According to ESPN reports, the Golden State Warriors fired third-year head coach Mark Jackson after helping the Warriors to a 51-31 record and advancing to the playoffs. The Warriors lost to [No.3 seed] the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 7. Though it is difficult to comprehend the reason why Jackson was fired, he has a good reason to be proud of his team.
“We did it without David Lee last year in the playoffs, and we were asked to do it this year without [Andrew] Bogut unfortunately,” Jackson said in a radio interview with 95.7 The Game. “And up to one [point] in a Game 7 on the road against a No. 3 seed with two of the top players in the world, the Sixth Man of the Year Award winner and a Hall of Fame coach — I’d say we’re proud of what we’ve done on the floor.”
The theory of Jackson’s firing was due to his lack of relationship with the Warriors front office. An anonymous source within the Warriors told the media that Jackson did not have good alliance with the front office, and he was not popular around them. He had a history of incidents with former assistant coaches in the past, which caused the Warriors to fire him.
Jackson confessed in an interview with a radio that he regretted the way he handled the situation with his former assistant coaches in the past. The Warriors reassigned Brain Scalabrine due to his philosophy differences and fired Darren Erman due to recording the conversation among coaches and players without their knowledge.
However, Jackson was a big reason why he led the Warriors to a 51-31 record and advanced to the playoffs. It was clear to comprehend why Jackson was a popular coach around the team in the locker room. Does Jackson deserve to be fired? Most of the players said few days ago via Mercury News that Jackson didn’t deserve to be fired.
Jackson had a decent career with the Warriors as a head coach, but managing a winning career didn’t always seem to be the front-office executives’ priority. Apparently, it is easy to fire the NBA head coach for losing many games but winning games does not guarantee the job security of the NBA coach, either.
Jackson’s firing due to lack of alliance with the Warriors front-office people was a bizarre. It is unfortunate that Jackson did not have good alliance with the front office. There is no doubt that it was vital for Jackson to build relationship with people in the front office, but he didn’t come to the Warriors to create alliance; he came to the Warriors to bring the team to victory.
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