Stotts Headed to Milwaukee

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  1. Shapecity

    Shapecity S2/JBB Teamster Staff Member Administrator

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Stotts, an assistant with the Golden State Warriors who had a 52-85 record as head coach of the Atlanta Hawks from 2002-03, could be signed to a five-year contract. No financial terms are available. Stotts is expected to meet wtih Bucks owner Herb Kohl on Thursday afternoon to finalize the deal.</div>

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    This leaves an open spot on the bench, any preferences for a person to take it?
     
  2. Custodianrules2

    Custodianrules2 Cohan + Rowell = Suck

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    I always thought the best coaches were former point guards or players with point guard mentality.

    How about Tim Hardaway [​IMG]

    I wish we could get Larry Brown since he was a former Oakland Oak and shift Monty over to assistant coach, but hey why ruin it for poor old Monty if Brown is a guy who has health problems and is getting older.
     
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    Custodianrules2 Cohan + Rowell = Suck

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    Oakland Oaks was in the American Basketball Assocation before it merged with the NBA.


    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Veteran of five ABA seasons as a player. Performed in three ABA All-Star Games. MVP of first ABA All-Star Game in 1968. Quarterbacked Oakland Oaks to ABA Championship in 1968-69. Led ABA in assists in 1967-68, 1968-69, and 1969-70. Finished ninth in assists in 1970-71 and third in assists in 1971-72. Ended playing career as ABA's career assist leader (2,509 in 376 games). </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">Coached for four years in the ABA with Carolina (1972-73 to 1973-74) and Denver (1974-75 to 1975-76). Four-year record of 299-107 for a stellar .682 winning percentage. Named ABA Coach of the Year three times (in 1972-73 with Carolina and both years with Denver). Had a 79-5 home record with Denver in the ABA.</font>

    </div> http://www.remembertheaba.com/Oakland-Oaks.html

    Rick Barry was quite the player for the Oaks, but you gotta admire the point guard skills of Larry Brown.

    EDIT: Also getting Larry Brown would be good for other obvious reasons... as in he makes teams play a lot better. But I like the symbolic or sentimental aspect of these things. [​IMG]
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting custodianrules2:</div><div class="quote_post">I always thought the best coaches were former point guards or players with point guard mentality.

    How about Tim Hardaway [​IMG]

    I wish we could get Larry Brown since he was a former Oakland Oak and shift Monty over to assistant coach, but hey why ruin it for poor old Monty if Brown is a guy who has health problems and is getting older.</div>
    I was thinking the same thing about Hardaway I also think that Richmond would be good
     
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    milwalkee "was" my team to watch....w/ a healthy t.j. ford, a resigned redd, and bogut to go w/ mason and smith for ther SL....But hiring stotts is just like when the hornets hired tim floydd, you know they suck as head coaches...but they keep getting chances...porter>>>>stotts
     
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    Speaking of TJ Ford, he's coming back. I think he was one of the big reasons the Bucks did so well that year. Damon Jones did a good job manning the point after Ford couldn't play because of the spine thing. If the Bucks make the playoffs this season with Ford again, I think we'll know who is the franchise player on the squad. Bucks need more depth at small forward though since they got rid of Tim Thomas, then Keith Van Horn. Thomas and KVH were actually doing well on that team. They Bucks kind of reminded me of the Warriors after they traded Jamison. Kind of a small team, but they suprised people and Redd became a rising star after a lot of resistance to ideas that Redd could be the next Ray Allen/Allan Houston.
     
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    I think that this could be a very big loss for the W's. Stotts has been around the league a long time, been a head coach, and yet showed the willingness and teamwork to take an assistant position beneath a rookie head coach.

    More than any coach last year, Stotts was the resouce for Monty as he learned the NBA. I would have liked him to stay at least another year, but I guess we'll see how good Monty is on his own. For now, Stotts needs to be replaced by one of those rock-solid, long time NBA assistants like Del Harris (just an example, I'm not advocating for Del).


    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Map1986:</div><div class="quote_post">But hiring stotts is just like when the hornets hired tim floydd, you know they suck as head coaches...but they keep getting chances...porter>>>>stotts</div>

    You can't really judge a coach until they have a talented team, and most rookie coaches don't get to coach talented teams (Floyd coached a horrible Chi team, now he gets a bad Charlotte team...Monty got a bad Ws until they got Davis, Stotts coached a rotten Atlanta team). You'll find out a lot about Stotts in a couple years in Mil, he has some talent to coach.

    We will find out a lot about Monty as a coach by mid-season this year. Can the team develop and improve as a unit? Will the team defense get better (can't coach athleticism, so the man defense isn't going to improve much)?
     
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    floyd got the good charlotte team, then he got fired, they hired byron scott, and then this years demolition...all started by floyd....porter took the lottery bound bucks to elevated play and then ford got injured for the whole season and he gets fired...and replaced w/ stotts, it's a bad move, porter is a very good coach...i guess seattle can now chose between saunders or porter...
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting Map1986:</div><div class="quote_post">floyd got the good charlotte team, then he got fired, they hired byron scott, and then this years demolition...all started by floyd....</div>

    I understated the talent on the hornets, they were a pretty good team, not a bad team. But to say the dismantling of the team was all started by Floyd, I'm not sure I agree.

    They were a fifth seed and lost in the first round of the playoffs under Floyd. Mashburn (an all-star the year before) missed most of the season, and Davis missed about 15 games, too. (they lost in the first round each year Silas coached, albeit with a better record...and I'm not saying Floyd was better than Silas, I'd actually argue that the Hornets have a lousy front office, and that has caused most of the problems) They dismantled the team last year, with Byron Scott as coach.

    Anyways, this wasn't to start an arguement online, just to try to get the facts straight. I'm not a big Tim Floyd fan, nor am I a detractor.

    And, to get more to the point, I was really saying you have to give Stotts a chance to coach a decent team, then you can call him a bad coach. I'm not even saying he's better than Porter, just that you have to give him a chance...look how good a coach Monty became once we traded for Baron. [​IMG] I think he got a lot of blame when the W's played bad, and a lot of credit when they played well. The truth is, he was probably somewhere in between.

    And I agree with you, Seattle comes out well in this, they have two good coaching options now.
     
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    I don't have anyone specifically in mind, but I do want the Warriors to get someone with past NBA head coaching experience. I think the two keys to having a college coach make a successful transition to the NBA is to have a former NBA player and a former NBA head coach on his roster as assistant coaches.
     
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    i have no idea who this coach is. i might of seen him but i dont remember him by name. is he even good?? y fire Porter and take him. i just dont get it
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting NbaBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">i have no idea who this coach is. i might of seen him but i dont remember him by name. is he even good?? y fire Porter and take him. i just dont get it</div>
    Stotts was the assistant coach for the Warriors and is a good coach but would not be my first choice for the Bucjs
     
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    silas got to the second round...

    i hate floyd and it is unfair to compare him to stotts who could do good w/ the bucks...but i hate floyd, he set the domino's for there collaps, which set up the warriors to get davis [​IMG] and I still think milwalkee will surprise a lot of other team fans this season and could get 6/7/8 seed. . .
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting NbaBaller:</div><div class="quote_post">i have no idea who this coach is. i might of seen him but i dont remember him by name. is he even good?? y fire Porter and take him. i just dont get it</div>

    Stotts was the head coach for Atlanta for a year and a half before coming to the Warriors, and was an assistant in Milwaukee during the George Karl years. He is a student of George Karl, and was a former journeyman in the NBA (having been to Europe and elsewhere). So, he has ties to the organization, has about 11 years of coaching experience, and is like George Karl. That is why they hired him.
     

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