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Check out the following article on ESPN about McHale's indecisiveness to coach:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4222582/

Say you put a young NBA team together over the years, say you had experienced some remarkable success periods with the team last season, say there is no going back to the front office as your old position has been filled. Say your alternative option is a year of ice fishing. Would you be so indecisive about taking on the job as coach or not.

The lines that crack me up are the following:

Kahn declined to provide more specifics.

"Kevin is still very much, as I am, in that situation," he said. "We're still very much in a process to determine if he, or whoever, will be the coach."

And

Another half-dozen were due in the afternoon, with more workouts scheduled throughout the week.

Timberwolves assistant coaches were there, too, but McHale was missing.

"It would put too much pressure on him, in my opinion, and it would probably make it very uncomfortable with other people here," Kahn said. "I think that it's not appropriate yet until we resolve it. It would be more appropriate once we have it resolved."

So we don't know if our coach wants to be part of our team anymore and seeing young talents in the draft workouts would put, ahh, way too much pressure on his fragile soul.

It even gets better....

The future for the rest of the front office isn't resolved, either. Taylor didn't decide on Kahn until more than after the end of the regular season, leaving roughly the same amount of time for him to prepare for a draft in which the Wolves currently hold three first-round picks: Nos. 6, 18 and 28.

Changes, if Kahn so desires them, would be disruptive during this critical month. So everyone is status quo, including Stack and Hoiberg, who were candidates for the position that went to Kahn.

So we have a 3 weeks old GM, no decision on coaching, no decision on the future management of the team, 3 first rounders, expiring contracts, cap space...

My points are the following:
Does anyone have a vision for the upcoming draft/draft night trades?
Who draws the long term plans for this team?
Who explains to Foye and Telfair what their future role on the Wolves team is supposed to be if we draft DeMar DeRozan and Patrick Mills?
If you were another team's GM wanting to screw somebody over on draftnight, wouldn't you call who-ever-is-in-charge in Minneapolis?

Thoughts?

I don't see how anyone can hold McHale accountable for not being at the workouts. There's not another coach in the NBA who would work without a contract.

Minny P wrote:Who explains to Foye and Telfair what their future role on the Wolves team is supposed to be if we draft DeMar DeRozan and Patrick Mills?

And then who explains to Glen Taylor why all the fans left, who i ask!?!?

Shrink saw the last two words in the title of this thread and got a little light-headed...

From what I've gotten out of the article in the Trib is that Kahn asked him to stay away. It's being run by a bunch of high schoolers right now. David Kahn, grow a pair of nuts and make a decision about the team's future. Either fire McHale or stand firm behind him. There's no reason McHale shouldn't be there if he is our coach, and there's no reason he should be in limbo if he isn't.

hopefully the next coach is either Thibodeaux or McHale. I can just picture them firing McHale and hiring Lon Kruger or something

Seriously, do any of you have a position of responsibility? Because it appears that most of you have little clue as to how business decisions are made. It is not the accept/reject button of fantasy sports. Let the man figure out the situation and make a reasoned well thought out decision not some knee jerk decision predicated off of some perceived need of having the head coach at the current workouts.

Moreover, just because you and I are not in on the decision making process or because some "master plan" has not been made public doesn't mean that one doesn't exist.

^-- You're cute.

Well Said.