Jerry Sloan sees it, so does Iverson.

I am not content to sit back and buy into the hype that the Blazers fired Coach Cheeks so they would have an opportunity to evaluate young talent. Yeah, that is what I bought season tickets for, to watch training camp. What Blazer managment did was take the easy way out and go against the grain of what sport is all about, they purposely chose to to lose. In doing so, they sent a strong message. I want you to decide what that message is.

Here's how Jerry Sloan sees it:
"You watch some of the things that happen, and you wonder how they expect a coach to keep players from doing whatever they want," Sloan said Friday. "If the coach has no control, how do they expect to overcome that? Unless you just have so much talent [on your roster], you can't. That doesn't happen very often."
Sloan's clash with guard Carlos Arroyo earlier this season was far less serious, but a month later, Arroyo was gone, not the coach. While the team insists that the trade had nothing to do with his face-off with Sloan, even the coach admits that such incidents send a message about who is in charge. "Maybe the players think it does. We try to keep things halfway sane in this organization," Sloan said.
The Trail Blazers, on the other hand, "kind of set a precedent about who's running their program."
Source:SaltLakeTribune.com

Here's what Allen Iverson had to say:
"He's one of the best guys you'll ever meet in your life," Iverson said. "If you can't get along with Maurice Cheeks, or if you don't like Maurice Cheeks, then there's something wrong with you.

"He's a stand-up guy. He'll never stab anybody in the back. He's always loyal to the people that are loyal to him. It's just a bad situation. That's one of those times where I wish I was playing for him, just so I could help him out, help him through that situation."
Source:AZCentral.com (Philadelphia Inquirer)