I do not dislike Stotts and i saw in another thread if he got fired that fan would stop being a fan ... well kind of a silly view but to each there own. I think Stotts is a good coach but i feel like he has taken this team as far as he can and sometimes it's just time to bring someone fresh in to liven things up. Same kind of goes for NeO too he has had his moments good and bad but i think he is kind of in the same spot as Stotts.
I don't think Mick is saying that Hammon being a female is a reason he doesn't want her here. I think he's saying that if she is hired, he doesn't want the fact that she would be the first female NBA head coach to be a factor therein, but for her (or whomever is hired) to be chosen solely based on management's belief in their ability to be successful in the position.
I'm uneasy about a guy who never wanted to work as an assistant. I want somebody to come in with a lot of energy and drive and perseverance.
I like Brian Shaw, I have said it before but he has known Dame since he was right out of high school maybe even while he was in high school. The reason why people say that he didn't work in Denver was because he held his team to too high of a standard. That's exactly the kind of coach we need. We need a coach that isn't quite as extreme as Thibs but brings it. It won't hurt that Dame already has that crazy Lillard loyalty to the guy so when Shaw gets in guys' faces Dame is there to have his back and Dame will take harsh constructive criticism from him better than any other coach in the league that hasn't been a coach here over the last 9 seasons.
It was actually my daughter's coach's husband. I try not to run the clock for that exact reason. I get too busy watching the game.
Hah. Yes, I knew that... I was just kidding with him because his wording could be taken either way. I should have used green font! Thanks!!
Over my long impressive career as an NBA fan, I have seen many times, a GM fire his Head Coach, and then take his job. With that as a backdrop, I nominate...Olshey as our next great Head Coach. As long as he gives up his first name. I desire to call him simply Olshey.
When McMillan was here, that is all who he could coach. When we finally got experienced players who had learned a variety of systems, he had no clue how to coach them...Andre Miller, Jamal Crawford, and the lesser ones added in his last couple of years. He'd be lost with the players he would inherit. The GM would have to rebuild the roster from scratch, as Pritchard tried.
Firing Frank Vogel and replacing him with Kidd was the Lakers original plan. I'm hoping that the Lakers flame out of the playoffs, said plan happens, and we hire Vogel. Our defense would improve immediately.
Low key Stotts replacement idea. Johnnie Bryant was an assistant on the Jazz since 2012 and then Thibbs hired him as his associate head coach on the Knicks. He's 35 years old and from Oakland. I bet Dame knows him (he went to college in Utah like Dame did), I bet he's hard nosed if Thibbs wanted him as associate HC at his age and I bet he would come in here with some fire.
All I know about Chauncey Billups is that he was mediocre for several years, despite good coaches, who were disappointed. Teams got rid of him. Finally in his 7th season, he made the all-star team. He's a slow learner. If anyone should apprentice as an assistant coach first, it's him of all people.
Have you ever known someone to be a slow learner in their twenties but then become far sharper and quicker on the uptake in their thirties? I can't count the number of people I've known who that applies to. Things come at you fast when you're young and then they tend to slow down for smarter people as they get older, making it easier for them to learn at a faster rate.
So based on that dreamer possibility that he's right that the genius is ready to skip the normal progression in coaching, you want to hire Billups.
Your idealism about some people growing up late ignores the context of this particular situation, to which it's irrelevant. Billups claims to be such a fast learner that he insists upon skipping college coaching and assistant NBA coaching, as if he's a student jumping straight into graduate school. His conceit is ridiculous for anyone, but especially for him and his history. There's a small chance that Billups might succeed this way, but we should hire a coach with a higher probability than that modicum of luck. The last no-experience rookie NBA coach I remember was Larry Bird, but he had 2 blue chip assistant coaches guiding his way.
