What has Vincent's Effect Been this year?

[fluffernutter]

I've been away on vacation, and paid little attention to the Bobcats for a few weeks. It's been really nice, actually. What a soap opera.

But I do have trouble sleeping at night, pondering the "what might have beens."



What if we could go back and time and stop Vincent from being hired. In his place, we pick somebody who is an average NBA coach.

Average in every way. Not good, not bad. Run of the mill.

What would our team record be at this point?

[doc.end]

No to this torture!

[amcoolio]

We won less games that last season WITH J-Rich and Okafor for 82 games.

Um....let me see.....bad?

[Rich4114]

I would say we still would've had some problems gelling till about mid-season but Vincent himself cost us a bunch of games IMO. I think with any other decent coach (say Bernie for one more year or a Paul Silas) we're in the playoffs in the East. We would've never lost that Celtics game, Jeff Mcinnis wouldn't have run the team for 60% of the season, Okafor probably wouldn't have had such long slumps, and everyone would be playing harder for someone else. That I would say gives us another 10 wins overall which is good enough to be in the Washington/Philly/Atlanta/Toronto territory.

[Paydro70]

Well, presumably a good coach would have played McInnis barely at all, would have noticed Dudley, would have run an offense... we've been a .500 team since losing McInnis and playing Dudley, I think it's entirely conceivable that Vincent swung 10 games across the season.

[chrbal]

We'd be talking about how much we thought Hermann should be resigned for. Also, what could we get for Brezec and a bag of cheetos in a trade.