Raptorian wrote:This move doesn't make much sense to me at this point. As far as the season goes, I guess we go forward with Triano. Is this really the ideal situation? I think the only truly appropriate time to fire a coach is between seasons. At this point we are stuck with an assistant coach as a head coach. I like triano but he isn't an NBA head coach. I would be surprised now if we got out of the first round of the playoffs, let alone being competitive in the conference (which I think was the goal at the start of the season).
This is now a lost season, with hope of hiring a decent coach in the offseason. I feel like this was completely a case of scapegoating the coach without really looking at the big picture. To me this is Colangelo's first major mistake...
Where you under the impression under Mitchell that we were able to win a playoff round or be competitive in the East? Because I certainly wasn't. It had become abundantly clear that the team had quit on Mitchell in the Denver game. They beat us like we were the g'd Thunder and we are certainly a better basketball club than how we played. When you add this fact to his already glaring flaws as a coach (no offensive variety, no after-time-out plays, a terribly constructed "double everyone in the post and switch on every screen" defensive scheme) firing him was a no brainer.
I look at this move as addition by subtraction. I find it truly hard to believe that this team could play worse than it did under Sam Mitchell. If a team has tuned out it's head coach then getting rid of him has to happen otherwise things just spiral out of control. Do you honestly believe the team under Triano will be worse than the team that has quit on Mitchell? I personally don't.
