Amick: Offseason goings on
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Developing our bigs more?
About time.
From Amick's post (linked above):
Maloof on the desire to bring in a big man's coach this summer to develop the young big men...
"What Gavin (Maloof) and I want to do and (Kings basketball president) Geoff (Petrie) is to try to bring a big man’s coach to help Spencer (Hawes) and Shelden (Williams). We’ve got to see what Shelden can do too. We’ve got a lot of hope for Shelden as well. But it’s hard for a first-year coach to get a grasp of what he needs to do as far as playing the vets and the young guys. It’s a tough situation for any coach.
"We need some help in the coaching area as far as our big men. We really need that to strengthen that part of our coaching staff. That’s what I think will be our first priority (in the offseason). When you have a 19-year-old kid who's seven foot and still growing, and you’ve got great vets like Brad (Miller) and Mikki (Moore) and a young kid like Shelden. There’s some talent there, but I think a big man’s coach who can really develop those two young players could really help."
About time.
From Amick's post (linked above):
Maloof on the desire to bring in a big man's coach this summer to develop the young big men...
"What Gavin (Maloof) and I want to do and (Kings basketball president) Geoff (Petrie) is to try to bring a big man’s coach to help Spencer (Hawes) and Shelden (Williams). We’ve got to see what Shelden can do too. We’ve got a lot of hope for Shelden as well. But it’s hard for a first-year coach to get a grasp of what he needs to do as far as playing the vets and the young guys. It’s a tough situation for any coach.
"We need some help in the coaching area as far as our big men. We really need that to strengthen that part of our coaching staff. That’s what I think will be our first priority (in the offseason). When you have a 19-year-old kid who's seven foot and still growing, and you’ve got great vets like Brad (Miller) and Mikki (Moore) and a young kid like Shelden. There’s some talent there, but I think a big man’s coach who can really develop those two young players could really help."
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Although I haven't entirely given up hope for Shelden to be more than a 10th man type, I wonder if this points to getting another big, rather than a PG, with the first round pick? There are sure enough to pick from this year, and at 12th pick, most of them are raw enough to really benefit from something like that.
HighFlyingMonkey
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Huzzah! Now, who's available? Willis Reed and Bill Russell have some history with the franchise. Brad Daugherty? Wes Unseld?
Bricklayer
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Suffice it to say that Reed and Russel's history with this franchise would be the very reason they are totrally precluded.
Well that and that they are 70+ yr old and probably have better things to do. Ditto Unseld, a long time GM who I don't think does anything anymore. Most of the real great bigs stay close to their old franchises/coaches, and unfortunately the only big guys worth a damn in the entire history of our own franchise have either better gigs (Vlade) or a lot going on outside of coaching bball (Webb). And after seeing some of his halftime work, I tremble at the thought of LaSalle Thompson trying to order a Happy Meal, let alone coach.
Figure with this sort of thing could be a darkhorse, adn maybe not necessarily even a former player, although it certianly could be. If he's just going to be "the big man coach" then that leaves Theus's chosen crew of coaches untouched, and leaves the big man coach outside of the normal command structure. More a hired consultant than a true coach. If he's truly part of the staff, then he bumps somebody down, and you figure he's more likely to be a former player, most likely somebody already on another bench looking for a promotion.
Compeltely 100% random name -- but something on the Maloof let's be splashy scale: Bill Laimbeer as a bridge back into the NBA? Course thing is that Laimbeer couldn't teach our guys a thing about post play. Could teach them how to clothesline though.
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Compeltely 100% random name -- but something on the Maloof let's be splashy scale: Bill Laimbeer as a bridge back into the NBA? Course thing is that Laimbeer couldn't teach our guys a thing about post play. Could teach them how to clothesline though.
Hmmm, hire a coach who was arguably the dirtiest player in the history of the NBA? That is an idea which is both very appealing and entirely disgusting. But obvious options are few. If we go back before the Vlade era, it's hard to find many names more prominent than Brad, unless one goes back to the guys like Jerry Lucas, who seem to be happily retired by now. Most from the early-mid Sac era were poor role models, mediocre players, or both. Possible exceptions: Otis Thorpe, Lasalle Thompson or Sam Lacey?
