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Is that a little bit of tarnish I see on Sam Presti's halo?
i think they shouldnt have fired him so soon........instead, they should have traded some of the young talent and draft picks for some solid veteran leadership. I honestly think they should have made a strong play for Beno Udrih, Jennero Pargo, or Baron Davis. Davis would have been especially nice for them...Joe Smith, Robert Swift, and Damien Wilkins would have been used in trades...
PG Davis, Watson, Westbrook
SG Durant, Weaver
SF Mason, Green
PF Wilcox, Collison, DJ White
C Petro, Sene, Hill
IMO, just the simple addition of Davis makes this lineup much more formidable. I think they could easily compete for a .500 record, as opposed to being a complete bottom feeder right now.
Is that a little bit of tarnish I see on Sam Presti's halo?
sorry
english isnt my first language
This isn't unexpected. When PJ got hired there, I heard Bennett pushed Presti into taking PJ and that Presti wasn't thrilled with it at all. We'll see what happens next. I don't think he'd be back with the Spurs, but anything can happen, I guess.
P.J. never had a chance. It's rare for any coach to survive a bare-metal rebuilding plan. That squad has 4 rookies, 2 second-year players. Plus, Mouhammed Sene (2 years), Johan Petro (3 years) and Robert Swift (3 years) - none of whom are NBA-ready. Throw in Chris Wilcox, who is a chronic under-achiever, and you have a recipe for another lottery pick season.
Meanwhile, Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis are doing pretty good for themselves in Boston and Orlando, respectively. Without some veteran leadership on the team, they had to have known that it would take more than one season to turn things around. The team hurt P.J. a lot more than he hurt the team.
Now Presti will get who he wanted as a coach, and P.J. is left holding the bag.
PJ is a great guy and if he's not picked up by another NBA team as a head coach he should really consider college coaching again.
I do think he misused some guys - specifically Durant. Durant playing at the 2 creates an almost automatic mis-match on the defensive end of the floor at all times.
Noooo, not the golden child!
Hopefully PJ will be back...I doubt he will be though, at least not this season.
We can also than PJ for sending us Kurt. At least PJ saw just how crappy a basketball player he is. If you cant make your team better. Then send your crappy players to other teams and get a first round pick instead. Good move for them, stupid move for the spurs.
Is Carlesimo back with the Spurs?
Check out this roster:
http://www.nba.com/spurs/roster/
Very interesting. PJ back already?? Pop probably jumped at the chance to bring back one of his best offensive assistants.
If there's some truth to that, it's very strange, for a number of reasons.
1. Spurs don't even wait for P.J.'s bench seat in OKC to get cold before making their move?
2. Spurs find the money/room to hire an extra assistant?
3. The webmaster is the first to know, before any kind of press conference?
Too bad for PJ, other than Durant the rest of the players on the Thunder would have a hard time cracking the rotation on the Spurs (maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, maybe).....
Bring PJ back to the Spurs. Didn't we win two les with him as assistant?
Also, in case you were curious, P.J.'s name was taken off in the past (i.e. - it hasn't just been sitting on that roster page for 2 years with none of us noticing.
Wayback Machine from February 2008:
http://web.archive.org/web/200802031.../spurs/roster/
keep firing head coaches after 1 or 2 seasons and the'll be getting number picks almost every year. got to have some consistency and build on a foundation but they have no foundation and are just as inconsistent as the players wearing their jerseys. what are they looking? what are they trying to establish? what iden y are they trying to sculpt?
when you hire a coach, don't you ask them what are they going to bring? what are they trying to do? if so was PJ not doing that or have you decided to go another way already or it's not working?
I'm somewhat surprised PJ got fired. I thought Presti was doing a good job of building for the future. Having a bad record isn't too catastrophic when you already know there's no chance to make the playoffs. I'm surprised Presti wasn't as patient with the coaching as he was with the building process as a whole.
I'm guessing either Presti himself is feeling a little bit of heat, the kids on the team started rebelling against PJ or Brooks was Presti's first choice the whole time. . .
Yeah, there was a story about how the players had already tuned out PJ.
http://www.nba.com/2008/news/feature...arlesimo.reax/
excerpt:
P.J. Carlesimo officially lost his job after New Orleans embarrassed the Thunder before its home fans ... again. Realistically, Carlesimo's fate was sealed two nights earlier against the equally dismal Clippers.
In a slap fight between one-win teams, the Thunder squandered a 15-point lead and lost by 20. The team, especially its young stable of lottery picks, had clearly given up on Carlesimo. For the last two weeks, they were merely going through the motions.
The body language from Kevin Durant, Jeff Green and others on the sidelines during timeouts spoke volumes. They had tuned out a coach who also wore out welcomes in Golden State and Portland.
Yeah I saw that someone else already. Before this I read this thread.
Ask how many coaches Drob went through? And yes you dont get much done with new coaches every other year. Someone should tell the Mavs and Rockets that. All the talent in the world is for nothing, when you keep changing the system their supposed to learn.
Hopefully he comes back to SA. He's never going to get an NBA head coaching job again, so unless he wants to go find a junior college somewhere, I bet Pop would welcome him back.
He still lives in San Antonio so maybe a color analyst position?
Why an I not surprised that this Asshat would look for a way to run down the Spurs in a PJ thread.
i got some inside feed that PJ may have been riding guys but not EVERYBODY so there may be some truth to that. I find it hard to understand though coming from the Spurs, where treat stars the same as everyone else is standard unless PJ just felt it too hard to do under the cir stances of knowing who he is and his history.
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