Around the NBA: January 2019 edition! It's a new year baby! (3 Viewers)

[illmatic99]

I feel for Thibs a bit.

 

[hoopsjock]

I feel for Thibs a bit.

Between him and Stan Van Gundy this should put an end to coaches being hired to both coach and be in charge of personnel.

 

[jlprk]

Between him and Stan Van Gundy this should put an end to coaches being hired to both coach and be in charge of personnel.

Yep, that'll never happen again...(I've been hearing that for 40 years.)

I'd already heard of failed ones before I followed the NBA...then Bill Russell with the Sonics when I moved to the Northwest in 1974...later Don Nelson, etc...

Somebody make a list.

 

[riverman]

Yep, that'll never happen again...(I've been hearing that for 40 years.)

I'd already heard of failed ones before I followed the NBA...then Bill Russell with the Sonics when I moved to the Northwest in 1974...later Don Nelson, etc...

Somebody make a list.

Mike Dunleavy and Doc Rivers with the Clippers....seems like Pat Riley did for a short time.....

 

[jlprk]

We need a player-coach to replace Stotts. Jimmy Butler. With an offer including that, he'd sign with the Blazers this summer.

Here is a list of NBA player-coaches. The Blazers' Lenny Wilkens was only the second-to-last. Cowens was the last one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_player-coaches

 

[Haakzilla]

Timberwolves just fired Thibs, wow.

 

[CupWizier]

The honeymoon is over.

 

[hoopsjock]

The honeymoon is over.

Do you have a bunch of people blocked? This is the 3rd thread you've started today that is already being discussed in other threads.

 

[Haakzilla]

http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/4627238/

 

[hoopsjock]

Timberwolves just fired Thibs.

You're late to the party too!

 

[BigGameDamian]

Seems like he had it coming for awhile.

 

[jlprk]

One tweet: "Flip Saunders is looking down and smiling."

 

[CupWizier]

Do you have a bunch of people blocked? This is the 3rd thread you've started today that is already being discussed in other threads.

I am suppose to know that it was being discussed in a thread whose title has very little to do with Thibs being fired? Sorry, but I don't read every thread and every post in this forum. And no, I don't have a bunch of people blocked. Is it just me, or are you other posters personal mod?

 

[riverman]

Thibs should have stayed in his lane as the best defensive coordinator around...he failed as a head coach across the board..better to be the best at something than just mediocre at something else....we could use him as an assistant, that's for sure

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[TBpup]

So they traded Butler AND fired the coach. Figured it would be one or the other....not both.

 

[speeds]

Bucks and Pacers back-to-back, Kawhi and Kyle each missing one of those games.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Bucks and Pacers back-to-back, Kawhi and Kyle each missing one of those games.

Oh that gif...

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Thibs should have stayed in his lane as the best defensive coordinator around...he failed as a head coach across the board..better to be the best at something than just mediocre at something else....we could use him as an assistant, that's for sure

Id agree but I bet the paychecks and buyouts worked out ok for him.

 

[BigGameDamian]

One tweet: "Flip Saunders is looking down and smiling."

I wonder if they ask to talk to Stotts?

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[BonesJones]

I wonder if they ask to talk to Stotts?

Teams don't do that mid-season...

 

[BonesJones]

I am suppose to know that it was being discussed in a thread whose title has very little to do with Thibs being fired? Sorry, but I don't read every thread and every post in this forum. And no, I don't have a bunch of people blocked. Is it just me, or are you other posters personal mod?

It didn't cross your mind that Thibs firing might be being discuss in the Around-The-NBA thread?

And you couldn't take 5 seconds to check...?

Sigh.

 

[julius]

Nobody will ever confuse Beasley with a Mensa member.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

I see Woj says that Monty is on the list of guys that Minnesota may go after. I'd love to see him get a head coaching gig. I really loved that guy. I'm not sure how great of a coach he is, but he seems like such a good dude.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

didnt they just clobber the lakers?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Thibs should have stayed in his lane as the best defensive coordinator around...he failed as a head coach across the board..

Apart from that whole "take the Bulls from a dumpster fire to the best team in the East" thing.

 

[riverman]

Apart from that whole "take the Bulls from a dumpster fire to the best team in the East" thing.

and breaking Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah while doing so...he rode his starters even more than Nate McMillan used to.

 

[riverman]

Id agree but I bet the paychecks and buyouts worked out ok for him.

This will be the second time in a row he gets fat checks to talk on tv or go fishing...Chicago bought him out as well

 

[hoopsjock]

I see Woj says that Monty is on the list of guys that Minnesota may go after. I'd love to see him get a head coaching gig. I really loved that guy. I'm not sure how great of a coach he is, but he seems like such a good dude.

Monty was the head coach of the Pelicans for 5 seasons or does that not count?