Head Coach thread

Ya, he was a "Coaching Staff Intern" for the '04-'05 season with the Spurs, before he was with us for 5 seasons.

 

Also, Brent Barry's been in the Spurs organization for 3 years.

 

Well, all this people are so enamored with the Popovich coaching tree and it’s not exactly producing stellar results.

Mike Malone isn’t even part of the Popovich coaching tree.

budenholzer is the lone success id say. And he was an assistant for 20 years.

 

What are the odds it’s neither of these two?

 

Not all sarcasm is intended to be funny, so your sarcasm detector is, indeed, defunct. Got it.

 

there's more to this than experience as an assistant. maybe becky is a better leader and gets her players' attention better than Ime that makes her a better candidate. maybe becky's experience as a top PG gives her a leg up over Udoka's experience as a role player.

Could be bunch of things, and it's nuanced. not every thing is black and white.

as long as Olshey/Jody/et al do their research, interview well, and have it be a meritocracy, then we shouldn't have concern on the hire.

 

thanks for explaining what sarcasm is.

 

No one caught this?

 

...I think DJ would look better in a shiny new tin-foil hat, maybe @MARIS61 can loan him one

 

MICHAEL Malone!

 

Taylor Jenkins, the best young coach in the NBA. Memphis was supposed to be awful last season and he had them in the play-in. This year his Grizzlies won 3 straight postseason games.

 

Bud’s been to two conference Finals. Only one coach wins a title each season. Doesn’t mean the other 29 suck.

 

A better question of the Pop pupils is who hasn’t had success as a head coach in the NBA? They’ve all done very well.

 

Don't forget that Hammon won a summer league in her first try as a head coach

 

Hammon after hearing Jody voicing her desire for her:

"Portland's a first-class organization and will have great candidates for its head coaching job, but I've decided not to be one of them," Hammon told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. "Whoever they choose will have big shoes to fill from Terry [Stotts]."

Hammon was ultimately uncomfortable with the idea of pursuing the opening after Blazer's owner Jody Allen publicly called for her hiring within weeks of Stotts’ departure on Friday night. The public nature of Allen’s endorsement — telling Yahoo Sports that “Becky Hammon is the woman I want” — left Hammon feeling she would put both Allen and Portland’s process in an awkward circumstance should she pursue the opening.

 

Lol that’s from Kidd article about him not wanting to come here. You got me on that one lol

 

Just had a mental break down for few seconds.

 

I believe they are high odds

 

I'm just sitting here reading all this and sorting out who is where on whom?

A lot of Blazer fans spinning in circles over this.