Like Battier or even Chauncy. Not sure about Shaw as coach he didn't have much success as a head coach.
Former players make the worst GMs. Hire a real wheeler-dealer. Until the mid-80s, the GM of most teams was the minority owner. That was awful too.
That's the best case, and it drove him nuts. During games he routinely hid under a rock, ate worms, scared of Phil Jackson, and ran to Memphis.
What philosophies, strengths, and weakinesses do you deem acceptable in your coaching search? What current head coaches check all 3 boxes?
Like I said, I hope that the Vulcans would have better ideas than me. I just think that Shaw had a no win situation with the Nuggets (look at those rosters in 13-14 and 14-15) and the mid season moves. I think he's coached under really good and great coaches, I think he's a guy that understands players, I know he will provide more accountability than Stotts and I know that him and Dame have known each other for a long time and he's helped Dame a lot in the past. Might ease the sting of losing the only pro coach Dame's ever had.
Guys that haven't been mentioned are guys like Don Nelson, Pat Riley and John Paxson have done really well in the recent past. Then right now you have the guys mentioned plus Morey, James Jones, Calvin Booth, and Sean Marks that all had legit decade plus NBA careers. All of these guys have made good moves and are probably looked at as successful GMs.
Say what you want about Stotts but Al-Farouq Aminu and Mo Harkless are basically out of the league now as rotation players, played their best in Portland, and neither is over 30 years old.
Aminu has been injured for a long time (knee). He just returned from injury a couple of weeks ago. He had 14 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 blocks in his last game in 25 minutes
Playing with Dame role players have a ton of space to operate...all their best defenders are on him...guys like Chief and Mo and Ed Davis love playing with him...they have room to move..how many of these guys including Nurk say....he makes the game easy for me? He makes my job easy!
I know you like numbers and facts so here we go with actual facts. 2021 WESTERN BACKCOURT NBA ALL-STAR RESULTS Stephen Curry GSW 1 Luka Doncic DAL 2 Damian Lillard POR 3 Donovan Mitchell UTA 4 Devin Booker PHX 5 Ja Morant MEM 6 Chris Paul PHX 7 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC 8 DeAron Fox SAC 9 DeMar DeRozen SAS 10 Jamal Murray DEN 11 John Wall HOU 12 Mike Conley UTA 13 CJ McCollum POR 14 CJ might have got in if he didn't get hurt only if other players pulled out because they were hurt maybe? And as it stands they just let Conley in for Booker. Heck last year when Lillard pulled out even he named Booker over CJ. CJ was literally 14th on the players ballot. Saying he would have "easily been an All Star" is a stretch at the very least. Fan rank he was 10th. Media he got Zero votes. This is just the western conference. Now in the east he might have done a bit better if he played a whole season in that conference. https://www.interbasket.net/news/co..._FdhEpHIbwO7rogSOFzOfS6vNUrh28_jkfCU4HjNMXOKA
It is way easier to say you disagree with the decision of others, especially after things haven't worked, than to lay out what/who you do support before hand.
