Nate's new coaching staff (from hoopsworld)

[illmatic99]

http://twitter.com/tpovtak

Jimmy Lynum (Philly), Bernie Bickerstaff (Chicago), Chuck Person (LA) to join Nate's revamped coaching staff in Portland.

 

[maxiep]

Color me underwhelmed. Nice to see Jimmy back, though. He's a great guy.

 

[B-Roy]

Chuck Person?? HE'S A LAKER, GETEM.

In all seriousness, I hope some zen rubbed off on him and he'll bring it to the Blazers.

 

[barfo]

http://twitter.com/tpovtak

Really going for the greybeards here. Well, I guess it will be a battle royale between Lynum and Bickerstaff for who gets to be interim head coach when Nate departs.

barfo

 

[alex42083]

No big man coach to replace Lucas huh.. oh well. Can't say I'm too impressed with the choices, but it is what it is. With all these changes going on, I could see Nate being next on the hot seat if he doesn't get the team going next year.

 

[BGrantFan]

Really going for the greybeards here.

barfo

I'm surprised Hubie Brown and Doug Moe didn't accept their offers.

 

[Pinwheel1]

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Wow Jimmy Lynum is back. A lot of experience between he and Bernie.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

No big man coach to replace Lucas huh.. oh well. Can't say I'm too impressed with the choices, but it is what it is. With all these changes going on, I could see Nate being next on the hot seat if he doesn't get the team going next year.

As well he should, personally KP made some mistakes, but Nate should have been first to go...

 

[BGrantFan]

No big man coach to replace Lucas huh.. oh well. Can't say I'm too impressed with the choices, but it is what it is. With all these changes going on, I could see Nate being next on the hot seat if he doesn't get the team going next year.

One thing I've learned is that everybody in the entire organization is always on the hot seat.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

Disgusting.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

I wonder if old time basketball guys like this command more salary than an up and coming assistant coach?

I want Monty back . . .

 

[illmatic99]

Chuck Person was on that Laker bench last year. And iirc, we will retain Bayno and Kaleb.

 

[maxiep]

Chuck Person was on that Laker bench last year.

Does that mean he'll demand a higher chair?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I'm surprised Hubie Brown and Doug Moe didn't accept their offers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

 

[BrianFromWA]

Fratello and Ramsey aren't sure how to use email yet, so they're waiting for the offers to come snail mail.

 

[illmatic99]

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/columns/story?id=5278158

In 2001-02, Person's first year back in the city where he spent the first six seasons of his career, the Pacers acquired a young player with tremendous talent but a troubling attitude.

That player was Ron Artest.

Indiana needed to find a way through Artest's prickly shell to enjoy the fruits that his game had to offer.

Person went to work.

"When I got there he was playing well defensively," Person said. "He was a great defensive player. But he was having some issues conforming to the rules, conforming to the things [head coach] Isiah [Thomas] wanted to do, and Donnie asked me to work with him with the blessing of Isiah and with Ronnie, I told Ron, 'You don't know me. All I'm asking you to do is trust me.'

"I said, 'Whatever I say from this point on goes. I don't need any feedback from you; I just need you to listen to what I tell you to do.'

"He agreed to do it. He didn't have any reason to trust me, but he let his guard down and allowed me into his inner circle, and from there we have grown every year."

Artest averaged 10.9 points in his first half-season in Indiana. That number jumped to 15.5 points in 2002-03 and 18.3 in 2003-04.

"Without Chuck, I wouldn't have been an All-Star," Artest said. "I was good, I was all right, I had really good defense, but then Chuck turned my offensive game and he made me a threat. That's when it started. I was always able to play basketball, don't get me wrong, but Chuck made me a threat."

Walsh said he never saw Artest work harder than when he was practicing with Person.

"He made Ronnie work unbelievably hard," Walsh said. "Everything he did, he did full-speed, full-court. So if you're shooting jump shots, he had to dribble the length of the floor, pull up at the hash mark, take a jump shot, get the rebound and then, full speed, go back the other way. And he did that, he was doing it for 45 minutes to an hour and he did it at full speed."

More @ link.

I hope he can help Nic as much as Monty did.

 

[andalusian]

Miss Cleo will be on hand as well, to help facilitate the communications with James Naismith - but will only be on the bench in west-coast games, as reception with the afterlife is clearer on the east-coast.

 

[THE HCP]

One thing I've learned is that everybody in the entire organization is always on the hot seat.

LINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LameR]

Anybody know what the strengths/weaknesses of these guys are? Or at least the strengths?

 

[illmatic99]

Sounds like this report by Hoopsworld was premature, according to Quick.

 

[barfo]

Sounds like this report by Hoopsworld was premature, according to Quick.

Well, Quick knows a thing or two about premature coaching announcements, so I expect he's right.

barfo

 

[THE HCP]

Ivaroni! Holler!

 

[oldmangrouch]

IIRC, the rifleman was a dead-eye shooter who moved well off the ball. If he can teach those traits to others, he is worth having around. I have no argument with bringing Lyman back, as he always seemed like a solid, if unspectacular, coach. Isn't he pretty good with the "Xs" and "Os"? I have no clue what Bickerstaff would bring to the table, other than experience.