Popovich, Jeff Van Gundy or any other defensive minded coach that you can name, coach this team.

With the personel that we have, it wouldn’t matter.

That’s a breakaway. “Red invented the fast break” might be overstating it, but he is frequently credited with helping to pioneer and define fast-paced modern hoops as we know it. What we call Nellieball is actually better termed Redball or Celticball. I’m sure Nellie would admit as much.

His importance to the game of basketball cannot be overstated, and his contributions went far beyond the games on the court. Auerbach drafted the NBA’s first African American player, named the first black coach in any professional sports league and had the first all-black starting lineup in NBA history. His coaching innovations were copied by others, and he helped define a style of play that has been emulated for decades.

In the words of sportswriter John Feinstein, Auerbach was “the man who, for all intents and purposes, invented professional basketball.”

Auerbach began his professional coaching career in 1946 with the old Washington Capitols of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the National Basketball Association, which was officially formed in 1949. He retired from coaching when he was 48, but his record of 938 regular season victories - and an additional 99 wins in the playoffs - was not surpassed for nearly 30 years.

He originated the concept of the sixth man, using a key reserve player to enter the game to give his team a lift when his opponents were tiring. He emphasized the fast-break offense, with lightning-strike attacks before the opposing team could retreat on defense. And, beginning with his own playing days at George Washington University, Auerbach employed a fierce, face-to-face style of defense that revolutionized the way basketball was played.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102801102_pf.html

Meanwhile, I know how fun it is to spew Republican talking points (Obama is muslim, Kerry was a coward in Vietnam, etc.), but (a) Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet; and (b) probably as much as a politician can, Gore did help encourage and pave the way for the development of the internet.

Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn stated in the 2000 article “Al Gore and the Internet,” that Gore was “the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development.” His High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (often referred to as the Gore Bill) was passed on December 9, 1991 and led to the National Information Infrastructure which Gore referred to as the Information Superhighway. During his period as Vice President, Gore worked towards increasing access to the then-limited Internet through events such as NetDay’96, when he and Clinton helped to wire Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California.

In a March 9, 1999 interview on CNN’s Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Gore stated, “During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” UCLA professor of information studies, Philip E. Agre and journalist Eric Boehlert both argue that three articles in Wired News led to the creation of the widely spread urban legend that Gore claimed to have “invented the Internet,” which followed this interview. This urban legend became “an automatic laugh. Jay Leno, David Letterman, or any other comedic talent can crack a joke about Al Gore ‘inventing the Internet,’ and the audience is likely to respond with howls of laughter.”

In response to the controversy, Cerf and Kahn argued that, “We don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he ‘invented’ the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Al Attles

Andre 3000: “Who the f* is Bambi?!?” (inside joke)

“Pistons won with Wallace and Wallace neither of whom is a superstar but one was great option in halfcourt offense while the other had no offensive game but played like a maniac on D. Please, no Artest.”
Ronron is a combination of the best skills of the two wallaces. I’d love to add him to the dubs, there’s few better defenders when he’s motivated. I’d rather have artest than beli-nelly, harrington, dris or even montay. Of course the Kings wouldn’t want us to get him.