The next coach of the Detroit Pistons is...

After starting 13-0, he is 212-241 since with an 0-16 finish.

Quite a start and quite a bad finish if that would have been it for him.

He's never attained 50 wins or made it through the 2nd round of the playoffs.

In his first year of coaching, he was the same age that Rip Hamilton is now.

If Lawrence Frank can't whip these mutineers into order, then nobody can! I'm surprised they even bothered interviewing any other pretenders.

I'm running hot and cold on the L Frank hire. I got kind of fired up for him a few weeks back when the papers made a case for him, but now the re-tread route and Dave Checketts pull kind of brought me down.

At least he's coached before.

Do we really want braintrusts from THE KNICKS guiding our decisions? This is the same team that gave Allan Houston 56 Million to wear the freshest suits on game nights.

I could see if you were not going to hire Laimbeer and go with someone who's a truly great coach...but, this is like saying, 'I don't care to look at your full dinner menu...I'm certain your oatmeal is FANTASTIC.'

Considering the other names being thrown around in conjunction with the Pistons, this was as close to being the right choice as you can get. I still woulda preferred Laimbeer, but Frank is the next best thing. Let's see how he does.

Maybe Joe's biggest management mistake of his career will be the fact that he didn't hire Laimbeer...

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Yea...that's right...even bigger than drafting Darko...
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IMO: Re-signing Rip to that contract was Dumards' biggest blunder (if we're keeping score).

I don't know...he may have the right stuff..........

Hey now, the Houston's are good people. They took me to Six Flags once. That completely justifies that contract.

I don't mind Lawrence Frank at all. He's a coach with experience and the Pistons hired him, so his shelf life is probably 2 seasons anyway.

I'm being sincere in asking this question:

Why is LF considered to be a good coach?

Been east coasting it for the past 10 days in hotmidity and was vacationing away from PF even though I had my laptop with me....

....this is not what I was expecting upon my return

If Joe did not have the balz to convince Gores to hire Laimbeer at least go with Woodson a person who knows Piston bb....(guess he was trying to avoid the Curry Kuester Piston familiarity factor by by passing all former Piston DNA and going with an outsider in Frank....don't like it, but guess we got to live with it...

From what I've read, this may have been forced on JD. Supposedly, the interviews that LF had with Crickets and Gores went really well.

If that is the case, I'd be posting my resume on Monster if I were Joe.

A good thread idea...create a resume for Joe...

If Joe can't hire em, then Joe can't fire em. That lack of control over the coach creates a weird dynamic that then reduces Joe's job to what? trades and FA signings + draft picks? And I have the feeling that all 3 of those things will have to be signed off on by Gores and the consultant anyways.

Joe is now like the Engineer in Office Space... except that he doesn't even deal with the gd customers.

I hope that it hasn't come down to this.
I'd rather see Joe do it his way and get fired if he screws up rather than be the HOF figurehead eating popcorn in the GM's seat.

When you step back and look at his wole body of work, Joe had been one of the most successful GMs in the last decade. (**I'm going on the "hands tied due to ownership" assumption over the last 2 years.**)

All I can say is: ugh :yukpuke:

Completely agree with these articles from Foster

Columnists | Pistons missed the boat by hiring Lawrence Frank instead of Bill Laimbeer | The Detroit News

Columnists | Targeting Lawrence Frank belies Pistons' Bad Boys roots | The Detroit News

It becomes more important than ever that we clean house if we hire this guy. Foster includes Prince, Rip, Stuckey, and McGrady. I think that's a good place to start.

This is a good article on that swings me back to the Frank camp. I know it is pre-season drivel, but.........

Detroit Pistons - NBA | Soon-to-be Pistons coach Lawrence Frank driven to succeed | The Detroit News

both articles seem to point that Joe has lost roots with how the championship Pistons were built and he has ignored all of his colleagues. Hiring Laimbeer was a no brainer, but it appears that the new owner/consultants have their own agenda and Joe will soon be on the outside with his former bad boy team-mates looking in.

The only saving grace here would be that Little Larry Frank comes to Detroit and reads the articles and talks to fans and hires Laims as one of his assistants. Why couldn't have the Twolves fired Rambis earlier and hired Frank a few weeks ago?

I'm not known to follow many blogs, but this one, which I happen to follow regularly, gives an insightful yet satirical look into the origin of Lawrence Frank's "frankly average" coaching career.