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bring in the Ninja & Junk yard dog to be CO COACHS.
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bring in the Ninja & Junk yard dog to be CO COACHS.
I'd get rid of my season tickets as soon as the announcement was made.
Phil Jackson. That means we've replaced Tim and Manu w/ Lebron and Howard!!!
It's gotta be bud.
Coach Bud
Avery
jeff van gundy would be great
jerry sloan
Mr. Burns from the Simpsons
Vote for pedro.........
Larry Brown. He can take a sorry young team to the playoffs as long as they show up for practice and follow his lead in addition to management putting hardworking/ no at ude players on his roster. I.e. he got hired by the Clippers 1992 after he got fired from the Spurs in the middle of the season. Result = in half a season with the Clippers he lead them to Playoffs and Took the no. 2 seeded Jazz to a 5th and deciding first round game. On the other Hand Bob Bass took the spurs to their vacation destination early as they got SWEPT 3-0 by the 4TH seeded Phoenix Suns.
A better question is WHY? What the has this guy accomplished? Nothing.
Jeff Van Gundy/Jim O'Brien
Bruce Bowen.
Are any of our assistants our outside coaches known for getting along with Parker particularly well? That may be a good starting point.
Avery fuggin' Johnson please
I don't really know, but if I had to pick right now I would say Jeff Van Gundy. Pop has been great for the Spurs franchise, but let us never forget that great coaching is made by great players...even Pop constantly says this. While I do believe Pop to be a super coach (aside from the complete aberration of the '06 and '08 series against the Mavs), I think coaching gets inflated when you have Tim Duncan and David Robinson calibur players on your team.
To me, coaching is the salt and pepper that seasons the meal...the peripheral trim that can make the dish all the better if enough is added, or simply average if the seasoning is ignored.
To me, Pops greatest strength is in his willingness to defer attention for his teams success. Pop understands that if he takes all the acolades when his team is doing well, then he takes all the more blame when they stumble. Putting the responsibility on the players is what makes him such a good coach. There arn't many coaches that do that anymore, as most are attention seeking so they can command the most money on the open market.
Like him or not, Bill Parcells is very similar to Pop in many regards. When reporters asked Parcells about injuries playing a role in his teams success or lack therof, Parcells would never allow his teams to use injuries as an excuse for failure.
To me, Larry Brown has always been somewhat overrated, so I would say Van Gundy, but then... hmm...Don Nelson intrigues me, but I can't stand his gimmicks on offense, and Phil...never cared for him. Doug Collins had the Bulls on the verge as the Pistons were aging and falling apart when Phil came in. I'm not saying that Phil isn't a good coach, but there is ALOT of fluff there.
Great coaching almost always requires great teams IMHO and vice versa. The best coach I can think of in professional sports that wins (albeit not championships, which is how coaches are measured) is Jeff Fisher of the ans.
Yeah, Van Gundy for me...just need to get that image of him trying to break up that Knicks/Heat fight and being dragged accross the floor like a little terrier out of my mind to feel comfortable with it
Edit: Add Jerry Sloan to my list
Anyone except A.J. or Bill Walton. Does Popovich get a number retired when he decides to retire? Maybe the number of championships he wins.
Duncan has said it in passing, I've always taken it lightly. I don't have a quote from him being serious about it.
I would love to see him coach, I think he'd be great at it. But I don't think he will. My money is on him retiring at the end of this contract and we'll see him at the occasional home game with Robinson. Other than that, I expect him to retire happily with his family, and probably devote more time to his Foundation. He's starting to get tired, showing the wear and tear of the schedule and travel. His knees are going to bother him to some degree from here on out. I don't see him jumping into the grind of NBA coaching.
Maybe after a couple of years off to heal he'll miss it...
Realistically its; Avery or Bud
what I would like to see happening is bring Europe's best in Želimir “Željko” Obradović.
1. Jeff Van Gundy
2. Rick Adelman; not defensive minded, but he's been pretty awesome vs KFC in the 2002 and 2009 playoffs
A couple of Silver Stars.
Bill Self
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