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NICE ONEsomeones been watching too much 'Ratatouille'
I'm just hoping that it was a fluke that the Spurs won three championships during PJ's five years as assistant coach.
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And IMO, they don't have a C either.
Yeah, they are still high on Sene, but I guess Collison will play a lot of C for them this year (if their roster remains as is).
Rumor has it they are going after Rip Hamilton now.
It's a cause of concern...but I think assistant coaches have less impact in basketball than any other sport. The D is all about Pop...it's the offense I am worried most about...that Argie dude was really good at offense.
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Haven't seen it yet...
@ whottt unleashing cartoon smack
WTF is up with that?
Doc.
Good luck PJ
3 rings in 5 years
I hope we bring Elie back
Agreed.
However, he's been rumored to either join Avery Johnson's staff in Dallas or Rick Adelman's staff in Houston. But I hope he comes back here.
Elie just took a job with the Mavericks.
I am not sure, but I don't think Elie's stint as an assistant went over too well here. He sure did leave fast. He was also coaching a couple of guys he played with(Malik and Duncan)...something Pop isn't a big fan of doing.
And I say this as a huge fan of Elie the player.
Mario can be a little on the blunt side...something that probably doesn't go over as well without his stepping on the court to hit daggers, after being blunt.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2925357
Report: Spurs assistant Carlesimo to be named Sonics coach
Associated Press
Updated: July 3, 2007, 8:23 PM ET
SEATTLE -- The Seattle SuperSonics have scheduled a Thursday news conference amid reports that the team has hired P.J. Carlesimo as its new head coach.
Team officials are refusing to comment on a report appearing on the San Antonio Express-News Web site, which says Carlesimo has been chosen by Sonics' ownership.
Carlesimo has been an assistant the last five seasons in San Antonio and before that was a head coach in Portland and Golden State.
Carlesimo and former Minnesota coach Dwane Casey have been considered the two front-runners for the position. The Sonics fired Bob Hill on April 24.
when was this.Elie just took a job with the Mavericks.
I never found a link confirming it, but I do know he was rumored to go to Dallas to fill one of their coaching vacancies, left by Sam Vincent who took the Bobcats head coaching job. I thought he left fast because his high school buddy, Chris Mullin, offered him the #1 asst. coaching job when he hired Mike Montgomery in 2004. He was like under PJ and Mike Bud when he coached that one year here.
Not only did he coach former teammates Malik and Tim, but he also coached former teammtes from Houston, Horry and Willis.
The rest of the article in the previous post:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle SuperSonics have scheduled a Thursday news conference amid reports that the team has hired P.J. Carlesimo as its new head coach.
Team officials refused to comment Tuesday on a report that first appeared on the San Antonio Express-News Web site, which said Carlesimo had been chosen by Sonics' ownership. General manager Sam Presti, who spent the last seven years working in the Spurs' organization before becoming Seattle's GM on June 7, was traveling and unavailable for comment.
Carlesimo, 58, has been an assistant the last five seasons in San Antonio and before that was a head coach in Portland and Golden State.
Carlesimo and former Minnesota coach Dwane Casey were considered the two front-runners for the position, vacant since the Sonics fired Bob Hill on April 24 after the team went 31-51 last season. Calls to Casey were not immediately returned.
When the 30-year-old Presti was hired, finding a new coach seemed to be the top priority for the youngest GM in basketball, who was given authority over the coaching search.
But the process dragged, in part because Carlesimo couldn't interview until after the Spurs won their third NBA le since 2003.
Sonics' owner Clay Bennett, a former member of the Spurs' board of governors in the 1990s, has repeatedly said he wants to model the Sonics after the San Antonio organization. He seems on his way there, having plucked Presti and now, apparently, Carlesimo from the Spurs.
Carlesimo has played a supporting role in San Antonio, far different from his last stop as a head coach in Golden State, where he clashed with players and had an infamous run-in with Latrell Sprewell.
Carlesimo's intense, in-your-face approach in Golden State almost immediately became an issue when tensions developed between him and Sprewell, his star player.
The emotions boiled over at a practice Dec. 1, 1997, when Sprewell responded to Carlesimo's terse command of "put a little mus " on a pass by choking his coach. It took several players and team officials to break up the attack, which an angry Sprewell renewed 15 minutes later.
Sprewell initially had his contract terminated by the Warriors and was suspended a year by the NBA, but the sanctions were reduced by an arbitrator to a 68-game suspension that still cost the All-Star guard $6 million in wages.
Following his reinstatement, the Warriors traded Sprewell to the New York Knicks. Carlesimo was fired by Golden State early in the 1999 season after a 6-21 start.
Carlesimo took Portland to the playoffs each of his three seasons with the Trail Blazers, but never advanced out of the first round.
Seattle has seen its two star players leave in the last week. Seven-time All-Star Ray Allen was traded to Boston on draft night for the rights to No. 5 pick Jeff Green, Delonte West and Wally Szczerbiak.
Then late Monday night, free agent forward Rashard Lewis agreed to a deal with the Orlando Magic.
One positive for Carlesimo would be the opportunity to work with Texas star Kevin Durant, picked by Seattle with the No. 2 pick in last week's draft. Durant and Green will both be part of Seattle's summer league team that begins play Friday in Las Vegas.
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Promote Brett Brown!!!
He did a great job here in Australia, he is very similar to Pop in style.
Congrats to PJ!Bout freaking time he got a shot... though I wish he would have gone to the Magic. Playing the Sonics is going to be a headache now.
PJ took the Seattle job because he knows Durant doesn't have upper body strength.
Good for PJ -- he deserves another chance. I'd love to see the Spurs bring in anyone who can add to the paradigm by injecting some new philsophy into the mix.
As for Portland, I'm thinking that they have a chance to be similar to the 1989-90 Spurs. If they manage to add a solid veteran contributor this summer, they can be quite scary. They certainly have a decent chance to win that division in the next season or two.
I am almost certain he went to the Mavs...it was announced in the same article that announced the Spurs hired the FO guy from Houston.
Do you have any nsight in who the Spurs bring in to fill in Newman's old spot when he is moved up?
They could go Argentine and hire Ruben Magnano.
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