gusman wrote:Q00 wrote:gusman wrote:I was reading about mo cheeks past. His failures with other teams have been exactly the same as what's going on here. He is so poorly spoken.
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I posted an espn article a while back from when he was fired in Philly a month into the season. It cited the exact same issues that the Pistons now exhibit. Why Joe hired this bum I have no idea, but Philly recognized it right away and did something. The Pistons just don't give a **** I guess
The article I read was about Portland. It said he spent more time yuking it up with fans behind the bench than coaching. It also said he had no clue of the players on opposing teams.
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So there was documented evidence of these problems at both of his last jobs and Joe still hired him anyways. lol
The Sixers situation was almost identical. That was the summer they spent a bunch of money on Elton Brand expecting to be contenders in the East, and Cheeks couldn't get the job done then either. You would think Joe would've seen that as a red flag, knowing he was bringing him into the same situation - about to spend a bunch of money in FA, adding pieces to a young team and expecting to contend. If he couldn't get it done then, why did Joe think this would be different?
The 76ers signed Elton Brand and Andre Iguodala to $80 million deals in the offseason and gave another $25 million to Louis Williams because they believed they could contend in the East.
When the blossoming Sixers nucleus stumbled to start the season, it was Maurice Cheeks who paid the price.
Cheeks was fired Saturday in his fourth year as coach of the Sixers, who are slumping at 9-14 a season after making the playoffs. Assistant general manager Tony DiLeo was appointed coach for rest of 2008-09.
http://www.nba.com/2008/news/12/13/chee ... index.html