tmorgan wrote:Which is, of course, fine ... if you believe Flip Saunders has had any success when it counts.
Which I believe he has.
After losing Ben Wallace, I predicted a second round exit for the Pistons. Even when adding Webber, I figured the team would probably still bow out to the Bulls.
The team came close to sweeping the Bulls. That was overachieving in my opinion.
He took a mediocre (yes, mediocre) Wolves team to the Western Conference Finals. When after Kevin Garnett, your next options are an aging Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell, anything past the second round is money in my books.
Of course, people will disagree, but Flip has overachieved as much as he has underachieved like taking terrible Minnesota teams to the playoffs.