<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetsDaily)</div><div class='quotemain'>Spurs assistant coach Vinny Del Negro was named head coach of the Chicago Bulls Monday and the team is starting to look for experienced assistants to work with him. One might be Bill Cartwright, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Cartwright had let John Paxson know he’d be interested in rejoining the Bulls’ staff as an assistant if he hired an inexperienced coach.</div> Easy as 1-2-3: It's Del Negro - Brian Hanley - Chicago Sun-Times Hm. Well, Da Negro could be considered "inexperienced", I guess. Any chance Billy's hopin Vinny fails miserably, so he could take over as head coach? Just a thought.
I like the sound of it for the Bulls. Del Negro steps up to the GM spot and Cartwright returns as head coach. Hopefully that's what's in the cards. Cartwright does have head coaching experience - with the Bulls. He runs the triangle offense, which is good enough for the Lakers to make the finals AND it works well with the kind of personnel the Bulls have on the court.
Cartwright has been in Chicago all week. He will undoubtedly be back on the Bulls bench. Bob Hill will likely be the lead assistant for Del Negro.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BG7 Lavigne @ Jun 10 2008, 12:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Cartwright has been in Chicago all week. He will undoubtedly be back on the Bulls bench. Bob Hill will likely be the lead assistant for Del Negro.</div> Link <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Given that Vinny Del Negro owns no previous coaching experience, his staff could be essential to his success. Sources said former Spurs and Sonics coach Bob Hill, who had Del Negro as a player in San Antonio for two seasons, is getting consideration to be the lead assistant. Hill also coached the Pacers and Knicks. According to another source who talked to Del Negro, he's considering adding another unknown veteran assistant as well.</div>
I don't think Cartwright is the unknown veteran assistant given how much he has been discussed. I think Cartwright back to the Bulls is pretty much a done deal. As a Bulls fan, you have to hope that Thibodeau is the unknown veteran assistant. He only signed a one year deal with Boston, and he might want to take on a new challenge. It seems a little unclear whether Thibo wants to remain an assistant or become a head coach. Maybe one of the Lakers assistants, Brian Shaw or Kurt Rambis. If we draft Beasley, we will probably look long and hard at running the triangle. Cartwright knows how to run it and Rambis/Shaw could reinforce it.
Now you're just reaching dude. They may be assistant coaches right now, but there's no denying that they're on the path to being head coaches at some point down the road. Even if they were to remain in the assistant role for another year or so, I can't find one compelling reason for them to jump ship from title-contending teams (one's that only make them look like better coaching candidates) to a mess like the Bulls.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chutney @ Jun 10 2008, 03:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Now you're just reaching dude. They may be assistant coaches right now, but there's no denying that they're on the path to being head coaches at some point down the road. Even if they were to remain in the assistant role for another year or so, I can't find one compelling reason for them to jump ship from title-contending teams (one's that only make them look like better coaching candidates) to a mess like the Bulls.</div> Yeah, I would say that we could get one of them...if we showed them the money...but than I remember what franchise we're looking at. (Unless they purposely went cheap on the head coach to try to get someone like Thibodeau with big money...but I seriously doubt that).
I think any assistant coach who wants to be head coach would take any decent job offered. Not necessarily caring about the team's status, as that's under his future control, but rather the terms of his own contract. If the Bulls offered Thibo the head coaching job, I bet he'd have jumped all over it.
I really dont mind letting Cartwright go, Frank has to shake up his coaching staff. Adding former assistant coaches from the mavericks or guys like dwanye casey are known to develop young players.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 10 2008, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think any assistant coach who wants to be head coach would take any decent job offered. Not necessarily caring about the team's status, as that's under his future control, but rather the terms of his own contract. If the Bulls offered Thibo the head coaching job, I bet he'd have jumped all over it.</div> I believe the reference was to them becoming assistants for the Bulls under Del Negro. I don't see them leaving the Lakers or Celtics to still be an assistant with the Bulls.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Netted @ Jun 10 2008, 03:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 10 2008, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think any assistant coach who wants to be head coach would take any decent job offered. Not necessarily caring about the team's status, as that's under his future control, but rather the terms of his own contract. If the Bulls offered Thibo the head coaching job, I bet he'd have jumped all over it.</div> I believe the reference was to them becoming assistants for the Bulls under Del Negro. I don't see them leaving the Lakers or Celtics to still be an assistant with the Bulls. </div> You think Thibo has a chance to succeed Doc as Celtics coach? When? Much better chance of succeeding Del Negro when he moves up to GM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 10 2008, 07:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Netted @ Jun 10 2008, 03:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 10 2008, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think any assistant coach who wants to be head coach would take any decent job offered. Not necessarily caring about the team's status, as that's under his future control, but rather the terms of his own contract. If the Bulls offered Thibo the head coaching job, I bet he'd have jumped all over it.</div> I believe the reference was to them becoming assistants for the Bulls under Del Negro. I don't see them leaving the Lakers or Celtics to still be an assistant with the Bulls. </div> You think Thibo has a chance to succeed Doc as Celtics coach? When? Much better chance of succeeding Del Negro when he moves up to GM </div> Better chance of landing a head coaching job next year after the Celtics perform well again and someone in the league gets fired again.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jun 11 2008, 10:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>^^^ Think he'd rather coach the T-Wolves?</div> Could wind-up coaching the Hawks, Cavs, Heat, Nuggets, Warriors, or Nets if he holds out till next season.
