Celtics' Tom Thibodeau to coach Chris Paul and the Hornets?

[Ashy Larry]

*cough Phil Jackson cough cough*

all Phil does is take the talent that other coaches couldn't win with and wins ........


talent wise, those late 90 teams > than the three-peat squads. Del Harris is brutal.

[LnGrrrR]

all Phil does is take the talent that other coaches couldn't win with and wins ........

I actually agree with this, and think that PJ is a good coach. Is it easier to coach when you have MJ or Kobe or Shaq on your team than it is a bunch of scrubs? Yeah, I'd say so. But it's still a challenge for different reasons.

I just think it's funny that a Laker fan would discount a coach's abilities because his roster is stacked...

[Ashy Larry]

I actually agree with this, and think that PJ is a good coach. Is it easier to coach when you have MJ or Kobe or Shaq on your team than it is a bunch of scrubs? Yeah, I'd say so. But it's still a challenge for different reasons.

I just think it's funny that a Laker fan would discount a coach's abilities because his roster is stacked...

you can have all the talent in the world. If you don't have the right leader guiding that talent, it's a waste.

you give Phil:

Nick Van Exel
Kobe Bryant
Eddie Jones
Ced Caballos
Derek Fisher
Rick Fox
Robert Horry
Shaquille O'Neal
Elden Campbell

It would have been great to see that squad in a structured offense .......

[Pelicans78]

you can have all the talent in the world. If you don't have the right leader guiding that talent, it's a waste.

you give Phil:

Nick Van Exel
Kobe Bryant
Eddie Jones
Ced Caballos
Derek Fisher
Rick Fox
Robert Horry
Shaquille O'Neal
Elden Campbell

It would have been great to see that squad in a structured offense .......

Horry was traded for Ceballos, but anyway I think Phil would have won big with that lineup.

[Ashy Larry]

Horry was traded for Ceballos, but anyway I think Phil would have won big with that lineup.

yeah, I know .... just naming some of the players in that era that era that Phil could have been working with. Would have been something to see ......

[LnGrrrR]

How dumb would the Hornets be to not just wait to see how Thibodeaux does in the Finals? Besides Thibodeaux is a perfect name for a Louisiana team...

[Dunc n Dave]

This guy is a scrub coach that benefited from having a stacked team. No one even knew his ing name before yesterday.

what a ... He is the guy responsible for the Celtics Defensive schemes. Before coming to the C's, he was well known as the mastermind behind the Rockets defenses that were Top 5 in the league for several years under Van Gundy.

If he can get Tracy McGrady, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen (among others) to play D, he can get CP3 to play D too, (jury's still out on David West, though).

He will be a good fit for the Hornets.

[redzero]

If he can get Tracy McGrady, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen (among others) to play D, he can get CP3 to play D too, (jury's still out on David West, though).

He will be a good fit for the Hornets.

I wasn't aware that Chris Paul didn't play defense.

[Dunc n Dave]

I wasn't aware that Chris Paul didn't play defense.

He gets a lot of steals by gambling and flops more than Manu. If that's what you can defense, than yeah, he plays defense...

[redzero]

I haven't watched Chris Paul play and I think that getting a lot of steals means that he doesn't play good defense.

[Pelicans78]

How dumb would the Hornets be to not just wait to see how Thibodeaux does in the Finals? Besides Thibodeaux is a perfect name for a Louisiana team...

It doesn't make sense for them to wait. Its been leaked he prefers Chicago and even the Nets at this point. They've offered him the job about a week ago. If he really wanted it, he would have decided already. Plus, the new coach can help with draft evaluations which will be important since the Hornets can't sign a big FA other than the MLE.

[Dunc n Dave]

I wasn't aware that following up an embarrassing defensive performance vs Billups in the playoffs by giving up 18 points to Chris Duhon and 17 to a washed up Bibby early season means Paul doesn't play defense.

[Dunc n Dave]

He's just another scrub coach. I don't eve remember the Rockets getting out of the first round, do you? Except for when he left.

Do you think it's mere coincidence that every team he's coached in the last 7+ years had been Top 5 defensively?

Here's some tidbits for you. You should get to know him, because he'll be a great head coach one day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Thibodeau

-One of the finest defensive coaches in the league, he helped the Houston Rockets rank among the Top 5 in the league in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense from 2004 to 2007,[1] and has helped his team finish in the league's Top 10 in team defense 15 times.[2]
-During his tenure with the Knicks, he helped the team set a then-NBA record by holding 33 consecutive opponents under 100 points in the 2000-01 season.

