I’m still holding out hope that Dunleavy gets the axe as coach and gm, but I shudder to think what it would be like to have him as just gm. He’s such a control freak, I can’t imagine him making life easy for another coach. I think I’d rather have him as head coach, if he has to be here at all. Getting a real gm in here will be a big step after years of Elgin Baylor as little more than a figurehead. There was also a rumor Sterling was talking to a Lakers assistant for the gm position, which also sounds good to me. After all these years, the Clippers are finally becoming a real professional franchise.

Doesn’t make any sense. Oh yeah, the money. Screw the fans.

that’s fantastic. West is not going to be GM. He might trade Baron to the lakers for Sun Yue.

why would we want to keep dunleavy as a coach and get a new GM? that makes absolutely no sense. if we’re going to keep dunleavy then it should be the other way around. we should keep him as GM and get a new coach… sigh

At first glance this seems like a ridiculous idea, even by Clipper standards. The path of both least resistance and logic, and an attempt to get the actual team on the floor to play better, would be to relieve Dunleavy of coaching duties and keep him at GM.

But let’s say you’re tired of the entire Mike Dunleavy experience. You still owe him a lot of money, and you’re not eager to hand that over to him and to have to pay a new coach at the same time. And what costs more money—a top line, or even second-tier coach, or a new GM? Answer: coach.

So do you want your stubborn, angry GM/former coach guiding the decision on bringing in the new coach, and keeping him in charge of personnel decisions as well? Maybe that’s not such a good idea.

And what are the most important decisions facing the franchise right now? The coaching doesn’t really matter—the team is jockeying for lottery position. The only things that matter at this point are the upcoming draft and evaluating the talent on the roster and trying to figure out how to make deals and reshape it during the offseason. Should Dunleavy be making those decisions, or is there somebody out there who could do a great job and still handle the basic Clipper craziness of DTS?

I don’t know—maybe this is actually a smart way to go. The new GM would be able to fire Dunleavy as soon as he’s made his draft pick, has made some roster moves, and has a guy in mind—and can convince DTS to write the big going-away check to MDSr. DTS is going to cry when he signs his name on that one, but he’ll have to do it at some point.

Sounds like what they’re talking about is bringing in a Dunleavy guy, to lighten his load. Remember that West hired Dunleavy to coach the Lakers, and they might be saying that the position is something like being a senior consultant—but there’s no way that West is going to do it. And bringing in MDSr’s guy (Pfund?) isn’t going to help the situation either, it’ll just be some one else returning phone calls and checking out deals and then going to MDSr.

Doesn’t sound like a recipe for change.