Comments on: Avery Johnson – Out

By: clipper wind power

clipper wind power — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:35:48 +0000

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From NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski at Yahoo Sports“The Detroit Pistons are no longer consider [...]…

By: jayhurst

jayhurst — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:16:40 +0000

Hold up U dont know basketball, if I recall in the year of 2006 I recall his first year as Dallas headcoach he led them straight to the NBA Finals, than afterwards two first round exits, but he’s a better coach than any other coach he’s about to hire with no headcoach experience. Joe D. is cheap he wants a championship, but he wants to rent a coach for two years instead of giving him some room to work with, he basic wants to rent a coach, and how tough the east is going to be this year its going to take at least three years to get back to contension, now it might take even longer with this coach he’s bout to hire. I’m still a die hard Piston fan but, Joe is making it very hard right now becuz of these stupid decisions he’s making with free agency and coaching moves, you spend 55mil on a 6′3 shooting guard but cant spend 16mil on a coach, that lets u know his priorities for the team. He actually should of hired Avery last year before he hired Curry.

By: Colton Keck

Colton Keck — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:33:59 +0000

Joe Dumars got us in this mess how do you fire all the coaches because they cant corral the players then fire the players ” Not resiging sheed ” that couldnt be tamed, it would be nice to have larry sitting bench with a bunch of nobodys and has beens ” thats how its going to be when rip leaves ‘

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:02:17 +0000

I’m more disturbed by the fact that Joe admits the franchise has taken significant steps back that warrant not hiring a championship caliber coach.

Given our need to teach Stuck how to be a floor general, I think we lost a grand opportunity in Johnson as coach.

By: The Fluidics

The Fluidics — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:45:54 +0000

All Johnson ever lead Dallas to were a few first round exits from the playoffs. Unfortunately, since Detroit is still paying Michael Curry to not coach, and probably still paying Flip Saunders not to coach, their budget for head coaches is pretty dried up.
I’ll take Kuester, he at least has some winning experience, he’s been around the league as a coach for a while, and the Pistons really couldn’t do worse than Curry.

By: Detroitallaround

Detroitallaround — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:06:03 +0000

I wonder what Dumars will do when his next coach doesnt work out.

By: Detroitallaround

Detroitallaround — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:03:59 +0000

Dumars is now one of the worst GM’s in the NBA. He cant even get a coach that is on the top of the list. If he cant get a coach how do you think he will be able to take players at the top of the list. ‘04 was his only good year. After than its been a freefall. First we lost Ben, than Chauncey, after that Rasheed. Rip and Tay are next. Kuester is going to be another Curry. We are not going to win another championship until Joe DUMNars leaves. The only person I know that can fire Dumars his the owner. And I dont know who that is.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:14 +0000

SOB, now we’re in a major pickle. I’m really hoping that Joe is considering someone else with head coaching experience, because the chances of someone who only has assistant coaching experience doing a good job is 50/50. At that rate it would probably be smartest just to go with Laimbeer, since he at least has been a head coach in a pretty large league.

Please Joe don’t risk another assistant coach signing!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:21:48 +0000

Stupid Dumars? Dumars F’d up? Really everyone? I’m with you that I thought Avery would be solid, but why is everyone so convinced that he was “the answer.” It is amazing to me how everyone thinks they know better than the guy who put together a championship contending team from what he was given, which was practically nothing. It’s cool to have an opinion, but there is no way to state it like fact that Avery would have taken us anywhere. In reality, he didn’t really take Dallas that far when considering what he was given there.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:17:24 +0000

Whatever you do Joe D, You need a coach with experience like you said.