The Little Black Book of Available Coaches

Jeff Van Gundy won't be brought in to be general manager. He will only be coach (assuming he is hired). Jeff Van Gundy is 54 years old snd in good health. Rick Adelman is 70 years old. Also, Van Gundy doesn't go out of his way to make sure that all his incompetent children receive employment with the organization he is working for.

Rick Adelman was a very good, but not great coach, for a very long time. He is old, and at this point wants to run an organization. He got his chance and it was a disaster.

 

That is fair enough. I have concerns over Van Gundy as well. My point is just that Adelman isn't a viable candidate for many, many reasons.

 

Either way. Were F'ed. I don't see any free agent coach or roster moves that will make us legit contenders within the next 2 seasons before Harden is a free agent leaves us to go home and play for the Lakers(Durant aint coming here,neither is Horford).

The more i think about it, the more i see it as a very possible scenario where Durant, Westbrook, Harden all reunite with the Lakers. 2016-Durant, 2017-Westbrook-2018-Harden + probably Ben Simmons, D'Angelo Russell, Julius Randle, and Jordan Clarkson.

 

You seem like a lot of fun to hang out with.

 

hmm, considering that quote from Durant, my list:

Adleman (always my first choice)
Ollie
JVG
Luke Walton

 

Continue to bleed that Rockets red out of your booty hole for mediocrity all the way up to the moment Harden officially signs the dotted line on his new contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. I bet you can't wait to watch us compete for that #14 pick til 2020 and beyond. Just as long as we can make it to the playoffs!! Anything can happen once you're there!!

AWW SHUCKS GUYS! BETTER LUCK NEXT YEAR! LETS GO ROCKETS!

 

I always wanted Adelmans offense blended with JVG's defense. But we don't have the personnel for it. Harden would respond to the Princeton about the way McGrady did.

 

You are an emotional little guy.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/lakers/2016/04/25/ettore-messina-luke-walton-lakers-coaching-search/83522986/

The Los Angeles Lakers are wasting no time in their coaching search.

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, the Lakers have received permission from the San Antonio Spurs to interview their lead assistant coach, Ettore Messina, as a possible replacement for the recently departed Byron Scott.

It is unclear how soon the team plans to interview Messina, the widely-respected Italian coach who won four Euroleague titles and was twice the Euroleague coach of the year before spending the 2011-12 NBA season on the Lakers coaching staff headed by Mike D’Antoni. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the search.


While many names have been mentioned, Messina and Golden State Warriors assistant Luke Walton are believed to be on the Lakers’ unofficial short list. Messina, who is also being considered for the Sacramento Kings’ head coaching vacancy, joined Gregg Popovich and his San Antonio staff in July of 2014.

Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie and former Houston Rockets and New York Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy, who is now an ESPN analyst, are also expected to receive consideration.

The Lakers opted against a return for Scott, who went 38-126 in his two seasons as head coach and had team options on his contract for the next two campaigns

 

All that is out there is jvg curious to see what other candidates get put out there.

 

Jonathan Feigen mentioned Boylen

Maybe Kelvin Sampson? [Mentioning they had previous interest]

 

Out of the remaining jobs imo the least desirable for any coach should be the knicks.
Because Phil Jackson interferes with the coaching himself and I dont see many established coaches willing to put up with it for long.

I believe from the recent choices most coaches have made the most desirable trait for any team isnt the roster unless they are in conention, but the power and control they are given.

So if the lakers or kings are willing to give considerable control to the next coach these jobs may become more desirable than ours. Now how likely is that to happen?
I can see Divac working very closely with an established coach who has the support of Cousins.
The lakers? Dont see Buss and Kupchak doing it.

 

Thanks for the update. I also expect to hear ollie name mentioned too. But with the way okc is playing durant can very well stay in okc at least for another year. Would love messina and I think he would work well with harden imo.

 

So we should run the best defense and the best offense at the same time?

I think you're on to something. I wonder why nobody else has thought of this.

Oh wait, it's because they are 2 completely different philisohies that aren't compatible with each other.

You can't have bassline cutters that the Princeton offense requires if you want to take away the opposing teams fast break. The only exception to this is if all of your players are significantly more athletic than who you are playing, in which case you can run anything and win.

When the team you are playing is roughly equal to your own in talent, you have to sacrifice offense to gain defense, and vice versa. There's a reason mediocre teams are typically good at one, and not the other. both strategies tend to produce similar amounts of wins, with differing volatility.

Offensive teams are going to have significantly higher deviations from the mean, they will lose some games they should win, and win some games they should lose. Defensive teams are more likely to win the games they should, and lose some games they shouldn't.

The question we should ask is, are we good enough to win without luck, and furthermore, is 82 games + playoffs a long enough time for an offensive or defensive team to revert to the mean?

If the answer here is yes, Your coaching philosophy is relatively meaningless, when controlling for externalities such as attitude and effort(big assumption)

If the answer is yes, you go with a high octane offense if you don't have the best player in the league (the biggest indicator of who will win the championship) if you do, you go for a crippling defense to reel in volatility.

I'm not sure what morey believes at this point.

 

mike brown?

 

Yeah, Mike Brown might be our coach right now if he was hired as "defensive coordinator" a few years ago. :grin:

 

Surprised no one mentioned your mom here. That guy comes up in conversation a lot.

 

If JVG is brought in, what are good candidates for Offensive coaches that he would consider bringing in? just curious if you have some names
to throw out there

 

I have this rocks in my gut suspicion that's it's going to be this guy.

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