The Detroit Pistons have fired coach Mo Cheeks

[SlyPokerDog]

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 3m The Detroit Pistons have fired coach Mo Cheeks, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Interim coach Sheed?

 

[Natebishop3]

He should never get another head coaching job. The guy is fucking horrible. Extremely nice guy, but just a horrible coach.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Interim coach Sheed?

I can hear it now from Sheed, "Ball don't lie!"

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[illmatic99]

I saw this coming in June 2013 when he was hired.

 

[Natebishop3]

Sheed would make an awesome head coach, only because he'd get tossed out of every game.

 

[TBpup]

Interim coach Sheed?

It is what every Blazer fan is hoping to see. Mo getting that job was a joke so why not Wallace?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Sheed is a national treasure, the NBA's Mohammed Ali. I can't wait to see how he'll shape the NBA as a coach.

 

[julius]

Took them a lot less time to realize he is a horrible coach than it took Portland to realize he is a horrible coach.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Sheed would make an awesome head coach, only because he'd get tossed out of every game.

That is too funny but too true! I repped you for that one.

 

[brooklynballer]

I saw this coming in June 2013 when he was hired.

Agreed. I'm stunned Mo "Booty Butt" Cheeks lasted as long as he did in Detroit. That team is massively underachieving with the personnel they have. Most of that falls on the coach IMO.

 

[BlazerBeliever]

Maybe Mo can just make the rounds singing the National Anthem.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Peter Vecsey ‏@PeterVecsey1 Joe Dumars has whittled down candidates to replace Mo Cheeks to Darko, Rodman and Les from Hardcore Pawn Shop...

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Lionel Hollins is rumored to be the frontrunner for the job.

 

[oldmangrouch]

The Pistons have some talent - but a poorly constructed roster. Did they really think Cheeks was innovative enough to get those mis-matched parts to fit together?

 

[blue9]

Lionel Hollins is rumored to be the frontrunner for the job.

Oooh, now that could make the Pistons interesting!

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Fire everyone named mo?

 

[KingSpeed]

I like Cheeks. We had some great seasons with him at the helm. We also got to Game 7 in first round under Cheeks. Haven't done that well since.

 

[jlprk]

What's sad is that he lost his ever-present smile a couple of years after he left here. He heard the criticisms that he wasn't tough. Now all his pictures show him looking resentful. He doesn't want to be photographed smiling.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Lionel Hollins is rumored to be the frontrunner for the job.

Fire Cheeks and bring in Hollins, eh? That's a win-win deal for them!

 

[riverman]

Need fo' Sheed!!! Bring Stan Van Gundy in here Joe, or even George Karl! Hollins would be my 3rd choice of the 3

 

[OneLifeToLive]

Lionel Hollins is rumored to be the frontrunner for the job.

I was thinking George Karl but Lionel would be a good choice.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

I like Cheeks. We had some great seasons with him at the helm. We also got to Game 7 in first round under Cheeks. Haven't done that well since.

I blame the spirit of the fan base on getting to game 7. Not the coach.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I blame the spirit of the fan base on getting to game 7. Not the coach.

Yeh, if he had started giving Sabonis more minutes earlier in the series (and in the season), maybe it wouldn't have gone to 7. (Oh, I hope I'm talking about the right series?)

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeh, if he had started giving Sabonis more minutes earlier in the series (and in the season), maybe it wouldn't have gone to 7. (Oh, I hope I'm talking about the right series?)

Nah, the defining moment was when he went with the big lineup. He waited until we were down 3-0.

It was

Pippen
Bonzi
Sheed
ZBo
Sabonis

It dominated the fuck out of Dallas, but Mo waited too long to put that lineup in.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Nah, the defining moment was when he went with the big lineup. He waited until we were down 3-0.

It was

Pippen
Bonzi
Sheed
ZBo
Sabonis

It dominated the fuck out of Dallas, but Mo waited too long to put that lineup in.

Let that sink in if you can't remember how inept Mo Cheeks was. He was given a roster that included Pippen, Wells, Wallace, Randolph AND Sabonis, and still couldn't get us out of the first round of the playoffs. It's hard to believe that actually happened.

 

[Natebishop3]

Let that sink in if you can't remember how inept Mo Cheeks was. He was given a roster that included Pippen, Wells, Wallace, Randolph AND Sabonis, and still couldn't get us out of the first round of the playoffs. It's hard to believe that actually happened.

Well, the Mavs were really good. We were the 8th seed. They were the first seed. Dirk was basically unguardable at that point.

 

[blue9]

Zbo absolutely dominated once he was given minutes.
Mo was far and away the worst Blazers coach I've ever witnessed. Simply awful.

 

[mook]

Let that sink in if you can't remember how inept Mo Cheeks was. He was given a roster that included Pippen, Wells, Wallace, Randolph AND Sabonis, and still couldn't get us out of the first round of the playoffs. It's hard to believe that actually happened.

History (and quite a lot of beer) has dulled the pain of those memories. I forgot we had a team that stacked, and all we got out of it was the 8th seed and a first round exit.

You left off Damon Stoudamire, though. He was on that team, and he was a massive liability that Portland always struggled with. Even there, though, you can't say, "Well, Cheeks had to put up with that whiny entitled runt." Because he CHOSE to play him at point over Pippen. Nobody put a gun to his head and forced him to make Stoudamire the primary ball handler. It was all part of his very special idiocy.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Nah, the defining moment was when he went with the big lineup. He waited until we were down 3-0.

It was

Pippen
Bonzi
Sheed
ZBo
Sabonis

It dominated the fuck out of Dallas, but Mo waited too long to put that lineup in.

I Went half mast just reading that line up.