Not trying to take up for Dunleavy or anything but he has been the coach of very bad teams. I won't deny that part of the reason the teams are poor/average has to do with his short comings as a coach and the staff he works with. He also has helped pick some questionable players. The Clippers as a whole have no idea how to build a team though. The argument has always been that Sterling just wants to make money and could care less. I honestly feel that they would want to build a team that can compete. The year the Clippers got to the 2nd round with Sam Cassell at the helm there was a decent buzz in the city. More games were filling up. Obviously that is more dough for Sterling. So I don't think he doesn't care. I just think they have no clue, from top to bottom, on how to build a solid team. When is the last time you saw moves from Clippers that looked like filling up multiple gaps in their roster? You hear about players leaving more often than you hear about the Clippers really adding pieces they need. I'd bet a pay check on the fact that they are not going to be able to add another player to that Baron Davis/Blake Griffith core that might make them a decent team.
Though, as usual with Simmons, there is a back story to all this. It involves his ego and him once again disguising his hate via his BLOG. Dunleavy and him have fueded in the public eye. Both have taken shots back and forth. Dunleavy even took one on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. I don't even know why Simmons even stays in LA other than to complain about staying in LA. He hates the Lakers because hes a Boston boy. He goes to Clippers games because somehow he thinks its sticking it to the Lakers/not riding the bandwagon and so he can complain about the Clippers. With the advances of the Internet and the ability to fly in airplanes I don't know why he just doesn't leave the area. I understand LA is not a place some people would not want to live in. Bill Simmons makes enough money and has the type of job he could move somewhere else....but I guess then what would he be able to write about? Oh yea, just straight sports. No lame jabs and jokes. He is not very good at it.
