OT: "The Big Quotable"

[ABM]

Lots of player quotes from The Phoenix Suns Examiner regarding the Suns new attitude and (back to) running style now that Porter has been replaced by Gentry ...including this one from Shaq...

"I've been dreaming about how this season's going to end", O'Neal said Tuesday after his second practice with interim coach Alvin Gentry. "This is how it's going to go down: We're going to finish 22-9. We're going to change the conversation about this team. We'll be a force in the playoffs, and if we win it all, I'll consider retirement."

I still feel for TP, though.

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Terry Porter was brought in by Suns management to implement the methodical half-court system that he did. He was set up to fail.

 

[Paxil]

Two games against the clippers and they think they are on top of the world. They may very well do what he said though... happens a lot with change in coaching like they... it really doesn't have anything to do with the coach... but the players made the decision to step it up. They can blame the coach for that first half performance... it is like a get out of jail free card.

 

[andalusian]

Terry Porter was brought in by Suns management to implement the methodical half-court system that he did. He was set up to fail.

That's a nice pay check for 1/2 a year of work however - as he was signed for 3...

 

[maxiep]

That's a nice pay check for 1/2 a year of work however - as he was signed for 3...

TP has enough money. You generally don't get a third chance at a head coaching gig, however. This now makes two franchises he was hosed by. He did great with MIL and was dumped. For PHX, he simply took the fall for Kerr. He never got the support from the front office when the players rebelled.

It's back to the bench as an assistant for TP. Perhaps in half a decade he'll get another shot.

 

[BrianFromWA]

If PJ Carlesimo can get another shot, TP can.

 

[maxiep]

If PJ Carlesimo can get another shot, TP can.

That's exactly of whom I was thinking, hence my comment about heading back as an assistant for half a decade.