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[omahen]

It seems foolish to knee-jerk about a coaches’ worthiness or unworthiness based on a single game, a single series. It sure feels like that’s what happened with Darvin Ham and Adrian Griffin this season.

Now, we fans base our perceptions on massively incomplete data, as well. A coaches’ demeanor on the sideline. Rumors about how he treated a specific player. A not-very-well-thought-out comment at a press conference. And, if our team is losing, we’re critical of anything we’ve ever heard about them.

But most of the time, we really lack the necessary information to fully evaluate a coach’s performance. Did he really get the most out of his team’s potential? Did he put his players in the best position to win? Really hard to know.

The fact that the team gave him an extension says that he’s doing at least an adequate job. Historically, Cuban has favored continuity. 

It’s easy to get disillusioned with someone, and look for the next shiny thing that we hope can improve us. But the cost of making a change can be really high, also.

Isn’t Doc Rivers a much more experienced, much better coach than Adrian Griffin?

Based on your very own argument. You claim it is foolish to make a knee-jerk reaction after a single game or series. You continue with a bunch of questions related to decisions based on incomplete information. But this is basically the whole point people (me included) raised. Why now and why not when the season is over and when you have a more complete information. 

Wouldn't it feel equally foolish to make a positive reaction after a single series? 

I also think your Rivers comparison is way off. Griffin obviously lost the lockerroom. And while Rivers didn't have a great end of regular season, you can't realy blame him for the first round exit due to all the injuries they had.