It's time for Glen Taylor to clean house. This time, he should use a demolition unit instead of a feather duster.
Taylor, the Wolves' owner, has relied on cronies since he bought the team. In the wake of his team's heartless, hapless loss to a bad Golden State team missing its best player Tuesday, Taylor should be contemplating nuclear options.
If he's not going to have the good taste to fire himself, he's going to have to fire pretty much everyone else.
In their 20th year of existence, the Wolves still lack intelligent ownership, a savvy front office, talent, a productive scouting and drafting mechanism, and a culture promoting high standards.
What the Wolves need more than anything else is an organizational bouncer, someone who can cross his arms, glare at the regulars slumped against the bar and holler, "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."
Kevin McHale will have to be the first to go. Trying McHale as a coach for a second time made sense. He did good work in his first incarnation as a temp, and, after a slow start against premier competition, the players he acquired responded to the dismissal of Randy Wittman by compiling a 10-3 record under McHale against mediocre competition in January.
As a coach, though, McHale is better suited to speed-dating than marriage. He could cite Al Jefferson's injury as an excuse, but Wittman was fired, deservedly, because the players stopped competing for him. By that standard, Tuesday's game should be considered a fireable offense, especially considering McHale is failing with players he acquired and defended.
Tuesday's loss was the latest in a mind- boggling litany of signs that Taylor's piecemeal, consensus-building approach to fixing his franchise is not going to work. Taylor ruled out returning McHale to the front office, and the team's performance should rule out McHale returning to the bench.
