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[DallasMaverick]

Me personally, I would have waited.  I believe they are favored to win the series vs OKC. But what happens if they lose it?  Will all the euphoria of having a good season up to that point, carry over into next year?  Things happen from season to season. Key injuries. Losing players to FAgency. Other teams getting better. Some players have career years, then fall off the next one.  The Mavs have been rolling, they dispatched they're arch nemesis. But we all know they can come up with a "stinker" game every now and then.  We'll just have to see.

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?