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David Vanderpool, spent 7 years with the blazers and was considered huge in the development of Dame and CJ.

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What I've been seeing a lot of blazers fans are sad to lose him.

Sounds like Ryan was huge on getting him on the staff

I'm not as knowledgable on assistants/potential assistants to say wether I have a reputable opinion. I do think that good defensive assistants is what Ryan should go for while he focuses more on the offense side himself.

https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/245886/How-The-Blazers-Turned-Damian-Lillard-And-CJ-McCollum-Into-Clones-Of-Each-Other

This guy was their architect of their defense last year which was 7th best and the guy who oversaw the development of cj and dame.

He also has history with Wiggins when he was the assistant coach with team Canada in 2015

One thing that stands out for me about Vanterpool that hasn't been mentioned is this guy played pretty much everywhere. CBA, China, Italy Russia. He won championships at all those levels too. Then he coached in Russia. This guy is multicultural he really embraced the culture especially of Italy when he was there. If we have some guys coming over from another country we will have a guy that can relate to them. It also doesn't hurt to have a guy that won MVPs in those leagues as a guy assessing various players from those leagues. One article I read sounded like he was not just a players coach but someone that has no problem getting into guys and benching them if they aren't getting the job done. A couple years ago he was voted 3rd best assistant coach in the NBA. It honestly feels fortunate that we got him here. It will be interesting to see who the offensive guy is.

monsterpile wrote:One thing that stands out for me about Vanterpool that hasn't been mentioned is this guy played pretty much everywhere. CBA, China, Italy Russia. He won championships at all those levels too. Then he coached in Russia. This guy is multicultural he really embraced the culture especially of Italy when he was there. If we have some guys coming over from another country we will have a guy that can relate to them. It also doesn't hurt to have a guy that won MVPs in those leagues as a guy assessing various players from those leagues. One article I read sounded like he was not just a players coach but someone that has no problem getting into guys and benching them if they aren't getting the job done. A couple years ago he was voted 3rd best assistant coach in the NBA. It honestly feels fortunate that we got him here. It will be interesting to see who the offensive guy is.

How could you not embrace the culture of Italy? Wine and great food starting in the early afternoon. I often wonder what I'm doing in my north American life of stress and hustle.

Sounds like an intriguing hire. Hopefully this is finally the beginning of the culture change everyone so desperately wants around this team. We still need the talent to match though.

thedoper wrote:

monsterpile wrote:One thing that stands out for me about Vanterpool that hasn't been mentioned is this guy played pretty much everywhere. CBA, China, Italy Russia. He won championships at all those levels too. Then he coached in Russia. This guy is multicultural he really embraced the culture especially of Italy when he was there. If we have some guys coming over from another country we will have a guy that can relate to them. It also doesn't hurt to have a guy that won MVPs in those leagues as a guy assessing various players from those leagues. One article I read sounded like he was not just a players coach but someone that has no problem getting into guys and benching them if they aren't getting the job done. A couple years ago he was voted 3rd best assistant coach in the NBA. It honestly feels fortunate that we got him here. It will be interesting to see who the offensive guy is.

How could you not embrace the culture of Italy? Wine and great food starting in the early afternoon. I often wonder what I'm doing in my north American life of stress and hustle.

Sounds like an intriguing hire. Hopefully this is finally the beginning of the culture change everyone so desperately wants around this team. We still need the talent to match though.

You make a good point but he said he learned the language and would love to live there someday. :) Italy is on my wife's list of places to go next. If we go there it will be the first place I will have more language skills than my wife. I learned a bit one summer and also took an English and Italian diction for singers class in college. I could sing stuff in Italian but probably wouldn't know what it was. :) I got a pretty good grade in that class I think I surprisingly got the highest grade in the final test.

As for talent...look at Portland. I mean who thought 3-4 years ago they would be a perennial playoff team? Every year they sign some guy for not much or peanuts and get something good out of them. Worthwhile rotation players leave and they seemingly replace them. That's coaching and culture. There isn't a substitute for talent BUT I think teams have something to do with wether or not guys who come through the doors are worthwhile. Hopefully Vanterpool is a part of us heading in the right direction in that regard.

Pascucci and Gupta added to the front office. Now Vanderpool added to the coaching staff. This is the first time in this franchise's 30-year history great that they've actually built what looks like the makings of a highly professional, first class organization. I wasn't sure about Rosas, but his hiring decisions thus far have been excellent. I look forward to the remaining additions Rosas makes to the front office and coaching staff. Then let's see if Rosas and the team of executives, scouts and coaches he hires can upgrade the talent around KAT and develop the talent that's already here. This is about as happy with the Wolves as I've been for a long time.

lipoli390 wrote:Pascucci and Gupta added to the front office. Now Vanderpool added to the coaching staff. This is the first time in this franchise's 30-year history great that they've actually built what looks like the makings of a highly professional, first class organization. I wasn't sure about Rosas, but his hiring decisions thus far have been excellent. I look forward to the remaining additions Rosas makes to the front office and coaching staff. Then let's see if Rosas and the team of executives, scouts and coaches he hires can upgrade the talent around KAT and develop the talent that's already here. This is about as happy with the Wolves as I've been for a long time.

I think it's a great sign. Based on Instagram Dame is really sad losing Vanderpool. Seems like they had an excellent relationship

6ers just made 2 great hires for browns staff. Ime to be the lead and a shooting coach, both plucked from the spurs.

Do we even have a shooting coach?