I think Riley requiring eastern conf. teams to come up with a pick for his services tells you what type of coach he thinks he is. Pretty good endorsement if you ask me.
I think Riley requiring eastern conf. teams to come up with a pick for his services tells you what type of coach he thinks he is. Pretty good endorsement if you ask me.
Yeah... if a Pacific team had tried to get Muss away from us, we would probably have given them a draft pick to take him.
Yeah he couldn't control them all the way to a 59-23 record and going 7 games agasint Detroit in the ECF with a team that started with 11 new players than the year before. I hope he can't control Artest and the Kings to 59 wins and a game 7 in the WCF.
First of all... That team won the championship the next year... We on the other hand weren't even close to sniffing the playoffs with the EXACT same team we have currently. Second of all... After they lost, there was alot of hooplah about him not winning it, and it caused alot of unrest in the locker room including Shaq opening his mouth.
It's a ridiculous comparison. He lost control once his team lost, which for this team will come to fruition about 3 weeks into the season.
Crap... Orlando just officialy voided the Billy Donovan contract. Lets just hope that SVG has decided on Sac town no matter what!
Not to mention that it was SVG's first head coaching job. While it is one thing for a guy like Muss to rub all of his players the wrong way and have poor personality management skills in general, pushing the wrong buttons with a big ego like Shaq seems more of a rookie mistake, especially in light of the good relationships it seems like he had with his other players.
don't let him go without his sig on the dotted line.
Certian irony to all this with SVG apparently in Sacto. Started off that the Magic took a huge PR bath when Donovan backed out on them, and of course it will be bigger if they miss out on SVG too.
But now with Stan in Sacto its perfectly obvious he is our #1 choice too. So now he pretty much has to sign with us or its our turn to have egg on our face, and then have to go turn sheepishly to somebody else who will clearly know he was only the #2 choice.
First of all... That team won the championship the next year... We on the other hand weren't even close to sniffing the playoffs with the EXACT same team we have currently. Second of all... After they lost, there was alot of hooplah about him not winning it, and it caused alot of unrest in the locker room including Shaq opening his mouth.
It's a ridiculous comparison. He lost control once his team lost, which for this team will come to fruition about 3 weeks into the season.
I don't think it'll be egg on our face, since he didn't already sign and many have indicated his desire to stay in Orlando. That being said, I'm sure the Maloofs are pulling out all the stops on this one as he is the best prospect both short term and long term.
As of 7:15pm pacific time today Donovan is realeased from his contract and I read on a magic board that SVG gave them a two hour window to get it done and I guess they got it done within the two hours so SVG could be headed back to Orlando to be there new coach.
an artificially flavoured one..Good point, although I dare you to name the last time Shaq ate a carrot. Maybe a carrot cake, maybe...
If you could have any coach, who would it be? (Living)
But its awkward. "Well Kurt, sorry about all that. You want the job? We liked you too..."