Should Becky be a coaching candidate for the Knicks?

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Originally Posted by Russ

It would set up a great "glass ceiling" claim against the league:

"I wanted a real coaching job with a future and they stuck me with this shit."

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LOL... now that's funny. New York - where basketball careers go to die.

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Originally Posted by 01Snake

She's got about as much a right to coach as Luke Walton and Tyron Lue have. LOL

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Yep. Or Vinny Del Negro or Steve Kerr or Derek Fisher or Jason Kidd.

I think Chad Forcier coached the summer league team in Utah last summer, and they looked like a completely different team when Becky took over. She impressed me a lot. I'd root for her as a Pop replacement, especially if Tim Duncan is one of her assistants.

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Originally Posted by K...

It's just crazy that people think womens basketball doesn't use the same coaching tools and such as mens, i mean is it really that hard to figure out how to call a timeout in a mans game?,half the wnba is butch and the nba is turning queer and all.


So lets have fun, convince me why nba experience is more important and why being a WNBA starting all star PG for 15-20 yrs is less experience then a role player like Fischer or Luke Walton

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Since the high-water mark of Gregg Popovich's playing career was 14 points per game at the Air Force Academy I don't even understand why someone would bother trying to make that case at all.

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Originally Posted by K...

It's just crazy that people think womens basketball doesn't use the same coaching tools and such as mens, i mean is it really that hard to figure out how to call a timeout in a mans game?,half the wnba is butch and the nba is turning queer and all.

So lets have fun, convince me why nba experience is more important and why being a WNBA starting all star PG for 15-20 yrs is less experience then a role player like Fischer or Luke Walton

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The butch/queer comments aren't even worth a reply. But there's a little more to coaching than calling a timeout. And the point isn't that she doesn't have NBA playing experience - just that she needed to have some coaching experience in the NBA. I mean, theoretically, coaching a high-school team is the same as coaching a pro team, but you're not going to see any NBA teams hiring from the high school coaching ranks.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

Since the high-water mark of Gregg Popovich's playing career was 14 points per game at the Air Force Academy I don't even understand why someone would bother trying to make that case at all.

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Yeah, but Pop apprenticed as a coach under Hank Egan, Larry Brown, and Don Nelson. That had a huge impact on his own coaching career, and shouldn't be under-estimated. Becky is getting experience under the current best in the game. No reason why that won't have the same impact on her - if she has a knack for it. From what others have said, it sounds like she does.

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Originally Posted by K...

Thats pretty wrong then. If it were not she'd have stumbled with the MENS summer league players. Now if your point is that some players would object to playing for a woman....like say a petty fuck like Carmelo or Phil, you might be correct. But the knicks are mostly a rich version of our summer league team.

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The results of summer league doesn't mean shit tbh.

she's ugly

Are you moving the goalposts here? She's not a great coach bc she has crazy exp, she's a great coach because she has the right attitude.

I mean the current goalpost for me is luke fucking walton.......You want to tell me luke is a better coaching candidate?

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Originally Posted by K...

Are you moving the goalposts here? She's not a great coach bc she has crazy exp, she's a great coach because she has the right attitude.

I mean the current goalpost for me is luke fucking walton.......You want to tell me luke is a better coaching candidate?

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yes

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Originally Posted by tholdren

yes

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explain then

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Originally Posted by K...

explain then

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Luke walton guided a Warriors team to a fantastic start to a record setting season. He has head coaching experience. Becky has done none of that. I also think Becky is uglier than Luke Walton.

We wouldn't be having this discussion, and NOBODY would be talking about a head coach job...if she, was a he.

Silliness abounds. :)

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Originally Posted by GSH

Yeah, but Pop apprenticed as a coach under Hank Egan, Larry Brown, and Don Nelson. That had a huge impact on his own coaching career, and shouldn't be under-estimated. Becky is getting experience under the current best in the game. No reason why that won't have the same impact on her - if she has a knack for it. From what others have said, it sounds like she does.

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Reinforcing the case that success as a player doesn't really equate to coaching ability. It's a completely different skillset. The only important factor in coaching is that your players believe in you enough to keep listening.

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Originally Posted by Nathan89

The results of summer league doesn't mean shit tbh.

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Spoken like someone that wasn't paying attention. Chad Forcier coached the SL team in Utah to a 1-3 record, and Hammon went 6-1 in Vegas with basically the same team.

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Originally Posted by 01Snake

She's got about as much a right to coach as Luke Walton and Tyron Lue have. LOL

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This. And not to mention she's from our lineage, which has produced many great coaches and management throughout the entire NBA.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

Reinforcing the case that success as a player doesn't really equate to coaching ability. It's a completely different skillset. The only important factor in coaching is that your players believe in you enough to keep listening.

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Exactly.