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Suffice it to say that Reed and Russel's history with this franchise would be the very reason they are totrally precluded.
Well that and that they are 70+ yr old and probably have better things to do. Ditto Unseld, a long time GM who I don't think does anything anymore. Most of the real great bigs stay close to their old franchises/coaches, and unfortunately the only big guys worth a damn in the entire history of our own franchise have either better gigs (Vlade) or a lot going on outside of coaching bball (Webb). And after seeing some of his halftime work, I tremble at the thought of LaSalle Thompson trying to order a Happy Meal, let alone coach.
Figure with this sort of thing could be a darkhorse, adn maybe not necessarily even a former player, although it certianly could be. If he's just going to be "the big man coach" then that leaves Theus's chosen crew of coaches untouched, and leaves the big man coach outside of the normal command structure. More a hired consultant than a true coach. If he's truly part of the staff, then he bumps somebody down, and you figure he's more likely to be a former player, most likely somebody already on another bench looking for a promotion.
Compeltely 100% random name -- but something on the Maloof let's be splashy scale: Bill Laimbeer as a bridge back into the NBA? Course thing is that Laimbeer couldn't teach our guys a thing about post play. Could teach them how to clothesline though.
Laimbeer could help us become more of a smashmouth team like Reggie wanted
.I'm actually guessing it's going to be Chris.
PurpleHaze
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Laimbeer could help us become more of a smashmouth team like Reggie wanted
I'm actually guessing it's going to be Chris.
What better big men teachers than CWebb and/or Vlade. I wonder if Coach Reggie would consider having say Chris on a permanent basis in the second bench row of assistants behind him - if Webber would want it. I guess that's Jason Hamm and Randy Brown who are back there now. Assuming one of those two goes - not that they need to. I'm thinking how other big men coaches like Kareem sits behind Phil Jackson or Patrick Ewing doing the same as an assistant in Orlando.
I think Webber would be an excellent choice, but he ought to have enough money saved/invested that he'll never need to work again. The question then becomes: is being the big man coach for the Kings what he'd most like to do with his time?
Maybe it is, but I'm afraid that it's not. The teammates and coaches he liked are all gone except for Brad, but the management/owners he might be pissed off at are all still here.
Maybe it is, but I'm afraid that it's not. The teammates and coaches he liked are all gone except for Brad, but the management/owners he might be pissed off at are all still here.
Eh he still has his restaurant here and I think 2 houses. It'd give him some coaching experience and maybe he'd get a job with management too. I think he still likes Sac.
Call me silly but I have a feeling the two egos of Webber and Theus in the same place at the same time could cause a rift in the space-time continuum. AND I'm still not convinced everything is flowers and blue skies between Webb and the Maloofs. At this point, I would guess Chris Webber is NOT the guy they're thinking about as a specialized big man coach any more than that particular job is number one on Webb's list of things to do.
Having a business and homes here is not necessarily an indication of anything other than Webber's fondness for the area in general. (And don't forget the part of his black history collection that is on loan to the Crocker Art Museum.)
Having a business and homes here is not necessarily an indication of anything other than Webber's fondness for the area in general. (And don't forget the part of his black history collection that is on loan to the Crocker Art Museum.)
Slammin Sam Lacey would be a good bet. Last I checked he was coaching a D-League team.
But truthfully my pick would be Keon Clark.
I think Sam Lacey might be a good choice, too.
Keon should start a program for guys like Keith Brumbaugh. Maybe even certain vets with self-control issues could benefit from a little prison ball. NBA players are such a cocky bunch that they seem to forget that they can fall as low as anyone else.
MassachusettsKingsFan
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if it was vlade, wow .. just wow.
that would be the best news since muss got fired.
that would be the best news since muss got fired.
kennadog
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I'd love it, but I think he's loving where he's at and what he's doing right now. So, not likely.
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