Assistant Coach Discussion: McMillan And Brooks

And if the leak is coming from Hurley's circle, wondering if that gives it more credibility that they are actually considering this and giving UCONN a heads up?

 

I think that's a good comp.

 

I'd think so.

But I do feel like Woj would at least reach out to someone at the Lakers as well for some level of confirmation.

 

Weezy beat me to it on the Woike tweets, but this seems to have come out of nowhere. Again, I like that.

Shows we were doing our due diligence and likely using the media to keep attention away from our real target. It's the type of competence many of us have been begging the front office to show us.

We were concerned about the process (or at least I was) and this shows the front office is doing its homework and conducting business as it should.

Again, a pleasant surprise this morning

 

I brought up ex NBA college coaches back on page 5 and it was the worst idea ever because college coaches never succeed in the NBA.Now it’s amazing, this forum is hilarious

 

Maybe they are truly trying to expose the leaks in the organization and get the ship completely righted.

I'm all for it. Feels like I have been waiting for this since Jeanie took over.

 

I honestly never saw your post, but I feel like Brad Stevens and Billy Donovan were both at least solid NBA coaches in recent years. Much better than the previous crop of guys like Pitino and Calipari. Larry Brown is likely the gold standard.

What I particularly like about the prospect of Hurley is that he already appears to run NBA sets and is very good with Xs and Os. Again, we will see how it translates when working with grown men, but I am definitely okay with giving him a shot.

 

It’s just funny to me how people are prisoners of the moment.Obviously I have absolutely no problem with this hire if it comes to pass.I suggested this type of hire instead of recycled losing NBA coaches.

 

Good job Linda and Kurt …. LOL

 

That’s because people get stuck in their boxes and believe only the things they comprehend are possible

 

Yeah. I definitely didn't see this coming or think it was on the radar.

Forward thinking by the front office. I think that's a big part of the overall positive reaction to the news. Eases concerns about the process and sends the signal that they are really thinking things through.

 

Definitely a shift in team building.

 

my theory has been, in part, that irwin's lakers source(s?) don't like rob. so they say things to irwin that paint rob as incompetent, and irwin buys it and repeats them.

and people are right to call him out on it, and he should be pretty embarrassed by now, which means he should stop. but he'll be right there two months from now when we sign x free agent (who sucks), and we only didn't sign y free agent (who's great) because rob's stupid, per sources.

then six months later when x was better than y, crickets. or "a breath of fresh air from this normally putrid garbage pile".

my beef is that this is at least the third time that everyone freaked out because there was a story about our FO being dumb, and we learn that they weren't. i'd argue that once magic was out, we've been pretty solid throughout.

rob isn't dumb or lazy, and that's the frequent implication. i contend it's never been true and nothing has changed.

 

Looks like bringing in coach K might have given us an inside to Hurley

 

I'm not going to rain on the front office on a positive day. I'll just say this will still be our seventh coach in a relatively short window of time. We are now hearing that our last coach was not prepared and had poor gameplans. There was valid reason for concern about our ability to vet coaches.