Theus to be Kings' head coach
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It is June 19. It is WAY too early to call it a bad hire. Fans can be displeased and voice their displeasure. It is just disturbing to see a so many negative things about a guy that has not even been given a chance yet. The way it sounds, NO CHOICE would have been welcomed. To this fan, that is sad.
Give him a fair chance. That's all I'm asking people to do...
I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.
I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.
I may be a hold-over Reggie fan but that's not the point, Brick. You're totally embittered about everything the franchise has done the past couple of years.
Sorry, but I still choose to have hope for the future and I'm going to welcome Reggie. Partly because of old #24 and partly because I recognize he has coaching abilities. Will it translate to the NBA? Maybe. Maybe not. But I'm not going to make any foregone conclusions.
And yes, we're currently losers. We were losers in the 80s, too. I didn't give up on the team then and I'm not going to give up now.
Sorry, but I still choose to have hope for the future and I'm going to welcome Reggie. Partly because of old #24 and partly because I recognize he has coaching abilities. Will it translate to the NBA? Maybe. Maybe not. But I'm not going to make any foregone conclusions.
And yes, we're currently losers. We were losers in the 80s, too. I didn't give up on the team then and I'm not going to give up now.
Note, it APPEARS to be a bad hire (as op[posed to absolutely is), and its perfectly legitimate to think so. The argument FOR this hire is the weak one, not the other way around.
There is no 100% here. No way to truly know. But anybody who has been watching the game for any length of time can certainly take their best guess. As for anythign more than a guess, it will simply have to remain a lingering suspicion until we are well under way durng the Theus era. Do think there is nioce symetry though: as predicted, as we return to the basement, so do all of the trappings.
I, of course, wish him well.
An underwhelming college coach from the WAC conference is hardly NBA material. My frustration is not with Theus, it is with the choice made by management. I can wish him well and hope he does well and be ticked off at such a hire. Take away his Kings ties and it is a laughable hire.
Peace...
An underwhelming college coach from the WAC conference is hardly NBA material. My frustration is not with Theus, it is with the choice made by management. I can wish him well and hope he does well and be ticked off at such a hire. Take away his Kings ties and it is a laughable hire.
Peace...
The guy has no nba coaching experience. If he was an assistant from the phoenix suns it would be different. But when all you have is playing experience from 2 decades ago, it comes with plenty of skepticism. The only positive aspect you can look at is that the kings will lose and start rebuilding with talent for the next 5 years.+
Give him a fair chance. That's all I'm asking people to do...
I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.
I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.
Heres to a young, exciting team looking towards the future.
I will definitely give him a fair a chance and I hope that he does a great job, BUT he was my least favorite of all the candidates and I would have really preferred someone with at least a little bit of NBA coaching experience. I also really really hope this was Petrie's first choice for coach and not the Maloofs being a dazzled by a dashing young ex-star (especially mama Maloof). Of course I doubt we will ever be able to known how things truly went down.
All that being said I hope he can buck the odds and become a great coach for the Kings. Also on the positive side of things I hope this is a sign that the powers that be plan to totally blow up the team and rebuild with young players.
All that being said I hope he can buck the odds and become a great coach for the Kings. Also on the positive side of things I hope this is a sign that the powers that be plan to totally blow up the team and rebuild with young players.
I'm thinking the Maloofs were a bit nervous about the prospect of having three head coaches on the payroll if #2 didn't work out, so this is an easy two year hire. With Theus' personality there's not a whole lot of danger of running roughshod over the locker room a la Musselman, at worst we have two years of mediocre coaching as we rebuild.
Of course, he was easily the least qualified candidate.
Yay Kings.
Of course, he was easily the least qualified candidate.
Yay Kings.
When has a college coach ever really had success in the NBA? Now we're talking about not only a college coach but one from a small program and has never had coaching experience in the NBA and hasn't even been apart of a championship team as a player IIRC. As far as credentials go I say Brian Shaw beats the crap out of him. Does anyone honestly believe if it wasn't for Theus' history with the kings he would ever have been considered for the job? I'm sure it will be a nice heartfelt moment during the press conference but all that fluff doesn't mean anything on the basketball court. How can people say that since he hasn't been a head coach yet that we can't have an idea how good he will be at the job? I understand optimism and saying there is a chance he'll succeed, but to say we can't use credentials and history to reason that it's not likely he'll succeed is just ridiculous.
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