Assistant Coach Discussion: McMillan And Brooks

I’ve had this thought for a while, nothing new. I don’t think this is even that controversial of an opinion. I just think he didn’t have quite the same level of talent as some of his contemporaries, and felt he showed more versatility in adapting as the game evolved. If Pop isn’t the greatest coach, he’s gotta be right behind Phil and Riley.

Main point is that several years of experience as an assistant under ONE of the greatest coaches of all time, while not close to a sure indicator of success is still more of a qualification on paper than zero experience.

Again that doesn’t tell the whole story, but I can wrap my head around why Cleveland would want Borrego

 

that is a funny tweet by irwin, must admit.

anyway, they hire redick, i'm on team stotts/brooks.

give me an angry grizzled veteran coach for this particular team at this particular time.

 

I just cannot understand this mindset. Monty did a great job in Phoenix. They fell apart when he left even with KD. I'm not sure what he was expected to do in Detroit. They had the worst roster in the NBA.

He'd be far from a surefire bet, but a much more rational choice than a dude who has no coaching experience.

 

Most credit Kevin Young. He was the offensive mastermind and that's why he was the highest paid assistant coach in the league.

 

Monty was also my guy instead of Lue. At this point though I think he should take a break for at least a year.

 

I honestly don’t understand how a guy with no experience has any leverage at all in this. He wants to go to Detroit then let him.

 

Not sure if he’d agree to it or not, but I’d hope the Lakers offer it

 

boom. go for it. i might lower my offer if he interviews there before our process is complete, lol.

i think the funniest (and maybe best) outcome to our coaching search is stotts or brooks as HC.

 

Fast forward to the 1:30 marker the the JJ/ Lakers news

 

Yeah, but here's the thing: LBJ likely isn't going anywhere at this stage in his career, right? He probably plays for 2 more seasons or so. Sure, we could hire somebody else, that hasn't stopped us in the past, but do we really want to see LBJ pout and lose interest during the season for the next 2 years?

I wouldn't say the Vogel fire was on him (more on Russ), but if LBJ had his back, he's still here. We basically all know how he felt about Ham. At this point, w/who's out there, I wouldn't f*** this up if I'm the Lakers. Hire a f****** coach (most likely Reddick) and let's build a staff. At the very least, Reddick will have LBJ's buy in from the start.

 

We probably low balled Redick since he doesn't have any coaching experience, and told him that we were picking his staff too.


He probably told them that he needs to think it over. If we really thought that he was a young Pat Riley, we'd have hired him already. Who came with up that quote anyway?

 

He made Detroit worse with the longest losing streak in NBA history LOL. Monty looked like he purposely tanked and this was just a money heist for him. He didn't care about being there and he didn't want to coach. Detroit had to pay him stupid money to make him bother coaching them in the first place. The dude got paid $5.5 million per win!

As Weezy said, getting a HC is a crap shoot. Unless if Jeannie somehow paid hundreds of millions to get us Pop or Spoelstra, there's no guarantees out there. Our overall direction is also contingent on the FO upgrading this team....which we will see if they can do anything of note.

 

This FO is complete sh**show.

ROFL.