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he made it thru the door in the great Spurs Organization.... good backup if we need him down the road
CLEVELAND, Ohio – After 13 years, point guard Earl Watson will retire from the NBA to accept a coaching position with the San Antonio Spurs' NBA Development League affiliate, the Austin Toros, a league source informed Northeast Ohio Media Group.
The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the team has yet to make an official announcement.
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index...._retire_t.html
he made it thru the door in the great Spurs Organization.... good backup if we need him down the road
Never seen another dude who could throw alley-oop passes from halfcourt 2-3 games a game like he did at UCLA.
That's how you get an emergency PG without using a roster spot.
Not to mention getting a guy who can coach up Cotton.
brilliant!
I dig
Yeah. Pretty creative.
Looks like he was at the scrimmage last night:
Why couldn't we get him on the Spurs' staff and get Hammon to the toros staff instead?
Because he has no track record with the Spurs coaching staff and Hammon does?
But he has an NBA track record and track record of playing with professional male athletes while Hammon doesn't?
^ Damn. Is it going to start again?
Ok, I know it's spilled milk and we have no choice but to hope it works out but I'm making fair points here.
But the coaching staff made the call. And they made the call based on Hammon having a track record with them.
Prior to this decision, Watson has had no prior track record with the Spurs.
That's pretty much what it is.
Fair enough. In Pop, I must trust, especially with the Messina hire.
Pop/RC tend to make their hires after they've established relationships with the people in question.
Now it could be the case that they've known Watson for a while, but without evidence of that, we'll have to assume that whatever relationship they have is a recently-made one. And based on what we know of their behavior, they're not prone to rocking the boat.
Yeah but how do we explain the Boylen hire from last year?
Not sure if you are. Watson waited until September to decide whether he was going to retire or not. That's well after the time to be hiring NBA assistant coached.
Any boy basketball player would be a better coach than a girl basketball player.
Just to say it out loud: Hammon has more experience coaching men at this point than Watson does. And I note that as someone who really liked Earl's toughness, intelligence, and tenacity as a player and really likes seeing him get an opportunity with the Spurs. But trying to make this an Earl vs. Becky issue is pretty ridiculous. Becky earned her way to this job and people should really just stop making any sort of deal out of the fact that she doesn't have a Y chromosome.
I'll have to do some digging, but I do recall reading that Pop and Boylen had known each other for a while prior to the hire.
Points about Hammon in that she has zero NBA experience, zero experience working with pro male athletes and just wondering why PATFO rushed to hire her instead of just waiting for a guy like Watson to take the spot instead? I mean, with the Messina signing and coming off a Championship with world-weary players back again, would it have killed us to wait until September for another assistant coach hire? But I'll leave it at that and hope Hammon proves me wrong, and can avoid TP's sexual advances.
You are plainly misinformed.
Get informed and then try to complain some more.
Boylen has a very long track record as an assistant with very good teams -- he has two rings from his time with the Rockets (meaning he's been at this for a long time). He also was a collegiate head coach (at Utah) and spent several years on Izzo's staff at MSU. All of that would make him very easy to vet through trusted sources who'd spent time with Boylen in the past. To say nothing of the distinct possibility that Boylen and Pop might have had an existing relationship after each having been in the league that long.
False equivalency with the blue font line. If you understood my posts correctly, you'd know I wasn't making that point.
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