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The Minnesota Golden Gophers missed out on hiring coach Flip Saunders because of a timing issue with the NBA playoffs, but don't think the Detroit Pistons coach couldn't be enticed to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves if he were given dual responsibilities of coach and general manager.
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I heard that Flip might be going back to Golden Valley Lutheran College. There is also word out that he may reunite with the La Crosse Catbirds. If those prospects don't work out, the contract of Piston's mascot Hooper is expiring. If you notice a twitching horse as the Pistons' mascot next year, you'll know why.
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The Minnesota Golden Gophers missed out on hiring coach Flip Saunders because of a timing issue with the NBA playoffs, but don't think the Detroit Pistons coach couldn't be enticed to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves if he were given dual responsibilities of coach and general manager.
A writer for the Pioneer Press missed out on filing a credible report on the possible hiring of Flip Saunders because of a lack of personal initiative, but don't think the esteemed journalist couldn't be enticed to publish a completely unsubstantiated rumor if he were given dual responsibilies of packing his column with mindless fluff and meeting his deadline for publication.
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That's all this team needs--more distractions going into the postseason!
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This is the exact same way the LB rumors got started...I wonder if Flip will be accused of escape goating...
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This is the exact same way the LB rumors got started...I wonder if Flip will be accused of escape goating...
We will see. If he starts talking about Minnesota as his dream job and threatens Dumars about retiring then we may have something here.
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We will see. If he starts talking about Minnesota as his dream job and threatens Dumars about retiring then we may have something here.
Condition: That reference to dream job will have to have been made in past tense and Joe D will have to make Flip promise he will not crave KFC for the following season.
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Condition: That reference to dream job will have to have been made in past tense and Joe D will have to make Flip promise he will not crave KFC for the following season.
You know you would miss him if he left. He may leave if the Pistons underachieve in the post-season again but it would not be by choice.

We will find a decent coach if that happends. It will not be LB though, you don't want LB back. There is a darkside to him. He would drive Delfino, Johnson and Maxiel out of town. Isolate the pending rookies by never playing them and would wear down the team with his 7-man rotations.
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Back to the T-Wolves?... no that ain't happenin'... not after what Glen Taylor had to say about Flip... and McHale throwing him under the garbage truck
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There are certain individuals—like, you know, we lost Rasho [Nestoveric]. Had not planned that. I guess I have never said this before, but I will be very blunt about that—Rasho only left because of [former coach] Flip [Saunders]. He liked Kevin, he liked me, he personally met with me. If we would have traded the coach, he would have stayed. But he did not like how he was treated by Flip. Rasho said number one he, he wanted somebody with more discipline, he wanted somebody with more consistency, he didn't see this coach was doing that. He was told that if he went down to San Antonio, he would get that. Now I don't think it's worked out so well down there. But I was talking about Kevin [McHale]. I don't know what I can say about Kevin on that particular trade—we lost a center that Kevin went out and helped recruit, brought here, helped train, all that stuff.
I can tell you that Chauncey [Billups] left not because of Kevin but because of Flip. Now, have we said that? We didn't want to say that about Flip because he was here at the time. But I think since then it's been stated that Kevin asked me if I would pay for Chauncey. I said I would. Kevin said he would, went to Chauncey, Chauncey said he would stay, because we were going to offer him the same [money] as Detroit. But then Chauncey went to Flip and said, would you play me, and Flip—I'm not saying that Flip said the wrong answer, but he said, "I'm not sure that I think that you're our starting guard." Chauncey then went back to Kevin, and Kevin says, basically, we're going to be truthful. Kevin could have said to Chauncey, "oh, we're gonna start you." And I know some GMs do that stuff. Then they get the player but they have an unhappy player. But Kevin doesn't do that.
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