CP: When you hired Dwane Casey last year, you said you were taking a risk, getting an inexperienced guy. There are some really positive things about him personally. But in terms of results, he didn't have a good year. Taylor: No. When I talk to Dwane, I still like Dwane and believe in him. But I think Dwane knows himself that he has to improve. I have got to ask Dwane— which I haven't done yet, but I will before the season starts—what do you anticipate out of this team? So we will get that set that, and that is how he will be measured. I haven't asked Dwane that question yet. In fairness to Dwane, I want him to see what James is like. He wanted James and thinks he is good, and I want him to have the entire preseason to work with the team and see what he's got. Before the season starts, I will have that conversation with Dwane and the other coaches, and ask, what do you think you can deliver? They are going to set a realistic goal. But if for some reason they don't believe in the team, then I have a serious problem. I've talked with him a lot, and he likes the team. Now it's more a matter of, let's go through the teams [in the league] and see how many you think you might win or lose against them. From that, you would think, do I want to go to the end of the year if things are not going well? In the worst of all cases, if you are halfway through the season and it isn't going the way you think it should be going, do you wait or not wait? Let me just speak to the Flip thing a little bit. I am not likely to change coaches. That would not be my preference, because what I went through with Flip was a lot of bad things. What happened on Flip, basically, he came to us and said, I'm thinking about quitting. Kevin and I talked him into not quitting, saying "Don't give up. Let's do this and let's do that." Kevin is really good about stuff like that: "Just try this. Or play some other guys." I told him, "Just take Sprewell out and sit him on the bench. I'm not going to holler at you because he isn't going to be around next year anyway." He didn't do that, but Flip kind of came to us and said he was going to quit. We talked him out of it, but before long we were seeing the players quit on Flip. Now that is another whole issue. And when we went to Flip and said the players are quitting on you, you need to step aside, he initially said okay. Our initial thing was, take two weeks off to rest and let us evaluate this. --

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