Mike Brown hired as Head Coach
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Preferable to Mark Jackson.
Not sure how I feel about Brown as a head coach. Don’t know what “Mike Brown ball” looks like but I guess we’ll see. His head coaching gigs have been defined by having player-coaches like LeBron and Kobe so it’s hard to know if he is a guy that can leave his mark and get the most out of everybody..or if he’s just somebody like Ty Lue.
I’m sure it’s mostly based on all the years he has been on Kerr’s bench rather than his own head coaching history but I voted “yes” because he’s a better hire than Jackson IMO. I’m not sure he was the best option overall to unlock any offensive potential of a Fox-Sabonis core
Not sure how I feel about Brown as a head coach. Don’t know what “Mike Brown ball” looks like but I guess we’ll see. His head coaching gigs have been defined by having player-coaches like LeBron and Kobe so it’s hard to know if he is a guy that can leave his mark and get the most out of everybody..or if he’s just somebody like Ty Lue.
I’m sure it’s mostly based on all the years he has been on Kerr’s bench rather than his own head coaching history but I voted “yes” because he’s a better hire than Jackson IMO. I’m not sure he was the best option overall to unlock any offensive potential of a Fox-Sabonis core
I think he joined the Cavs in LeBron's second year? Got them to the Finals in his third, followed up by two "disappointing" 60+ win seasons. When you look at the rosters of those teams they are really not good aside from LeBron, which was the main reason he bolted for Miami.
I do think it's fair to question Brown's ability to create modern offensive sets, but there's no doubt he is one of the best in the business on the defensive side. Now that this is settled I'm really looking forward to who his assistants will be. I am sure they are going to be better than the locker room buddies Walton wanted to bring over.
I do think it's fair to question Brown's ability to create modern offensive sets, but there's no doubt he is one of the best in the business on the defensive side. Now that this is settled I'm really looking forward to who his assistants will be. I am sure they are going to be better than the locker room buddies Walton wanted to bring over.
Not going to pretend I know much of anything about coaching talent, but the comments about how instrumental Brown is to the GSW defense is exciting. And spending the last 8 years with the most game changing organization is good. Pop coaching tree is good.
But most importantly, Monte won. Dumars out, Cantanella out, coaching holdovers out. He finally has the keys and Vivek is butting out
But most importantly, Monte won. Dumars out, Cantanella out, coaching holdovers out. He finally has the keys and Vivek is butting out
I think it's pretty fair to say that Brown has a pretty fair track record coaching some of the biggest headcases in the league.
The only true stain on his record is only coaxing 33 wins out of this roster:
Bennett, Anthony
Dellavedova, Matthew
Deng, Luol
Felix, Carrick
Gee, Alonzo
Hawes, Spencer
Hopson, Scotty
Irving, Kyrie (C)
Jack, Jarrett
Karasev, Sergey
Miles, C. J.
Thompson, Tristan
Varejão, Anderson
Waiters, Dion
Zeller, Tyler
The only true stain on his record is only coaxing 33 wins out of this roster:
Bennett, Anthony
Dellavedova, Matthew
Deng, Luol
Felix, Carrick
Gee, Alonzo
Hawes, Spencer
Hopson, Scotty
Irving, Kyrie (C)
Jack, Jarrett
Karasev, Sergey
Miles, C. J.
Thompson, Tristan
Varejão, Anderson
Waiters, Dion
Zeller, Tyler
I'm just excited to actually see the pieces be put in place for us to even have a shot at the playoffs:
-Got the 2nd star in Sabonis at the deadline. 2 Top 30 guys to actually focus a build with role guys around
-Putting together some role player talent. Found Trey Lyles/Damian Jones as quality back-ups and bought low on DDV, who likely is our starting 2. Davion came on at the end of the year.
-All current and future draft capital. Didn't sacrifice the future for a Jerami Grant type for a foolish push for the play-in
-Conducted an actual coaching search with 6 of 7 really solid names (And I'd bet Jackson was only included because Vivek wanted him to be)
-Let the mysterious shadow GM, Joe Dumars go after another attempted coup for power under the Vivek era.
-Let Catanella walk, although seemingly very good at his job, was not from the Monte regime
-Hired Mike Brown, known defensive specialist and architect of the dominant Warriors defense of the last 8 years. For a franchise that's probably been the worst defensive organization the last 15 years, huge.
It's all there. Championship team? no, unless Davion becomes Gary Payton, Fox tries on defense and if we win the lottery for a chance at Chet/Jabari. But I think the pieces are here to be a 5-6 seed in the very near future with the right finishing moves. And for a team that just needs to get this playoff monkey off it's back... that's fine.
-Got the 2nd star in Sabonis at the deadline. 2 Top 30 guys to actually focus a build with role guys around
-Putting together some role player talent. Found Trey Lyles/Damian Jones as quality back-ups and bought low on DDV, who likely is our starting 2. Davion came on at the end of the year.
-All current and future draft capital. Didn't sacrifice the future for a Jerami Grant type for a foolish push for the play-in
-Conducted an actual coaching search with 6 of 7 really solid names (And I'd bet Jackson was only included because Vivek wanted him to be)
-Let the mysterious shadow GM, Joe Dumars go after another attempted coup for power under the Vivek era.
-Let Catanella walk, although seemingly very good at his job, was not from the Monte regime
-Hired Mike Brown, known defensive specialist and architect of the dominant Warriors defense of the last 8 years. For a franchise that's probably been the worst defensive organization the last 15 years, huge.
It's all there. Championship team? no, unless Davion becomes Gary Payton, Fox tries on defense and if we win the lottery for a chance at Chet/Jabari. But I think the pieces are here to be a 5-6 seed in the very near future with the right finishing moves. And for a team that just needs to get this playoff monkey off it's back... that's fine.
