I think Sloan is too old school, stubborn, and too much of a hard ass for today's players. I cant imagine players wanting to come here and play for him.
I can just see Sloan listening to Kaleb the video intern. Yeah, "better". And if Coach Kaleb didn't listen to Assistant Sloan, he'd beat the crap out of him.
Well the only concern with Sloan is it will guarantee that Williams will not come to Portland. And since that was a pipe dream anyway; then why not? Sloan is a great fundamental coach. He will surely get the best from his players and I suspect Aldridge and Batum will grow a bigger pair under his lead.
sloan is old and doesn't have the energy, but that's why keep kaleb as the lead assistant, who we all know has more then enough energy for the job. sloan acts as the mentor, facilitator and is the man during games. canales could run practices under the watchful eye of sloan. think it could be a pretty interesting situation, but not sure it's the best situation.
After listening to the actual show, it actually has a 'source'. Gordon Chiesa, one of his assistants for a long time said if he had to predict where he would end up, it would be in Portland. That gives this tidbit a lil more credence.
I really like this idea. Canales could learn a lot from Sloan. And I think the players would have an easier transition too.
Jerry Sloan resigned only a short time ago and was doing the best coaching in the league (in proportion to the talent of his roster). You leap at getting a great coach. I'd pay him $8-10M per year. Even if he's only here 2-3 years the players would learn more than in 10 McMillan years. Converting Sloan years to McMillan years is like dog years.
Undoubtably, D'Antoni would provide more entertaining basketball but I don't know if he would provide better basketball. I think a Sloan team would be more fundamentally sound and while it would be what some would consider "boring", I think it would win the majority of the time against the same team coached by D'Antoni. Gramps...
