Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Bobcats add Brown; Can they add Wins?

When the Charlotte Bobcats signed well-traveled and successful coach Larry Brown to their already-rising list of head coaches, they got a guy who has a chance to turn this thoroughly disappointing franchise into a contender.

It's going to take a lot.

The first thing Brown should do as head man of an expansion team that's in worse shape now than when it started in 2004, is to start small and aim for a 40-win season next year.

How is that possible? Simply by putting the many talented players on the roster into a cohesive unit that can defeat the evil Boston Celtics, winners of seventeen (wait, not yet) sixteen NBA titles.

It's going to take a motivator to bring this team into playoff contention. But maybe it's time for Michael Jordan and Bob Johnson to realize it's going to take a real marketer to bring some personality to this team.

Otherwise, it may be time for them to go.

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