Kings granted permission to speak with Elie!

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Updated: May 24, 2006, 10:20 PM ET
Kings granted permission to speak with Warriors' Elie


By Marc Stein
ESPN.com





The Sacramento Kings have received permission from the Golden State Warriors to interview Mario Elie for their head-coaching vacancy, according to NBA coaching sources.
Elie, who just completed his second season as a Warriors assistant to Mike Montgomery, is expected to meet with Kings co-owners Joe and Gavin Maloof and Kings president of basketball operations Geoff Petrie by week's end.
Joe Maloof told ESPN.com Tuesday that he was heading to Las Vegas to join his brother and Petrie to conduct multiple interviews this week, as the Kings intensify their search to replace Rick Adelman.
Memphis assistant Eric Musselman interviewed with the Kings on Wednesday.
Maloof also said Tuesday that the Kings are planning to request permission to speak with San Antonio assistant P.J. Carlesimo.
Carlesimo hasn't been an NBA head coach since a Golden State tenure (1997-99) most remembered for the Latrell Sprewell choking incident. Yet he quickly surfaced as a potential Adelman replacement, with the Maloofs known to be big admirers of San Antonio's defense-first philosophy and approach to team-building.
But Elie, 43, has Spurs ties as well, after helping San Antonio win its first of three championships as a player in 1999. And Elie's candidacy in Sacramento, according to coaching sources, could be enhanced by the Dallas Mavericks' playoff success.
Sacramento, according to sources, sees some Avery Johnson potential in Elie, after Johnson and Elie combined to supply much of the vocal leadership for the Spurs' first championship team in 1999.
In his first full season in Dallas, Johnson quickly lived up to his reputation as an X-and-O natural, intensely guiding the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals and winning Coach of the Year honors.
Elie, an assistant for one season in San Antonio before joining the Warriors, was also known for his intensity as a player and has an existing relationship with fellow New Yorker Ron Artest, Sacramento's enigmatic new franchise player. Besides Elie and Musselman, it's believed that John Whisenant of the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs will also be interviewed this week.




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Yeah, I wouldn't mind him. He seems like a real supportive coach from watching him on some show about the Warriors preseason.
 
IMHO Avery was the real leader on the floor, not Mario Ellie
i don't think those 2 are made of the same steel
 
I really hope it is elie at this point. Everything I hear about the guy is positive. thank god mark stein isnt picking, or he would have picked nellie.
 
french_Kingsfan said:
IMHO Avery was the real leader on the floor, not Mario Ellie
i don't think those 2 are made of the same steel
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Both were vocal w/ the Spurs. Avery, yes, some more. But BOTH were tough, clutch, energetic players through-out their careers from what I've gathered.

Can't compare their intensity/energy now because Elie hasn't been a main focus or a head coach anywhere, yet. Avery has, and probably will always have some more energy over Elie just because he's a different guy.

Point is, they're similar in their approaches to the game, which Elie will bring.
 
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"plausible deniability"? From who, the fans? The Maloofs? That makes no sense whatsoever. Deniability of what? You meant that we'll retract our support if Elie does bad? You could retract your support just as easily if LB did bad, too. I don't understand.

Anyway, I'm not gonna guarantee anything. I don't even know the guy that well. Maybe he's not bright enough to be a coach (I hope he is). But I know his reputation, and what he's famous for (defense and a championship attitude), and that happens to be exactly what the Maloofs are looking for. So I think he's the best candidate.
 
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I'm at a point where I want someone as the Kings coach right now, so the team has a direction and they can start thinking about moves that need to be made.
 
Mario elie has to prove that he can get the job done first. We shouldn't annoint anyone savior just because they may be another avery johnson or another mike Brown.Every situation isn't the same or replica,just like every player that can jump out the gym coming out of high school isn't the next lebron james,kobe bryant or kevin garnett.


Experience of X and O principles do matter and you see this last night with some of the blunders 2nd year coach avery johnson made in crunch time. You see blunders the rookie coach mike Brown made with the cavs up 3-2 with a close out game in cleveland. Following the fad won't always work, You have to be lucky,Be in the right situations,be Injury free and most importantly you have to have the right players for the Trend to work.


