OFFICIAL 2010-2011 NBA PLAYOFFS THREAD : VOL. MOST. ANTICIPATED. PLAYOFFS. EVER?

Originally Posted by PMatic

I hope Golden State hires Reggie Miller to be an assistant coach.
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c-webb takes his spot on tv and shaq moves into inside the nba
 
I want to know why Dwane Casey (current Mavs assistant coach) hasn't gotten a coaching job yet. Given the circumstances, he was doing a pretty good job with the T'Wolves before he got forced out by Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale.
 
To add, I want to know what Patrick Ewing has to do to even get an interview. He's been assistant coaching for years and can't even sniff a chance.

Maybe because at times, it seems like his Jamaican accent has gotten stronger over the years... it's interesting...
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Originally Posted by PMatic

I want to know why Dwane Casey (current Mavs assistant coach) hasn't gotten a coaching job yet. Given the circumstances, he was doing a pretty good job with the T'Wolves before he got forced out by Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale.
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I really like him. He's stern. It kind of hurts his chances that he's still in the Playoffs, and that he was a former interim coach, that never had a full run as a HC.
 
Honestly? I'd throw everyone not named Monta under the bus.

Steph is nice, he has a great jumper, but can he be a starting PG of a contending playoff team? I don't know.

I've just seen too much from Monta to trade him. If we went to Dallas? I'd be enthused,
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. But we have nothing they'd want.
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Monta can be the starting SG for a VERY good team. Dude is so money. He has the driving ability of Wade, with the midrange game of someone like Dirk. I'm a huge Monta guy. If this guy was put on a winning team? YIKES...

Trading him IMO is the wrong move. You build around him, not Curry.
 
Originally Posted by JapanAir21

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Me too but I feel like it has disaster written all over it.
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Agreed.

Interesting in seeing how Jackson does as a HC best of luck to him.

Monta for Iggy huh?

Like that potential trade for the Warriors not so much the Sixers.
 
Originally Posted by JapanAir21

Honestly? I'd throw everyone not named Monta under the bus.

Steph is nice, he has a great jumper, but can he be a starting PG of a contending playoff team? I don't know.

I've just seen too much from Monta to trade him. If we went to Dallas? I'd be enthused,
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Monta can be the starting SG for a VERY good team. Dude is so money. He has the driving ability of Wade, with the midrange game of someone like Dirk. I'm a huge Monta guy. If this guy was put on a winning team? YIKES...

Trading him IMO is the wrong move. You build around him, not Curry.
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But I thought Al Harrington was the second best player on the Warriors a few years ago.
 
im so damn happy that mark jackson is coaching the warriors

means he won't touch the knicks AND i don't have to hear his corny stupid $%# on television

Ewing has joked that if he was on TV the last few years instead of doing grunt work he would have a job. guess he was right
 
Warriors.
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Mark Jackson: Not Mr. Right, Mr. Right Now

In the end, the perfect coaching candidate was not out there for the Warriors. Or that perfect candidate just didn't want the job.

That's no slight against Mark Jackson, whom the Warriors hired as their head coach on Monday. It's just the way it is. Simply put, there is absolutely no way Jackson was the team's first choice to succeed Keith Smart.

That doesn't mean Jackson won't be a good head coach or can't succeed in Golden State. Not at all. It just means that he wasn't Plan A, and likely wasn't even Plan B or Plan C.

Taking an objective look at the search -- which began about six weeks ago -- it seems apparent that Jackson wasn't among the top few candidates at the start. Whether Jackson simply won over Warriors owner Joe Lacob in the interview process or got the job because he was one of the last candidates standing will be a matter of one's perspective.

In late April, when the Warriors announced they were not picking up the option on Keith Smart's contract for 2011-12, Lacob and general manager Larry Riley talked in general terms about what they were looking for in their next head coach.

They preferred experience, but also someone who was not considered a retread. But they also expressed a willingness to want to go with a young coach, and one who could grow with the team.

They wanted a defensive-minded coach, but one who would still be willing to play uptempo, which has become the Warriors' style, for better or worse. They wanted a strong tactician and strategist but also someone who had presence and could command the respect of the players.

Obviously, Lacob and Riley were purposefully vague when they talked about the kind of coach they wanted because so very few -- if any -- candidates could meet all of those criteria.

But we got a sense where their priorities were when they initially reached out to former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan and former Knicks and Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy. Both of those coaches had experience, a track record of success, a strong personality and a defense-first mentality.

Both Sloan and Van Gundy declined interviews with the Warriors, and so Mike Brown became their No. 1 focus. Brown didn't have the resume' history that Sloan and Van Gundy had, but Brown was no doubt the No. 1 available candidate on the market.

He was also said to be the Warriors' front-runner before he ended up taking the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching job.

Once Brown went to the Lakers, the playing field leveled for Jackson, and he was every bit as viable a candidate as many of the others the Warriors had talked to: Dallas assistant Dwane Casey, Boston assistant Lawrence Frank, Lakers assistants Brian Shaw and Chuck Person and New Orleans assistant Mike Malone.

And among that group, you could certainly make a case Jackson is the most dynamic -- and would likely make the biggest splash. That counts for something with Lacob, who hired Jerry West two weeks ago and a long-time agent Bob Myers as an assistant general manager in April.

But there was something else that worked in Jackson's favor. The NBA's coaching landscape didn't change nearly as much as many believed it would late in the season.

Make no mistake, there was a general belief out there that a plethora of quality candidates would be available -- whether we're talking Doc Rivers, Stan Van Gundy, Erik Spoelstra or even Mike D'Antoni.

Each of those coaches would have been on every coach-less team's short list at the start of the offseason. But the fact that none of them came available made every team's short list shorter -- and worse, more of the names on those short lists overlapped.

At the start of the offseason, there were four jobs open: the Warriors, Lakers, Houston Rockets and Indiana Pacers.  By late last week, two of those positions had been filled, but more problematic, two more positions had come open: Detroit and Toronto.

That meant if the Warriors didn't make a decision quickly, Jackson and all the possible Warriors' candidates would start to be mentioned and begin interviewing at those places.

So, rather than wait to talk one-on-one with Casey, who is in the middle of the NBA Finals, or meet individually with Shaw or Person, Lacob decided to go with the guy he liked best right now.

And that person was Mark Jackson.

Jackson hasn't always been the right coach. But right now he is.

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These bs deals from ESPN annoy me.

Bucher just tweeted/said the deal is not imminent.

Both guys are some of my fav players in the league now. Deal doesn't really change either of their situations or future success but the deal really makes no sense for Philly unless they're just parting ways with AI. The deal puts more pressure on Jrue to be a better pg and significantly takes away from their defense.
 
Originally Posted by JapanAir21


Trading him IMO is the wrong move. You build around him, not Curry.
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Who in their right mind would build around an undersized two guard whose best basketball ability is volume scoring, and can't play a lick of defense? Guy is a homeless man's Allen Iverson.
 
^I disagree on the last part but imo you don't build around either of them. They're cornerstones to a solid foundation at best and are moveable given the right offer.
 
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Originally Posted by JapanAir21


Trading him IMO is the wrong move. You build around him, not Curry.
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Who in their right mind would build around an undersized two guard whose best basketball ability is volume scoring, and can't play a lick of defense? Guy is a homeless man's Allen Iverson.
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Who in their right mind would build around an undersized PG whose best basketball ability is shooting, and can't play a lick of defense?


Monta Ellis is efficient, AI isn't.

For Iguodala? I like.
 
Lee, Iggy, Curry core.......I'm interested. Draft well at 11, I could see them getting out of that run and gun stuff.
 
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