George Karl Anyone?

[bajaden]

No dugh.... And that's what Smart preached and what Malone has preached. So you don't necessarily believe Malone when he says he wants to run. So you are a disbeliever already? I take the guy at his word. The point is: both Smart and Malone have preached the defend, then run philosophy. Whether you want to believe it or not is entirely up to you.

If you listen to what Malone said, he said that if you defend and get stops, then you can run. The key word being stops. You can't successfully run when your taking the ball out of the basket. But you can run after a blocked shot, a steal, or a defensive rebound. He pointed out that the Kings were at the bottom of the league in defensive rebounding. I'm rather confused about your disagreement with Bricky. He's essentially saying what Malone said. You defend, and then you can run. But the defense comes first!

 

[Packt]

I take it as "heard it before, believe it when i see it." I don't see anything wrong with that.

I'm enthused about the Malone hire but I'll take a wait and see approach. Coaching is more than just offense/defense. That person has to manage personalities also and this is probably where Smart had his biggest failure. I can't blame him too much because the previous regime had a lot to do with it.

As for George Karl, I'm sort of glad we picked up Malone before he became available. I think the dynamics of the organization overall is better with Malone.

 

[Telemachus]

Keith Smart, after an entire off season to prepare and develop his system, came into camp claiming after reviewing decades of basketball that the Harlem Globetrotters were the blueprint he should follow. This guy watched decades worth of film, and couldn't find a template to follow from any of the more successful NBA teams and decided to follow the blueprint of a team outside the league, who's more circus act than substance.

That's truly unbelievable and I highly doubt we'll hear anything remotely similar from Malone.

One of the things that bugged me about Smart last season was when he said "There are no stars on this team." Whether or not you think a player is a star, every team has it's star players that the team centers around. I was listening to a podcast today (with Jason Ham), and he commented how when he asked Smart about players' roles last season, Smart treated him as though it was a ridiculous question. Smart said he had never been part of a team that gave players certain roles. That statement tells me a lot about why the Kings were such a bad team last season.

 

[mac]

One of the things that bugged me about Smart last season was when he said "There are no stars on this team." Whether or not you think a player is a star, every team has it's star players that the team centers around. I was listening to a podcast today (with Jason Ham), and he commented how when he asked Smart about players' roles last season, Smart treated him as though it was a ridiculous question. Smart said he had never been part of a team that gave players certain roles. That statement tells me a lot about why the Kings were such a bad team last season.

Then Smart clearly didn't learn anything from Pop.