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Well, everyone who gets traded gets one. Brooks certainly deserves it for what he made this team into. I hope for the best in the future, but he's due some credit for the past. Best to you coach, wherever you end up.

I'll always be backing him. He was a very good coach and a genuinely great person, I think Presti screwed this one up, and I hope fans can come to realize how much He gave to this team.

You'll always be a seminal member of this organization Scotty, and if we win a championship with this group of guys you will have had every bit as much to do with it as any other person here.

I had a back-and-forth, love-hate relationship with Brooks. At times over the last seven seasons I thought the guy was an imbecile and the worst coach in the league. At other times I thought he was an underratedly good coach who rarely got the credit he deserved. When I'm clear/level-headed, I genuinely think Brooks is a good coach. Not spectacular, but not terrible, either.

I am very wary of this firing simply because if wew go the unproven college coach rout, then I don't think we'll have made an upgrade.

NaturalThunder wrote:I had a back-and-forth, love-hate relationship with Brooks. At times over the last seven seasons I thought the guy was an imbecile and the worst coach in the league. At other times I thought he was an underratedly good coach who rarely got the credit he deserved. When I'm clear/level-headed, I genuinely think Brooks is a good coach. Not spectacular, but not terrible, either.

I am very wary of this firing simply because if wew go the unproven college coach rout, then I don't think we'll have made an upgrade.

If we're being realistic is there actually a clear cut better coach on the market? There are definitely guys who have potential, but there's not even an SVG, who I would argue is marginally at best better than Brooks.

I appreciate the job he did and at some point I'm sure we'll all miss him. (Just hope it isn't too soon).

spearsy23 wrote:

NaturalThunder wrote:I had a back-and-forth, love-hate relationship with Brooks. At times over the last seven seasons I thought the guy was an imbecile and the worst coach in the league. At other times I thought he was an underratedly good coach who rarely got the credit he deserved. When I'm clear/level-headed, I genuinely think Brooks is a good coach. Not spectacular, but not terrible, either.

I am very wary of this firing simply because if wew go the unproven college coach rout, then I don't think we'll have made an upgrade.

If we're being realistic is there actually a clear cut better coach on the market? There are definitely guys who have potential, but there's not even an SVG, who I would argue is marginally at best better than Brooks.

That's always been the argument I've made...who is better??
I'm not totally sure that was the case of Brooks firing either (though I do believe they have a candidate locked in). I thinks it's closer to some of those workout programs that talk about plateauing doing the same or similar exercises. I'm assuming they were thinking a change in general would help this team take the next step....we shall see.

Brooks has been a class act throughout the good and the bad though.

Fav Scotty moments:
The speech during game 5 of the finals, at the end of the game.
His little tantrum he throws underneath the goal during a timeout when the other team has gone on a run.
His sense of humor in interviews.

Not sure it's Presti's style to go "well, I'll stick with what I have because there isn't anything better out there" if he feels things aren't working - rather he'll back himself to make a good appointment, even if that person is unknown or unproven right now.

That said, Brooks' contributions are incredibly underrated outside of the organisation, and if the chip does come in the next 2-3 seasons he'll have his fingerprints all over it.

Sadly he is the epitome of the "win and it's the players, lose and it's the coach" mentality.

Many of these criticisms of Brooks, have to do with personnel drafted or signed by Presti, and Presti not making moves to allow for other options ......... i.e. the Thabo/Perk combo that hurt the offense.

I think Brooks had his faults, but the man worked with the personnel Prest sent him, and he did well with it.