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MG: Well, as crazy as it sounds, I will say that we probably should have kept Randy Wittman as a coach. Yeah, I know what I’m saying is crazy, but we should have done that. Why? Because he was the only coach that was able to control John [Wall]. And they were bumping heads, and I was bumping heads with Randy. Randy was a hell of a good coach. And he knew what he was doing. He was able to control John, and he was able to control Bradley [Beal]. And he was bringing the right people on board from a player standpoint. And we were missing, we were missing that one, maybe one or two good role players, for us to make a bigger run. And then also, we needed some luck. John broke his hand in the second or third game against Atlanta, it was over. Our main guy broke his hand; the guy couldn’t dribble the ball. His hand was a giant potato. He wasn’t able to grab anything in his hand. He played a game with one hand. So, we needed some luck.
Randy should stay as a coach and add one or two better signings to the organization. Overall, we all should have done better, but we had an incredible team. Back in the day, when you sat in the plane, when we were flying to another city…. we didn’t care where we were flying because we knew what we were bringing. We were bringing a freaking storm when we showed up. We had so many weapons. We had so many levels: John, Beal, me on the pick and roll, and Nenê inside. Oh my god, we were a hell of a team. And I mean, we were unbelievable. Then, that year, we had Otto Porter Jr. coming off the bench and Trevor Ariza starting. Andre Miller was coming off the bench. We had a squad. However, right now, we only have memories. Like I said, we should’ve kept Randy Wittman.
