The Official Lets Not Fire Larry Brown and calm down thread

[LiquidWayno]

Wow, we sure do turn people quickly in the Bobcats nation. Fire Larry Brown? Seriously? Because Bickerstaff and Vincent had set the bar so high before? I'm not saying LB is perfect, but you will never get a coach of his caliber to come here again. We barely missed the playoffs last year, have made plenty of moves to try and get better and just made a brilliant move for S-Jax in the last week. We are playing some crappy basketball, but we haven't lost to any horrible teams yet. I can think of plenty of personnel changes I would like to make around here, but LB is not on that list.

[Woodsy23]

What happened to the AI headline on the main page?

im still waiting for it to appear again

[Muttley]

Wanting to fire Larry Brown seems a bit... rash. There are a bunch of ways to improve this team, and as Wayno said, I don't think canning Larry's on the top of that list. How about sign AI? We can move DJ and/or Acie for some unused pf on someone's roster if we want. If Ray's not getting any PT, then by the end of December we can trade him to a location of his liking. (It's still up to him at that point, though.) Start AI and bring Flip off the bench. Talentwise, we're not far from having a very good team. The players just need to get their heads on right.

edit: Also, the players should start hitting some goddamn free throws.

[dnbman]

I'm all for level-headedness and rationality, and I don't think we should axe Larry Brown. However, if we haven't made significant process by mid-season, we need to start blowing things up and start over. We have too many big contracts and too many kind-of-talented-but-limited players to tinker too much more. I'd start doing trades somewhat similar to the GS trade, where we send one good player with one bad player/contract in order to obtain whatever we can get without sacrificing draft picks.

I think this team can still be pretty formidable if Chandler turns it around and everybody else plays with confidence. However, right now it just looks bad, and, honestly, there's nobody on the roster that I think we have to keep, though I do love Gerald Wallace.

[Chrystos]

I'm thinking that if we don't make it to the playoffs, He'll be fired. So chill out Gerald Walrus and wait till the end of the year.

[Ghost Kat]

Fire LB.......

Who said that??












You have been warned for your blasphemy

[davcbow]

Me thinks LB's target year is for next season....

[TheBeagle]

Well, I posted on the "Fire" thread, I'll post here on the "Not Fire" to even it out. To reiterate, yeah, I'm thoroughly pissed with the job he's done thus far, but I don't think it's time to can him. Actually, since the Jack trade, he's started to turn things around. For one, the ineffective DJ/Raymond tandem is a thing of the past, and Flip is at times getting productive minutes at the 1 while both of them are on the pine!!! I mean, really, that's pretty damn outside-the-box thinking, and worthy of Larry's mad genius.

Similarly, Derrick is becoming a fairly integral part of the rotation; a reward for his hard work in practice and the effort he gives when he's on the court. Larry's not a moron; he sees this; he loves this; he's giving Derrick minutes.

No, let's let him put a little more polish on these post-Jack trade Bobcats, and maybe a quality rotation can be discovered when/if Chandler returns (and possibly AI's arrival).

Wins and losses aside, I think the Jack trade his reinvigorated him and it shows in his rotation schemes. We're likely not going anywhere as it is (in terms of the postseason) so let's see if Larry can work some magic with what he has to work with.

[teej]

For one, the ineffective DJ/Raymond tandem is a thing of the past, and Flip is at times getting productive minutes at the 1 while both of them are on the pine!!! I mean, really, that's pretty damn outside-the-box thinking, and worthy of Larry's mad genius.

If that's all it takes, I hereby submit my name for the job. I do that all the time on 2k10.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

I am glad this thread was started. Yes this team struggled a bit early. I have said that is to be expected. Yes Captain Jack was a big boost to the team. That does not mean that with a healthy Raja Bell the team would not have turned things around. Still I think Stephen Jackson is a talented and welcome edition to this edition of the Bobcats. Overall he may be a better fit than was Bell. We should not however forget how well the team played when Diaw and Bell came here last season.

It was easy to jump the gun and start calling for Larry Browns head but I think it was a bit presumptuous. Now that we have a solid go to scorer on the team things should get better. Trade or not this team was bound to turn things around. Less than twenty games in it is a bit ridiculous to call for a coaches head in my opinion. For the most part even when the team was not playing well or hard they were keeping games close.

This team seems to be turning a corner but they have not beaten a quality team from last season other than the Atlanta Hawks. Let us see how we perform against a really good team not coming off a back to back and that team is Cleveland. The Cavaliers are a much better team than the two teams we recently beat.

I say the team will lose close ones to the Cleveland type teams a bit longer till they put it together. The team is close but I don't think they are there yet. Time will tell.