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Avery Johnson is fired

Postby The Rock on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:00 am

https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/284357218147651585

The Brooklyn Nets have fired coach Avery Johnson, league source tells Yahoo! Sports.


Deron Williams got another coach fired. Damn!
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby revgen on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:05 am

Deron didn't get him fired. The mediocre performance by the team got him fired.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby kenzo on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:05 am

No surprise here :man9:
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby wcsoldier81 on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:09 am

I'm definetely in for the coach candidates race as it involves offshore accounts and Russian hookers
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Balance&Options24 on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:17 am

Deron might not have gotten him fired but will get the blame especially since he questioned his scheme the other day.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Rooscooter on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:21 am

Phil?..... money will be no object and Phil has shown interest in coaching again...... Hmmmm......
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby 432J on Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:47 am

hopefully dan tony is next
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby dj vitus on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:10 pm

Interesting fit if they could get Phil. Only problem is some of their guys like Lopez, Blatche, and Humphries aren't the best passers in the game. But maybe they'll get better at it if they learn the offense.

One thing's for sure, Sloan's not in the running. :man10: Hopefully they hire Dunleavy so we'll have one less team to worry about. :man11:
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Postby John3:16 on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:46 pm

432J wrote:hopefully dan tony is next
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby The Original 81 on Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:57 pm

lakerswiz wrote:
Rooscooter wrote:Phil?..... money will be no object and Phil has shown interest in coaching again...... Hmmmm......


Ball dominate point guard....pretty solid wing guy in Joe Johnson. Halfway decent big man in Robin Lopez.

It would be interesting to see what he'd be able to do with such a solid PG.


They've already started clamoring for him on the radio stations here. Makes sense to me as well...
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Finwë on Thu Dec 27, 2012 1:56 pm

I read somewhere that Jeff Van Gundy could also be considered. .
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby LTLakerFan on Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:06 pm

Rooscooter wrote:Phil?..... money will be no object and Phil has shown interest in coaching again...... Hmmmm......


Would that be a bleep. Dwight would want to go. To the Nets still and to play for Phil who he wanted here.

And wouldn't that be a perfect way for Phil to really stick it to the Lakers after how things went down with Lakers position.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Phil XI on Thu Dec 27, 2012 2:26 pm

LTLakerFan wrote:
Rooscooter wrote:Phil?..... money will be no object and Phil has shown interest in coaching again...... Hmmmm......


Would that be a bleep. Dwight would want to go. To the Nets still and to play for Phil who he wanted here.

And wouldn't that be a perfect way for Phil to really stick it to the Lakers after how things went down with Lakers position.

No cap room, so Dwight's not going there. He didn't go through all this isht just to get paid 3mil.

As for Avery... Man, the two teams with the biggest offseasons, LA and Bkln, couldn't make it 30 gms with their coaches. Both Potato and Avery canned before the new year. That's the accountability on big summers and coaches apparently.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Frank Dux on Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:05 pm

Noway Phil goes near that team. No franchise players, just a group of two or so fringe all stars(That's being generous), and a bunch of solid role players. Deron Williams is garbage, hasn't been a star in a few years, and has proven to be a cancer.

With all that said though, Avery is a terrible coach.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Doc Brown on Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:11 pm

Well now they can give us Marshon Brooks for Ebanks because the new coach might want length. :man1:
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby GinoDB on Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:26 pm

Finwë wrote:I read somewhere that Jeff Van Gundy could also be considered. .

I hope not, the playoffs would be horrible on ESPN/ABC without him
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby kenzo on Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:37 pm

They're not winning ish with or without Phil. Jax won't set himself up for a failure.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Chillbongo on Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:11 pm

Avery Johnson fired. Nets will go for Phil Jackson. Dwight gets wet and bolts for Brooklyn July 2013.

Kobe demands trade. Nash has "career ending injury" game 1 of 2013. Pau returns to the low post and leads the Lakers to the #12 seed in the west. Lakers 2013 pick to Phoenix. Lakers sign Michael Beasely in the off season. Fuhhhh. Phil Jackson leads nets to the best record in the east. Dwight named 2013-14 NBA MVP & DPOY. Nets upset heat in game 7 of the ECF. Deron Williams gets possessed by Magic Johnson, and nets upset Thunder for first title in franchise history. Lakers still paying Mike Brown's salary.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby XXIV on Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:48 pm

Can't say I'm surprised, the team was doing horrible once Johnson needed to make adjustments. This will likely be put on Deron Williams but I think it was mainly due to the lack of wins that led to his firing. It will be interesting to see who they go after.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby therealdeal on Thu Dec 27, 2012 7:11 pm

kenzo wrote:They're not winning ish with or without Phil. Jax won't set himself up for a failure.

This. Phil is only going to come back if he knows there's a good chance he'll win a Championship with that squad. That narrows the choices down quite a bit and knocks Brooklyn out.

And :man10: at Dwight wanting to go there now. That ship sailed. Dwight is a Laker now.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Finwë on Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:15 pm

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Phil Jackson's longtime representative, Todd Musburger, tells me via text that Jackson "has no interest in the Nets' job at this time."
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby abeer3 on Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:17 pm

Phil XI wrote:As for Avery... Man, the two teams with the biggest offseasons, LA and Bkln, couldn't make it 30 gms with their coaches. Both Potato and Avery canned before the new year. That's the accountability on big summers and coaches apparently.


to be fair, both of those guys are bad coaches in very similar ways--zero creativity on offense, terrible with in-game adjustments, inflexible, completely risk-averse. good guys to coach a young team and get them to play defense. good assistants. crappy head coaches for a win-now team.
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby 432J on Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:17 pm

there is no way phil would even consider taking this job

like someone said earlier, he'd only take the job if it was a championship contending team which the nets definitely aren't at this point. hopefully they hire dunleavy
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Re: Avery Johnson is fired

Postby Texas Lakers Fan on Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:35 pm

Chillbongo wrote:Avery Johnson fired. Nets will go for Phil Jackson. Dwight gets wet and bolts for Brooklyn July 2013.

Kobe demands trade. Nash has "career ending injury" game 1 of 2013. Pau returns to the low post and leads the Lakers to the #12 seed in the west. Lakers 2013 pick to Phoenix. Lakers sign Michael Beasely in the off season. Fuhhhh. Phil Jackson leads nets to the best record in the east. Dwight named 2013-14 NBA MVP & DPOY. Nets upset heat in game 7 of the ECF. Deron Williams gets possessed by Magic Johnson, and nets upset Thunder for first title in franchise history. Lakers still paying Mike Brown's salary.

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