The Emperor's New Clothes Theory
Sirius said:
Some guest on KHTK (I think it was Sam Amick?) said that Musselman has given the best interview so far, had a very well prepared presentation, used powerpoint, etc. How interesting. Whoever it is though, I almost wish the Kings would just announce who it is and put us out of our misery.
Interesting theory we've been discussing on another board:
Maybe, the Maloofs sensed that Kings fans were against firing Adelman and worried that there would be a lot of controversy when they actually hired E-Muss or Elie. Fans would be saying, "you fired a coach with over 700 wins for Vancouver's assistant or a rookie coach just because he played with Avery Johnson?" As a marketing ploy, they spread false rumors that they were hiring a personal friend with zero NBA experience. They knew there would be great sorrow and backlash by Kings fans, given a week to contemplate the utter stupidity of such a move. Then at the point the Maloofs announced the hiring of E-Muss or Elie, Kings fans would rejoice as if it were Red Auerbach or Phil Jackson. Public criticism would be averted, not because the candidate was any more qualified than Adelman, but by virtue of the candidate not being a competely disasterous choice like JW.
So why would JW go along with a plan that seems to draw a lot of public criticism against him? Winning back-to-back championships is one of the harder feats in sports. People lose hunger and focus. What if the Maloofs got JW's buy-in for this marketing stunt to unify the Monarchs. This would create early season controversy that they might lose their coach. He comes back looking like a loyal hero who could never leave his team. He uses the public backlash to stress how undervalued the women's team is. JW could say, "people didin't think a WNBA coach was as qualified as a men's coach," "they didn't believe our championship was enough, they thought we were a fluke," or "the Maloofs were willing to steal your coach for the Kings, what makes them more valuable, when's their last championship, let's win a second to their none."
With one PR leak (which really has never been the Kings style), the Maloofs could take a lot of pressure off the new Kings coach and remotivate the Monarchs and their fans for another championship run.
Another poster there commented:
"Kingsgurl and I were discussing exactly that twisted PR ploy this evening. This thing has been leaked by inside sources to the media and even other Kings boards as early as last week, before the interviews even began. Grant has been spouting this as an inevitability for some time.
Does this make sense?
The only fly in the ointment of your theory is that Whiz, the Maloof family friend, would have had to have been a tool all along in this process. Two scenarios there...a willing tool and an unwilling tool. Maybe Whiz really didn't want the job, told Joe and Gavin early in the "game", and the brother spinsters decided to try to make some "use" of this with planned leaks of information to rile up the crowd and follow your line of reasoning after someone else gets hired. Might make us forget that those other guys interviewed, although they have great future potential, were not really as qualified as RA.
It's crazy, I know, but so is the whole situation of pursuing Whiz in the first place."