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Natebishop3 said:
I just keep going back to the Spurs... if Becky was the true heir apparent, there's no freaking way they let her go. Pop would step aside. The team is nowhere near competing for a title right now. It's concerning that she's out interviewing and they don't seem to care.
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They let Udoka walk not that long ago too. Pop will coach until he keels over it looks like.
 
LayneStaley said:
If we hire her and she sucks I bet we are stuck with her for 3-4 seasons.
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I'm all for Hammon getting a head coaching position, but I think it should be with a developing team where W/L don't matter as much in the moment. The Orlando job is perfect for that. There is a lot of pressure going into a situation where the team is immediately trying to win a championship.
 
illmatic99 said:
all this talk about how hard it would be to fire becky made me think that if that kinda sentiment were real, there is no way Dame asks out if she's hired. not sure you could say the same if it were MDA.
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So already sex differences are a factor in your mind? What you say may have merit, but on the flipside it might be one truism of many why hiring a woman to coach men at the highest level of male competition is a recipe for disaster. At least with MDA and Chauncey there is something to fall back on with their history in the NBA, but with Hammon there is nothing really backing it up except women's basketball experience and the motivated expressions of support from her ideologically expressive coach. It's not like I believe women are inferior minds, it's just a different dynamic that goes far beyond individual characteristics. Evolution coincides with socialization and it's not some blank slate, it's more akin to Jung's collective unconscious prescripted through years and years and years and years. This basketball is the closest natural man has to his nature of competition where stakes are high and all honorable things are bestowed but without the violence. It was an exception - that in the dirt where blood and death was the end result of competition and through years and years and years - for it to be a woman. She might be an exception. It might more easily implode and if not for the past six years of progressive dictate and mistakes, I might be more keen on seeing the worth in trying.
 
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Paine Tablet said:
So already sex differences are a factor in your mind? What you say may have merit, but on the flipside it might be one truism of many why hiring a woman to coach men at the highest level of male competition is a recipe for disaster.
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nah, not all. this was tongue in cheek.

see my commentary on this idea that it would be more difficult to fire her a few pages earlier-- i staunchly disagree that it will be a factor.
 
B-Roy said:
I'm all for Hammon getting a head coaching position, but I think it should be with a developing team where W/L don't matter as much in the moment. The Orlando job is perfect for that. There is a lot of pressure going into a situation where the team is immediately trying to win a championship.
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Billups feels the most like a Steve Kerr kind of hire.

A guy who won championships and can command the respect of the players.
 
Basketball is basketball if you watch the women play there more decipline how they play then the men. They actually move the ball and players actually moves without ball. The stars still can be stars with type of basketball. So hiring I coach like Hammon that pay her dues as assistant and as a player and think Dame already sign off the finalized. Plus there also more into coaching then X's and O's.
 
The Becky Circus is here. Note that the article doesn't say "Hammon and Billups". Note that they don't even get her name right:

Becky Hammons Identified As Finalist For Blazers' Head Coaching Job
JUN 21, 2021 1:29 PM

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Becky Hammon is a finalist to become head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, sources tell Shams Charania and Sam Amick of The Athletic.

Hammon is in her seventh year on the coach staff of the San Antonio Spurs. Hammon also interviewed for the head coaching position with the Orlando Magic last week.

The Blazers are expected to have multiple finalists for the head coaching job. Portland is seeking a replacement for Terry Stotts.

SHAMS CHARANIA, SAM AMICK/THE ATHLETIC
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Wizard Mentor said:
The Becky Circus is here. Note that the article doesn't say "Hammon and Billups". Note that they don't even get her name right:
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Because it's coming from Shams, who doesn't have a direct line to Olshey. The Billups narrative is driven completely by Woj, and it's obvious why.
 
Neil will hire Becky to get league wide accolades and national pr strokes. I mean Oregon was the first with the bottle bill act. And assisted suicide.
We are TrailBlazers for a reason!
 
Hoopguru said:
Neil will hire Becky to get league wide accolades and national pr strokes. I mean Oregon was the first with the bottle bill act. And assisted suicide.
We are TrailBlazers for a reason!
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Yeah. His ego would love it.
 
Still no one has told me Becky Hammon’s coaching philosophy or bonafides.
Is she in charge of the Spurs defense? Udoka left to take control of the sixers and nets defense.
Is she in charge of the offense?
What exactly is her role. I have no way of knowing what she is or is not responsible for.
At least with Billups we *know* what he is responsible for due to the article about PG.
 
B-Roy said:
Because it's coming from Shams, who doesn't have a direct line to Olshey. The Billups narrative is driven completely by Woj, and it's obvious why.
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Actually, Billups has been mentioned in every report for months. @Scalma has been tracking it.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
Actually, Billups has been mentioned in every report for months. @Scalma has been tracking it.
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I'm more referring to the narrative. Every time Billups is mentioned by Woj he also mentions the Blazers. Even that report last week that had Billups interviewing for Boston had Portland interjected into the story. Shams has no reason to push that narrative.
 
B-Roy said:
I'm more referring to the narrative. Every time Billups is mentioned by Woj he also mentions the Blazers. Even that report last week that had Billups interviewing for Boston had Portland interjected into the story. Shams has no reason to push that narrative.
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could be a smokescreen for Olshey. Perhaps to appease Dame?
 
LA Clippers assistant Chauncey Billups and San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon have emerged among the leading candidates and advanced to second interviews in the Portland Trail Blazers' search for a head coach, sources told ESPN.

Both assistants are set for additional meetings with Portland officials in the coming days, sources said.

Brooklyn Nets assistant Mike D'Antoni is another candidate who still figures into the Blazers search, sources told ESPN.
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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...ance-second-interviews-portland-trail-blazers
 
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