You know whats going to be hilarious-
When a new coach comes in and takes this team to the WCF- and everyones all "i always said firing adelman was a good idea"
- The one thing i dont like about this board (dont get me wrong i LOVE the board) is the way people bandwagon, and are incredibly hypocritcal about situations.
- All the anti-artest homers saying that trading for artest would make our season worse are now- wow yea...artest is our leader~!!
- For all you people about to bash this post- let me clarify something- Much like when we traded for artest, the team needed a new direction, and i feel that way now. Im impartial to whether Rick was given the boot or not because again, this team needs a new direction. Facts are facts, rick won ALOT....in the regular season...in fact EIGHT regular seasons, that does not discredit him in ANY way, but in 2001-2002 we clearly had the best team in the league and we did not win (bring on the whole "Rick didnt force us to miss free throws arguement", becuase i will ignore it). Rick got us to the top of the mountain repeatedly, and i respect that, but he never took us over it. People need to sit back and realize change can sometimes be good, and sometimes be bad, but you do NOT win a championchip without taking a huge gamble (IE: Artest), and a new coach mixing things up could be what we need to overpass the mountain that is a championchip.
- What DID angered me in this whole situation is the WAY Rick was canned- the maloofs should of had much more respect for what Rick did for this team, and if the reports are true, then i am very very dissapointed in the maturity and respect of this franchise. In which case- i support VF's letter, because its very true.
- What angers me about peoples interpretations, is that "we were starting to win again with rick"...well what? big deal...we get kicked out in another WCF..because lets face it, that 2001-2002 team was AMAZING, and we didnt win then.
- This franchise needed a change, the old ways of the princeton and inefficiently pushing our PG and C to play defense were NOT going to work.
- The analogy ive been spouting is...in 2002 we broke our arm, it healed back incorrectly for the next 4 years, all be it, it still worked. To correctly heal what was once perfect we have to rebreak (start a new), and contruct a new championchip franchise.
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