Let’s consolidate our thoughts and what happens in real time, here. So...one hire...introduced, today: Steve Nash in Brooklyn

Current openings:
Indiana
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
Chicago
New Orleans

What are you hearing? What do you feel? I’ll put it out there...I don’t think Bud is going anywhere. Just my feeling, Indy interviewed Dave Joerger and Becky Hammond. Chicago and Indy are said to be interested in Billy D. Thunder Twitter unleashed a flurry of names, last night...but I really don’t think it’s gonna be an established guy. It’s gotta be someone willing to drive the tank, for a minute. I’d love to see Antonio Daniels.

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Spo was coaching circles around him this year BEFORE Giannis got hurt

>Indy interviewed Dave Joerger and Becky Hammond.

Assuming Houston doesn't win it all.

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you can get a better one?

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..feels kinda nice to know the Lakers blew up his bullshit offensive schemes.

Made the adjustments to shut 'em down after game 1.

A career full of regular season wins with absolutely nothing to show for it.




*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

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Development, and Kidd is still coaching.

And fock cassell and Ty Lue. I don’t want them anywhere near my Youngins.

For me it was Atkinson, Kidd, or Donovan. Proven developers.

Monty is already coaching. He is good with development as well....

Now everybody else? I don’t give Fock if they are from the grasslands of Wakanda ...this is about development

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1310238049901608961?s=20

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https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/1311784058305814530?s=20

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30056745/alvin-gentry-joining-sacramento-kings-associate-coach

hopefully they're greasing the skids to slide Gentry in after they fire Luke

of every coaching search because they talk a good game

again. I can more see SVG coaching, before Jeff. Kinda like, remember back some years ago...every single offseason in the NFL...every vacancy was rumored to be connected to Bill Cowher. Dude chilled on out and got that studio money and never coached, again.

>again. I can more see SVG coaching, before Jeff. Kinda
>like, remember back some years ago...every single offseason in
>the NFL...every vacancy was rumored to be connected to Bill
>Cowher. Dude chilled on out and got that studio money and
>never coached, again.

Same thing with Gruden but he eventually did come back.

>Dude chilled on out and got that studio money and
>never coached, again.

If you already a millionaire from coaching, and you can continue to make a really good amount from a studio gig for SIGNIFICANTLY less work/time/stress on your part, why wouldn't you? I understand how they might have a hunger for coaching, and some are thinking about their legacy, but it's a no brainer to me...

the option, because of the wear and tear on your body depending on the sport. It's a tougher transition as an athlete though because the player to broadcaster ratio is way higher.

But I get it - if you make it to that level it's because you love playing/coaching the game, so most will want to keep doing that.

So easier for him to just do media forever

And he is very funny and charismatic

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1316772149940686849
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i wonder if they will blow the whole shit up.

...and take them to the next level. And he failed every time. I would certainly hope that he'd get fired.

Absolutely think they make the Finals at least once if that doesn't come together the way it does, and then this isn't happening. He's probably one of the three winningest GMs of the decade, too.

I'm not defending him, because they had a ripe opportunity this year with the Warriors out of the way, and they couldn't even get to the WCF, so the wheels were falling off with this current regime. Harden's turning 32-- they went all in to try to beat Golden State the last few years, but they couldn't get it done, and it's time to start fresh. I get it.

But he's gonna get a new job ASAP. Whatever you think of him as a GM or as a guy, they had a 60+% win percentage like eight or nine of the seasons during his tenure-- through different coaching tenures at that. A GM whose franchise wins at that high a rate for a decade is gonna be re-hired immediately.

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1316807495088734209?s=20

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My thought too. The fact that they are both former players and Sam has been coaching longer, this seems like a gut punch that he comes in and goes directly to lead assistant. (has Chauncey been an assistant before?)
Maybe he is on his way somewhere else and Lue knew?

if them niggas even make it to us lmao

Wonder how much the roster will change.

A five year deal seems like a huge commitment given that both Kahwi and Paul George could both leave well before Lue's contract ends.

IIRC Lue turned us down because we offered something like 3/18 and he wanted 4 years.

a buyout is nothing to Ballmer so he got no problem giving Lue whatever he wants.

make a play for Giannis, him and AD in LA would be crazy...

>Wonder how much the roster will change.
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>A five year deal seems like a huge commitment given that both
>Kahwi and Paul George could both leave well before Lue's
>contract ends.

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but he had the greatest mind in basketball QB'ing -- will be interesting to see how he fares with this squad, which still doesn't feature a natural leader on it.

>but he had the greatest mind in basketball QB'ing -- will be
>interesting to see how he fares with this squad, which still
>doesn't feature a natural leader on it.

