We really need a defensive minded coach that can elevate our team defense to another level, cause like the bulls show you can win alot of games showing up on D
People forget, we literally hired Tom Thibodeau in 2007 as an assistant. He bailed on us to take the Celtics job. I'd say that worked out pretty well for him. The Wizards? Not so much.
Wittman isn't the answer; he's just cheap. I'd much rather bring in Nate McMillan or Mike Budenholzer for this team. Instead, we'll stand pat for one year while all the top talent is taken off the board. It's embarrassing.
Coaching isn't the problem.
A piss poor roster is the problem.
It's both. Our half court offense is
AWFUL. Our rotations are
AWFUL. Game management has been
AWFUL. The team doesn't bring the same intensity every night, and plays to the level of the competition as a result.
Watch those Detroit games and tell me that's just a "roster problem." We had the better lineup and we lost. Badly. We made Calderon and Monroe look like Magic and Kareem.
Don't forget, this is the same staff that embarrassed us under Flip Saunders. I don't think Flip was "holding them back." As a group, they didn't get it done and, to be honest, they've NEVER gotten it done.
We're living with a bunch of Flip's Minnesota nepotism hires. Randy Wittman? Sam Cassell? RYAN SAUNDERS?
This entire front office needs to go. Ernie, Randy, the works. They only thing they've brought us with any consistency is failure.
Rarely will you have this large of a talent pool to select from.
There's a reason why nobody's mentioning Washington as a possible front-office destination for Phil Jackson. Ted was our hope for shedding the "low end franchise" moniker. Clearly, that hasn't happened. This is as cheap a franchise today as it was under Abe.
How are they building a "winning culture?" Flushing out the knuckleheads? Why hasn't that extended to management, then? Ernie's been around longer than Andray Blatche. Randy has been around longer than Jordan Crawford. (And, don't forget, Ernie brought them all in to begin with.) Instead of bringing in first class people and making that the foundation of the franchise, Ted's been content to accept and perpetuate the status quo. He inherited a losing organization and all he's done is change the uniforms.
It's more than a coaching problem or a roster problem. It's a
management problem. That's our constant.
The players have changed. The coaches have changed. The outcome hasn't changed. I can't look at the last thirty years of this franchise's history and say, "well, why don't we try changing the players again?"
