Kings hire Jordi Fernandez as Associate Head Coach

Jordi was a hot head coach interview candidate a few years back. Guy's a lifer and helped run the offense in Denver, which seems sorta relevant considering Brown likes the Princeton offense and Sabonis and Joker are like two of the four or five bigs capable of running it.
 
I think this one was rumored the minute the hire was made. I like it though.
 
Tetsujin said:
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Why do people insist on hyperbole?

A lot more from that 2002 era team hasn’t been part of the org since leaving than those that have.

Bobby J was always working to be in coaching, so that wasn’t unearned. Vlade was the only real head scratcher. And he’s the one that made the decision to bring his Serbian buddy Peja in with him.

The recent Doug Christie hiring was also more warranted and earned than Vlade/Peja.
 
Thought I read no assistant coach news until after Mike Brown is done with the playoffs. Irrelevant I guess but I like that Brown is thought highly enough of to attract quality staff. We should have a big Nigérian fan base here in Sac soon.
 
jiimbob said:
Thought I read no assistant coach news until after Mike Brown is done with the playoffs. Irrelevant I guess but I like that Brown is thought highly enough of to attract quality staff. We should have a big Nigérian fan base here in Sac soon.
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It was rumored that 2 of his 3 assistants from the Nigeria team would make the move with him, I think Luke Loucks is the other likely to join.
 
EIM86 said:
Brown- nice guy
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I'm not sure if that's true at all. People seem to like/respect him but only a certain type. I think he's more of a Pop type, asks a lot of his players but will give a lot in return if you play his way. That LA team wanted nothing to do with him. But LeBron really credits him with making him a defender. I'm not sure LeBron really liked him back then though.
 
He had four years as an assistant under Malone. I'm not sure what his specific responsibilities were. Does anyone know?

He's got to be a worker; otherwise Malone wouldn't have hired him or kept him. His knowledge of sports psychology could come in handy.
 
I've seen it implied he worked directly with Jokic for at least some portion of his tenure.
 
Sean Cunningham said he talked to Mike
Brown and he told him “I’ve got a really good crew coming in.” Sean then said “it sounded like it was pretty much final”
 
Apparently Jordi is good at player development something Sac is an F- ~~~~~ at. This guy might be able to lay some foundation for developing for us for the first time
 
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