They got on our case for dumping Coach D. They just looked at it from a numbers point of view, which I can understand. I mean dropping a coach with his winning percentage doesnt look so good to most people. I though, like many Suns fans, feel that Coach D just didnt have what it takes to get us to the promised land. Sure he’d get us a billion wins a season, but not too many of us are high on regular season success any more, though I fear we may have to revert back to that sometime soon.

Whether or not Porter will do any better remains to be seen, but with Coach D unwilling to develop a bench or get some D going it seemed like a time for change. Let us hope this change leads forwards and not backwards.

Yeah, they were the same ones that jumped the gun and reported a Clippers-Sonics trade before the draft that fell through. I posted it because I thought they were reliable. It seems like they, like a lot of sports sites, do not do their homework. They should have known the reasons we let go of Mike, just like they should have known the thought processes behind drafting the way we did. If they disagreed with the reasoning, say so. But either report the facts, or risk a tarnished reputation in the world of Internet sports media.

Surely if they did a little checking, they would at least grudgingly acknowledge that the situation had come to an impasse, rather than do the easy thing and say, he’s a .700 coach, what were they thinking?

I think MikeD is like a Steve Spurrier type of coach who does very well when in his comfort zone. He was comfortable in the last 4 years. He was not comfortable going 21-40 with the Marbury team, or going 14-36 with that Denver team in the strike year.

Let me just say this. If the Knicks make the playoffs next year, I would give Mike his due. I just don’t think he can do his thing with what he has to work with in New york.

I remember after the Suns traded Kidd away, we all know the real reason was the domestic violence issue (combined with the “he hated Scott Skiles” issue), but the stated reason was that the Suns brass was tired of winning 55 games a year and not getting past the 1st round (the Suns only made the 2nd round once during Kidd’s tenure in Phoenix). The next year, Kidd led the Nets to the finals, while Marbury led the Suns to the lottery (and Amare, as it happens), and the pundits noted that the Suns had essentially blown up a perennial regular-season power because that wasn’t good enough, and were now paying the price.

It’s been stated here before, but only one team brings home the big trophy each year, and as much as I hate watching other teams do that each June year after year, those 6 months from November to May are much more enjoyable when the Suns are winning close to 3 out of 4. This current team might not be favored to win it all, but they’re still going to be a solid regular season contender, with a legitimate shot if they get the right breaks at the end of the year.