Well the thing with Memphis is: how is this summer going to go? If Mike Conley leaves, you're in big trouble. Still it might be worth it to go coach a pretty okay team for a couple years. I'm just hoping one of these head coaches looks around and doesn't see a job he wants. If that happens, the Lakers might be able to snatch 'em up.
Interviewer- "David you've just got out of an uncomfortable situation between you and a star NBA player in LeBron James who publicly humiliated you, didn't listen to you, didn't respect you and eventually got you fired. What is your next move?" David Blatt- "Bring on James Harden!"
they did Joerger wrong.. their GM let him go due to 'loyalty' issues because he asked permission to talk to other teams the same GM that interviewed for other gigs himself i think Joerger did a hell of a job bringing a decimated team to the playoffs...they could have easily folded when Conley and Gasol went down
Hard to believe he'll have interest. Why? And for Dave Joeger running to Sactown? That could be a great fit, be interesting to see what he can do up there. Karl gets mad respect, but we're seeing a changing of the guard on older coaches. Not too many left.... And for David Blatt? Yikes, is he trying to ruin any future coaching gigs by taking on Houston? Such a mess that if I'm him I pass it up. Unless they are willing to bust the team up and start over with new pieces. He might be better off with a new set of youngsters and hungry vets over the Terry's, Hardens, and Dwights of the world.
I cannot believe the Grizzlies let Joerger go, and I'm equally surprised that he took the Kings job. I don't know what that means for Cousins...I'm assuming he stays now? Joerger can make him a monster. Or maybe Joerger took the job with the notion that he wants the Kings to trade Cousins for some young talent? Ugh, I was hoping the Kings would stay a mess. This is a huge win for them. Joerger did an excellent job with the Grizzlies.
Odd move. Rockets should interview Sam Cassell. He has more experience. Smith has the same years in coaching as a dead man.
hearing the grizzlies are considering bringing hollins back they were stupid for letting him go. and they're just as stupid for letting joerger go poor guy took the kings job
it's got to be some sort of good faith gesture or something. Kenny smith's basketball knowledge is really unimpressive--at least as seen on tv. I'd love for Houston to hire him, though. I'm a bit surprised they haven't already jumped on vogel.
How Phil Jackson is hurting the Knicks Chris Mannix of The Vertical,Yahoo Sports 1 hour 25 minutes ago https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/how-phil-jackson-is-hurting-the-knicks-140232072.html NEW YORK – A playoff coach hit the market last weekend, a solid boss with a proven track record and a keen basketball mind. Dave Joerger isn’t a marquee name, but his 147-99 record in three seasons in Memphis was pretty good, and the job Joerger did navigating a battered Grizzlies team to the postseason this year was even better. Sacramento thought so, inking Joerger to a three-year, $12 million deal within days of his ouster. The Knicks? Not so much. Team president Phil Jackson wants you to trust him, and man, doesn’t that get harder by the day? Joerger may not be the right fit in New York, but for one of the NBA’s flagship franchises to let another coach come off the board without even a token effort to interview him is a terrible look. The list of coaches at which the Knicks have shrugged continues to grow, while Jackson shows none of the urgency expected as the overseer of a franchise in disrepair. It’s time to accept a certain reality: Jackson just isn’t cut out for this gig. The world has gotten bigger, and the talent pool has grown with it. An NBA executive must be a tireless workaholic, not an ex-coach who acts like his 11 championship rings make scouring the globe for talent beneath him. Jackson nailed Kristaps Porzingis, a transformative 7-foot-3 big man who will revolutionize the center position. Yet the frontrunner for the Knicks’ coaching job (incumbent Kurt Rambis) has suggested Porzingis play some small forward while staying loyal to a system (the triangle) that doesn’t seem to suit the young star. The Knicks don’t have a pick next month, which is all the more reason for Jackson to put in the extra work. No asset is more attainable than a second-round pick, particularly from the handful of teams (Boston, New Orleans, Denver) with a few of them. Finding NBA talent there is difficult, but every year yields a Norman Powell, a Jordan Clarkson, an Allen Crabbe, and it’s often the most relentless executives who grab them. Now is the time for Jackson to marshal his resources, not cruise through the Plains States on an ill-timed break. There’s video to be dissected, college coaches to be called, international scouts with information to be bled dry. Free agency – Jackson’s rebuilding method of choice – has changed, evolved. The magnetic pull to big markets has weakened, replaced by a marketplace of players fueled by a desire to win. New York, with its instability, its annual failures, just isn’t where the elite talent is looking to play. For years, Knicks owner James Dolan has been derided for being too meddlesome, but this is fast becoming a situation that calls for him to step in. No one knows Jackson’s commitment to the organization, if he will opt out of his contract next summer or stay on for the full five years for which he signed. Jeanie Buss could be a year away from assuming control of basketball operations with the Los Angeles Lakers, and wouldn’t Jackson, her fiancé, a Lakers legend, be just whom Buss would want to help her? Dolan empowered Isiah Thomas and ran off Donnie Walsh, yet here an intervention is warranted. If Jackson is determined to hire Rambis, Dolan needs to know: Will Jackson be around to see it through? The Knicks have the cash to outbid everyone for Frank Vogel and have had ongoing discussions with David Blatt. If Jackson is ready to pull the rip cord, if his heart just isn’t in it, the Knicks need to commit to a coach, not a system, to a philosophy that’s sustainable, not one Jackson is determined to make work. Any ambiguity on Jackson’s part and Dolan needs to let him go. The Knicks have a tent-pole player in Porzingis, and they need a top executive eager to spend the next few years supplying the talent around him. Running a team isn’t a young man’s game, but it requires a young man’s hustle. Jackson is a brilliant basketball mind, but it takes more, much more to build a winner.
The emergence of Porzingas really saved Phil I think. Another botched free agency period and NY will be asking for his head. And I hope he stays far away from us, or at least our GM/basketball operations positions. If you must give him a legacy/respectable position that's ambiguous and out the way.
