Jeremy: McHale Axes Another

The only difference between the Wolves firing Dwane Casey today, and the firing of Flip Saunders two seasons ago is that Casey has not completed two season as coach.
Outside of that Kevin McHale did today to Casey exactly what he did to Flip: McHale fired Dwane Casey because of McHale's lack of performance, not because of Casey's.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Dwane Casey is a great coach, because I don't know. What I'm saying is that Casey was given a crayon and some construction paper, and he was asked to re-create the Mona Lisa. Leonardo himself couldn't do that.
Jeff and I have literally been saying this for years, but it is Kevin McHale who should be shouldering the blame for the Wolves lack of wins on the court. It shouldn't be Dwane Casey taking the blame, and it certainly shouldn't have been Flip Saunders.
We could go on for pages and pages about all of the mistakes that McHale has made, but it all boils down to the fact that he has never given whoever the coach of the Wolves happens to be, the players in order to build a championship team. Let's face facts here, McHale got lucky with Spreewell and Cassell in 2004. The fact that he wasn't before able, and hasn't since been able, to build a proven winner on the floor, proves the fact that even a blind squirrel is going to find a nut every now and then. The cogs have simply never been there to make this team a championship caliber team.
I love Kevin Garnett. It's well-documented here. He's my favorite athlete of all time, and it's not even close. He embodies everything that can be good in a pro athlete off the court, and he's still top player in the NBA on the court. Having said that, it's time for KG to go.
I'm convinced, now more than ever, that when it comes to the Wolves, it's time to blow the whole damn thing up.
It's time to trade KG and get some young talent into the Target Center to surround Randy Foye & Rashad McCants because they are the future of this franchise.
It's time to can Kevin McHale and bring Freddie "The Mayor" Hoiberg off of the GM-bench and let him run the team.
It's time to allow KG to move on and win a ring someplace else, because Kevin McHale is absolutely, without question, unable to build a winner around him.
In the meantime, let's all hope that someday we can find a job like Kevin McHale has. One where you can squander your company's money and not get in trouble. One where you can consistently under-perform and still not find a pink-slip on your computer. One where you can mismanage to the point of making a mockery of your company and your industry, and still feel confident that you will have a paycheck on Friday.