You can lose a coach every once in a while. You really need to keep an athletic director because you need a guy that's there consistently for as long a time period as possible because he's managing everybody. He affects everybody and when he leaves, he affects everybody.
It's hard to speculate, but it was tough when coach Paul Westphal drafted me and wanted me there and then got fired two weeks into my rookie year.
I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.
Since I've been in the NBA, I've played for four different people. I don't know how much more you can go.
You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.
As coaches, we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like it's at one position. Sometimes it's across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.
There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.
When one talks about six coaches in four seasons something's wrong, something bad's going on.
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.
