I think if they had doubts then they shouldn’t have made an offer at all. Not making an immediate offer to a candidate isn’t a slap in the face and wouldn’t have looked bad upon Hurley.
Again I’m no fan of their media tour but overall I think it’s more about smoothing things over a bit with the fans at UConn. Overall, we should not be in a position where we are dodging bullets. My consistent position has been that our vetting process here is questionable. Within what, 10 seconds or so, you can see that his wife had real reservations about moving to LA. The fact that we either couldn’t figure that out or did figure that out and still presented an offer isn’t encouraging to me. We flew them in and immediately made an offer. We believed in the hire. A real process interviews all viable candidates ranks then and then presents an offer to the best match. Jeannie has been involved in many coaching hires at this point. She should know better but I don’t think her or anyone else steering the ship does. Bad hiring processes is how you trip over a solid coach and still end up firing them like we did with Frank. So even if we felt like we dodged a bullet we could easily just walk right into another one here as we did back then by firing Vogel and hiring ham.
was he really that much better in his first season though? i know he got stuck with westbrick in the first half, but i don't recall his decisions being any different still didn't know how to call TO when the other team goes on a run. or refusing to play another big man when AD went to the bench (i remember this being an issue in the memphis series) among other puzzling decisions still can't believe they had the chance to hire nurse that offseason and passed
He got us to the WCF after sucking the first half of the season. Was it dumb luck? Was it just the great trade that Rob made to get off Westbrook? Was it a bit of both? Maybe so. I’m willing to give Ham credit for pulling it off that first season. But last year he made a lot of awful decisions that sank our opportunity and landed us against the champs in a bad first round match as the 7th seed. Again it’s all done and we’ve moved on.
The only process that has seemed to work for the most part is our drafting/scouting. We're just very fortunate Jesse & whomever else he works with are cheap and he's in the family so they don't have to hire out. If Jesse wasn't in the picture and we had to hire out, we'd probably be bottom of the list there, too. As @abeer3 points out, Rob should have a couple of people working with him in the Front Office & maybe they do and we just don't know, but I would like to know if we did. I'd like to really see an audit of a responsible organization running on all cylinders and our organization to see where we're missing it at. Sadly, I think the one thing that we're missing the most we can't change is an owner who can spend. That aside, JJ with a good to great staff might work. Get some pieces this offseason and go from there.
Hurley seems to have done all he could to make that’s his last NBA coaching opportunity. The wife was icing on the cake. Nobody besides a small market team, if they are in their right mind, would or should consider that.
Yeah. At this point we have to hope for the best with JJ. One positive thing I do think he will actually help the whole franchise with is media savvy. At least we will have someone in the building who understands how to work with (and against) the media. We definitely need that.
I am having cognitive dissonance I understand that JJ should be praising C Bags on TV as ESPN commentator ,but don't like it
Sam Cassel won championships as a player. He's now won as an assistant coach. he's ready Do it. Alien sightings in LA start today. Unless he bought into the "cult"
Excited to have JJ as coach. He seems to know the game well. Now just need a couple of wings who are 2 ways and a back up center.
Jeff Van Gundy has agreed on a deal to become the lead assistant on Ty Lue's LA Clippers coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Van Gundy is considered one of the finest minds in basketball and had been pursued for years to return to coaching on a full-time basis. His relationship with Lue and the franchise's fondness for Van Gundy played major parts in the Clippers' ability to land him, sources said. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40376685/sources-jeff-van-gundy-agrees-clippers-lead-assistant
Not the Woj bomb I was hoping for this morning. Like I said earlier though when Stein had this as a liklihood, hopefully that gives Stan more reason to want to join JJ"s staff -- being close to family.
I’d like to see Stan Van Grundy get a shot. We’d have both VG bros in LA. Reddick should be his assistant and learn the ropes.