Don't you agree, though, that there are differences in the way the game is played between the NBA and the WNBA, just like between the NCAA and the NBA? I don't think it's a matter of "paying dues" as an assistant, before becoming a head coach. A lot of ex-NBA players would never be suited to be a head coach, but if you don't have that experience you need to get it as an assistant.

Do I think she's getting fast-tracked because she's a woman? There's probably some of that. But Becky wasn't just a WNBA player - she was a person who pushed herself to be at the very top of her profession. A lot of men go their whole careers as assistants, but there are people who have the drive and personality to operate at the highest level and a LOT of people who don't. She may get a shot a little sooner than some, but she will have to earn the right to keep it.

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Originally Posted by GSH

Exactly.

Don't you agree, though, that there are differences in the way the game is played between the NBA and the WNBA, just like between the NCAA and the NBA? I don't think it's a matter of "paying dues" as an assistant, before becoming a head coach. A lot of ex-NBA players would never be suited to be a head coach, but if you don't have that experience you need to get it as an assistant.

Do I think she's getting fast-tracked because she's a woman? There's probably some of that. But Becky wasn't just a WNBA player - she was a person who pushed herself to be at the very top of her profession. A lot of men go their whole careers as assistants, but there are people who have the drive and personality to operate at the highest level and a LOT of people who don't. She may get a shot a little sooner than some, but she will have to earn the right to keep it.

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Her playing experience doesn't really matter. Whether she was a good player or not doesn't matter. Frankly I didn't like her as a player because I thought she was a chucker who didn't make her teams better. But I really like her as a coach. I watched her in the summer league and she was excellent. And I don't think she's being fast tracked at all. She was hired as an assistant and she's the lowest on the totem pole, and she's gone about doing her job like a pro. Pop's assistants are good support guys, but I don't see Engelland or Udoka or Forcier as head coach types. Of the current assistants, she's my pick as his successor.

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Originally Posted by Obstructed_View

Her playing experience doesn't really matter. Whether she was a good player or not doesn't matter. Frankly I didn't like her as a player because I thought she was a chucker who didn't make her teams better. But I really like her as a coach. I watched her in the summer league and she was excellent. And I don't think she's being fast tracked at all. She was hired as an assistant and she's the lowest on the totem pole, and she's gone about doing her job like a pro. Pop's assistants are good support guys, but I don't see Engelland or Udoka or Forcier as head coach types. Of the current assistants, she's my pick as his successor.

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I understand what you're saying. And I didn't watch her in the summer league, so I appreciate you telling what you saw there. I probably could have guessed as much, but that's not the same as hearing it from someone who knows first hand. I agree that most assistants don't have the drive to be head coaches, and that includes Ime and Chip - even though I think they're both valuable as assistants.

I'm not going to beat this to death, but I'll take one more shot. I've seen countless corporations put accountant-types, or operations managers in charge of IT. The theory is that a good leader can lead anything. There are always exceptions, but in general it doesn't work out well. They may perform the basic functions, but the organization doesn't operate at a level of excellence. A similar thing happened with teachers. Supposedly a good teacher can teach anything, so they started giving general education degrees, and turning out teachers without specialties. That's fine, if you want half-assed education.

I don't think Becky's experience as a player is insignificant. I also don't think that her "ability to get players to believe in her" is enough to allow her to step into a head coach job. Was one season coaching summer league enough? I don't see how it's possible, even if she is head coach material (and by all accounts I think she probably is). And I think the conversation is premature - just like it's premature to even talk about Steph Curry in the same breath as Michael Jordan, on the basis of what we've seen so far. But could she do it right now? Sure... at least as good as Bob Weiss, or Wes Unseld, or Byron Scott. She's would have to do better than that, or there won't be a second female head coach any time soon.

So, yeah, I think talk about her being a head coach is premature. Shouldn't even be having the discussion right now. But there seems to be a lot of interest in putting her into that position as soon as possible, to make a statement. That would be totally unfair.

She is so attractive tbh. :bobo

The question is how would she do on a loosing team lets say the Kings?

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Originally Posted by Kikoluna

She is so attractive tbh. :bobo

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You're female, correct?

I actually thought Patrick Ewing is dead...beeing killed in a car accident or something during his stint with the Sonics.

LOL... I just made a couple of private apologies. Heavy-duty antihistamines and codeine cough syrup. The fate of female coaches in the NBA just seemed really important to me. TBH I really don't care much, one way or another. She's just another coach. She's with the Spurs, so I wish her well, and I'm sure she'll get what she earns.

I'm about to take my evening doses, so I'll be staying out of any heavy discussions this time. :lol

It would be interesting if she got an interview, but in doing so a team would be setting themselves up for scrutiny if they didn't hire her. She needs to be right where she is, learning under the maestro. In time, she'll be handed the clipboard when Pop gets ejected or when he's just not making the trip for whatever reason. After a season or two of that, she'll be getting phone calls.

Huh? What the hell has she done to deserve that? Let her ride Pop's coattails to at least 1 championship before even bringing this stuff up.