CoolBreeze44 wrote:I want somebody who has either won a title (college or pro) as a head coach, or an NBA title as a player. I believe in this experience.
This seems like weird criteria to really lean on as there have been plenty of good/great basketball coaches that didn't win a championship of any kind before coaching.
My criteria doesn't stipulate that they did. I'd gladly take Pop, Spoelstra, Calipari, Carlisle and most anybody else whose championship experience came as a head coach.
Honestly this was the year to try to get a coach. Donovan, Hoiberg, Gentry and Malone are all good coaches who would have been nice to try to land. Even the 76ers have a better coach than we do. I'm not interested in any my way or the highway high profile coaches like Van Gundy and Thibs. I'm not that interested in Cal either. Anytime he hasn't had a stacked team to his standard they end up being pretty mediocre and in close games he seems to lack the ability to make the winning adjustment. Towns was torching Wisconsin and they stopped giving him the ball. That's on the coach to tell them to get Towns the ball. I'm not a fan of the market right now though. Hopefully things go south somewhere with a good coach like Memphis or Phoenix so we can pick up the piece, but I doubt it.
longstrangetrip wrote: Still hoping Sam Mitchell leads them to 40 wins and gets the job though.
I do too. It is the best thing for the team moving forward. If your team takes on the personality of your coach Mitchell is a pretty good guy for them to be molded by.
After reading the truehoop posts about future coaching going back the last 3 years I came away with a couple thoughts.
The biggest things they pointed out in 2 of the 3 years was buy in was the most important. ypu can add assistants to do some of the other stuff but if you can't get buy in then it doesn't matter. I feel like Sam has a history of getting guys to buy in so that's a positive for him.
There are still a number of terrific basketball minds out there that haven't gotten their shot. The articles really sound like they have done their homework talking to actual basketball folks not just reading who was reported to have interest or teams interviewed etc. They are well worth the read IMO. Tyrone Lue may have been the guy that sounded most impressive of any they talked about in all 3 years of the articles.
Scott Brooks developed the best big four in recent memory. If he could develop Lavine into something resembling Westbrook, Wiggins into something resembling KD and Towns into a better version of Ibaka and find a James Harden type, I'll take that.
