Bullets Fire Eddie Jordan

Interesting you called them the Bullets in the first thread, intentional?
Yeah, I was a fan of the team long before they chose the awful name they carry now. I live in hope that Ted "E-mail" Leonsis will get the team and restore the proper name.

They need to figure out what sort of team they want to be, and it seems like what Grunfeld wants is to be a 1990s Knicks defensive-type team. If that's the case then I'd go after Jeff Van Gundy (I wanted him to be HC before Eddie Jordan).

Wow... I like it! JVG... I was thinking Avery Johnson, but I think he'd get into too many conflicts with Gil.

EJ is a good guy and I'm grateful for his playoff appearances. There were just too many flaws with his rotations and coaching style that don't build a championship team. Perimeter defense has always suffered, even when healthy. The Princeton offense would too often bog down with unnecessary passes that killed the shot clock. Plus, the players seemed to have tuned out a while ago.

I consider this season a wash anyway (we need a Rubio or Griffin to compete in the East in the future) and I think EG's gonna do some roster reshuffling. The youngs are gonna get the burn they need. Anything from here on out is totally on EG now.

I've said this before and I probably don't need to repeat it again, but during the preseason when the Wizards would hold scrimmages, the first team guys were getting beaten on a regular basis by the second team. That tells me that a few didn't care about winning or losing. Also, if the "Princeton Offense" was ever being used, I couldn't tell it.

The "Princeton Offense" was used and was most effective frankly when Arenas wasn't playing last here and Daniels was running the point. This isn't to say the team is better off without Arenas but they are better off with him playing off the ball, not as the point.

I'm grateful for what EJ did for the Wizards, but I feel like he lost control of this team. And when that happens honestly the only solution I see is that the coach needs to go. Good luck to him in the future but I'm glad to see this change coming, honestly I feel like this season is a wash but we will be setting ourselves up for a better chance at a high draft pick and I feel like I'd rather set the team up for future success rather than have another 42-40 team that fails to get it done in the playoffs. Not to mention I wasn't really a fan of his Princeton offense, I mean when we had the right personnel in it worked but with injuries and pretty much losing the team it wasn't working anymore.

Not a bad start for Tapscott

ESPN - Golden State vs. Washington - Recap - November 25, 2008 (http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=281125027)

And then kicked right back down to earth by Orlando last night.

I saw this interesting bit of speculation on FoxSports.com earlier today:

Vols Bruce Pearl to Wizards?

(http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/story/375169.html)I heard an interesting name Monday as a potential candidate for the Wizards job down the road: Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. Ernie Grunfeld is a Tennessee alumnus and was also around Pearl when he coached Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Grunfeld was running the Milwaukee Bucks. -- Charlotte Observer

Hahaha...the Bullets? Nice.

I watched the Golden State game where the Wizards got their second win and it was fun to see them dominate another team. Too bad they can't sustain it. EG made a mistake when he gave all that money to Arenas. Now they don't have any room for trades. I hope EG has some creative ideas in mind to make the team better this year.