<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He doesn't drink coffee. Occasionally a cup of tea, but that's rare. The real fuel for Dwane Casey's late nights comes in kernels. "Popcorn," the Sonics associate head coach said. "That's my vice." Which fits perfectly, since those late nights are spent staring at a screen as intently as any movie critic. Only Casey is watching for plays, not plot. There's action, just not actors, unless he's watching a defender flop. The games are on videotapes and DVDs now, but coaches still call it film study and consider it standard operating procedure. Most every coach and assistant in the league spends hours in front of a screen every day. Casey spends more than most. "His whole life is surrounded by basketball in the sense it's the most important thing to him," Sonics coach Nate McMillan said. Casey is single. He is 47. In 10 years he has gone from the last man on George Karl's coaching staff in 1994 to one of the first names mentioned for NBA coaching vacancies. After a decade in the league, Casey jokes he has earned Ph.D. status. "Paid His Dues," he says.</div> <font size="1">Full Story courtesy of Danny O'Neill and the Seattle PI.</font> Nothing new here, it's IMO just a matter of where he goes, or if he stays in Seattle and replaces Nate. What about the Bobcats or the Hawks?
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting og15:</div><div class="quote_post">The Raptors are also a possibility, we just got new management, finally!!</div> IIRC, Casey was one of your final three candidates for the job last season, before you went with Kevin O'Neill.
Casey should be the Sonics head coach right now, unless Walker and Sund go out and get the defensive players McMillan wants.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Casual:</div><div class="quote_post">Casey should be the Sonics head coach right now, unless Walker and Sund go out and get the defensive players McMillan wants.</div> What would you rather? Changing the composition of the team to suit Nate's coaching style, or elevating casey and keeping the same style of ball the team is playing? (Serious question).
I'd rather have the team Nate wants, but that's not even possible with this roster. You'd have to trade literally over 50% of the guys on the team. So, I'd rather have Casey be promoted now.
^ Maybe, but it may just be a case of one or two new faces transforms the build-up of the team. An inside presence prepared to do the dirty work may just help accomodate Ray or Rashard (or both). If they have a defensive inside presence, their own defensive workrate may just turn itself around (see Detroit).
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">League sources say the two front-runners now are Seattle associate head coach Dwane Casey and Detroit assistant Mike Woodson, both of whom were finalists for the job that ultimately went to Kevin O'Neill almost a year ago. Casey, perhaps the most highly regarded non-head coach on any staff, has already had an interview for the vacant Atlanta job and Woodson is also in the running for the Hawks position. One coach who won't be on the list, however, is Utah assistant Phil Johnson, who withdrew from consideration for the job yesterday. The Raptors had already received permission to talk to Woodson, Johnson and Denver's John MacLeod and it's expected they could talk to Casey on a moment's notice.</div> <font size="1">Full Story courtesy of Doug Smith and the Toronto Star.</font>
