SacKings384
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Stan Van Gundy got ran all over by Shaq in Miami. Shaq didn't like the fact that he didn't get the ball enough. I would think Ron would have the same problem.
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BK_KingsFan7
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Someone on another board suggested longtime Jazz assistant Phil Johnson. I think he had some good years with Sac awhile back. He carries alot of Sloans principles, such as defense and hustle, but is a little more lenient. I like this idea.
Bricklayer
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Egads -- that would be truly back to the past. A return to the Phil Johnson era. 
Then I would have nightmares about Johnson going down as a bizarre footnote in Sacramento history as our first head coach and our last. No thanks.
BK_KingsFan7
G-League
geez I didnt know anything about him and sacramento but someone told me he was COTY one year with sac. So what happened exactly?
uolj
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Well, my was meant for his time in Sacramento, as opposed to before they moved here. And I was a little kid, then, so my memory might be off. 
Here's the team's records while he was a coach:
http://www.basketballreference.com/coaches/coachpage.htm?coachid=JOHNSPH01
was meant for his time in Sacramento, as opposed to before they moved here. And I was a little kid, then, so my memory might be off. Here's the team's records while he was a coach:
http://www.basketballreference.com/coaches/coachpage.htm?coachid=JOHNSPH01
Bricklayer
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BK_KingsFan7 said:
236-306 career record
First coahc in the Sacto era. 37-45 in his first year, got swept out of Rnd 1 of the playoffs. Got fired midway through the next year with a 14-32 record, a couple of nights after the Lakers completely embarrassed us wiht an infamous first quarter blitz where we scored 4 pts or some such.
BK_KingsFan7
G-League
Bricklayer said:
Wow! I see your point now.
Mr Hollingsworth
Prospect
1.) Duane Causwell (he's not playing anymore--and I knew he used to come by here because he cared about the Kings so much)
2.) Rony Seikaly
2.) Rony Seikaly
Mr Hollingsworth
Prospect
Hmm...I wonder whatever happened to him? Probably a handsome young man.
AleksandarN
Starter
Why not?
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The former Blazers guard, who is interested in buying the team, is a candidate to coach in Sacramento
Thursday, May 11, 2006 HELEN JUNG
Former Trail Blazers guard Terry Porter has emerged as a potential candidate to coach the Sacramento Kings, but it is unclear how that will affect his work with an investor group trying to buy the Blazers franchise.
Porter, whose name has been mentioned in news reports as a possible successor to Rick Adelman in Sacramento, said Wednesday that he will know better in a week "what path I will be able to continue on." He declined to comment specifically on the Kings' opening.
Porter, who played for the Blazers for 10 years, spent the 2002-03 season as an assistant coach under Adelman in Sacramento. He was hired as head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks in 2003 but was fired at the end of the 2004-05 season.
Porter has met with Portland Mayor Tom Potter and local investors to try to raise up to $75 million toward buying the team and the Rose Garden arena. The group, which also includes charter school activist Rob Kremer, local businessman Todd Stucky and former Blazers executive Joe Vaughn, has promoted Porter, one of the most popular players in Blazers history, as its public face and as the general manager if the group is successful. The group runs a Web site at www.supportterry.com.
Kremer said Porter's NBA background makes him a likely candidate for open NBA jobs. But he said the speculation is "at this point, just rumors," and said he does not think current or potential investors will be discouraged from participating.
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/40468/20060511/terry_porter_a_chance_in_sacramento/
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West_Gunslinger16
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SVG doesn't want to go back (coaching). That's why he stepped down as coach of Miami. He wants more time for his family.
ParniValjak
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I think there was some family issue that got him to step down. Hopefully thats all over and done with and he is ready to coach again.West_Gunslinger16 said:
I think he would be the best choice of all the mentioned candidates.
I think we can rule out any first-time NBA head coaches. I would expect the new coach to be someone who has been around the block already, and even had some success.
The only former Adelman assistant that I could see getting the job would be Byron Scott, but he's under contract. Terry Porter runs the exact same kind of team and system as Rick does; learned it from him. Plus, he hasn't had any NBA success as a coach. Elston Turner is obviously not on the list.
