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**USSKittyHawk** · 06-10-2007, 05:42 PM

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It's no surprise that Pistons coach Flip Saunders is returning despite his two-year run of underachievement as Larry Brown's successor. He wasn't going anywhere because Pistons president Joe Dumars and team owner Bill Davidson didn't have a clear alternative already on the open market.
Saunders' return isn't an affirmation for a job well done as much as it is an admission that there isn't anybody better out there.

Who are you going to get?The Van Gundy du jour?
There might be an interesting option out there at this time next summer.
You might have heard of him.Isiah Lord Thomas II. What? Have I gone positively Lions-like insane?

It is difficult to imagine Thomas still having a job with the New York Knicks after next season. He has been a disaster as a chief executive, trading his own rubbish for somebody else's garbage with only a slightly different bouquet. And you must factor in how the Knicks' James Dolan is the worst owner in the NBA, bar none, and he'll likely demand change solely for change's sake.

But Thomas is underappreciated as a coach.He did a good job in his three seasons in Indiana, taking over a rebuilding job and gradually nurturing Jermaine O'Neal into one of the game's premier power forwards. But Larry Bird broomed him out the door when he took over the Pacers' presidency, bringing in his protégé, Rick Carlisle. And the result is that the Pacers are facing another rebuilding process.

Isiah won 10 more games with the Knicks than a year ago, and that's probably 10 more than he should have, considering the crap that GM Thomas left for Coach Thomas. Isiah should concentrate on coaching when looking to reinvent his basketball legacy. That requires the swallowing of significant ego, but he's exactly the kind of coach the Pistons need. There would never be any speculation about whether the players respect Isiah's word on the bench.
The Pistons find themselves in a position comparable to the Wings. There's no real interest until playoff time. They can't afford even the tiniest resemblance of rebuilding, or they risk losing credibility.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a.../1051/SPORTS03

Kiyaman · 06-11-2007, 04:02 AM

He could go! this guy can not make one decent trade that benefits the Knicks, or get any of his traded players to play on the same page.
Yes! Isiah have great eyes for young talent, but what does that do for the team when he is forever trading the first round draft pick as if this team is a second round Post Season team.

Think about it! if Isiah had such a losing Knick club when he arrived in New York, then ....

With Isiah great talent for young drafted players, plus with all the ending contract players inwhich G.M. Dolan left him on this Knick Team, then the past two seasons the Knicks should have been the LEADER of the Atlantic Division twice in a row if Isiah knew how to build a team using all the two resources plus the money Dolan laid out to him...

KVIP112 · 06-11-2007, 10:26 AM

there's more of a chance that rasheed will be a knick than isiah thomas being a piston again. realgm is my source.

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