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    Five Rings... Kori Ellis's Avatar
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    Trail Blazers Name Monty Williams Assistant Coach

    http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/Trai...147890-41.html

    August 1, 2005

    Portland Trail Blazers announced today that Monty Williams has been named to the team’s assistant coaching staff. Williams joins new Trail Blazers Head Coach Nate McMillan after serving last year as a coaching staff intern under Gregg Popovich for the San Antonio Spurs.

    "Monty was a terrific compe or as a player that maximized his ability,” said John Nash, Trail Blazers General Manager. “That commitment to the game will be witnessed by our players as he assists Nate McMillan in molding our young players."

    While with San Antonio, Williams worked alongside the Spurs coaching staff that won the 2004-2005 NBA Championship. Williams coached the Spurs summer league team that recently competed in the Rocky Mountain Revue.

    Williams was selected by New York in the first round (24th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft. He spent 10 seasons in the NBA and along with New York, played for San Antonio, Denver, Orlando and the Philadelphia 76ers.

    Williams averaged 6.3 points, 2.8 rebound, and 1.2 assists per game before chronic knee problems forced him into retirement. Williams played collegiately at Notre Dame. Following his freshman season he diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy causing him to miss the following two seasons.

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    Good riddance. He back stabbed the franchise once and that was one too many times. He helped lead the charge to take Duncan to Orlando. I couldn't believe when the Spurs brought him back.

    The Spurs were planning on giving him some kind of assistant coach job. Classic Monty to jump ship.

    Later, Montel.

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    Speaking of jumping ship. Anyone see that Johnny Depp movie?

    Yeah, I thought it was ok.

    Btw, Monty Williams sucks. He sucks.

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    Noooooo... Everybody are taking away our staff! now our secrets to our success will be revealed!!!

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    We should've tried to get Grgich (sp?) from them.

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    blazers hired him as a tool. trying to get inside info on how the spurs operate.

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    exactly!!!

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    blazers hired him as a tool. trying to get inside info on how the spurs operate.
    Yeah they already have one ex-Spur scout in Pritchard, now ex-intern Monty.

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    UhOhhhhh . . . Duncan to Portland?

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    Knowing what the Spurs do is hardly a secret, Pop keeps repeating that all teams know all other teams extremely well. Every game is recorded and can be viewed by every coach and every player who bothers to watch. Is the Triangle offense a secret? is the flex offense or Princeton offense a secret?

    What is different about the Spurs is that Pop gets the players to EXECUTE, to commit to Pop's system, to become part of the Spurs team culture, to buy into playing defense, to sharing the ball, to playing The Right Way, for the team. It works for the players, Rings, All-stars, winning season, so they keep doing it, a virtuous cycle.

    THAT is what's hard, to duplicate, and some ass. coach or ex-player isn't going be able to duplicate that entire system elsewhere.

    Larry's and Pop's teams have won the last 3 les, and are expected, favored to contend for the next one. It's Team Basketball, it's Basketball on both ends of the court. No big secret. So why aren't the other 20+ teams doing the same thing, if it's so successful?

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    Should have demanded compensation like the prick Nash did.

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    Williams may be a good move for the Blazers. I agree with Timvp's take on how he stabbed this organization in the back before.

    The Blazers with all their shall we say PR problems maybe could use a Monty Williams type of the bench. Monty is a pretty clean living guy and maybe part of a Porty trying to clean up it's act.

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    blazers hired him as a tool. trying to get inside info on how the spurs operate.
    I'm with LJ on this one. F'in traitor.

    blazers hired him as a tool. trying to get inside info on how the spurs operate.
    They can get all the info. they want, doesn't change the fact they don't have the players to match up.

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    Monty is the new Larry Brown, loyal to no one, blown by the wind.

    Never liked him. Like LJ, never undestood why Pop EVER offered him a job.

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    buh bye

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    Good luck to Monty. I thought he had already accepted an assistant coaching job in S.A., but I guess not. Oh well. No real loss.

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    Tim's boy is gone once again... ABOUT IN TIME! I hated seeing him on our sidelines, whenever i saw Del Monte I could ONLY think about him and Doc Rivers trying to lure Tim from us. Dude had no game AT ALL but was Tim's homeboy so of course TIM hooked him up with a job. MONTY WILLIAMS, I couldnt stand him. Great move Del Monte, CIAO .

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    shut up you idiots nacho and timvp last time i checked td was still a spur and monty is actually a very good guy and didnt do anything to hurt you and as far as his game goes, he did make it to the nba and his income couldnt have been too terribly bad
    so #### YOU NACHO ##########

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    are you seriously that worried about the blazers knowing all the spurs inside info? the blazers?

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    Oh thats cute!!!

    csw225 loves Monty

    You moving to Portland too?

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    hilarious because once monty leaks out all of the spurs secrets, the blazers will become nba champions and then tim duncan will opt out of his contract and join portland and in fact so will i.

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    Damn that is messed up and lame. Oh well.

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    Now if I had said this about MOnty Williams I would be lambasted.

    Too bad, I was hoping the SPurs would give him a shot.

    Good luck to Monty in Portland.

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    Too bad, I was hoping the SPurs would give him a shot.
    They were giving him a shot. I understand that they offered him some sort of assistant coaching spot a few weeks ago.

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    Good riddance. He back stabbed the franchise once and that was one too many times. He helped lead the charge to take Duncan to Orlando. I couldn't believe when the Spurs brought him back.

    The Spurs were planning on giving him some kind of assistant coach job. Classic Monty to jump ship.

    Later, Montel.

    Word. It stunned me when they brought him back too. Maybe the Spurs were able to forgive/forget, but I sure as haven't.

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Monty. On second thought, go ahead, let it.

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