Link here. Ed Tapscott, an assistant coach, will take over in the interim. I’ve never been a fan of Jordan as a coach — his player rotations didn’t make sense to me, and he didn’t seem to understand how important Brendan Haywood was to the team’s success. That said, their troubles this year don’t have a great deal to do with any problems with Jordan. Rather, their stinky performance just tends to illustrate the point that Haywood was a more important part of the team than many people realized.
Under a new coach, I think we can expect this team to be just as bad. What’s worse, the Wizards will probably be bad for a long time. They made some weird contract decisions aimed at locking into place a roster that was decidedly mediocre — limping into the playoffs in a weak Eastern Conference.
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