http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...9-nba-mem&prov=sportsxchange&type=team_report Way to throw coach under the bus.
True, you don't see portland using youth as an excuse. Ivaroni is a first year coach himself so it's to be expected.
When they were winning ugly and with defense,it wasn't good enough. Although they didn't win any playoff games, they had a identity with gasol,miller,williams,battier, and posey. They fired Fratello because he was boring, traded a good young big in gasol for nothing and hired a guy coaching under one of the worse defensive coaches in the league. Top it off, jerry west left.
"But thanks to my 10-day contracts, next year Portland ain't got no cap space, so the Jiz*lies---" "Grizzlies," someone stagewhispers from nearby. "That's what I said, the Grizzlies, so we ain't all bad, stickin to the Blazers."