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Who would you like to see?
Colangelo is promising a replacement by draft day.

I wish we could steal someone like Popovic or even Van Gundy but I sound like a dreamer, Do I not?

tough to say, but i'd like to see Lawrence Frank get the job- let's see some bloody defense on this team!!! they havent played great D since Oakley left...

Should've been given another chance... You can't expect a playoff season when Colangelo keeps re-making the team every off season.

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raps were last in defense 2 years in a row...
time for a change

How did Colangelo expect Triano to win games when he was instructed by the GM to give all the young players extended minutes in order to speed up their development (eg. DeMar DeRozan Ed Davis, James Johnson, Jerryd Bayless, etc). Jay did what was asked of him by the GM and no one should be surprised at the awful win/loss record. That being said, all the young players did improve over the course of the season, DeRozan and Davis especially, all under Jay's watch. It's unfortunate that Jay was never given a competitive roster of players to work with, I think he is a far better coach than his win/loss record shows...

i agree that Triano is a good coach- usa basketball hired him so thats a pretty good compliment- but even the year before when they had Bosh and a very good chance of making the playoffs they still had the worst "D" in the league. i believe he was a lame duck coach last year just for the purpose you mentioned, and then the idea all along was to make a change after the season. this guy they got shut down Miami in the fianls... im excited to see some improvement this year- if youre not gonna win, at least COMPETE...

I won't argue that Dwane Casey may be a far better defensive coach than Jay but PJ Carlisimo isn't chopped liver when it comes to defensive coaches either. The fact of the matter is that Toronto does not have very good defensive minded players. As an example, Bargnani has got to be the worse weak side defender I have seen in quite some time -- notoriously late on defensive rotations. Casey can have all the best schemes in the world for defense but if the players can't execute them successfully then he is not going to be that much better than Triano...