Charley Rosen on the Wizards

I knew if I kept looking I'd find something from Rosen on the Eddie Jordan firing. I know it's late, but considering his predictions for certain personnel, it still seems relevant.

We've all seen this movie before: A general manager stocks his roster with a dysfunctional mixture of players, but since he's the one who procured the players he thinks they're better than they really are. Eventually the team loses, and the coach is canned — because it's easier to fire the coach than to fire the players, and because the GM is certainly not going to fire himself.

This is approximately what happened to Eddie Jordan in Washington. Ernie Grunfeld's team had no reliable big men as well as too many gunners with similar talents.

Rosen goes on to say that without a low-post producing, double-team commanding big man or a consistent slasher, the Wizards were left with little options. Couple that with injuries, and you have a recipe for one fired coach.

Plus, Grunfeld had to do something (anything) in order to justify his own job security.

Well, there's that too.

About that prediction, Rosen?

I'd wager that within the next two years, Jordan will return to the coaching ranks and Grunfeld will be unemployed.

The clock has started: we'll see if Grunfeld is still running the Wizards on 11/26/2010.