I now love Micheal Rosenberg.
Not sure if this is the right place for this, it sorta relates to Game 4/this series, and i put it here b/c i felt like more ppl would read it rather than articles worth mentioning.
Flip Saunders surely to lose job if Pistons lose to Sixers | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press Quote:
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Flip Saunders is coaching for his Pistons career now. He might not like it; he might not even fully realize it. But if the Pistons lose two more games to the 76ers, Saunders surely will be an ex-Pistons coach.
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This isn't way down the road. It's lurking around the corner. It would be so, so easy for Joe Dumars to replace Saunders with Pistons assistant Michael Curry.
When teams fire a coach, they tend to hire somebody whose strengths make up for the previous coach's weaknesses. Saunders has struggled to relate to his players. Curry, a 39-year-old former Pistons captain, would have a much easier time. Under Saunders, the Pistons have lost some of their old defensive identity; Curry built a lengthy playing career without any discernible offensive skills, simply because of his defense.
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Late in Saunders' first season, I asked Ben Wallace when the Pistons became Flip's team. His sarcastic response: "Whose team?"
Ben left for Chicago (and more money) after that season. His fellow Wallace, Rasheed, has never quite taken to Flip. The Rasheed-Flip dynamic is the most closely watched, but it is not isolated; other Pistons seem to treat Saunders with less than the optimum amount of respect.
I'm not sure all of this is fair. But it's reality. Saunders is stuck in a place where all of his key players have accomplished more than he has, and they know it. |