<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> Philadelphia 76ers President and General Manager Billy King announced today the hiring of Dave Bollwinkel as the team?s West Coast advance scout. Bollwinkel?s resume includes 32 years of experience in basketball, including a four-year term as the head coach at Saint Mary?s College (1997-2001) and a five-year stint as the head coach at Cal Poly Pomona (1987-92). He has also served as a regional advance scout for the Washington Wizards (1995-96) and the Boston Celtics (2001-04). During his collegiate coaching career, Bollwinkel was an assistant at the University of Oregon along with Sixers head coach Jim O?Brien (1978-80) and later reunited with O?Brien at the University of Dayton, where he served as an assistant coach for two seasons (1992-94). He has also served on coaching staffs at Cal Poly Pomona (1987-92), Colorado State (1980-82), San Jose State (1982-87), University of Wisconsin (1995-96), Saint Mary?s College (1997-2001) and University of California (1976-77). </div> Full Article Courtesy of Sixers.com/NBA.com
Having a west coast scout as a assistant will probably help out Sammy a lot since the west coaches and scouts know a lot about what it takes to be a good big man in the league. Personally I hate how the Sixers are changing the staff around though. I think we needed a new head coach obviosly, but I personally thought we had a great core of assistsant coaches last year. Hopefully this will be good for the orginization we will have to see how it turns out this guy may end up being another Ford type of guy who has a old school style that wont fit in with out players and system. I think we need to get a big man coach like Kareem Abdual or Pat Ewing here they know a lot that could help out sammy like the sky hook shot and more.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Pure Skillz:</div><div class="quote_post">Having a west coast scout as a assistant will probably help out Sammy a lot since the west coaches and scouts know a lot about what it takes to be a good big man in the league. Personally I hate how the Sixers are changing the staff around though. I think we needed a new head coach obviosly, but I personally thought we had a great core of assistsant coaches last year. Hopefully this will be good for the orginization we will have to see how it turns out this guy may end up being another Ford type of guy who has a old school style that wont fit in with out players and system. I think we need to get a big man coach like Kareem Abdual or Pat Ewing here they know a lot that could help out sammy like the sky hook shot and more.</div> YA I agree a west coach will help Sammy a great deal and help him be able to achive his potential. I think its good how the Sixers are changing their staff though as their staff last year pretty much sucked. It would be great if we could get KAreem to teach Sammy. Yao gets his own trainer so I don't get why Sammy can't. Bill Ruseel would be the best one IMO who I would want to train Sammy though. Teach him how to play some good defense. Ya now that would be sweet.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Ace2k2:</div><div class="quote_post">YA I agree a west coach will help Sammy a great deal and help him be able to achive his potential. I think its good how the Sixers are changing their staff though as their staff last year pretty much sucked. It would be great if we could get KAreem to teach Sammy. Yao gets his own trainer so I don't get why Sammy can't. Bill Ruseel would be the best one IMO who I would want to train Sammy though. Teach him how to play some good defense. Ya now that would be sweet.</div> I would have to disagree with that. I think that the fact that we could not get a good head coach and the fact that three of our players (two of them our top two scorers) combined for over 100 missed games is the reason the coaching staff looked bad. Now Ford he was a great assistant coach no where near ready to handle this team with all the injuries and a AI who refused to obey him last year. He did not have the respect of the players at all as the head ocoach, but he was a hell of a assistant coach. Alex English 9I think that is his name forget though) I believe was beginning his coaching career on the right foot. He was a former NBA all star and teaching obviously our young guards like Green how to play right. I will misss having him here. I think last season a big place that we made a mistake was not in hiring our coaching staff in general, but more specifically our head coach. We should have made a bigger push to try and get Portlands permession to talk to Cheeks or tried to get a coach with some kind of good NBA history just to name a few who where not yet head coaches at the time we hired and fired Randy Ayers there was George Karl, Pat Riley, Doc Rivers at the time we fired Ayers, and a couple others like Lenny Wilkens and Mike Fratello.
Man more changes,again we hired a former,Celtics employee,there is nothing wrong with this but there have been a lot of moves beign made ect...and I think its gone a little to far,Coack Obrien has a little to much say in are moves and I dont know if that is benefiting us or not.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Man more changes,again we hired a former,Celtics employee,there is nothing wrong with this but there have been a lot of moves beign made ect...and I think its gone a little to far,Coack Obrien has a little to much say in are moves and I dont know if that is benefiting us or not.</div> I believe they were necessary seeing as that we had a losing record last season and failed to reach the Playoff's. Yes, you can argue the fact that we were injured plagued team and which is why we had a horrendous season. But nonetheless, our coaching staff mainly our Head Coach wasn't necessarily the best thing that could have happen to us. I personally believe Randy Ayers could have been a mediocre coach at best, but that doesn?t erase the fact that he's very inexperienced coaching a team. And to make matters worse he was also coaching a loose cannon like Allen Iverson. And even though Iverson claimed to be fond of him, Ayers would want to keep it this way and he would ultimately hand Iverson the coaching job. And before you know it, Iverson was going to be the one setting the plays. But I do agree with you to a certain degree. I don't know whether Jim O'Brien is just hiring a new coaching staff for the hell of it to give us an impression of some sort or he's doing it for what?s the best for the team. Well whatever he's doing it's better than nothing. We did need a change and a change is what we got. Whether this will benefit us or not, we will have to wait and see, but this is what we hoped for and we got it.
