Who would you trade Nate for??

What more talent? An injured Grant Hill is more talent?

No matter who that Orlando team had - they did not have anyone on Yao's caliber there.

 

Roy Williams from UNC! Thats who we need he has the kansas connection with KP and me!

 

The Orlando teams McGrady played on were some of the least-talented teams ever, outside of McGrady. The other star they recruited, Grant Hill, was unavailable or ineffective due to injury the entire time. Who else on that team was a good player? A broken down Darrell Armstrong? Andrew DeClerq? Pat Garrity? The only other decent player I recall off-hand was Mike Miller, who was only there for two seasons.

 

Works for me. After 7 years of coaching youth basketball, I'm available and ready to move up the coaching ranks.

Thanks for your support. It means a lot to me.

BNM

 

Good luck. I'll back your hire!

 

Thanks, my teams have always peaked at the right time and excelled in the post season where they have routinely beaten teams with more individual talent.

 

The Jeff Van Gundy love in here is nauseating.

 

I think this team will get it together enough to save Nate for the rest of this season. But if they don't, my idea would be to put the interim tag on Monty Williams. Let him finish the season and if he does well. Remove the interim tag. If not go into the offseason with no other target than Greg Poppavich. Then do whatever you have to do to get him here.

 

I don't see Pop leaving San Antonio until Duncan retires. Sort of like when Phil left the Bulls when Jordan retired (the second time).

 

And quite honestly, I would suspect many coaches would die to have Nate's job right now. I suspect there would be a pluthra of new candidates available.

 

I think you are right. Quite the difference between coaches wanting to coach this team to the coaches that didn't want anything to do with the babies the earlier part of this decade.

 

Maybe so Boobs. And to add to that, I would think he would want to take a year off before starting a new challenge.

Having said that. This team or the spurs? One teams window is on life support. One hasn't begun. A youthful twin tower tandem or an aging Timmy D? A broken down Ginoboli, Tony Parker or Brandon Roy?

Even more, I have to believe he has en ego. That he would like to compete with Phil an Red for total amount of titles won. The team is young enough and good enough here in Portland for him to win titles and many of them. By the time he was done here, he may be up there with Phil and Red.

I would think it would be a no brainer.

 

Bill Parcells

 

Kevin McHale

 

Jeff Van Gundy won 50 games 4 times in 11 seasons as an NBA coach, with three of those seasons being 50, 51, and 52 wins.

Too bad this isn't a public poll. I'd like to know what Van Gundy brings that makes him the leader in this poll.

 

I feel his teams severely underachieved in regular season.

BTW, what did he do for Houston? Adelman was a upgrade.

 

JVG has a career playoff record of 44-44 and flamed out in the first round in his last four appearances.

 

This is an interesting prospect.

So is Bill Laimbeer

 

Chip Kelly! Think about all of the offensive creativity and fast-paced offense we'd have. haha.

 

The Blazers need to run some wildcat.

And yes, I am a successful professional NBA head coach. Before anyone asks, sarcastically or otherwise.