GeraldWallace#3
Bench
If it's true I wonder why the Maloofs won't even interview him.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/2009/06/post-21.html?mi_rss=Kings Blog and Q&A
Mike Fratello Wants to Coach Us?
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If it's true I wonder why the Maloofs won't even interview him.
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/2009/06/post-21.html?mi_rss=Kings Blog and Q&A
Are you kidding? Why won't they interview him? Gee, maybe for the same reason they're not interviewing a lot of coaches they're not interested in.
A GM and a coach have to share a vision and a philosophy of coaching. We've seen what happens up close and personal when that doesn't occur.
Joe and Gavin should "INSIST" Fratello be given an interview? Why in God's name would anyone with an ounce of basketball sense even begin to hint at something like that? We've had enough of the Maloofs making these kinds of decisions and see where it's gotten us?
Voisin is losing it.
A GM and a coach have to share a vision and a philosophy of coaching. We've seen what happens up close and personal when that doesn't occur.
Joe and Gavin should "INSIST" Fratello be given an interview? Why in God's name would anyone with an ounce of basketball sense even begin to hint at something like that? We've had enough of the Maloofs making these kinds of decisions and see where it's gotten us?
Voisin is losing it.
The best news here is in the first sentence of the article. Ailene is going on vacation for a week. I hope she enjoys it so much she decides not to come back.
One and Done
Bench
Count this for my post under "Your Dream Scenario for the Offseason."
Telemachus
Starter
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Just another one of Voison's loud and confrontational dreamboats -- it seems she assumes that since she is loud and in your face and of course oh so beloved for it, that only a loud and flashy individual cna possibly meet her standards for out next coach.
As an aside, Fratello is like Doug Collins -- will 100% guaranteed organize a team and get them competitive. Will also 100% guaranteed pee them off and trash their chemistry before 100% guaranteed getting fired before ever actually having acheived anything of note. A single Conference Finals in 25 years of coaching between them, and that was 21 years ago.
As an aside, Fratello is like Doug Collins -- will 100% guaranteed organize a team and get them competitive. Will also 100% guaranteed pee them off and trash their chemistry before 100% guaranteed getting fired before ever actually having acheived anything of note. A single Conference Finals in 25 years of coaching between them, and that was 21 years ago.
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Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Nobody has ever gotten along with him. this is not new and its not news...to anybody but Voison. He's like a jockey who goes to the whip by the first turn. By the home stretch not only has that horse spent everything its got already, but its damn tired of the little twit on its back who keeps on smacking it. Fratello last got a team to 50 wins in 1989. His career playoff record is 20-42. He will come in, walk the ball up the floor, scream at his players, get 45 wins out of them for a few years, and then they finally tire of the Napoleon complex stuff and make him walk the plank.
I think "authoritarian" is a fetish of hers as well.
It's easier for the press to get sound bites that way.
bajaden
Hall of Famer
Well I think all leaders are a little narcissistic. Its the one's that lean to the extreme that stand out. Its not always a bad thing because they can sometimes get things accomplished that others can't. Gen. George Patton springs to mind. I can live with most of them because of their accomplishments, but Fratello I have a problem with. Everytime I look at him I see Napolean, which I might add, is an insult to Napolean.
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LWP777
Guest
Well, let's be fair about it. Bonzi can't get along with anyone. He even pissed off Rick Adelman before heading to the Chinese recreational leagues (which he pissed off as well).
I think the main point wasn't that Bonzi couldn't get along with him, It was that Bobby Jackson, who gets along with pretty much everyone, understood (or agreed with) why Bonzi couldn't get along with Fratello.
Because Fratello's coaching style is anathema to Petrie's principles as a GM.
A bad mismatch. Why a GM who seeks to build a team based on the notion of running a motion offense predicated on reading and reacting would hire a coach who insists on running a highly structured offense (Fratello calls a set play on about 2/3 of his teams' possesions) is beyond me.
You don't interview people as a sign of respect. If a coach doesn't fit your mold then you move on and don't bother wasting everyone's time.
I'm not a Fratello fan, but he's a proven to be a better than average to good coach in the NBA. But as long as Petrie is the GM the Czar doesn't belong in Sacramento.
kennadog
Dog On It!
I don't want the Maloofs demanding that anybody be interviewed. Please, stay out of GP's way, Gavin and Joe. Let him do his job.
By the way, lest we forget, AV also wrote a column suggesting the Kings put Jerry Reynolds in at coach. Reynolds made it abundantly clear this was her off-the-wall idea and he didn't want the job.
By the way, lest we forget, AV also wrote a column suggesting the Kings put Jerry Reynolds in at coach.
Reynolds made it abundantly clear this was her off-the-wall idea and he didn't want the job.
By the way, lest we forget, AV also wrote a column suggesting the Kings put Jerry Reynolds in at coach.
I don't think it was an "off-the-wall idea" so much as it was her having a little hissy fit because the Kings weren't interviewing the big name coaches she wanted.
kennadog
Dog On It!
Hissy fit or crazy thinking, either makes a good reason to ignore her most of the time.
