Looking for logic on the coaching carousel.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Byline: Dale Hofmann

With too much time on their hands between playoffs, NBA teams amuse themselves by relocating coaches.

A Van Gundy here, a Silas there. Here a Brown, there a Brown, everywhere gets Larry Brown.

George Karl wins 42 games and gets $7 million, while Rick Carlisle goes to the conference final and gets fired. Replaced by the last coach he beat.

Don Nelson is in doubt, Kevin O'Neill is in vogue and Mike Dunleavy is in the market again. We knew them when. There are no permanent solutions. Only temporary conveniences, and most of those too expensive.

The oldest Brown in the league is Hubie, and the brightest is Larry, not so much for the way he does his job as for the way he changes it. Nine teams, four leagues, 31 years and still voted most likely to succeed. That's genius. Everything else is timing.

Successful candidates will be organized, knowledgeable, quick thinking and charismatic until they lose favor and become fuddled, clueless, thick and ornery. The transformation is startling and normally accompanied by much losing. But not necessarily.