Originally Posted by TaShawn

Here's my question about Sheed. It is based on a lot of different bits of info, but my mind has been stirring it into a poison stew.


1) Sheed gets buddy buddy with KG
2) Rip calls him out on it and contront him in the locker room
3) Sheed is embarrassed and goes all passive agressive on us.
4) He shows up late to the shoot around, he doesn't do the dance, he never says ball don't lie, and lays a major egg in the game (0 for 6 from 3-point land, and 5 fouls in 31 minutes).

I can't help but to suspect that he pouted his way through the game.

If that is true, then his teammates know it and Joe knows it, and Sheed is good as gone.


Did that happen or am I just reading way too much into it?

Originally Posted by roscoe36

You're right TaS. But mostly because Sheed has the best contract to deal.

Why doesn't Hunter catch any crap for being an idiot and shooting off his mouth with Stephen A? What goes on in the locker room, stays in the locker room. LH knows better.

Originally Posted by dba

I don't know if you meant what I'm thinking, but I think I was thinking the same thing last night.

Three years ago against the Heat coming off the 67 win season the refs to a large extent took it away. Gave the ECF to the Heat and then the 'ship. I remember thinking then that the conference finals were not a good test of Flip's ability to coach.

Then last year in the ECF it became clear that things were not right. The defense was totally gone, and the vaulted offense wilted under not very strong pressure.

This year there were some stumbles against the Sixers, but if Philly had played the whole season the way they played the last half they would have been a top four seed so I could forgive that some. Coming into the playoffs they were hot. Things seemed on track again when another year of experience and the addition of Reggie Lewis only managed to make the Magic one game better in the semi's. And then six and out against Boston, who is, at least in my opinion, just a better team. If Allen had found a shooting touch earlier it would have been over sooner.

So, last year was the year to drop kick Flip into the river. Last year was the year to find an adequate backup small forward. Last year was the year to have made sure that some younger legs got some run. But that didn't happen.

This year, the bench got developed (dropped in the playoffs, but still...), starters minutes went down, the team got back a bit to some defense, and unfortunately came up against the best team bargain basement shopping from teams with nothing to lose could buy.

So, will Flip lose his job? I think so. But did his performance this season warrant the boot - maybe not so much. A little more leadership from the top at the end of last season and maybe we'd be rinsing out our jerseys today and getting ready to watch some basketball. Instead, we're going to get to watch another team with another bargain basement player stolen from a team that didn't care play a team with a whole roster of them.

Things may get shook up good in the next month or so, but it will be for the wrong reasons, and more importantly, at the wrong time. Still, change is good for the soul and in a couple of weeks I'm going to be wanting to watch some basketball again.

Originally Posted by roscoe36

dba, I'm sorry I missed replying to this. It's a tremendously good post.

Originally Posted by pass99

It is all too close, in-house and full of false innuendos.