Avery johnson was Blessed with the right players, Nellie built the Team,made the trades, Drafted the players and installed the system of Basketball. Nellie also went to the conference finals 2 seasons ago as Head coach.
 
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Well it's not like the other top candidates aren't following "fads" or "wishful thinking".

PJ helped with the Spurs and the Maloofs have a crush on them right now. But "experience" shows what happened his last two times as a head coach replacing Adelman.

Whisenant won a WNBA title, which, while definitely an impressive and great achievement we have no way of telling how he'd fare as an NBA coach.

Basically, it's all speculation at this point but Mario Elie appears to be what many feel is needed in a replacement, and while he's no Adelman, he might be able to get the job done in a different way.
 
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I like Elie, or rather the concept of Elie. If I close my eyes I can make out an imaginary Coach Elie that is really quite good. Tough, competitive, would bond with and speak the language of the Ron/Bonzi duo etc.

But its all just imagination -- sheer speculation. Nice in concept, but a significant risk. If it happens, I will be hopeful, but you just never know until a guy gets his own team how he'll respond. Liked what Nellie did for Avery -- easing him into the spot as almost a co-head coach there, and not letting go until he was sure Avery was ready. We obviously do nto have that option, so its both feet in and cross your fingers.
 
kingkung said:
"plausible deniability"? From who, the fans? The Maloofs? That makes no sense whatsoever. Deniability of what? You meant that we'll retract our support if Elie does bad? You could retract your support just as easily if LB did bad, too. I don't understand.

Anyway, I'm not gonna guarantee anything. I don't even know the guy that well. Maybe he's not bright enough to be a coach (I hope he is). But I know his reputation, and what he's famous for (defense and a championship attitude), and that happens to be exactly what the Maloofs are looking for. So I think he's the best candidate.
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Maloofs and Petrie. If Elie blows the season they can say "Wow we really thought he had the goods" and put all the heat on him INSTEAD of having to toake the heat for dumping a winer. I have no clue how Elie will actually do and no one else does either since he has never done the job. Im not necessarly complaining just pointing out the convinet stragety of going with an guy with no record. Of course given the records of the guys who have een head coaces up for grabs that is understandable.
 
Ok, lets do this:

ELIE head coach
Carlissimo 1st assistant
Whisenant 2nd assistant
Musselman 3rd assistant.

Hows that for your coaches next season? :)
 
Both are from NYC. Possibly other things through out their time in the league.

I don't think it'd matter with whoever the coach is of course, but it's a nice bonus from any way you want to look at it.
 
Kings113 said:
Both are from NYC. Possibly other things through out their time in the league.

I don't think it'd matter with whoever the coach is of course, but it's a nice bonus from any way you want to look at it.
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With a player like Artest, it really does matter who is coaching the team. If Artest is happy, I am happy.
 
I didn't mean in general, nor is that. I meant it'd be an added connection, like Elie would have. It's a bonus that comes with Elie's approach as a coach if he's selected.

Artest said he'd like a coach who is going push the team consistently (something like that), as he felt there could of been more of that. That's in general.
 
Circa_1985_Fan said:
...and little did we, or they for that matter, know that the Maloofs were bringing in Elie for an interview to coach the MONARCHS.
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They are?

I'm honestly shocked... I wanted Elie to coach the kings-looks like that aint happening.
 
BMiller52 said:
They are?

I'm honestly shocked... I wanted Elie to coach the kings-looks like that aint happening.
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just a scenario me and co-workers were bouncing around today at the ole' water cooler.;) Wouldnt suprise me one bit to hear Elie's name announced as the new Monarchs coach.
 
That's just one dumb decision compounding another one. While I'd be delighted that the brothers would be *considerate* enough to remember that the Monarchs would also need a coach too if they snatched Whiz away from the opening of their title defense season, I'd still be pissed as a Monarchs fan as much as I like Ellie. Hell, I'm pissed already, what am I talking about...I'd just be extremely MORE pissed.
 
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