I got to tell ya, you could write quite a marketing spread hiring Terry Porter to coach the team that made him famous as a player. Don't think you'd have to twist his arm very hard and further a Blazer rather than a Sonic would be coaching our team.
I could get behind Terry Porter as coach. I think it'd mostly be a lateral move from a coaching talent perspective, but maybe it'd shake things up. All three seasons he coached were marked by having a pace no slower than 16th in the league, including when he was 4th in the league with a Suns team featuring Shaq. So it'd be a big change in tempo.
As long as people can wrap their brains around the idea that this team isn't likely to do much for at minimum for a year or three and that we could be in the lottery for awhile I think it would be an "OK" move, certainly not a panacea, and probably not even a long-term solution. I don't know, maybe it would work; he did pretty well in Milwaukee until management gutted his team and left him out to dry and I think he kind of got the shaft in Phoenix being asked to completely alter their style of play with the personnel they had.
::bump:: Weird that we were having this same conversation three years ago. I really like my suggestion back in 09: David Blatt with Lawrance Frank.
