4, Colangelo, easily the Executive of the Year in the NBA, insisted that the entire body of work ? regular season and playoffs ? would be the judge for Mitchell's offer. He wants Mitchell back, he said. He deserves to be rewarded with a new contract. Nevertheless, Colangelo told Yahoo! Sports that there won't be a long negotiation process with Mitchell. "I'm going to try and get to a decision fairly quickly," Colangelo said. "It's nothing that I want to linger. June 30 is the official end of the contract, and I'm going to want to know which way we're going." Considering that Suns assistant Marc Iavaroni, who was part of the contender that Colangelo constructed in Phoenix, will be one of the most coveted candidates on the market, it's hard to believe that Colangelo will let him go elsewhere should negotiations stall with Mitchell. Around the league, there's a belief that Colangelo will low-ball Mitchell, dare him to leave and bring in his own guy. Colangelo bristles at the suggestion, saying, "He's the leader of the team, and that's what makes us encouraged about where we are." </div> Source: Yahoo!Sports
Time for a new coach. You guys need the old Scaramento coach when they were good. I forgot his name but he would be a good fit. hes I think the GM of the Trailblazers. is it rick adleman?
Rick Adelman is the former Sacto coach, but isn't the GM of the Blazers. Portland is without a GM as Steve Patterson resigned, but Adelman isn't the leading candidate for that job. Either way, Adelman won't be coaching in Toronto. Raps will either resign Mitchell, or BC will bring in Iavaroni.
Adelman would help our offense but those Sacramento teams were horrible defensive teams. I don't think that's what we need.
I think we bring Larry Brown out of retirement, and see what happens if u guys want a new coach. You guys are to uptight. He wins a COY the year award, and guys want him to leave cause the raps are having trouble in th eplayoffs. Remeber the bulls last year. Now look, sweeping defending champions. The raps got the tast, and are still playing, If we keep mitchell, i think next year if we lose this year, we will be a much betetr playoff team. Plus i think we all forget Garbo, hes a great player and soley missed. Hes a great difender, plus he scores points and helps out alot.
