Hires the worst coach in the history of the NBA (win loss %) !!!
TIM FLOYD had 239 games as a coach in the NBA & won only 49 !!!
Guys like EDDIE JORDAN & other black coaches can't get a job but this chump gets another chance !!!
No i'm not predjudice but that is ....... well, just read my quote at the bottom & you know how i feel !!!
People don't wanna go there and coach, the owner is a pervert!
The good ole boy network lives on!
Spare me the drama... Red Auerbach couldn't have won with that Bulls team. Pullease...
Posted by playa2:
People don't wanna go there and coach, the owner is a pervert!
Also, Silas has friends, and they know it was BS to fire him, a guy who took their mediocre lineup and made it competitive, much like his friend JVG, who said "no thanks" to the Hornets without hearing an offer.
They did stiff SIlas but, there are worse jobs in the NBA... Who would you rather coach... Hornets, Knicks, Hawks?
Floyd coached a horrible rebuilding team as a first year pro coach. Calling it the good ole boy network is innacurate.
Rain = Gets it!!
pike, rain so how is he more elgible to coach charlotte than, silas or Bryons, assistant please take your time,
I don't think they should have fired Silas. Having said this, Floyd deserves a second chance because he had ZERO chance to succeed in Chicago. Floyd's been getting a bad, unfair rap in the press. Eddie Jordan will probably end up with the Atlanta job. Silas has LeBron... VG, Yao and Stevie... what up? Everyone seems to be happy.... except Playa and Knick fans everywhere.
[Edited by - Pike on 06/10/2003 15:53:31]
pike rain, i don't believe Cartwright is red Auerbach and he has done a much better job with that team than joe Shmoe ever did. i want the Right man for the Job, black or white i care less, the NBA wants the WHITE man for the job, right or wrong. It's just the way it is. 90 pct of the players are black, 90 pct of the owners are white. I'm not putting white people down don't take it personal, but it's so obvious. how many black coaches in the nba never played pro ball like Grunfield, Don nelsons son (who will be a coach soon) and the Warriors coach. John paxson is a GM for christ sakes. a YMCA player who should spit shine jordans sneakers. Yeah they are some Billy kings,
Posted by ARES:
pike rain, i don't believe Cartwright is red Auerbach and he has done a much better job with that team than joe Shmoe ever did.
I knew someone was going to say that... baloney ARES, Floyd had Chandler and Curry raw out of high school in addition to garbage. That first year, Da Bulls may have been the worst NBA team in history.
Cartwright has done a good job but, was dealt a better hand than Floyd.
as soon as cartwright took over didn't they win 4 in a row, and they started winning as soon as that bum coach left.
cartwright took over in the middle of a season pike
you guys still didn't define why this man deserves this job. Any time you get a job you must define why you deserve it. becuase he got a raw deal, that doesn't define why he deserves this new job.
I understand the frustration... in alot of cases its justified. This said, That Chicago team needed a coaching change, any change...they were devoid of any Veteran presence. Cartwright being a recent ex-player and 7'0 tall could intimidate when he needed to without any Veteran to back him up. The players knew Floyd was a lame duck stuck with an offense he didn't want to run, with no vet players to support him in the Lockerroom. Sometimes change for the sake of change is the remedy. Silas did get a raw deal... time had run its course their.. now he's coaching Lebron. Byron, Doc, Silas, Cartwright, Chaney, Nate McMillan, now maybe Mike Jarvis (rumored in Wash.)... things are getting better. This stigma of a black coach is more crystallised in Football, a real problem... IMO.
Posted by ARES:
how many black coaches in the nba never played pro ball like Grunfield, Don nelsons son (who will be a coach soon) and the Warriors coach.
You must mean Van Gundy, not Grunfeld. Grunfeld was a pro player and has never been a coach.
Ares is showing signs of fatigue again(not enough sleep), don't mind him. Look we have Joe Dumars who has re-designed the Pistons and is trying to win a title from the front office now. Billy King at 37 at philly is the youngest GM in the league. Ex Denver Nugget WAYNE COOPER, Vice President of Basketball Operations of the Sacremento Queens, he oversees day to day business including all scouting and was responsible for finding Peja Stojakovic in 1996. He is the one who started the NBA's current influx of foreign players. Stu Jackson has went from coach, to Gm to Senior Vice president of Basketball operations in NBA. Isaiah Thomas went from player to Gm to coach all in the NBA. Ed Tapscott under EX B.E.T OWNER and NOW OWNER OF CHARLOTTE FRANCHISE is Executive Vice President will pick the new Gm and coach of that team. Also Doc Rivers one of the brightest head coaches in the game , future Gm in the league. Willis Reed Vice President of New Jersey Nets. Young Black coaches don't want go to a sucky teams like atlanta until they find out who the owner is because they will be on a shorter leash to succeed, they don't want to do what MARVIN LEWIS had to do going to the Bengals just to be the man. Basketball has guys on the move , now football that's another story!
[Edited by - PLAYA2 on 06/11/2003 07:28:04]
playa as usual you miss the point. obvious there are some deserving black Gm executives and coaches working in the NBA. some who are doing a excellent Job some mediocre.
the point Myron on the Good ole boy network is white coaches getting return trips to coach 3 or 4 unsucessful times while qualified non whites get passed over. they get negative media tags like Kareem and are disqualified before even getting a interview. some times blacks can exagerrate in this matter, but I am no al sharpton, I want a Qualified White black it dont matter. Non you mentioned blacks are not getting thrown in to no win situautions, butch beard alvin gentry, and non other than Don CHANEY (your favorite coach) AND the POINT myron is that once you have a unsuccessful shot at coaching as a black you are tagged and highly unlikely to get a second shot as some beleive the new hornet coach DESERVES. the key word myron in case it flew past you MR Shirt and TIE is DESERVE. The nFL is the absolute worst, Dennis Erickson gets a job before Dennis Green and Jim mora before Art Shell is nuts.
At the end of the Day playa you named what 6 guys?? with what 100 positions? coaches gm's etc, with 90 pct of the playas are black, do the math how many coaches that are black never played? do the math
I'm not al sharpton black or white quailfeid
"people" should get the job, i dunno about the new hornet coach, but ed tapscot who is black, who YOU love should never be in any NBA job EVER again
