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OT: Brad Stevens Resigns and becomes GM/Ainge Resigning - Potential New Cs HC?

Brett Brown?... outside of the "trust the process" era in Philly, he did a pretty good job.

If I'm a betting man, I'm saying Sam Cassel

Edit: changed my mind. I'm putting my $ on Lloyd Pierce
 
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Cambridge Rindge and Latin's greatest comes home.

Patrick Ewing.
 
husky429 said:
Brett Brown?... outside of the "trust the process" era in Philly, he did a pretty good job.

If I'm a betting man, I'm say Sam Cassel
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husky429 said:
It makes more sense than anyone else I've seen. He has a 12 years of experience as an AC, played for Boston if only briefly, chops as an NBA all star, championship experience.
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Surprised Lloyd Pierce doesn’t have any odds there yet
 
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Mr. French said:
I dno that anyone was fired...

The names I heard were Cassell Stackhouse and Billups but who knows it just broke a half hour ago. Intriguing situation though.
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2 guys who have never been head coaches and 1 guy who was horrendous at Vandy. What could possibly go wrong?
 
superjohn said:
2 guys who have never been head coaches and 1 guy who was horrendous at Vandy. What could possibly go wrong?
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Stackhouse has at least been an HC in the D league and an NBA asst. I think he's way more qualified than Cassell or Billups.

I can't see how record at Vandy can be held against and coach.
 
M.S.G. said:
I think it would be a fun story and she's clearly got the pedigree, but to type the foolishness you did :mad:

Brad Stevens was hired after only having coaching experience, and IMO I'd value sitting next to a HOF coach for a handful of years as more powerful than coaching at Butler. But what do I know?
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R u comparing Hammond's track record as an asst to Stevens' track record as an asst when he was hired to be HC at Butler or comparing her coaching track to his when he was hired by the Celtics?

There's always a risk hiring someone who has never been and HC and there's always a risk hiring a college HC compared to an NBA asst coach. I don't think suggesting being an asst makes you automatically more qualified than someone who had two Final Fours with a program which has no history or making FF's.
 
husky429 said:
I realize this is a joke... but one thing I like about Hurley is that he woule be a godawful NBA coach.
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That's it? Nothing else?
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Stackhouse has at least been an HC in the D league and an NBA asst. I think he's way more qualified than Cassell or Billups.

I can't see how record at Vandy can be held against and coach.
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Exactly - and guys with solid relationships and pedigree and knowledge are getting hired left and right recently. Plus Cassell has been an asst with good teams for a long time, at some point he gets a HC job.

Today’s NBA is about way more than x and o’s but relationships with players. They’ll have assistants with more actual coaching experience but it’s not like coaching HS or college.

Not saying it will work, but that’s not the determining factor, imo.
 
CL82 said:
That's it? Nothing else?
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If you want me to get real nitpicky, I said "one thing I like about Hurley" not "GHE one thing."

Sorry. I'm an English teacher and took the day off today. Can't help it.

I like coach a lot. I think he could be hear for 20+ years until he retires. Talented motivator and recruiter. Good defensive coach. The lack of transfers we had this last season was our best recruiting job in a decade--that can't be understated.
 
No one’s talking about Ainge becoming HC.

The ol’ switcheroo, just change the name plates on the office doors.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
No chance of that.
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Better chance of Bird than Pitino (whose got odds)!?

Though NOW you'd rather have Rozier than Kemba I think that's evaluating the results and not process, Kemba was the better bet and you need the splash after Kyrie left. To me Ainge's biggest problem was the continual poor picks in the middle of the draft AND not offsetting that by signing veterans to the bench. We had 3 conference final chances but every time had an inferior bench. This is also not coincidentally what wore Stevens down. I noticed Stevens didn't use Semi O in his last coached game, he'd had enough.
 
Dogdeacon said:
Better chance of Bird than Pitino (whose got odds)!?

Though NOW you'd rather have Rozier than Kemba I think that's evaluating the results and not process, Kemba was the better bet and you need the splash after Kyrie left. To me Ainge's biggest problem was the continual poor picks in the middle of the draft AND not offsetting that by signing veterans to the bench. We had 3 conference final chances but every time had an inferior bench. This is also not coincidentally what wore Stevens down. I noticed Stevens didn't use Semi O in his last coached game, he'd had enough.
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This is it. Getting Smart, Brown, Tatum was excellent GM'ing. Not having a bench year after year after year was tough to see. Not so sure middle of the draft picks were that bad ... Langford and GWilliams look like complete busts to me, but I'm happy so far with the RWilliams and Pritchard picks. A 50% hit rate on a rotation player picking outside the top 10 is fine with me.
 
And to think, some people thought Stevens wanted to deal w/ college recruiting again
 
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I know they had injuries, but Hawks fans were ecstatic when they fired Pierce. And hard to argue against the positive result of replacing him. I don't see it for a win now team like the Celtics, maybe a team who is rebuilding.
 
I'm confused why the guy who the Hawks fired would be the right pick, but what do I know.
 
Mr. French said:
I'm confused why the guy who the Hawks fired would be the right pick, but what do I know.
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Doc Rivers got fired by the Magic before the Celtics hired him. That seemed to work out well. Bill Belichick got fired by the Cleveland Browns and was hired by the Patriots a few seasons later. That worked out well also. I guess you never know.
 
HooperScooper said:
Doc Rivers got fired by the Magic before the Celtics hired him. That seemed to work out well. Bill Belichick got fired by the Cleveland Browns and was hired by the Patriots a few seasons later. That worked out well also. I guess you never know.
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Belichick took the Browns to the playoffs and won a game first. The Browns! Winning in the playoffs! They didn't win another game in the playoffs until this year, 27 years later.

Rivers won Coach of the Year with the Magic and made playoffs 3/4 years.

Pierce is 63-120 and finished last in his division every single year he was the coach.
 
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