The Official "Fire Larry Brown" thread

[GeraldWalrus]

Seriously. This is moronic. Your point guards are playing like shit, you have a point guard on reserves, so what do you do? Keep him on reserves. Tonight, Nazr had 8 points in the first half, so what do you do? Don't play him the second half. Gerald Wallace is a tremendous inside player and banger and what do you do? Try to make him take jumpshots. You have a player who averaged a double double the past 4 years, and would make for one of the best banger power forwards in the leauge, so what do you do? Get him a decent center who can rebound? Nope, trade him off for an injury prone guy who hasn't played ball in forever and was only talented when he had a real point guard facilitating him.

Seriously. He's an idiot. I don't care about his past accolades and his NBA rings. It's been over a year, and we are in the same place as we were with Bernie and the dreaded Ham Biscuit. Go get Avery Johnson. Or fuck Jordan, since your such a smart guy off the court and in teaching, coach the goddamn team yourself. Stop sucking the dick of every UNC product that ever exsisted. We have the goddamn talent, I'm sure of it. But constant stupid ass decisions are holding us back.

Your thoughts?

[teej]

Every player seems to have lost their confidence. I don't know where to place the blame but LB. We have the talent to make the playoffs, we showed that last year, so it's time to make a change.

Dave Hanners would likely make a good coach in the interim. He might even work out long term.

Avery Johnson (ESPN)
Byron Scott
Jeff Van Gundy (ESPN)
Maurice Cheeks (Asst. in OKC)
Mike Fratello (NBC/TNT/YES)
Paul Silas
Sam....Mitchell (was hired by the 'Cats in '04 before taking the Raps job)

And my dark horse...Stephanie Ready.

[GeraldWalrus]

I would crap my pants for Jeff Van Gundy. That dude can coach. Plus he is very funny.

[Chrystos]

Can Avery Johnson coach us ?

[GeraldWalrus]

We need a coach who isn't an old man and who has a backbone. If a player is playing like shit (Raymond Felton) you sit his ass on the bench. If someone is playing good (Nazr) you play them. It's simple basketball. Keep your 439092308 plays you have, because it obviously doesn't work for shit. Larry Brown wants to play a style of basketball that just doesn't work anymore. You struck magic in the Pistons and the 76ers. But how many times did you fail? I mean, your last coaching job went great didn't it? You turned that New York franchise right around.

[teej]

Dave Hanners would likely make a good coach in the interim. He might even work out long term.

Avery Johnson (ESPN)
Byron Scott
Jeff Van Gundy (ESPN)
Maurice Cheeks (Asst. in OKC)
Mike Fratello (NBC/TNT/YES)
Paul Silas
Sam....Mitchell (was hired by the 'Cats in '04 before taking the Raps job)

Input, people?

[BRNC]

First...I don't see MJ "firing" LB...if anything happens it would be LB moved up to a consultant position...if that happened Hanners would be an obvious interim...as for your list...

There are guys I like personally but for me I'd look for an Adelman protege that is strong on "D" and uses any variation of the "Princeton" to take advantage of our athletes...and a guy with a proven record of developing young players...

The guys on your list (if we had no other choices) I guess I'd go with would be Silas or Van Gundy...

Teej...as far as Adelman guys I think T.R. Dunn has been with him the longest...Kings and Houston...he's supposed to be a good guy...knowledgeable...I have no clue what kind of Head Coach he'd make though...but I'm kinda tired of "retreads"...and Dunn (unlike FHB) has been an Asst. for many years...and if I'm not mistaken (and I could be) wasn't Dunn an Asst. here with the Hornets?

Hanners is ultimately an LB guy and I have doubts about him with young guys and anything in the way of "innovation" concerning our offense...

[BETCATS]

Please everyone calm down. Things can still go 1 of 2 ways:

1. We work things out. Its a long season, we are 26 games in and only -6 from .500. We never play our best basketball until AFTER the asg break. Its called "mid-season form" for a reason. I think we will make 1 more big trade before this season ends. And i think things will end well.


2. This season will be a failure, and painful. But Larry will leave. Whenever Larry leaves, train wrecks are occurring/train wrecks follow. If the TC-Gerald beef/Boris Diaw quiting is foreshadowing, their is a train wreck in site. I hope we can fix it before it comes to that/have faith we will, but if it does then Larry will leave, as he always does in this type of situation (which he also creates).


I am not sure if it is all the hype around this season or if it is just pure fear of failure, but a lot of you guys are panicking right now. We have almost all been here (rooting for the Bobcats/not necessarily on this forum) since day 1 and have faced hardship before. Lets not run away from it now. We need to be supportive of the team, not vindictive towards members of it.

[GoBobs]

I like Byron Scott or Silas

[teej]

Every player seems to have lost their confidence. I don't know where to place the blame but LB. We have the talent to make the playoffs, we showed that last year, so it's time to make a change.

Dave Hanners would likely make a good coach in the interim. He might even work out long term.

Avery Johnson (ESPN)
Byron Scott
Jeff Van Gundy (ESPN)
Maurice Cheeks (Asst. in OKC)
Mike Fratello (NBC/TNT/YES)
Paul Silas
Sam....Mitchell (was hired by the 'Cats in '04 before taking the Raps job)

And my dark horse...Stephanie Ready.

Bummmmmp.

My list this year includes Silas, Mitchell, Fratello, Hanners, Erik Spoelsta in a few weeks, Dwayne Casey, and Elston Turner