<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If Eric Musselman leaves the Warriors, or perhaps we should write when he leaves the Warriors, he will do so with his career intact. Now there's something he can put on his resume. Musselman is only the second coach in a decade to serve hard time in Oakland and escape unscathed. Recently promoted vice president for basketball operations Chris Mullin will review Musselman's job performance before coming to what everybody believes is an inevitable conclusion. Musselman is not expected to return to fulfill the final year of his contract, which means he soon can pursue other NBA coaching jobs. He's expected to be interviewed for several of those jobs. That's quite an accomplishment considering where he has been. Rick Adelman is the only coach since Don Nelson to be considered a viable candidate for a NBA coaching job after leaving the Warriors, and that was mainly because of what he achieved before he arrived at Golden State. Musselman won more games in back-to-back seasons than any Warriors coach since Nelson, which says a lot and not very much at all.</div> <div align="center"> Full Article </div>
I guess the article has a lot of what I'd been thinking about over the past few weeks or so. So of course I'm going to enjoy this article, especially after reading what a lot of other journalists were saying about Musselman. But still, I think the article was a very good one. Thanks for the post/article Rudeezy. Next season if Muss leaves and gets a new coaching spot, it should be Musselman appreciation day or something, when that team comes to Oakland, and we should throw him a parade. No, that's going a little over board, but I really like what Musselman has built here in GS with the players he'd been given. Even if each had their little criticism and as the writer, Neil Hayes wrote; "Player criticism of Musselman has been too widespread to dismiss. He united his team, but at times it seemed united against him." The main point with Musselman, though, is that he got his team to unite and play hard each game, with the exception of a few pitiful road games, which really hurt this team. There might had been some disturbing things that happened off the court, but you never saw anything on the court that could ever show that there were "bad" things going on off the court. Something I believe Musselman is superb at. Whenever there was things that got out in the media, they always went away very quick, even though there will always be a couple of people trying to make a big deal out of everything. From Damp's "Musselhead", JRich and Arenas skipping practice, Dun saying his defense isn't worse than Muss' coaching, and that's all i can remember off the top of my head...Oh yeah and Foyle's and maybe Fortson's demand for more playing time, which always happens in basketball. But 4 incidents in two season isn't that bad if you went around the league. There are several players on each team that don't like the coach they are playing for, for some reason or another. I would be very interested what this management would do with the Lakers. That would be funny. After the previous decisions they made, I'd be that either Kobe or Shaq would had been gone a long time ago, if this management were incharge of the Lakers(sort of another story but yeah). I think what's worse is how many players that leave the Warriors talk trash about the management of this team. For some reason they ignore those, but will not ignore, but do the opposite extreme when dealing with their coach. Arenas, Jamison, Fortson, Mark(I always forget how he spells his first name) Jackson, and I bet a lot of other players have or would if they wanted to be candid enough, would probably admit that this management is bad. Jamison said playing here was like being in prison. And that is coming from the "franchise player". OUCH.