Stan van Gundy might be a good fit, but an upgrade? I don't know about that. Don Nelson? No, he's the one that taught Rick "small ball." If we could take 20 years off Chuck Daly, he'd be the perfect candidate.
The only former Adelman assistant that I could see getting the job would be Byron Scott, but he's under contract. Terry Porter runs the exact same kind of team and system as Rick does; learned it from him. Plus, he hasn't had any NBA success as a coach. Elston Turner is obviously not on the list.
Stan van Gundy might be a good fit, but an upgrade? I don't know about that. Don Nelson? No, he's the one that taught Rick "small ball." If we could take 20 years off Chuck Daly, he'd be the perfect candidate.
Bricklayer
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Superman said:
Yeah I thought about Chuck too -- classy, champion, coached defense (although people forgot he was all offense in the mid-80's). There would be no more accomplished candidate if he were in his prime -- might even be able to eb the man on the town the Maloofs seem to think is so crucial to NBA coaching success. I am partial to him as an old Penn guy as well.
Unfortunately I think he's just too old now. Must be well into his 70's at least ( Edit -- he's 75, just checked ).
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Bricklayer
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G_M said:
Yeah, I could esily Mark as a coach somewhere -- like Avery, one of those coaches on the floor during his playing days, and played for both Riley and Brown, so had some good people to learn from.
But that said, sure, if you are a young team rebuilding, why not? But now you're us...and do you hire the rookie head coach without even any assistant coach experience (that I know of) to take over a veteran team that the Maloofs think should be contenders? Risky.
Also be a little amusing if our hire for our new defensive minded team was a notoriously bad defender that Petey Carril could probably have taken off the dribble. Guess at least he and Mike would get along.
Bricklayer said:Yeah, I could esily Mark as a coach somewhere -- like Avery, one of those coaches on the floor during his playing days, and played for both Riley and Brown, so had some good people to learn from.
But that said, sure, if you are a young team rebuilding, why not? But now you're us...and do you hire the rookie head coach without even any assistant coach experience (that I know of) to take over a veteran team that the Maloofs think should be contenders? Risky.
Also be a little amusing if our hire for our new defensive minded team was a notoriously bad defender that Petey Carril could probably have taken off the dribble. Guess at least he and Mike would get along.
He was a good defender before age and the rule changes. Man, I wish the NBA would bring back hand-checking. Steve Nash wouldn't be MVP I can tell you that.
Bricklayer
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Venom said:
Would that really be a good thing? I like defense, but things had really gone too far there at one point. Everybody was playing the game the way I do, which is good for winning, ugly to watch.
And I have my doubts about Mark ever being a good defender. He might have been average when he first came into the league, maybe. Would play the passing lanes at least. But you have to figure 5 years later he lasted all of one year under Riley before Riles traded him. Was bad by that time. Really bad through his Indiana years. Funny thing was that, like Bibby, he was a bad PG defender that somehow managed to still play on excellent defensive teams.
Bricklayer said:
Well, all those touch fouls we all hate would go away. Play would not be interrupted as much. Defense would come back to the fore, which no one really plays anymore. Under the old rules, with mandatory man-to-man, you had to be a competent defender to see the floor. There are too many one-dimensional players these days, and many eschew defense because they can. Personally, that's uglier to watch than the old Knicks. And that Knicks team and old Pistons attracted viewers because we all loved to see them lose. Was there anything better than watching MJ take those teams on?
Stern has turned this league into a professional And1 mixtape by de-emphasizing defense. It's brutal. It's to the point that the league's best player and rising star, Lebron James, can't even play defense. I lay alot of the blame on his high school coaches, but the use the same rules that filter down from Stern.
Bricklayer
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You must have come along to the NBA post 1995 or so. Because compared to the 80's/early 90's the defensive intensity today is tremendous. It was really the 90's that were the aberration, not the other way around.
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thesanityannex
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I'm still on the Mike Dunleavy train. Choo choo.
AleksandarN
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We should hire Bill that will toughen up our team.
BK_KingsFan7
G-League
Who? Bill Laimbeer? That guy wasn't tough and he wasn't really a good defender, he was just fortunate enough to play in an era when clotheslining a guy was considered a ticky-tack foul. Now that I think about it, he was alot like Brad Miller actually. unathletic, mid-range shooter, whiney.AleksandarN said:
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