You lose, but you win! Everyone else wins, so they get a kick and the ass! Smart strategy there! place...consecutive years with team...coach...team...notes 01 22 Jerry Sloan... Utah 02 16 Red Auerbach... Boston 03 15 Gregg Popovich... San Antonio 04 14 Al Attles ... Golden State 05 14 Red Holzman... New York 06 14 John MacLeod... Phoenix 07 12 Slick Leonard... Indiana... (7.8 years ABA + 4 NBA) 08 11 John Kundla ...Minneapolis... (1st year BAA) 09 11 Rudy Tomjanovich... Houston 10 11 Don Nelson ...Milwaukee... (also 7.6 yrs Dallas, 50-game Dallas season) 11 10 Doug Moe ... Denver 12 10 Jack Ramsay... PORTLAND 13 09 Larry Costello... Milwaukee 14 09 Chuck Daly... Detroit 15 09 Bill Fitch ... Cleveland 16 09 Edward Gottlieb ...Philadelphia... (1st 3 years BAA) 17 09 Phil Jackson... Chicago 18 09 Joe Lapchick... New York... (1st 2 years BAA) 19 09 Pat Riley ...Los Angeles... (also 8 yrs Miami, 50-game Miami season) 20 09 Flip Saunders... Minneapolis 21 08.4 Tom Heinsohn... Boston 22 08 Dick Motta ...Chicago 23 08 NATE MCMILLAN... PORTLAND 24 08 Rick Adelman ...Sacramento... (50-game season) 25 07.9 Billy Cunningham... Philadelphia 26 07.7 Lenny Wilkens... Seattle 27 07.6 Richie Guerin... St. Louis/Atlanta The 50-game season was 1998-99. This list was figured out the hard way from http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/
I was just telling this to Sly this morning before I flew out. I wanted to make a shirt with the Blazer's pinwheel, with a quote underneath saying "There is always next year". Seriously isn't funny anymore. Reminds me of 92-98. All first round and outs.
Last night at midnight I finished my last one and I was lonely so I looked out my window. A 6-inch purple visitor from outer space had just crashed into my tree and was peering through my curtain with his X-ray vision. I brought him in and he made a 6-pack materialize, so we got to know each other. He saw I like the NBA so he asked to read my posts. I showed him my new list and he almost spit up through his horn, "Dude!! You have the 23rd-greatest coach in NBA history and you're complaining??" So I give in to greater wisdom. We shouldn't try a new coach. If you give a coach 8 years, he must belong among Pat Riley, Dick Motta, Tom Heinsohn, and all those champion coaches. If a visitor from outer space saw that list, unsoiled by suffering through the seasons, he would assume Nate McMillan must be a great coach to have earned 8 years.
Ha ha, I said "and" not "in." My 6-inch friend thinks that's funny. GET..BACK..TO PLUTO !!! RIGHT NOW !!! He won't leave.
New best-seller, "Jordan Shrugged." It's about the innate virtue of selfishness in the pursuit of winning and there's a mysterious, allegorical figure who organizes a walk-out protest when he perceives that the system is broken. This leads to the generational rallying cry, "Who is Isiah Thomas?" and the meme "going Thomas." It's a few thousand pages long and the end is a stirring hundred page reading of basketball box scores.
Funny, I was pretty much imagining the same thing. I would buy the T shirt that said "Rip City" in front ( complete with Anthem/Ayn Rand faux cover design) and "Jordan Shrugged" on the back. Maybe "Nuff Said" in tiny type below it.
Found this link on BEdge: http://www.csnnw.com/pages/landing?...Blazer-frustrati=1&blockID=514899&feedID=8351
Meh, it's sports. We've had a tough stretch and our five year rebuilding process didn't work out due to the fragility of our players. The only thing to do is to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, pick ourselves up and hope for better things next year.
Cool. It's like the Cascadian subduction zone earthquakes: nobody has a clue about when it might happen, but we are definitely overdue. barfo
