BUCKS, KNICKS, WARRIORS, MAVS, and who else.................and who cares? THE BLUEDUDE SAYS ITS ABOUT TIME...NELLIE OUT

DON NELSON, former HAWKEYE, ex-Celtic, ex-head coach for numerous teams kept his job too long but long enough for him to become the NBA's all-time career coaching record. To be honest the man won F***** nothing really. A power freak who had to have control of everything and had to have everything his way for entertainment and that was it. Teams were fun to watch but last I looked the goal is ," YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME", HELLO and thank you Coach Herm Edwards.

I remember the story of one Don Nelson being on the Varsity team at the University of Iowa and a freshman from East Coast by the name of CONNIE "THE HAWK" HAWKINS dominating everything in his path to see The hawk getting kicked out of the school on a violation. I know Don had nothing to do with that but just wanted the BLUEDUDE'S fans TO GET a little FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

At what time did Don" NELLIE " NELSON win a championship or compete for one. I would think the only time he was close when he had those very good Milwaukee Bucks teams that played in the MECCA led by Sidney Moncrief, Junior Bridgeman, Jack Sikma, Randy Bruer, Marcus Johnson, Mickey Johnson, Paul Pressey, Alton Lister, and Brian Winters did he have a chance to get there only to be stopped by those Celtics and Sixers.

The other teams Nellie coached were built for show like showing a concept car at an auto show. Like the first set of Warriors he had in" RUN TMC", you knew them don't act like you didn't, Tim "UTEP TWO STEP" HARDAWAY, "I GOT SKILLZ", MITCH "One Mike Jordan admitted at on point in his career Mitch was the one player that gave Mike Fits, Really Mike, you just enjoyed playing against him" RICHMOND, and smooth- jumper so wet and straight out of the bronx and played for THE JOHNNIES CHRIS MULLIN. Offensively off the charts defensively very challenged on most nights and they were a perfect example of what kind of personnel Nellie wanted. ALL O AND NO D and that doesn't even go with the alphabet does it? It was like the spread offense in football we won't stop you we will just out score you. AND DOESN'T DEFENSE WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS HMMMMMMMM.

I would compare Nellie's Offensive Principals to the early 1980's Offense of The Denver Nuggets and Head Coach Doug Moe and his offense called "ORGANIZED CHAOS". Except don't forget Moe had some players like Alabama's T.R. DUNN, BILL HANZLIK, and one of my all-time favorite stat-sheet-stuffers in LAFAYETTE "FAT" LEVER. Those guys could defend 90 feet trust me on this I remember them, those colorful jerseys, and McNichols Sports Arena. Nellie was purely an offensive minded coach and his rosters were suited for that reason.

Then the late 1990's Mavericks he took over and to his credit did a yeoman's job of getting the Mavericks name out there with a city solely behind one thing and one thing only "HOW BOUT DEM COWBOYS". He inherited a young roster with some stop gap veterans like Leader and Captain MICHAEL FINLEY, STEVE NASH, DIRK NOWITZSKI (and to the mavs credit picked the bucks pocket on draft day in '98 when the bucks sent THE DIGGLER to Big D for one TRACTOR TRAYLOR out of Michigan), and stop gap veterans like ROBERT PACK, SHAWN BRADLEY( yeah he goes with guys like Josh McRoberts, Eric Montross, Paul Mokeski, Randy Bruer, etc. ), and HUbERT DAVIS. The One guy who saved Nellie and His son, DONNIE , was Mark Cuban who bought theMAVS from Ross "DUMBO EARS" Perot jr. for a cool $280 million double what Perot Jr. bought them for. Now with Cubanm they are in great hands only if they could get the other Nelson out of there..............I ain't playin either.

As for Nellie's coaching records you can't hide numbers although they can be misleading IN A LOT OF WAYS. Take for instance two scenarios i remember vividly when Nelson was coaching these teams. The KNICKS went against the grain and fired Nelson in the middle of a winning season and the next season Jeff Van Gundy took the knicks to a even better winning record and to the playoffs.Then one Avery Johnson took over for Nelson in Dallas and in his first full year Avery Took the Mavs to the Finals and almost won it if SHAQ AND FLASH would have never known after the Mavs were up 2-0 in the series that the city of Dallas was laying out plans for the Parade Route. Damn those City and Urban Planners messin' it up again.

Look I am not bashing Nellie for anything. But what the BLUEDUDE is saying is that his numbers on papers look astonishing but the end results were just the opposite. I listen to Ken "HAWK" HARRELSON on the Chicago White Sox TV side a few times a year. And when he talks about Hr's and RBI's he always says," Don't tell me how many you hit but tell me when you hit them". I think it's the same thing with coaching, " It's not how many wins but when did you get those wins in the playoffs and finals or during the season".

Nellie will never get another coaching job and rightfully so unless you are solely built on entertainment ........well maybe then he could call Donald Sterling and get a chance to coach the Clippers they have always been built for entertainment.