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The Sacramento Kings versus The Utah Jazz
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The Sacramento Kings versus The Utah Jazz
By Stephen Tetsu, SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK, YOU FOOLS
Tyrone Corbin is coming back to Utah for a night and the Jazz couldn't be anymore excited. After all, it isn't often that a lottery squad in the west can mark down an automatic win on the calendar in this day and age. But then, of course, that absolutely magic ability to not just lose but lose in the most humiliatingly disgusting way possible is Ty's most endearing trait.
So to welcome Tyrone Corbin back to his old team, I decided to look over the history of failure that is the Sacramento Kings Coaching Tree.
Sacramento Kings Franchise Bad Coaching Power Ranking
5. Keith Smart
While Keith Smart wasn't particularly good at coaching and had a natural tendency to play three guards at once and push the pace while ignoring defense. His teams would at least occasionally blunder into surprise victories. He also deserves at least little bit of credit for not completely phoning it in as the Maloofs actively worked to uproot the team. But still, when Keith Smart barely even cracks your top five bad coaches list, your franchise isn't exactly in great shape.
4. Reggie Theus
Draconian team rules? Check. Questionable personality quirks? Check. Back coaching in the lower college ranks? Yep. While he did fairly well with the crap rosters he was being given, he was also a bit of an ass and a righteous git who has promptly dicked his way out of the NBA.
1a. Bill Russell
"Sure I'll coach your team. What time's practice again? Well, that's the same time as my tee time so that's not happening. Here Jerry, you coach the team now."
1b. Kenny Natt
Brought onto Reggie Theus's staff as Mike Brown's former prodigy, Kenny Natt soon wound up in water way over his head as he was handed the worst roster in franchise history and simply told to do something with it. Whilst he apparently spent sometime working under Pop in San Antonio, I can only assume most of that time was spent fetching coffee for the actual coaches as they worked up gamelans for vintage Tim Duncan.
That all said, at least Natt seemed to have a working knowledge of how timeouts work. Which brings us to...
1c.Tyrone Corbin
Sure it's only been twenty games but those twenty games have almost annihilated any and all fan passion for the team on the back of the momentum earned by Mike Malone's gritty uglyball team that took the league by total surprise to start the season. The losses have all been demoralizing affairs. The wins have all only been slightly less demoralizing than the losses.
And Tyrone Corbin also seems to have no freaking clue that he's allowed to call timeouts. Like. Ever. Which is something completely inexcusable for a coach at the peewee rec league level, let alone THE FREAKING NBA!
Corbin seems like he's a nice guy but some nice guys (heck, most of them) weren't cut out to be NBA head coaches. And he also mentions 'pace' at least twenty times in every press conference.
Dishonorable Mention: Eric Musselman, pretty much every coach over the last twenty years not named Rick Adelman or Mike Malone.
I would write about the game but it's almost 4 AM and I don't want to go to bed depressed.
