Should He Stay or Should He Go?

Word has come out that Glen Taylor has flipped his mind once again. It was assumed that Taylor was going to clean the Minnesota Timberwolves organization if a new GM candidate wanted to do so. However, now Taylor has said that they could do that if they wanted to, but their choice of a head coach would be limited to whether or not Kevin McHale wanted to return as head coach. This means that the new GM can't do a clean sweep of the organization.

A lot of this has led to a lot of people screaming "The Country Club is back!" but really, let's look at this in-depth a little bit. When you look at the other options McHale may be the best option when it comes to the Wolves coach.

McHale the coach is not McHale the GM. A lot of people have a bunch of problems with McHale because of his front office failures. Acquiring Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell (worked for one year and then it blew up in his face) , trading Brandon Roy for Randy Foye, taking Ndudi Ebi rather than Josh Howard, it doesn't matter right now. What matters is the job he has done on the court.

When McHale replaced Randy Wittman, the players weren't playing hard. Wittman would bark, but not bite his players and the players got tired of that. So, McHale came in and used his 1980's hard-ass mentality to whip the players in shape. It didn't start well, but soon the Wolves were playing a lot better until Al Jefferson went down with a torn ACL. After that the Wolves weren't getting the results, but they were still playing hard for McHale. That's something to take into consideration.

Finally, if McHale comes back who the hell are you going to get? There's not much out there when it comes to head coaches right now and the one name that I could think of is Avery Johnson. Don't get me wrong, he'd be GREAT for soundbytes, but he has the same problem that Wolves coaches have had in the past. He can bark, but he doesn't bite. Excuse me, I just thought of Johnson barking like a dog. LOL!

So anyways, this isn't the end of the world for the Wolves. I like the fact that Taylor is leaving it up to McHale. McHale has said in the past that he doesn't like the travel associated with being a NBA coach, but I think he enjoyed it last year. It's a win-win situation. Either McHale continues to rebuild the Wolves (with four first round draft picks!) or he goes back to Hibbing to fish and fade into the sunset.