LOUiS-D wrote:I dunno. Sometimes I think people like Kenny can be too earnest and place too much of a burden of responsibility on themselves. Obviously this is speculation, but I think what he needs is someone to put full confidence in him and talk him off the ledge everyone now and then. I care more about the continuity of the team than championships. We've done the coaching carousel. In my uninformed opinion Kenny was good enough to ride or die with. It was way too early for him to fall on his sword.
Ah well.
Agreed on pretty much all of that. I do suspect Marks did a good job 'talking Kenny off the ledge' when necessary. I seem to recall one or both of them talking about scenarios like that a couple years ago.
I wanna say-- I've also had more than one job in which I wanted out not because of any one thing. Not my boss or certain people, or ambition, or a particularly tough assignment. More like little-to-medium things that added up over time. Sometimes that's enough.
Still, if Kenny felt like he wasn't being heard as much, and we have other reports saying some players wanted him gone, this probably isn't super-complicated. Now maybe it would have been fine just plowing through that regardless, but like you were saying, I don't think Kenny would have found that acceptable in the long run.
Pretty damn sad, but it sounds like Kenny wanted what was best for the team just as much as he wanted what was best for himself, and both things involved the same action.
