I'm somewhat in the minority who thinks that Triano shouldn't have been let go this early. There were many times when last season I just wanted him gone on the spot, but when you take a step back and see how the players developed under him, he did an above average job given his roster. Given how he did, I thought he'd spend this upcoming season as his last on a rebuilding roster as the guy to develop the young players.
Now I believe Colangelo's firing says a ton about his off-season plans.
Are you going to get a coach to develop young players better than Triano? Perhaps not. My guess, is Colangelo is going to make a hard push at moving up into one of the two higher spots in the draft, and along with that probably flip Bargnani and likely Calderon to get a quick, but defensive minded team. There's really no reason that Triano should have been let go unless they were going to become more of a contender.
The only coach I want to see here, and it's been getting a bit of play, is Lawrence Frank. I hated seeing the midget on the sidelines, but his enthusiasm is much like Mitchell's and he's apparently a really good strategist and coach. Even Jeff VG would be a good choice to me. But now they have to have someone who's going to put immense pressure on the players to perform. Anyway, that's my theory...discuss.
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