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Kerr, for the second time.
I don’t think anyone said anything about people being fired. My thought was that there are a number of people who stayed for Pop, and he’s no longer the coach. People may move on now.
Kerr, for the second time.
Mamu in attendance... his return confirmed?!?
I don't think you are understanding where I'm coming from. I never said needing a coach to yell at players is controversial. I'm actually in agreement with you that at time it is necessary for a coach to yell at his players to motivate them. What I'm saying is the type of coach that can yell at players in the current NBA when necessary doesn't currently exist. Name me a current NBA coach that can yell at players when it is needed?
Kerr is a push over from what I have seen. This has been the case plenty of times with what he's allowed Draymond to do. I doubt Draymond would have done what he did with Poole if Pop was his coach.
Ahh, I see. That makes sense.
As others have said, it will be interesting to see who Mitch's assistant coaches will be.
In the spirit of continuity, I wonder if there are Austin Spur coaches that might get elevated.
Hiring Scott King couldn't hurt the defense.
I wouldn't argue with that. 6'10 guys who can shoot, pass and create chaos don't grow on trees.
I'm curious what Minix might provide, too. I'd bet he's at least as good as McNeeley.
Long live the friendship coalition.
Yeah, who knows, could easily happen.
They have a spot open for an assistant coach with mitch elevated to head coach so they promote or hiring someone outside possibly
I would like a former head coach. For example, the Warriors have Terry Stotts on the bench. I think someone that was a good former HC that is willing to be an assistant could be helpful as Mitch is still learning. Not sure if you guys think that sort of option, or someone younger than has a lot of potential like what Memphis had with Tuomas Iisalo as an assistant before he became their HC?
Brett Brown is someone he leaned on this season (Mitch) another one to fill a void with offensive / defensive schemes. Former head would be nice
Yeah I think it could be a good option. Not sure if I'd want someone that's won a Championship, though, as they might try and step on Mitch's toes. For whatever reason, someone mentioned Jeff Van Gundy earlier, and while I love his defenses, he's terrible with offense, and I don't see why he'd leave the Clippers for a similar role. I was even thinking about his bother (I guess hearing SVG commentate made me think of him) as Stan has coached a franchise big man before in prime Dwight Howard who was a very good defensive player. Stan can maybe help set up the team defense as he's had experience setting up a defense around a great defensive big? Plus Stan is better at coaching offense than Jeff, so he'd at least be able to help Mitch a bit more on that end of the court.
The other option is a former player. Not to keep using the Warriors, but they have Jerry Stackhouse who seems to be doing well for them as even Draymond respects him. Sam Cassell is another option, but not sure he'd want to leave for anything other than a head coaching gig.
I don't think or like either van gundy. I don't think they could coach in this iteration of the NBA and I seriously doubt they would join the spurs.
Bud should consider it. If he could jump on as an assistant and the spurs make a significant jump it would boost his odds in locating a new head coach position sooner
It would basically be charity work for Bud as he makes the same money sitting at home the next 3 years.
LOL, y'all have some weird view of hte NBA that isn't supported by anything other than your weird notions. There are so many videos of people getting yelled at on a daily basis. Coaches yell. Mitch definitely yelled last year.
Bud isn't possible. His salary is too much. If he takes another job he loses 10M a year that he's getting paid by the Suns for the next however many years. No assistant or even HC job is likely to pay him that much. Due to being fired twice the past few years, he's not likely to even get a head coaching job for the amount of money he's being paid still by Phoenix.
From what Exstatic told me a week or two ago, Bud loses it all if he takes another job. There's no way he'd throw that money away to be an assistant. He used the example of Monty Williams coaching his son's high school team for free as he's getting paid by the Pistons still. Coaches can't make up that sort of money like a player can, so they're not likely to take another job if getting paid that much.
I'm just going to copy and paste my most recent response to the poster I was originally having this conversation with since you just skipped past it and was trigger happy to respond without reading the whole entire conversation. Down below is my response which the poster ended up agreeing with.
I don't think you are understanding where I'm coming from. I never said needing a coach to yell at players is controversial. I'm actually in agreement with you that at time it is necessary for a coach to yell at his players to motivate them. What I'm saying is the type of coach that can yell at players in the current NBA when necessary doesn't currently exist. Name me a current NBA coach that can yell at players when it is needed?
Mitch came to the podium for a post game presser so hoarse he almost couldn’t speak…as INTERIM head coach.
They need a stud defensive coach and a shooting coach. I know those are two different roles, but they need them.
Defensive coach to bring our strategy into the mid-2020s and out of the 2000s, plus someone who can improve everyone's shooting a couple of points.
I thought I read an article last year that suggested he had some type of dysphonia and the team was researching ways to help him with it.
They hired a shooting coach Jimmy Baron in 2023
Another assistant coach who specializes in modern defensive schemes would be ideal
Just need to fill out and jettison the roster to be capable of handling and implementing them in a game.
Uh, every NBA coach yells at their places. Nothing you say here changes my POV that y'all have weird notions about what coaches do today.
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