it is obvious it was his desire to have hard fouls. should he be fired for this as well as hid abysmal record as coach and gm
2006-12-19 06:07:17 · 13 answers · asked by just curious 4 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Katie32u good points except for Marbury every team he has gone to has excelled only after he left
2006-12-19 06:14:48 · update #1
In two simple words......HELL YES!!!!!!!
2006-12-19 06:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by Dan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He should be fired because he has no idea how to coach or run a basketball team, but he didn't instigate the brawl. George Karl was making a point of trying to embarass Isiah & the Knicks on their home floor and had his best players on the floor in the last 2 minutes up 20. I don't care what he says, the Knicks had their best players on the bench. There was no way the Nuggets were going to blow that lead. If that had been Pat Riley or Chuck Daly or Red Auerbach coaching their teams would have done the same thing and people would have said it was "old school" basketball to send a message that "showboating" would not be tolerated. Hell, the foul that started the whole thing wasn't even that "hard".
2006-12-19 14:18:25 · answer #2 · answered by Scott T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The guy is not only a cry baby but an A*S*S!
He called for the hard foul, and even warned Melo to stay out of the paint! What kind of coach is that? Then he justifies it all because the Nuggets still had their starters in!!! Forget the fact that the Nuggets had just lost two games in a row, they weren't show boating as some of the above fools stated, they were trying to take home a "big" win! Why is that so wrong.
Thomas took his starters out because he had given up, that's all there is too it, then tells the bench to play dirty, what a bastard! He should have been penalized, fired, let go.. .whatever... he sucks as a coach, and is a piece of S*H*I*T human being!
2006-12-19 15:08:43 · answer #3 · answered by strawberryblonde131313 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he should get suspended for longer than carmello anthony did. he started the brawl. a camera was even focused on him when he warned a player on the knicks to stay out of the paint.
he should be fired not only for the brawl, but because he is an awful coach. they look more like a high school team out there than a pro basketball team. if they are lucky, they will make the playoffs in about 10 years. they are going to be the team that just racks up as many number one picks as they can until they get to be good. he made bad general managerial decisions too. he got steve francis, and so far he has served no purpose on the team. he was a good player, but an awful coach. he was acting like a 10 year old when he sent his players after the nuggets, and he should be fired.
2006-12-19 14:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but firing Isiah Thomas is only the tip of the iceberg for rebuilding the Knicks.
Get him out of NY.
Isiah Thomas is the same ball baby he was as a player in the league. Even if the nuggets were running up the score, ordering hard fouls is bush league. Also, if you are consistently getting pulverised night in and night out, maybe your personnel isn't correct. The knicks have been a doormat for years. Yet leave it to Isiah to blame everyone else for his own problems.
The penalties will have more of an adverse effect on the Nuggets because they have actual talent. I'm sure everyone at the Garden would like to see players with the talent of Childs, Ward, Spreewell, Houston, Thomas, and Ewing win games for them, but it's not going to happen in the forseeable future.
Stephon Marbury (no I am not saying he is as good as iverson) is in a typical situation to AI. He is a talented player who has been promised other upper tier players to help him make his team competitive. WHERE ARE THEY?
Thomas go home!
2006-12-19 14:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by katie32u 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He got away with it definitely, but I don't blame him for what he said. As a former coach, in coaching there are several unwritten coaching game antiques coaches do. One of them is not to rub it in when you are winning big. Certainly, when you have superstars in the game when the game is out of reach constitute a violation of that unwritten rule. And Isiah's comment was probably what all coaches would have said...only difference, he had the guts to say it knowing what kind of reaction it might bring. David Stern knows this, so he can't do anything since Isiah didn't directly pull a John Chaney and tell his player directly to do something to harm someone. Of course, we don't know what was said in the huddle and if anything was said, loyal players will not say anything and even if they are not loyal and want Isiah in trouble, they won't say anything b/c the unwritten rule of the game was violated.
Should he get fired for this....NO! Should he get fired b/c he is not doing a great job in Managing the Knicks...YES.
2006-12-19 14:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by Big Daddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but at the same time, these are grown men out there. They are not middle school or even high school players who follow every word out of the coach's mouth and even at that level, it's debatable. If anything, he should be fired for his role as GM. They might as well give that job to me.
2006-12-24 12:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by golden_brown_sugar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only did he get away with it, he rubbed it in the face of the entire league. he should be suspended for a minimum of 10 years, but also be banished from the human race for impersonation of a human being. he wasnt that good a basketball player in college (bob knight carried his *** then), he sucked in the pros (big deal he won 2 titles in a very average league then), his track record as a business man speaks for itself and god only knows what in the sam hill he is trying to do with the knicks. he has set that once proud franchise back 25 years with his nonsense.
memo to david stern: you screwed up. you suspended the wrong idiot. yes, melo did wrong. isiah did worse by showing his ***
2006-12-19 14:18:05 · answer #8 · answered by newmichelle1959 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that lil b*i*t*c*h started crying because his basketball team wasn't good enough as the opponent they were playing. They sucked so much that he was "embarrased" and started crying about it. Sounds like championship caliber attitude, hell, they're gonna take it all! I can see it now, the WNBA Champs NY Knicks! Because we know now: the NBA is too good for Isiah and his Knicks, and it causes him "embarrassment" to play other NBA teams, makes him whine and cry like a little girl.
2006-12-19 14:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
IT IS CLEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THE GAME. IF YOU FIRED EVERY COACH HARD FOULS YOU WOULD HAVE TO DISBAND THE NBA.
P. S. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU ARE THINKING AND SAYING.
2006-12-26 00:15:00 · answer #10 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes threating melo he would get hit when he got in the paint and just look at his face he looks BAD
2006-12-19 15:50:12 · answer #11 · answered by My Poetry Is Deep I Neva Fail 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