Q&A with Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle
Monday, July 6th, 2009In the Mavericks, Carlisle takes over a team that won 67 games two years ago and 51 last season, when Avery Johnson was fired.
Sep. 10–During his first two head coaching jobs, Rick Carlisle took over franchises and immediately made them better.
In 2001, he joined a Detroit team that had won 32 games the previous year and engineered a 50-32 record as a rookie coach. In Indiana in 2004, Carlisle inherited a Pacers team that won 48 games in Isiah Thomas’ last season as coach