I've changed my mind. I'm so done with him. He's useless. Throw him back into college, he's not ready for this. How about - again- signing a European coach of which there are several great choices who put his players first and doesn't have an ego the size of a football field? If you think they cannot handle tough stuff, really nasty stuff happens in the playoffs in European leagues as well. They 100% stand behind their players.
And they can speak English? How about that? Quinn has to go. If they cannot find an alternative, just put a basketball with a cap on his seat and pay that basketball $600k a year. That would certainly help the situation of the team.
IF he throws an appropriate response tomorrow I can cut him some slack. But I know he will disappoint me. As he always has. Not in the Vigneault way, but in the Quinn way. It might even get its own term from all of this.
I mean, what kind of brainiac are you to tell the media "Panarin is fine" when he is out for the rest of the season? How about having even a scrum of strategical thinking when handling all of this before you even know the outcome? The correct response would've been: "Panarin is NOT fine. What did you think?" But no, we have a diplomat as a coach. A Winnie the Pooh. Just great.