It's not my wheel house

I won't even pretend to understand the inner workings of basketball. I like the game a lot, but I simply do not follow it the way I follow baseball. I of course love my Grizzlies. Sure they tend to be horrible, but their my team damn it. I support them no matter what. With that said, I don't understand why we fired the coach yesterday. I mean I understand why a coaching change needed to happen, but the timing makes almost no sense. Sure you want to fire the coach on a road trip to avoid the press*, but I don't see what firing this coach gains us.

I have to use baseball as my example b/c I just understand it so much better then basketball*. In baseball, it's silly to fire the coach mid season and then appoint the next coach a few days later. It makes more sense to go with an interim guy until the end of the season. If you do that, you can conduct a much better interview process and give the interim guy a chance to prove whether or not the situation can be handled internally. This is especially true on a team who never had a chance at the playoffs in the first place. I dunno, maybe there is something I am missing, but who knows.


*I have never believed this really works.

*I am by no means an expert on either.