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Flip Saunders, Wizards. Chance at succeeding: Excellent. Saunders is a gifted offensive coach who is well-known for his extensive, creative playbook. That will fit well with the high-scoring Wizards, assuming they are healthy (Gilbert Arenas especially) and productive. Saunders has a wide array of weapons at his disposal and should be able to push the team’s offense near the top of the league. But one thing Saunders does especially well—and he doesn’t get much credit for it—is formulate defensive schemes that can hide his team’s weaknesses. He has long been on the forefront of employing zones in the NBA, and should be able to come up with something that bolsters what has been a shoddy Wizards defense.

The Baseline. Sean Deveney gets it. He might be overstating the defensive thing a bit, but credit should go to him for recognizing that Flip will actually help the team's defense on some level.

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by your friendly BullsBlogger on Aug 12, 2009 5:48 PM EDT reply actions  

Call Me a Mark

I believe the defense will be obviously better. His schemes are proven and the effort will be there. So many people on this team should have something to prove. From Arenas, Jamison, and even Caron to Brendan, Stevenson, and the young guys. I am excited.

by Danyon Rome on Aug 12, 2009 6:33 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

Agreed

The fact that he jumped on using zones while every other big-name coach hesitated shows he’s willing to adapt. I think a lot of Wiz fans are going to be surprised by the team’s defense…not in terms of stats, but in terms of making big game-changing plays.

I also want to add that addressing the offense is just important. It’s been two seasons without our primary scorer and between adjusting to that and getting a new head coach it would be silly to assume that simply having Arenas back fixes everything.

by Pryme on Aug 12, 2009 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Flip perhaps over-relies on the Zone

He’ll persist with it, where other teams use zones D as a sort of change-up shock tactic to take the opposition out of its game.

He definitely was an early-adopter, though.

by feral on Aug 12, 2009 8:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Miller, Foye, blah blah blah.

Flip was the biggest offseason move the Wizards made. Big time coach. Nothin’ cheap about it.

by mogoman on Aug 12, 2009 7:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Flip and Gilbert...period.

If this works we will be a happy gang. If not we will wind up consoling each other but probably not quite as much as last year….

by khrabb on Aug 12, 2009 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

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