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has little to do with it.

rinse, repeat.

It's weird because after watching the Jordan doc it seemed like Phil was very hands on. The "zen master" stuff clearly doesn't tell the full story. Jordan and co just trusted the guy and gave in 100% so it seemed effortless.

lol @ anyone who suggests he just managed egos and rolled the ball out.

The "hands-off" approach simply refers to one's ability to manage star personalities without *your* ego getting in the way, and empowering players by letting their personalities flourish without the need to institute an over-powering system to tame players.

Phil was a genius at this - and was famous for his laissez-faire approach to letting the players figure out puzzles on their own at times - which in the end reaped benefits because of its eventual effect of brewing supreme confidence.


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Phil Jackson was a NBA nobody before he came to the bulls. He was a CBA guy!

Keep in mind, before Phil, Jordan took Stanley , Doug Collins to the playoffs, and won 50 plus games with Doug Collins.

Jerry Krause didn’t like the give the ball to Jordan and everybody get the hell out of the offense, so he brought in Tex Winters to work with Collins. Collins didn’t like any of those fuckers, and removed winters from the bench. That pissed Krause off, so he fired Collins and hired Jackson.

Again, Jordan didn’t like any of them because winters and Jackson were Krause’s guys.
They both came in as neophytes! Jordan wanted to keep Collins.

So it can be said that Jordan made them than the other way around, because Jordan’s playoff results were ascending before Phil.

Jordan didn’t have the liberty of getting coaches hired or telling the organization to get the players that he wanted. He had to work with rookie coaches and rookie players....and with a GM who hated him!

Phil Jackson was a NBA nobody before he came to the bulls. He was a CBA guy!

Keep in mind, before Phil, Jordan took Stanley , Doug Collins to the playoffs, and won 50 plus games with Doug Collins.

Jerry Krause didn’t like the give the ball to Jordan and everybody get the hell out of the offense, so he brought in Tex Winters to work with Collins. Collins didn’t like any of those fuckers, and removed winters from the bench. That pissed Krause off, so he fired Collins and hired Jackson.

Again, Jordan didn’t like any of them because winters and Jackson were Krause’s guys.
They both came in as neophytes! Jordan wanted to keep Collins.

So it can be said that Jordan made them than the other way around, because Jordan’s playoff results were ascending before Phil.

Jordan didn’t have the liberty of getting coaches hired or telling the organization to get the players that he wanted. He had to work with rookie coaches and rookie players....and with a GM who hated him!


Pippen came in as a rookie. Horace came in as a rookie

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-pacers-hire-raptors-assistant-nate-bjorkgren-as-franchises-next-head-coach-161245106.html

I know who this is
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1318585001919873027?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

he's white.

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1318974917820313601

He has been an assistant for far too long to not even be considered for some of these
coaching openings.

Pelicans went with Stan Van Gundy, which we all know is just a short term solution. He can coach and understands the game, but isn’t the long term solution to get a team a championship.

he's black

they basically HAD to give Doc and Ty jobs, everybody else is assed out

>he's black
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>they basically HAD to give Doc and Ty jobs, everybody else is
>assed out
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https://twitter.com/theScore/status/1321556594987950080?s=20

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/thunder-promote-assistant-mark-daigneault-to-head-coach-150925726.html

and he's been in the org for almost 7 years...they didn't slide anything, lol.

No different than Phil Jackson’s path.

Dude stays agenda reaching

>and he's been in the org for almost 7 years...they didn't
>slide anything, lol.

So Donovan set one of his boys up? Cool. Nobody knew dudes name before today. If Thunder fans are happy it’s cool. That franchise was at its peak when it drafted 3 league mvps and will never be anywhere close to that level anytime soon. That’s why Donovan left.

Donovan didn't set up shit...he coached the OKC Blue for 5 years. Look...your point with the post is correct, but this wasn't it. Also, lol...I notice you didn't comment on the Rockets hiring a brotha...and I told you SVG would be coaching and JVG wouldn't.

of the situation and are way more invested than I am. It’s a rebuilding situation so it makes sense to go with an in-house guy.

>Donovan didn't set up shit...he coached the OKC Blue for 5
>years. Look...your point with the post is correct, but this
>wasn't it. Also, lol...I notice you didn't comment on the
>Rockets hiring a brotha...and I told you SVG would be coaching
>and JVG wouldn't.

I was happy to see Stephen Silas given a shot, he was the only non-championship black coach hired.

Bottom line is the bar is still way higher for a black coach to get hired and I’m not sure if you’re trying to argue against that.