OT - Kings fire coach Paul Westphal.

[SlyPokerDog]

Per the twitters.

Knucklehead player - 1
Coach - 0

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Blazers should hire Westphal as an assistant coach. He'd help Nate with our new running style of play.

 

[magnifier661]

Hasn't been the first time a player ran the coach out of town. I don't know about hiring him. He hasn't been good since coaching the Suns.

 

[PapaG]

Pleasepleasepleaseplease convince Larry Brown to come out of retirement and coach your trainwreck, Maloofs. The fireworks would be spectacular.

 

[Mote]

Pleasepleasepleaseplease convince Larry Brown to come out of retirement and coach your trainwreck, Maloofs. The fireworks would be spectacular.

Bwaahahaha... I would have to subscribe to League Pass just to watch the Kings. It would be very entertaining.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Wow, that is insane

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I don't think it was DeMarcus Cousins that got Westphal canned. It was my "Didn't You Used To Be Tyreke Evans" post. Fear me.

(I'd like to think it was the fact that he's a total dickwad who brought Rush Limbaugh in as a motivational speaker when he was coaching the Suns. But I guess they must've known that when they hired him.)

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Conspiracy theory - the Maloofs want the team to suck, fans stop supporting, move the team to Vegas.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Granted the timing was poor, but Westphal was never a good coach, and if it's a choice between a GM giving up on basically every player he's drafted or canning the coach, it's an easy choice.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Conspiracy theory - the Maloofs want the team to suck,

That would point to Westphal getting an EXTENSION.

 

[PapaG]

Granted the timing was poor, but Westphal was never a good coach, and if it's a choice between a GM giving up on basically every player he's drafted or canning the coach, it's an easy choice.

Plus, there is that Rush Limbaugh thing.

 

[PapaG]

That would point to Westphal getting an EXTENSION.

They would have, except for Rush Limbaugh.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Good point by Tom Ziller:

You know, Petrie isn't that different than Westphal. Living off past glory, quick to shift blame for poor performance.

 

[PapaG]

Good point by Tom Ziller:

Petrie doesn't have Rush Limbaugh hanging over his head, though.

 

[illmatic99]

Good move.

 

[ABM]

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2012/1/2/2676173/demarcus-cousins-sacramento-kings-paul-westphal-hook

 

[illmatic99]

Blazers should hire Westphal as an assistant coach. He'd help Nate with our new running style of play.

Uh... no. Have you seen them play? All they do is take turns going one on one.

Interesting stat that's been bandied about on twitter over the past week: In 7 games, no single King player has had more than 4 assists in a game.

That is one sad offense.

 

[RR7]

Petrie doesn't have Rush Limbaugh hanging over his head, though.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Per the twitters.

Knucklehead player - 111
Coach - 0

Fixed.

Edit: actually, a fair amount of the time the coach gets fired and the player
gets traded, so they both lose... unless the player is traded to a contender,
which has definitely happened.

 

[Draco]

How do shitty coaches keep getting head coaching jobs?

 

[Draco]

Good point by Tom Ziller:

Agreed. Just a few months ago a bunch of Portland fans were clamoring at us to get Petrie as our GM? Why? The guy has built a crap roster with loads of high draft picks. Claiming Outlaw for $12 million off amnesty? Re-acquiring John Salmons for $25 million? Giving Marcus Thorton over $30 million? That roster is horrific.

Thank gosh we don't have him running the Blazers show. I gotta admit our scouting department and Vulcans are doing a solid job.

 

[Mediocre Man]

How do shitty coaches keep getting head coaching jobs?

The same reason shitty coaches keep signing contract extensions. People hire other people they are familiar with

 

[ABM]

Then, there's ass-clown ringleading The Greatest Slow On Earth

 

[Draco]

The same reason shitty coaches keep signing contract extensions. People hire other people they are familiar with

I think you used to see this with GM's too, owners kept giving the jobs to their favorite former players. We have seen a trend with more GM's recently coming from the scouting department with heavy statistics backgrounds lately. Very cerebral GM's. Maybe teams eventually will trend the same way with head coaches and give a Tom Thibodeaul or Scott Brooks or Eric Spolstra or Monty Williams the nod as a great assistant. Thats gotta be better then a "proven" coach, who's only proven to be poor.

 

[Pinwheel1]

How do shitty coaches keep getting head coaching jobs?

I honestly don't think there are that many options out there. Fans keep saying give someone new a chance and I am sure there are some decent ones out there, but no one that is a difference maker. But Wesphal to me never seemed like a good coach. I did not get that hire at all. Not sure what Geoff was thinking with that hire.

 

[MickZagger]

Never understood the hire. Westphal left the NBA ranks to coach at Pepperdine for a few years before his stint with the Kings. He was horrible at Pepperdine.

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Crawford was considering Sacramento because he liked Westphal.

Also if this turns out like the Utah situation, Cousins is next

 

[Boob-No-More]

Hasn't been the first time a player ran the coach out of town.

But I'm pretty sure it's the first time a big man with a 0.321 FG% ran a coach out of town. Sacramento deserves to suck for coddling that idiot.

BNM

 

[Nikolokolus]

Granted the timing was poor, but Westphal was never a good coach, and if it's a choice between a GM giving up on basically every player he's drafted or canning the coach, it's an easy choice.

This is pretty much it. Westphal has never been what I would call a good coach and coming out of retirement after two decades (ish) had failure written all over it.

 

[MickZagger]

This is pretty much it. Westphal has never been what I would call a good coach and coming out of retirement after two decades (ish) had failure written all over it.

He didn't exactly retire. He got to run a garbage Pepperdine team in the WCC making decent money and enjoying the Malibu scene. Petrie is a good GM, but he whiffed on Westphal.