Michael Jordan and the Bobcats, accustomed to doing the wrong thing, do so again, this time by hiring someone as obscure as Mike Dunlap to be their head coach. As much as anything else, what the Bobcats need to present to their fans now is hope, the promise that they will get better in the future. Dunlap’s hiring most certainly doesn’t send that message. Rather it suggests that the Bobcats know that they will be bad for the foreseeable future, so they might as well cheap out in their hiring to (literal) cut their losses.
Update: And right on cue, here’s the Observer’s own notorious homer Rick Bonnell defending the choice of Dunlap. And as usual, he completely misses the point about what the hire says to the fan base.
