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Wizards fire Jordan after 1-10 start; Tapscott named as interim coach

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I was just about to post this. The Whizz are quickly falling apart. It's about time that they should change from a basketball to a circus act just like what I've said.
 
This started when Washington's front office decided to keep the same core intact that has been beaten in the first round three straight years...
 
I'm surprised at the timing of this. Why not fire him after the team was bounced early in the playoffs for the third straight year? Plus, what is Jordan supposed to do when your best player writes more blogs than shots he makes? The Wizards have a couple of long-range, bloated contracts too, so it could be tough going for a while. Now that the Knicks have shed some payroll, could the Wiz be turing into the new Knicks?
 
I'm very surprised that Abe Pollin was willing to eat Eddie's contract.

If tanking was their goal, they were off to a good start.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing us hunt down a 3rd team that wants an expiring and get Caron Butler over here. That would be the ultimate swingman for our team.

See ya Eddie. That's what happens when you have two healthy All-Stars and still start 1-10.
 
caron butler is a whining #@#$ and mocks lebron, i hate him. id rather have boozer back then butler. However i would take antwan jamison.
 
Jamison's contact is too bloated now, especially for his age. I'd rather look into grabbing Butler as well.
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
seriously, talk about bad management... that franchise was perfectly happy being a perennial first-round loser, but they just CANNOT tolerate 9 losses with their best player out! go figure
 
Its way too late for this by the Wizards. Eddie Jordan didn't have a great relationship with the GM but the owner, Abe Pollin, loved him.
Eddie Jordan effectively ruined the careers of Brendan Haywood and Kwame Brown. However, he got Larry Hughes a big fat paycheck. He ruined an up and coming team not utilizing an athletic Kwame Brown and Long Brendan Haywood enough. He rather play small and press his offense and win with only offense.

Brendan's value to the team is large. This year is a prime example, well every year is a prime example. Yet, because of Eddie's ego, didn't allow Brendan to play the amount of minutes that he deserved. He consistently made Brendan look bad and the local journalists stuck up for Eddie and therefore making Brendan look bad in the public eye.

Kwame had a very good 3rd year in 03-04 (eddie's 1st year). He was going to be a very good power forward in this league. However, the following year 04-05, Kwame gets dinged up in preseason and doesn't play until december. Kwame is healthy when he comes back but does not choose to play him early in the 04-05 season. The Wizards are haviing okay success (beating the scrub teams) especially on offense because Gilbert Arenas is becoming a monster and the Arenas/Hughes combo is creating alot of excitement. Kwame gets injured for the month of January. The Wizards go on a 7 game winning streak with solely small ball against some of the worst teams during the year or injury riddled good teams) He wasn't playing much anyway, but when he comes back he has a good March and April. Eddie didn't play him enough and I think it cost the Wizards a better record. Eddie always liked playing Jamison at PF and going small with Hughes/Gil/Jarvis Hayes or Jeffries/Jamison/Haywood or Etan. He was looking for "in's" to get his wish to go smaller just so his system of offense would work. He basically pressed for his offense. He never thought well maybe we should stick with what was working ON BOTH ENDS OF THE COURT.

The best lineup was Gil-Hughes-Jamison-Kwame-Haywood during 04-05 (i thought even having Jared Jeffries in there instead of Jamison was just as good too). Kwame played great against PF's back then and had a good offense to match it when healthy. However, Eddie Jordan with his ego didn't want to use the Kwame/Haywood duo much since it wasn't good for the offense.

So in summary Eddie preferred Jamison/Etan Thomas over Kwame/Haywood at the PF/C spots during the 03-04 and 04-05 seasons. The only reason Kwame/haywood played so much is because even an egomaniac in Eddie Jordan saw their presence on the court. Eddie got his wish when Kwame basically protested against Eddie in the playoffs of game 3 (they were winning in that game too). They got Caron for Kwame which to the naked eye looked like a lopsided deal. however, defensively the Wizards will never get back on track by playing Eddie's style with Gil/Butler/jamison being in there. Having Haywood playing would help offset that trios lack of defense but nope Eddie has issues with Brendan too.

Against the Bulls, They might have not needed Kwame/Haywood as much but against Miami in the conference semifinals.. Shaq/Zo anyone? I'll never understand his ego in not wanting to put the best players on the court at all times and instead wanting to implement only offense in the game plan.

I could go on about Kwame and needing him in the playoffs but Eddie wouldn't have cared.. But what really made me not like Eddie Jordan was how he handled Brendan Haywood.

Brendan should be getting 35 minutes a game every night when he can. Instead he holds him back 25-28 minutes per game. In fact, the Wizards won like 25 games in 03-04 with Brendan playing 19 mpg and then 45 games in 04-05 with Brendan playing 28 mpg. Then they win 42 with Brendan playing 24 minutes and there you go. I will never ever understand Eddie's problem with Brendan haywood. He helped the Wizards win games point blank. He allowed the Wizards to have lesser defenders out there like Gil, Stackhouse, Jamison, antonio daniels etc because he was long and could contest shots even if he didn't block them.

I could go on and on.. oh yeah, he had spats with Chucky Atkins too..hmmm ...Chucky could have been a valuable piece that year but he just wanted out and was bought out.
 
I wouldn't wish Brenda and Kwame on any head coach. EJ didn't handle them well, but they weren't easy to handle. Heck, even Phil Jackson called Kwame a pussy and if that was supposed to be motivational, it didn't exactly work.

Also don't you remember when Gil and Larry would openly talk about how they weren't going to pass the ball in to any of their C's? They'd rather play 3 on 5.

Anyway, I still see the Wiz likely staying in a holding pattern and waiting to see if Gilbert returns. They could use a viable big to fill in for Brenda, they could even use Larry Hughes back from Chicago but I'm not sure they'd just start firesaling quite yet.

But if they do, the player I'd go after would be Butler. Jamison would be nice off the bench paired with Andy, but I'm not sure he'd survive that sort of blow to his ego. If he didn't rebound so well, I'd only rate him a small upgrade over Wally as yet another SF who's been moved over to PF due to bad knees.
 
Jamison is sort of a garbage man offensively and is a volume scorer. He is an upgrade over Wally in terms of production but not really effeciency. But you know Jamison has already played off the bench with the Mavericks not too long ago. I think he is a team player.

I do not remember any collaboration between Hughes/Gil not to pass it to the big men. That is actually not a big surprise or really much of a difference what they do now with Butler/Jamison/Gil.

Kwame and Brendan are good defenders and glue type. Its a shame Eddie's ego with dealing with Brendan's sometimes sarcastic mouth got in the way of winning. Kwame just got a raw deal. Kwame's tenure was over with the Wiz after they had a reason not to play him when they were winning while he was injured. They were hollow wins because they were against the soft part of their schedule. I like Gilbert Arenas but he is a very selfish player and hasn't learned what it takes to win on that higher level. Alienating your big men when you need them to cover up your laziness on the defense is not a great plan. Just remember trading Kwame for Caron didn't make the Wizards better as a team when it counts or even really in the regular season. At least not when you factor in giving Brendan less minutes the following years.
 
Eddie Jordan is a former Cavalier who makes for a poor head coach, but knowledgeable offensive assistant coach. He far too often sacrificed real defense at one end of the court for a pretty looking game on the other. He was routinely out-coached by Mike Brown.

Let me reapeat that:

Eddie Jordan is a former Cavalier who makes for a poor head coach, but knowledgeable offensive assistant coach.

This is not an automerge... it is an attempt at brainwashing Cavaliers employees.
 
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