Pelicans Fire Head Coach Monty Williams

[ISHGoat]

cant believe these joke franchises and joke cities like new orleans, cleveland, oklahoma city, chicago have the league's mvps of the past and future

[Johnny Jones]

Is this board for real? After the playoffs and especially after the epic choke in game 3, it seemed like this board thought monty was one of the worst coaches in the league and holding the pelocans back. Now yall nikkas defending him????

[Legends66NBA7]

Not that I think Monty is great coach, but there are worse coaches in he league.

I'm quite surprised that Dwane Casey still has his job, considering Monty is probably a better coach than him.

[Sarcastic]

Is this board for real? After the playoffs and especially after the epic choke in game 3, it seemed like this board thought monty was one of the worst coaches in the league and holding the pelocans back. Now yall nikkas defending him????

Did you expect them to make the playoffs this year? I doubt most people predicted they would make it in the west.

[Johnny Jones]

Did you expect them to make the playoffs this year? I doubt most people predicted they would make it in the west.

What does that have to do with anything? This board's perception of Monty after the playoffs was that he was the laughing stock of the league, he was holding AD back, etc etc. And now all the sudden Monty is the most underrated coach in the league.

[Replay32]

I'm surprised it took this long.

This. There's no excuse for his team to not be fundamental sound enough to box out in game 3. That's why they lost that game. Plus his end game play calling/execution is consistently terrible.

[Mawly-G]

The Pelicans have too much talent to be as average as they are (granted they've had a bunch of injuries throughout the years), so I think a coaching change is warranted. That 20 point meltdown in Game 3 (where Monty had Ryan Anderson on the bench even though he was hot the entire game), was also a red flag.

[Spaulding]

Wtf...

Davis needs to get out and on the Spurs ASAP.

[KG215]

cant believe these joke franchises and joke cities like new orleans, cleveland, oklahoma city, chicago have the league's mvps of the past and future

Please, tell us more. What are the non-joke franchises and cities in the NBA? In your opinion, where should all MVPs (past, present, and future) play? And if you could go back in time and take any past MVP winner that played for a joke franchise, which non-joke franchise would you put him on and why?

[Sarcastic]

What does that have to do with anything? This board's perception of Monty after the playoffs was that he was the laughing stock of the league, he was holding AD back, etc etc. And now all the sudden Monty is the most underrated coach in the league.

Well who are they replacing him with, because he had better take them to the playoffs.

[Kiddlovesnets]

This is totally uncalled for, finally made the playoffs and you got this...

[bdreason]

Monty has been on his way out for awhile now. It has little or nothing to do with teams performance in the playoffs.

[Patrick Chewing]

Tyreke and Jrue cant make a play/shot for sh**

That idiot GOBB a couple years back talking about Jrue's elite PG status

[Fallen Angel]

This move was made one season too late, in my opinion. If Monty Williams was fired at this time last year then there wouldn't be much of a reluctant reaction from Pelicans' players and NBA fans.

This man lead New Orleans to its first postseason in the Chris Paul-era and you fire the man? You let your star player grow a huge bond between his coach through letting them both compete with Team USA and now the both of them making their postseason debut as a duo, and you fire him?

This is bad timing on the part that Monty Williams gave this group of guys a taste of the playoffs and what it means to compete. This now puts pressure on the new coach of the Pelicans to reach higher than Coach Williams did with this group of players. If it is indeed Tom Thibodeau who the Pelicans are searching to be the replacement, you have to wonder if his style of 48 minute basketball is healthy for a team where the three of the starters have a history of injury.

The reports is that the Pelicans GM fired Monty because he wanted to secure power in the organization, that tells me there was a rift between either the coach vs. the executives or the players and coach vs. the executives. Whether way it was, the GM of the Pelicans has put himself in pressure to have a great offseason. This team has no 1st Round Pick, this team has no Head Coach, and this team has no direction for the future. It's like the Pelicans trade whatever pick or valuable asset they have to a team for a namely player (Jrue Holiday, Tyreke Evans, Omer Asik) and hope they fit in with Anthony Davis and company.

[Cleverness]

I think Monty has the reputation as a player development guy. Now it is time to get a coach that can take the team to another level. Also, you wouldn't want to wait until Davis is a FA to fire him, and have AD question a team in turnover. Get a solid coach now so you can try to retain AD when he is a FA.

This

Shouldn't have been fired though. He's a good coach who the players rally around.