re: Chances Monty finishes the season as coach

90% because sometimes shite happens. This team will be 8-8 after the next two games. Monty, for all the fictional crap this board throws on him, is a much better coach than you'd believe. If we fired him unceremoniously, you can believe there's a couple teams who would jump to hire him as a HC or Asst. or Whatever.

Also, if you hadn't noticed the recent trend in the NBA for coaching hires: very few teams are going for the high profile/known guys anymore. Everybody's promoting from within or stealing other team's assistants. There are 9 ROOKIE Head Coaches this season- Budenholzer, Shaw, Brown, Malone, Clifford, Stevens, Hornacek, Kidd, Joerger. A trend that the New Orleans organization kicked off back in 2009 with Monty!
Thus, IF we canned Monty I highly doubt we'd go after Karl. We'd probably go interim during the season, then steal whichever boss the Spurs have next to Pop these days.