David Aldridge's take on Pistons Situation

I have said that Dumars' one mistake was not sending Hamilton home weeks ago, when it was obvious that Hamilton's days were numbered in Detroit, when he and Kuester had already butted heads several times. (I'm told Hamilton not only cursed out Kuester on a regular basis, but told him to "shut up" during practices, and that he and others regularly referred to Kuester as a bum who couldn't coach.) The rightness or wrongness of the position is irrelevant; the fact that players were so brazen to think they could do it without repercussions was the issue, and no doubt the reason that Kuester put Hamilton in dry dock permanently in January.