Welcome Coach Doug Christie!
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He’s married to a hooper who’s courtside every game, brought his shooting coach on their honeymoon, named his kid after the team, and has improved year over year in every part of his game that needed improvement.
I get that fans want to see players emote some but maybe it’s just not his personality. And maybe he also has a longer perspective on the game that keeps him from getting too high or too low each day.
I get that fans want to see players emote some but maybe it’s just not his personality. And maybe he also has a longer perspective on the game that keeps him from getting too high or too low each day.
And how far is that my friend? Was it as far as I could see when I was the first person to call for/predict Brown's firing 9 months in advance? When literally no other people on this board would come out and talk about the problem except for the three brave souls in the screenshot: @Blazerthal, @upinsmoke, and @Bibby10AZ ??
I literally called his replacement (not that hard).
I literally called his replacement (not that hard).
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The rightful concern in April was we'd be the laughingstock of the league for letting Brown go at the time. We were for the first 3-4 days after we finally did it even though by just about any other franchise metric we were justified. And I don't think the org is off the hook yet, though results are promising.
Sorry - possibly a stupid/silly question but I'm also not sure how to look this up, so here goes: Contract-wise, what does DC taking over as interim head coach mean for him?
- Do assistant coaches have a clause in their contract to trigger higher pay if this happens?
- Is he just paid the same as he was before for the interim HC work?
- I assume that he didn't have to re-negotiate his existing contract on such short notice given the change in responsibility...
I assume so, but I was wondering functionally how that works. Is there a standard provision in assistant coaching contracts that if they get bumped to another position with more responsibility they get $xxx more per month or ??? Is it a team-by-team thing? Is it set at the NBA level? Is it negotiated at the time of transition?
Just curious.
Just curious.
Just heard that one of Christie's points of focus for this team, is to be a lot less involved with the officials and don't be constantly chirping at them. Mistakes will happen by you and them, just move onto the next play and they will start to respect you for it.
Something I have been advocating for a long time
Something I have been advocating for a long time
TBH, the main culprit on official issues has been Fox. Domas gets on them from time to time, but Fox goes at them repeatedly. Monk taking over PG was a relief because he's much better at handling the officials. With Fox back we have to see what happens and if the team reverts back to bad habits by taking his lead.
It's such a chicken and egg thing.
Fox has a horrible whistle and is constantly getting hammered on his drives with no calls, it would take the patience of a martyred saint to put up with it, of course he's going to get mad at the refs.
But then the refs get all butthurt and swallow their whistles when Fox gets smacked around because he gets in their faces.
Meanwhile Draymond could murder a refs firstborn child at center court and not get thrown out of a game so who knows. Maybe when Stern passed the torch to Silver it was contingent on the NBA continuing to punish the Kings for daring to compete with his precious Lakers in the early 00s and Fox is just a victim of this.
Wow that was kinda a rant. What thread am I in again?
Fox has a horrible whistle and is constantly getting hammered on his drives with no calls, it would take the patience of a martyred saint to put up with it, of course he's going to get mad at the refs.
But then the refs get all butthurt and swallow their whistles when Fox gets smacked around because he gets in their faces.
Meanwhile Draymond could murder a refs firstborn child at center court and not get thrown out of a game so who knows. Maybe when Stern passed the torch to Silver it was contingent on the NBA continuing to punish the Kings for daring to compete with his precious Lakers in the early 00s and Fox is just a victim of this.
Wow that was kinda a rant. What thread am I in again?
It's such a chicken and egg thing.
Fox has a horrible whistle and is constantly getting hammered on his drives with no calls, it would take the patience of a martyred saint to put up with it, of course he's going to get mad at the refs.
But then the refs get all butthurt and swallow their whistles when Fox gets smacked around because he gets in their faces.
Meanwhile Draymond could murder a refs firstborn child at center court and not get thrown out of a game so who knows. Maybe when Stern passed the torch to Silver it was contingent on the NBA continuing to punish the Kings for daring to compete with his precious Lakers in the early 00s and Fox is just a victim of this.
Wow that was kinda a rant. What thread am I in again?
Fox has a horrible whistle and is constantly getting hammered on his drives with no calls, it would take the patience of a martyred saint to put up with it, of course he's going to get mad at the refs.
But then the refs get all butthurt and swallow their whistles when Fox gets smacked around because he gets in their faces.
Meanwhile Draymond could murder a refs firstborn child at center court and not get thrown out of a game so who knows. Maybe when Stern passed the torch to Silver it was contingent on the NBA continuing to punish the Kings for daring to compete with his precious Lakers in the early 00s and Fox is just a victim of this.
Wow that was kinda a rant. What thread am I in again?
I have been preaching for 2 1/2 years that the Kings have been stifled by coaching practices...and challenged for that view. The belief was that the team had excellent talent that was underperforming through no fault of their own.
Now, under Christie, the players are unleashed and enthused that their skills are appreciated, nurtured, and supported come what may. Sabonis said it directly when he expressed that Christie has released Domas's creativity. The type of play we are seeing reflects that those sentiments are felt team-wide.
As predicted at the time of the coaching change, Keegan is slowly re-blooming on offense and Huerter has shown some improvement; both of whom are sensitive people. It takes time to heal but the recovery seems to be remarkably rapid and beyond expectations. Carry on Coach Christie.
Now, under Christie, the players are unleashed and enthused that their skills are appreciated, nurtured, and supported come what may. Sabonis said it directly when he expressed that Christie has released Domas's creativity. The type of play we are seeing reflects that those sentiments are felt team-wide.
As predicted at the time of the coaching change, Keegan is slowly re-blooming on offense and Huerter has shown some improvement; both of whom are sensitive people. It takes time to heal but the recovery seems to be remarkably rapid and beyond expectations. Carry on Coach Christie.