Somewhat of a rolling stone. I'm sure he's grateful to the rookie head coach for his NBA championship ring. Why wasn't he hired as head coach and Kerr made his assistant, though, considering the vast disparity in actual coaching experience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Adams
And Alan Gentry, the other assistant coach got a head coaching gig. I think Ron Adams got as many interviews for head coach this off-season as Thibs did.
Maybe Adams doesn't want to be a head coach. http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/13/coaching-lifer-ron-adams-helped-turn-curry-into-mvp I think Ron Adams gets hired over and over again, as did Thibs. I don't think Gar or Pax would get hired anywhere else. And, "no correlation." LOL
Champions' bench. Gentry was a head coach before. Career .475 winning pct., 3 .500 seasons out of 12. Gentry is given credit for the Warriors' offense. We'll see how they do without him.
Indeed. And it's taking nothing away from any of them to admit that they didn't go from zero to hero defense under Kerr/Adams, nor did they go from zero to hero offense under Kerr/Gentry. Curry himself said it:
I disagree with this thread if I understand it correctly. Ron Adams seems to me to have had quite a bit of stability over his coaching career, all things considered. Assistants only have as much job security as their head coaches, and well NBA head coaches aren't very secure. I also don't think the fact that Adams hasn't been a head coach means anything. It seems to me that there is a ton of coaching talent out there that isn't part of the carousel of names mentioned for every opening. A lot of what these owners are looking for is not solid coaching, but a hire that they can be confident will not embarrass them when they're in the community. Steve Kerr was able to show that he was that person over the course of his playing and coaching career. I'm sure there are question marks out there for how Ron Adams would handle the media aspects of a head coaching gig.
Looks like Thibs had good taste in assistant coaches. A "modern, smart" organization like the Warriors sure liked him a lot and just won a championship with him basically leading the defense. Thibs of coure won a championship with the Celtics before coming here and has a gold medal with Team USA. (he has only won coach of the year and has a near record winning percentage as head cocah, but has yet to have the horses to beat Lebron James) The Bulls have been without a championship since Jordan was here and have not been a serious contender without Thibs as head coach under Paxson.
Kerr was hired as head coach because he could communicate - with the players, with his management, and to a lesser degree the community. Adams is strong X's and O's...maybe the best of the assistants in the league. But it's important not to underestimate his value, either. As you yourself said, even "NBA head coaches aren't very secure."
I tihnk you need to be both. Del Negro was a smiley dude who could get along with most people. An average at best coach though and Paxson still physically attacked him when he wanted to play players in the fashion he saw fit. Of course, the organization had him on the hot seat to win games, so you kind of reap what you sow on that front. Its not really fair to demand wins while not allowing the coach to play the players.
Why was Thibs given a contract extension? Management assholes have the ability to freeze out a fellow manager they want gone, and that's what they did to Thibs. If they didn't want him, they shouldn't have offered the extension. It's more telling that Thibs delayed signing for so long. Hard to fly like an eagle when you work with turkeys. So the saying goes.
One more thing. It's laughable to talk about "communicating with management" in the case of any Bulls coach. It's not an "issue" with Thibs, or Vinne before him (who got punched), or Skiles (who got fired on Christmas eve), or even Phil Jackson. The coaches all can't have this communication issue. The constant is GarPax.
Ding! Also, no "communucations problems" with Thibs and Team USA or the Boston Celtics. Both were championship organizations with Thibs and speak highly of him.
That post is very much in-topic about Adams and his NBA travels, and why he's not/never been a head coach. Yours on the other hand has an entirely different purpose: to sow argument and change the topic of the thread. And worst of all, it's a topic that .
