Taylor Jenkins secretly one of the better coaches in the league

[knicksfan974]

Also just dropping in to say: Tuomas Iisalo (who is responsible for Grizzlies offensive schemes).

[RingoKid]

Coach Jenkins is pooh!

Rajakovic and the new guy Lisalo made him look good, until the post season when Jenkins believes his own hype and chokes under the bright lights.

Memphis will never win a ring with that chump coaching them.

[Lalouie]

shhhhhhhhhh

[Jamaaliver]

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ONE DAY AFTER the team fired Jenkins, Memphis general manager Zach Kleiman stood in front of a lectern and explained his decision to fire his head coach and two assistants so late in the season.

"Urgency is a core principle of ours," he said. "My expectations are clarity of direction."

He didn't elaborate beyond those two main points.

But anyone close to the team this season knows the lack of clarity he was referring to.

Offensively, the Grizzlies had become something of a science experiment this season, offering glimpses at how several radical offensive concepts from Europe, and spacing principles found in hockey and soccer, would work in the NBA, but also how difficult it is to get full buy-in from players to implement them.