re: When does Monty get fired?

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We get it

You hate the way we rebuilt this team.

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That's absolutely right. Here are some facts:

Monty:

1. Monty has a .410 winning percentage in his 4 years as a coach in the NBA. Yes, some bad things have happened in those 4 years (the Chris Paul trade, the injuries, and all the other excuses you can think of)but that doesn't explain the crazy lineups he puts on the floor that get their arse handed to them time after time.

2. Monty's teams consistently collapse in the second half. The big part of why that happens is because Monty can't do in-game adjustments. The other coaches adjust; Williams can't. He has a game plan and that's it. If the game plan doesn't work (and it hasn't in 59% of the games he's coached), it's always someone else who is at fault.

3. Sometimes in coaching, you lose your job to create a new beginning and new expectations. Losing is a cancer and it destroys the desire to proceed. If Monty doesn't get his walking papers (and it looks like he won't) and we get the same old crap next season, what does Benson do? Does he fire him during the season? Does he wait until the end of the season? Either way we lose the whole season because any interim coach you come up with isn't likely to make much of a difference. So, we lose another season and AD experiences another dose of sitting on the outside when the playoffs are going on. We are fast getting to the point where AD is going to start looking for greener grass when contract time comes along (please don't give me the crap about how we can offer more money than another team because, as D. Howard proved, the money isn't always a final factor).

Demps:

1. Eric Gordon

2. Eric Gordon

3. Eric Gordon

The Gordon move alone would justify running his arse down the road. Not trading Gordon was the most idiotic thing I've seen in a while. The man was a medical risk from the get go; added to that he publicly begged the team to trade him. Demps ignored all of that and gave him a max contract.
Now, the team announced that Gordon will be coming off the bench next year. That's special!

We don't need to get into the fact that we don't have a 5 and nothing was done to address it. We don't have to get into the fact that he was trying to corner the market on guards and forgot there was a hole at SF.

So, yeah, I don't like the way the team was "rebuilt" because it wasn't rebuilt. There are major holes and little money to address the problem and most probably no 1st round pick either.

The team "is a work in progress", according to Demps. The problem is there isn't any progress.