According to the Warriors' ownership, among Mark Jackson's issues were : a) he couldn't get along with people in the organization ... I remember he demoted Brian Scalabrine, his assistant coach, to the G-League or something back then. lol. Then he fired another assistant coach because that coach was secretly recording meetings to supposedly forward to the front office. Why is this bad? Read b) b) one of the first things ownership told him was that they wanted to have the best coaching staff in the league and that money apparently wasn't an object. Just go get the very best. Jackson apparently said, no, he was going to stick with the staff he had. So... you're going to stick with your guys instead of hiring the best money can buy and then you can't get along with them, either? Doesn't look good, man ... This makes me very interested in knowing what's going on behind-the-scenes with the D'Antoni negotiations. Are there any ultimatums or "change requests" being requested by management. Are any of those holding negotiations up? Was Roy's departure part of the whole thing? No idea, but ... this is still interesting.
Meh. I don't care about all that. Coaches who bring their whole posse with them has always seemed a stupid exercise. It's ok if they bring 1 or 2 of their most trusted guys, but it has to pass a quality standard. Bzdelik and Rogers were great hires, and if the people who hired them think we can do better (and have the money to do it) then great. In any well run organization, the hiring goes through an HR filter and in this case the head coach is part of the interview/termination process as well. I'd rather Morey finds people and takes MDA's recommendation vs MDA looks for the most qualified person among the people he knows and tries to find out if Morey is cool with them. I'm sure MDA can recommend candidates too. Times have changed a lot. IMO we need a defensive assistant AND an offensive one now because MDA's engine works fine but the components surrounding it are from the 90's. Milwaukee, Toronto, San Antonio and Golden State have demonstrated a critical function we're lacking: the discipline of moving well off the ball around/without your star scorer. As recently as last season, I thought this was a function of us having a mediocre supporting cast, but it's becoming obvious this is a matter of discipline, training and preparation. The team without Harden needs to be able to overcome its lack of athleticism and shot creation ability with crisp movement of the ball and players.
Let 'em all go! Fire all of the assistants! Fire all of the guys who should still have jobs and keep the ones who shouldn't! Better be bringing in the Warriors of coaching staffs.
i don't like this one bit. dude went brain dead and froze up like a deer in headlights at the end of games 5/6.