[Giuseppe]

Dunc!!!!!!!!!!! Sweetheart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pumpkinpuss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ain't seen you since the surrender. Fact is, I didn't see you at the surrender.

[redzero]

Since I haven't actually watched Chris Paul play defense, I'll just use three games in his entire career as evidence that he doesn't play defense and ignore the fact that he has gotten on a all defense team and was in the top ten in defensive win shares in 09

Cool story, bro.

[Dunc n Dave]

Since I am a Chris Paul homer, I will ignore the FACT that name recognition and STATS (like inflated steal #'s from gambling in passing lanes, while giving up easy shots to your man when the gamble doesn't pay off) are what ignorant sports writers use to pick All Defensive teams and DPOY, and I will defend CP3's defense even though the games you quoted happened this season BEFORE the injuries started. *Damn, guess, I can't use the "he was coming back from injury" excuse for those games.

[Giuseppe]

Uh, o, Dunc?

[Dunc n Dave]

Dunc!!!!!!!!!!! Sweetheart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pumpkinpuss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ain't seen you since the surrender. Fact is, I didn't see you at the surrender.

You're losing your edge Cully. Goin senile on me?

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/show...&postcount=168

[redzero]

Is that the best you can come up with? Three games in Chris's entire career?

And you continue to equate getting steals with playing bad defense.



Chris got on this list by only getting steals, because they apparently make up for bad defense.

http://www.nba.com/games/20100106/NOHOKC/gameinfo.html

At 1:42 of the video denies 6-10 Kevin Durant the ball in a must win situation.

But that doesn't matter, because he gave up 17 points to Mike Bibby.

[midnightpulp]

No, the mother er tip toed his ass upstairs, you know, in the library, where it's all nice and quiet, and no one will bother you. Now he slithers his ass back down to the basement, right when he thinks those Lakers are in trouble, you know, all gay and .

Kinda like the way you slithered into this site post-Gasol trade?

Game recognize game, and Gay recognize gay.

[sook]

TT would be an absolute STEAL for the hornets.

There is a reason the rockets were top 3 in defense when he was here, and still the two yrs after he left, not counting last year due to injuries.

[midnightpulp]

I was minding my own business. "Hey luva, you should come to ST, you'll like it over there."

And we're glad to have you

[duncan228]

Tom Thibodeau Reportedly Turns Down Hornets
SportingNews

Eric Freeman wrote about the potential deadline imposed by the Hornets on Tom Thibodeau and it appears New Orleans has its answer. According to the New York Post, Thibodeau rejected the Hornets’ offer on Wednesday.

When asked by the media for an update on Wednesday, Thibodeau declined to comment, according to the Times-Picayune.

The Post also passes along two other bits of coaching housekeeping: Sources tell the Post that ex-Mavs coach Avery Johnson continues to be the leader for the open Nets job. The paper also reports that Thibodeau is "almost guaranteed" to wind up with the Bulls."

Both the Nets and Bulls figure to be significant players in the free agent market thanks to an abundance of cap space to go after some of this summer’s biggest names. As for the Hornets, they’re expected to turn their attention to Blazers assistant Monty Williams if Thibodeau has rejected them.

[Bob Lanier]

lol nawlins

[duncan228]

Rivers OK with Thibodeau’s Bulls meeting
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports

Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers insisted he was “fine” with his top assistant Tom Thibodeau meeting with Chicago Bulls officials less than 24 hours before Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

“I’m fine with it,” Rivers told Yahoo! Sports upon arrival at Staples Center Thursday night. “Tom does his job. He always does his job. If it was somebody that could be distracted, then I wouldn’t have let it happen. But this was all cleared.”

The Chicago Tribune first reported Thibodeau’s meeting with the Bulls.

The New Orleans Hornets made an offer to Thibodeau several days ago for their coaching opening, but he clearly has been trying to buy time to meet with officials from Chicago and New Jersey. Sources say he prefers those jobs over the Hornets, but those teams have yet to make an offer to him.

Hornets general manager Jeff Bower set a Thursday deadline to get a deal done with Thibodeau, and sources close to him say he was unaware Thibodeau was meeting with the Bulls in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Understandably miffed at a process that has started to become an embarrassment for New Orleans, Bower was contemplating pulling back the offer and hiring Portland Trail Blazers assistant Monty Williams.