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Didn't see it anywhere else but Woj is reporting that the Kings have hired the assistant coach from Division 3 Grinnell College as the new coach of the Bighorns.

Wouldn't be news except for the fact that Grinnell is known for a very gimicky, shoot tons of 3s, run and gun, everybody plays style of basketball. Not exactly what I'd hope they'd look for in teaching our youngsters.

Of all the coaches we could hire, have no idea why we would make this one. Actually, I have an idea but it makes me annoyed.
 
This will not be the first time smart guys outsmart themselves by thinking they know something about which they know nothing. Wait'll you see who they replace Malone with.

I will repeat my warning shots fired last offseason: being taken over by Golden State and Denver elements is just about the most humiliating thing that could ever happen to a franchise.
 
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Bricklayer said:
This will not be the first time smart guys outsmart themselves by thinking they know something about which they know nothing. Wait'll you see who they replace Malone with.

I will repeat my warning shots fired last offseason: being captained taken over by Golden State and Denver elements is just about the most humiliating thing that could ever happen to a franchise.
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Agreed and this one is just embarrassing. The guy is a joke who makes a mockery of coaching. How they wouldn't see that is beyond me.
 
I think it will be the coaching staff and it's philosophy in basketball that will slow down the progress of this team.
 
A better term for "positionless" basketball would be "match-up" basketball and it's something every single team in the NBA is gravitating towards doing. And if anyone has been paying attention, it's been at the heart of every winning team the past 5 years.

The idea is to expose a weakness in another team or highlighting one of your strengths by giving you a favorable match-up. No one in their right mind would pick Pero Antic before Roy Hibbert when starting a team. But just Antic's presence on the floor forced Hibbert to come away from the basket, which allowed Atlanta to be far more successful offensively than anyone thought they would be vs Indy and they took a far superior team to 7 games.

We saw signs of this with us last game when Casspi was playing the stretch 4 and by having Reggie and JT basically set at the high post most of the game.. Not that he was hitting anything with his jumper, but the fact that he has the capability to do so forces defenses to stay on him and open up the paint. It opened up the paint which opened up passing lanes and lead to some great ball movement.

So for us, one of the main priorities is getting our star big man as many 1on1 match-ups as humanely possible. And the way you do that is by spreading the floor and opening up lanes to the rim. That's where guys like Stauskas, Casspi and Collison come in handy. Once they prove they can hit shots, defenses will have no choice but to stay home on their man. Which leaves DeMarcus in a favorable 1on1 match-up, the original goal we had in the first place.
 
Oh, and as far as this coach goes, not going to lose sleep over it if he turns out to be some kind of gimmiky coach. Maybe he's an old friend of PDA or someone else in the FO and wanted a favor. While I think D-League is good to stay in basketball shape/sharpness, it's not a league I'll really take that seriously until it becomes more like other farm systems in other sports.
 
He was an asst. coach out of a DIII college.. it's like saying Jim Eyen was part of the reason why the Kings in 2012 did not have the ability for offense...well now he's an assistant coach with the Clippers which tell you something. Even if he sucks, we can always fire him.

randymoss1881 said:
Position less basketball pisses me off every time I hear it.
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Why? Positonless basketball is what it is... IF we had a lineup of Cuz and Al Horford, there wouldn't be a single C or PF.. they would be both big men and they would guard opponents depending on match ups. Positionless basketball is all about matchups and teaming together. The Suns have a positionless front court of Bledsoe and Dragic. Neither one are SGs nor PGs when they play together, it's just a positionless back court because they're versatile.

Think about that big lineup we had.. I think it was Collison, Gay, Casspi. Landry, and Cuz (something along the line of that), they all played pretty good and matched up really well, but it's not like Gay was our SG or Casspi was our SF. This is just an example of positionless basketball.. I actually like the idea.

I don't see how positionless basketball is a bad thing. If we had Gay as our "SG", that would be a huge advantage over some 6'5 SG in the opponent's lineup.
 
206Fan said:
He was an asst. coach out of a DIII college.. it's like saying Jim Eyen was part of the reason why the Kings in 2012 did not have the ability for offense...well now he's an assistant coach with the Clippers which tell you something. Even if he sucks, we can always fire him.


Why? Positonless basketball is what it is... IF we had a lineup of Cuz and Al Horford, there wouldn't be a single C or PF.. they would be both big men and they would guard opponents depending on match ups. Positionless basketball is all about matchups and teaming together. The Suns have a positionless front court of Bledsoe and Dragic. Neither one are SGs nor PGs when they play together, it's just a positionless back court because they're versatile.

Think about that big lineup we had.. I think it was Collison, Gay, Casspi. Landry, and Cuz (something along the line of that), they all played pretty good and matched up really well, but it's not like Gay was our SG or Casspi was our SF. This is just an example of positionless basketball.. I actually like the idea.

I don't see how positionless basketball is a bad thing. If we had Gay as our "SG", that would be a huge advantage over some 6'5 SG in the opponent's lineup.
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I should rephrase it by saying small front court pisses me off. I love a backcourt of 2 ball handlers like you said I just want my front court to be big at all times. No 6'9 center or Cassip/DWill at PF I don't want him on the court anyway. I do like taking advantage of mismatch like puting Gay at PF but that is against select teams like
Blazers(Lopez), Warriors(Lee), Lakers(Boozer), Suns(Morris), Wolves(Young), Rockets(Splitter) and some teams in the East. Otherwise is like a real PG who is either a defender or can spread the floor and not a defensive liability.
 
206Fan said:
Think about that big lineup we had.. I think it was Collison, Gay, Casspi. Landry, and Cuz (something along the line of that), they all played pretty good and matched up really well, but it's not like Gay was our SG or Casspi was our SF. This is just an example of positionless basketball.. I actually like the idea.

I don't see how positionless basketball is a bad thing. If we had Gay as our "SG", that would be a huge advantage over some 6'5 SG in the opponent's lineup.
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I have no problem with this IF the players involved can hold their own on the BOTH sides of the court.

A line-up comprising of Landry and Williams/Reggie as your front court defending BIGs is the big question I think especially playing at WC.
 
position-less basketball new name for nellie ball. get up as many 3s as possible and hope you grab more boards than the other team.

got too many nellie disciples in the fold.
 
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gunks said:
Hah. That was my first reaction.... Really dredging the bottom of the barrel there!

But....It is the Bighorns....Whatevs.
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I don't mind as much where they found him. Coaching prospects can come from all kinds of places. My issue is why they found him.

What's the benefit of having a coach that runs a pathetic system teaching your young players?

Why even have a d-league team in the first place if you don't want the players to learn a system and style that benefits your team?

Unless...you actually think some form of that style of play is beneficial to your pro team. Which scares the crap out of me.
 
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