Hawks Coach Flys Coop
Written by Crystal Carroll, Friday May 14 2010
If you were to throw a dart at a map of the NBA more than likely you would hit a team making a coaching change. Be it assistant coaches or head coaches pretty much any team not making it to the final round is shaking things up in some way, shape or form. Unfortunately for those coaches they find out the same way a dropped and abused player does, as they are called into the managements office, sat down and the news is dropped in disappointing fashion. But unlike players, negotiations are few and far between for these coaches on the back end of the revolving door and the exits are typically to the boos of disappointed fans still reeling from seasons not resulting in championships.
Six years working from the bench still and being in limbo for so long still could not prepare Mike Woodson, head coach of the Hawks for the shocker as that long walk down the hall of management ended with a closing door from his home in Atlanta. Hot-Lanta probably felt more like needing a little Mylanta following the teams departure from the playoffs to the Orlando Magic.
Simply put the Hawks were out coached on every level and as a result looked sloppy and sluggish, a disappointment for fans watching through what at times was excruciating. It was finally the straw the broke the camels back on a career filled with valleys. While he seemed to have been given the golden ticket this season with 53 wins on the season, the 11-18 post season could not have gone over well with the powers that be who are looking to in harsh economic times pull together a ball club with not only a winning record but a high moral amongst paying customers (a.ka. the fans).
With hands up in the air, the Hawks like many ball clubs will not be hanging in the balance in the off season trying to pull it together to make a run once again at it next season. Who will be the answer? What personnel will change and how will a team which looked so promising this past season recover from such a blow? Time will tell, but the 206-286 record in Hot-lanta stops here with an exclamation point and a new chapter is set to begin with one flying the coop and another lining up soon to take his place.
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