Never a "relieved of his duties" seemed more appropriate. Taking into account the difficulties that Flip Saunders to carry through the seasons 2 with the Washington Wizards - The death of my father Pauline, and the incident involving a gun, Gilbert Arenas, the death of his mother and the pain of reconstruction - is a step in the application after the beginning of 15/02 may have felt such relief .
However, Saunders said in a telephone interview, "disappointment" was the overwhelming emotion I felt on Tuesday, when President Ernie Grunfeld told him that the team was dismissed. Saunders was "somewhat surprised" by the move, saying that the group had made some progress by the "stunk" in Philadelphia, where the team lost 0.103 to 83, followed by 30 points in the first half.
"It was probably a disappointing loss, probably since I'm here," said Saunders, who lost 130 of 181 games with the Wizards.
Saunders said he realized that someone had to take the blame on the record and the Wizards' terrible since he took office, but when asked if you wish, could have done anything differently to save his job: "Not really. "
"There are always some things that a coach, you say what you can do better," said Saunders. "But what has been said, where we were, and what we were trying to do, especially as this next year, with the reduction of training camp, perhaps for lack of time and to exercise all the new players he has."
Saunders was hired to lead a team loaded with veterans in the playoffs, but was forced to develop talent in the team and one of the menus on the least experience in the league, led by No. 1 pick last year, John Wall.
Laughed when asked if he felt he had made a good hand in Washington, where he is often overshadowed by its mandate outside the juvenile court - especially when all the stars in Arenas took the guns to the dressing room and accelerate the reconstruction process.
"I do not think I enjoyed at some point in my career was going to testify before a grand jury 21 / 2 hours before the game for us but I'm looking forward to and although the wins and losses were not there - and I have to take responsibility for it - because it mainly in the NBA, from the beginning, you can win or the development of young players, but it is hard to do both simultaneously.
"In this work, and improve comes in small quantities and very painful," he said. "I've spent a lot of time with John and the young players, and I have improved and the benefits of these improvements will be with anyone else in the way."
Saunders admitted that there are many challenges in trying to make the Wizards a winner. "It's a list of balanced and there was a lot of duplicate players and this is what happens in the process of reconstruction, we must look to the whole puzzle," he said. "When you coach, the veteran, who was in the championship-type situations, or at the end of the conference, you have certain types of players who have the ability to coach the truth, and I think that the driving forces of change work, and I showed in charge of the records, but I feel comfortable with science that these players and the coach in the right way, to show what it was, and many of these children, if they still have jobs and solid as far as their commitment and dedication in the game.
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