Eddie Jordan Comments - Post Memphis
by jemagee on Nov 21, 2009 9:04 AM PST
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Eddie Jordan has some post game comments from Memphis that are published here. I wanted to take a look at them.
"I'm not going to sugar-coat it. We had five different guys go five separate ways. It's about team vs. non-team. It's a game we could've won if we'd have had some camaraderie and positive energy."
"If you're not a physical team," said Jordan, letting the phrase fall off. "It's an old saying that if you don't bite as puppies, you're not going to bite as dogs. If you didn't rebound as a young man or teenager, you ain't going to rebound when it's time to be a man. We just don't happen to have those types of guys right now."
"There was no leadership. Coaches can do so much - getting up and clapping and cajoling and encouraging them in the huddle. It just didn't happen. Their will and determination were just much higher than ours. I'm singling out our team and not one individual. OK? Thanks."
Jordan may not be singling anyone out in any of these quotes, but I can tell you what he is doing, at least as I see it, he's covering his ass, he's shifting all blame to the players with out taking any responsibility as the coach of a team that is terrible right now. They're worse than last year, and the major change over last year isn't roster, it's coach. This is a play right out of the rats book, blame the players, make yoruself blameless.
As far as I'm concerned, this team is done, these quotes, thad being lost, the idiotic comments about brand earlier this week and the rebuttal from Brand about '40 minutes' - the ongoing comments about the 'psyche' of players and how he's 'protecting' Jrue Holliday? Sorry, but to my jaded cynical eye the sixers are a fractured locker room and the coach is already playing the blame game to save his ass, and who knows how the players are going to like that?
I know it's only 11 games and I Know there's some injuries and everything, but every day I become more and more certain that Eddie Jordan was the wrong hire and that the longer he's herer the farther this team gets away from being even a playoff team.
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Agreed. 110%. I’ve said this before, but this is Porter in Phoenix. This is Don Nelson right now. This is the Doug Moe Error, way back when.
Stefanski has to have the cojones to pull the trigger by ASG.
by MojoPharoah on Nov 21, 2009 9:58 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
No way Jordan is fired. How would that look on Stefanski to fire two coaches and have one resign in less than 1 year?
by jsams on Nov 21, 2009 10:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It won’t happen. It sucks because he’s not the right guy here, but that’s what we’ll be living with for a while. There’s no solution to this team, it’s a big jumbled mess that’s unfixable for at least 5 years.
by TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsMichaelBourn on Nov 21, 2009 10:34 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, I don’t think it will happen. I am saying it NEEDS to HAPPEN. Why is he playing the starters heavy minutes in back-to-backs? This guy has no clue
by MojoPharoah on Nov 22, 2009 5:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Jordan is right, by firing Eddie Jordan this soon Stefanski shows the balls that he made a mistake but at the same time he admits he made a mistake – and sure that doesn’t make sense – but he’s the guy in charge, it’s HIS mistake – and they’re already paying MO aren’t they – how long of a contract did they give Eddie Jordan and not even 20% into his first season as head coach you fire him? Seriously that’s a severe blunder.
Look at Shaq in Phoenix – that didn’t work from the beginning, and everyone knew it but still it took some time to make the trade – or even start looking because while admitting you made a mistake as soon as you realize it is ‘good’ it also is bad in that if you knew this early it was a mistake how come you didn’t know BEFORE you made the move.
Stefanski can’t fire Jordan just yet because it reflects much more poorly on Stefanski than Jordan
by jemagee on Nov 21, 2009 10:41 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I agree, totally. My thing is, no matter when you fire him, it reflects on Stefanski. If you wait too long, it looks like you were doing it to protect your own ass, which is not the best thing either. That’s why I figure it won’t happen until the ASG at the earliest.
by MojoPharoah on Nov 22, 2009 5:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m glad other people are saying this so it isn’t just me. Eddie Jordan is not a good coach, he makes mistakes that people on NBA chat rooms can see. Ed Stefanski made a mistake in hiring him, but continuing to pay him and see if he can turn things around is his best chance to come out of this mess looking good. If he abandons Jordan too quickly, it shows that the Sixers vetting process was inadequate. I also have to question why Lynam and Ayres are still on the bench as assistants.
As a Sixers fan, I’m not interested in coaching continuity but results. Lynam never won in the NBA and neither has Ayres. We have lots of new players and the team really has been overhauled, but we still have the same sub-standard coaches.
Ed Stefanski is probably too close to these guys to do what has to be done. This team needs more discipline and focus, and it also needs a coach who can make smart decisions with his rotation and think strategically, protecting players and making sure they don’t get tired out. This is a young team with a lot of players, they should be able to give a solid effort in back to back games.
Also, and this is the most important point: Jordan brought in the PO to help the Sixers offense, yet when they loose it is because they fail to score points. Why doesn’t this offense work for the Sixers in the half-court. Is it Jordan’s teaching, the players implimentation or what. With all the scorers this team has, something has to be seriously wrong with the coaching when they only manage 20 pts. in a quarter.
by RickoT on Nov 23, 2009 8:56 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
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