Clippers' Dunleavy defends himself

[Det the Threat]

Here are some of his quotes.

"When's the last time you ever saw an interim coach come in and the team be successful and make a playoff run?" Dunleavy said. "It's not happening. Nobody knows these guys better than I know them.

"Give a coach a chance to coach Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin. After that, fine. Let the chips fall where they may. Other than that, you just fall to pressure."

"I understand fans," he said. "I don't blame fans. They're not technically a lot of times savvy. They don't understand and they don't weigh issues the way that you weigh them. They know wins and losses.

"We've had an awful run with this, but my track record is that I have not lost with my players. I have lost without my players, but I haven't lost with my players. From an ownership standpoint, I know there's always a lot of pressure. I'll live with whatever decision our owner makes. I'll live by it."

Dunleavy added: "I'm not saying my job is secure. But I'm not saying it's not. Obviously, it's up to our owner."

Clippers' Dunleavy defends himself

So it's his same old injury excuse.
Also, this time around he's saying that we fans don't have a clue and that he's not having "his players".

Aren't all those other guys his players as well?
I mean, he's the GM as well and got all of them.

Anyways, fire him already, Donald.

[mattfish]

"Give a coach a chance to coach Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin. After that, fine. Let the chips fall where they may. Other than that, you just fall to pressure."

What a broken record. He wants to use injuries as his reason for job security, but it's not valid. The top teams in the league deal with injuries in a much more successful way than we do. I think it's his attitude which is reflected upon the players during games. "Hey we have injuries, so we're not expected to win this game, let's just go out there and do the best we can." The players just end up blaming the losses on the injuries, instead of their individual performances.

[cinnamon]

Yeah, characterizing the fans as a bunch of know-nothings is a great contribution to the situation.
And he must think we have awfully short memories, too.
Getting out-coached repeatedly has been going on for years. We all want to see Blake and EJ playing, but it's not going to change situations like a Hornets coach with 3 games of NBA experience and a team that was also shorthanded, outcoaching ours last week.

[ejftw]

I just find it funny how a GM can bring in players that work with the coach when they are two separate people, but when Dunleavy takes both roles, he can't bring in his type of players? Wtf.

[thanumba2clippersfan]

Even with these injuries we've been in the position to win some games and we've come out on the losing end. All and all you can't blame it all on inuries.

We lost to a Hornet team with out Chris Paul, they didn't make an excuse for that game.

[scratch21]

Good teams win with injuries

[RiversideClips]

What a Lame-O! If you or I continued to make excuses for lack of production at our jobs, would we still have jobs?
I am just factoring in loosing a Home Game by 15 points (Raptors) when you were up by 22 w/less than 27 minutes of basketball left. Bottom line is after 7 years, Mikey D has NO ability to manage a game on the fly! What type of crap is he talking about injuries; do all our work days go perfectly?
He makes $5 million per season and he continues to cry like my 11 year old daughter when someone questions him.
It took me 7 years years to get to this, but get rid of him!
1-5 in the last 6 games

[PlinkingPanda]

What a slap to the face with that fan comment. I guess we really know that he won't be willing to accept just a GM role with that ego as well. I think I'm officially on the tank the season to dump Dunleavy's arse.

[clippermitch]

I'm so sick of Dunleavy. His quote "I know these players more than anyone" is ridiculous!

I was ok with him being the GM and bringing a new coach in but now, I want him gone altogether. He's a bad coach and he micro manages all the time. I'll never forget that he brought in Daniel Ewing and Raja Bell made that 3 pointer. I still get nightmares.

This guy knows one way or another, he will get paid and Sterling will not cave in to pay him to go away.

[mattfish]

By the way, you can't just keep using "get 30 deflections" as your main coaching strategy. Maybe we should have a backup plan.

[PlinkingPanda]

By the way, you can't just keep using "get 30 deflections" as your main coaching strategy. Maybe we should have a backup plan.

Throw the ball in the post to Z-Bo and watch? Oh wait...

[mattfish]

Throw the ball in the post to Z-Bo and watch? Oh wait...

LOL! Props to you, that was a good one.

[jgustav1]

Look at Rick Adelman in Houston, he doesn't need weak excuses, they are over .500 without both Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. Even with the injuries last year, it was ridiculous to win under 25 games and finish behind teams like Minnesota. Dunleavy has run out of excuses and needs to be fired from both the coach and GM positions.

[loflin3hree5ive]

When's the last time an interim coach made a playoff run? It's not basketball, but the Rockies just pulled it off a few months ago. Anyway, I believe we should be patient with Dunleavy becfause like I've stated before, Sterling believes in Dunleavy and actually finances the team enough to give them a chance to win. It is frustrating seeing teams like Sacramento, Houston and OKC with less talented roster playing .500 ball while the Clippers struggle but thankfully there is a lot of season left to play.

[jgustav1]

I think most Clipper fans have run out of patience with Mike Dunleavy and his ability to lose games where the Clippers are up by 20+ at home to a non playoff caliber team like the Raptors that are playing back to back. The fire Dunleavy online petition has close to 2000 signatures now, probably aided by his recent comments in the media.

[Great]

John Lucas, paging John Lucas.

[DraftSpecialist]

I think Dunleavy struggled early on. But I don't think a mid-season coaching change is warranted right now. We are 7-6 in our last 13 games. Not great, but missing EJ and Griffin we are improving. If at the end of the season we are sitting with 25-30 wins, then go for it.

[ClipperDomination]

Out of our 7 wins, only one of them is what I would call an outright quality win.

vs, Minnesota
@ Golden State
vs. Memphis
@ Oklahoma City (got lucky due to a piss poor shooting night from the Thunder)
*vs. Denver*
vs. Minnesota
@ Detroit

The rest of our wins are against crappy, injury depleted, mediocre, streaky teams. Let's wait until the schedule gets even tougher and tougher, and then we'll revisit when people say we have a chance at being halfway decent this year.