Sally Jenkins's article

For five-plus seasons under Jordan the Wizards — despite four playoff appearances — were blithely unconcerned with stopping the other team, and that chronic lack of commitment was the undoing of a terrifically nice man and promising young coach

This wasn’t his first coaching job. Not even his first head coaching job. He’s been coaching in the NBA since the early 90’s. How does that make him a young coach?.

I agree with the main point of her article (the defense’s suckitude doing the team in) but her support was lacking in my opinion. This was my favorite part:

It doesn’t take wholesale roster changes to alter a team’s defensive effort — evidence of that is the Boston Celtics.

While that’s true, she used quite possibly the worst example that you could use to prove that point. The Celtics had nine new players last season! It doesn’t get much more wholesale than that.

She seemed to jump around…and the article lacked complete sense. I guess I don’t care enough to fault her for it.

Yea, using the Celtics as an example was bad on a couple levels. The difference I’ll point to is that Garnett is the team leader and the team’s best defensive player.

None of the leaders on the Wizards, Butler, Jamison, and Arenas, are good defensive players in any way, shape or form.

for several other factually dubious statements in the article, then I decided that I didn’t really care what she said about the firing. Basically: “meh.”

Shame about this article, because she’s a superb writer and generally I like her work.