Kings first round of coaching candidate interviews comes out
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Jackson has said a few times on his broadcast that the best player on your team has to be committed to the defensive end of the floor for the team to succeed. This last broadcast he said the same thing. I couldn't help wondering if he was doing his broadcast AND sending a message to Kings' brass when he made that statement.
And this is someone with about as much real coaching experience as Luke freaking Walton. Talk about going down the same path except this dudes been removed from the game for nearly a decade. It's clear what this is and always was, Vivek is easily duped by the political types, nothing more. Smooth talk him and he goes gaga.
Listen... We need a face of the franchise at this point. Fox is not a leader, Sabonis is good but he has no star power. Jackson is the guy. Hes not the guy to win us a championship, but hes the guy we need to get to the next steps. He will bring attention off the players and onto him, something we need right now because none of our guys like to step up when it counts. Trust me, we need a name, and hes the name. He may not be the coach we want, but hes the coach we need. Its that simple. 3 years from now after 2 playoff appearances, and after hes burned his bridges, we can get the coach we want.... Doug Mutha F n Christie
The issue with the Kings is the players don't have attention and this is more of the same attention the Kings should be looking to get away from. While it sucks for Jackson in Sac, and while in LA that might be true, in Sac it just kicks more sand in this franchises face. If they didn't back up every needling joke from the media with their best 3 Stooges impersonation as an organization then it might be doable, but fact is, go that route and they might not even survive the ridicule. He's a "name" for all the wrong reasons. And he's not the experience the Kings were supposedly looking for either. If he had been in the league even as little as a few years ago, maybe that changes things but honestly, a franchise that seems to make all the wrong moves that appear to be the wrong moves to everyone but them is going to tune out yet another swirl of whispers wondering what the F they're thinking?
All this the sky is falling talk are the same people that where on the bandwagon for Walton. Nobody anywhere has said he was a bad coach, not one. Anyone we hire is going to get scrutinized. The fact is, there is nobody on this team that has shown consistent leadership. Jackson will at least call out his players "sometimes bad" when they are taking games off, not playing hard ect. Take lebron out of browns career and he doesn't even have a job right now. He doesn't get me excited at all. Jackson is not the same person from 10 years. The man has taken his licks and guess what, hes still on top, still in the nba, even without a coaching job just yet. Not many men have been blackballed, yet still are in coaching considerations 10 years later
When has he ever been called a incompetent coach? lets be real here the man can coach. He brings some bagage but coaching is not one of them. be careful, dont get your hopes to high, he has a 50% chance right now of being the next head coach of your favorite team lol. Worst things have happened in Sac
Can the man coach? By all accounts he favored david lee over draymond. He let mike malone develope players, run practices and game plan while he was busy with his ministry. He did improve golden state but did have 3 future hall of famers (2 of whome were entering their prime). So by all accounts, he can take the credit, but his time in GS is not proof of anything except he can create drama. There is a reason he hasnt sniffed a job in 8 years.
That may all be true, but never question the Kings ability to make the questionable call on the outside eventually look like the worst call in history to the media and be called such until they follow it up with another record breaker. Narrative is set, Jackson = Vivek, Monte = Brown. And narratives do matter, especially heading into a year right down the road where FA dreams become a possibility. All a coach has to do is use these guys right. If you need a coach to inspire players with locker rooms speeches it's all for not anyway. That's a bunch of horse ****. Yeah, it might help but even the Zen master watched his golden rep tarnished when the talent under him changed names and there wasn't enough incense in the world to fix it. This isn't a LeBron team so a coach can very easily have their own ideas about how to play. Like Walton did, which mostly involved turning Fox from a potential star PG to a ball watcher from the corner. Mark Jackson to me would be a perfect option for a desperate Lakers team who could use the ability Jackson would bring from day 1 to share the heat of the spotlight. That team has AD/Bron, a recent title, and more guarantees so a locker room tirade or supportive talk could work wonders. Maybe it would here as well, but there is so much farther to go than that. This is all about personnel usage at this point or it should be.
entering there prime is a huge statement, green was young and "green" Lee was a beast at that time so nobody could blame him at all. curry was injury prone and klay was a nobody. Lets not act like he benched the current warriors. We could be talking about fox, sobonis and mitchelle in the next years. What if he benches fox for mitchelle next year who becomes the greatest thing since slice bread. For coaching in the now, he brought the warriors to the next level, thats undeniable..
I think most people here recognise that the sky has fallen and will continue to do so regardless of what we do. I have seen several critiques of Walton's coaching chops from people outside KingsFans. But. On the current topic of Mark Jackson or Mike Brown. Cool if you like Jackson but surely you can understand why people would prefer someone like Brown. Of the two, one candidate has had one coaching job that they did 8 years ago. While you can still find whispers of his positive impact, most of the discourse has been negative and the team has not looked back since. The other candidate has had many coaching jobs with NBA teams as well as a national team. He has been an assistant for three successful teams, winning three championships. As an NBA head coach, he has won 62% of games. Most of those teams are different to the Kings in that they have had actual talent, so there are some question marks. But the same is true for Jackson’s celebrity appearance as a coach.
No, we don't. We need a coach to put players in a position to succeed. We need the players to believe in the coach's ability to gameplan. Rah rah bullcrap doesn't work with a young, disjointed team, especially one that hasn't received proper coaching since Joerger.
Getting them to know their role and shut their mouth is more important here.
Getting them to know their role and shut their mouth is more important here.
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