Mike Malone ... Nuggets Coach

[lawlman91]

Good coaches will adopt to what your team is best suited to do.

agreed^this

 

[lawlman91]

A few things:

1) Malone may become many things in the NBA in the future, and I'm loathe to be agreeing with Prince_XY on anything, but when Malone was here, his limitations were certainly discovered before The End came.
His offensive ineptitude, playcalling, and sub patterns were screamed about every game thread.
I was calling for him to get offensive help, instead of all the decisions having to come from Malone. Instead he was fired, and much of the team was lost. Talk about cutting off your head to spite your face.
So let's not retcon things and say he was this shining example of coaching here. He showed a lot of promise, and he shouldn't have been fired, but the gist of what sactownfan is saying is effectively correct.

That said, Brick and others are also correct that Karl may well prove to be worse for the Kings very soon.

2) Denver is the one place where playing with pace means something.
Denver's mile-high elevation means if they don't push the pace and try to tire out the opposition who hasn't acclimated to the oxygen levels at that elevation, then they are giving up their one unique competitive advantage in the NBA.

3) Malone may be sensing the cosmic irony of the situation that he was fired for pace, and is now going to be forced by circumstances to specialize in it.

4) Is anyone else baffled at this Denver move?
How much of this entire situation looks EXACTLY like Sacramento 2 years ago?
Did Denver watch Sac at all the past 2 years?

This Denver situation has the earmarks of being one of the most collosal f-ups in NBA history, if they watched Sacramento's f-ups and said - na, let's repeat what made Vivek the most mocked owner in the NBA.

I agree. I've always admired the format of all of your responses.

 

[Chubbs]

Now, let us not talk about PACE.

Remember, we got lectured a month ago with all examples from previous winning teams in the NBA year after year that PACE has nothing to do with winning?

So, why the hell these NBA experts (and even the favorite coach in this board named Malone) and/or everybody in the NBA talking about this so-called PACE which seemingly is an important recipe to winning, but considered taboo in this board?

I actually feel sorry for you sometimes.

 

[Bricklayer]

Now, let us not talk about PACE.

Remember, we got lectured a month ago with all examples from previous winning teams in the NBA year after year that PACE has nothing to do with winning?

So, why the hell these NBA experts (and even the favorite coach in this board named Malone) and/or everybody in the NBA talking about this so-called PACE which seemingly is an important recipe to winning, but considered taboo in this board?

I've already annihilated the concept of pace as remotely important. I don't like dumbness because it wastes the time of the rest of us. When a point is made and the evidence is there, absorb the damn thing so we can move on to more significant things.

There is NO, and never has been ANY (well let me say in the modern history of the NBA) correlation between pace and winning. Even now the NBA Finals is between a top pace team and bottom pace team, and the bottom pace team has forced the top pace team to play at their pace. In fact that has always been one of the few consistent ways you could count on pace having an effect: it slows in the playoffs. Hence teams that rely on it and do not have a sound game when forced to a slower pace also struggle in the playoffs.

 

[Iced Espresso]

http://www.nba.com/2015/news/06/16/nuggets-introduce-coach-malone.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpts

Malone takes reins, promises to speed up pace of Nuggets

DENVER (AP) — Michael Malone wants his team to run. The front office wants his team to run. His players certainly want his team to run.

So, the Denver Nuggets are going to run.

Now here come the conditions: The uptempo pace has to be with efficiency and only as a reward for doing all the little things first, such as rebounding and playing stingy defense.

Those are the new coach's unbending terms. Malone even went on the offensive at his introductory news conference Tuesday to make his point, taking a little exception to the label that he's nothing more than a defensive-minded head coach. He insisted he can adapt his style.

 

[Bricklayer]

You misquoted the title.

http://www.nba.com/2015/news/06/16/nuggets-introduce-coach-malone.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpts

Malone says what he has to say to get hired by the Nuggets

 

[Iced Espresso]

You misquoted the title.

Just feels well you know...

 

[Bricklayer]

Didn't know where else to put this with the whole Kings/Denver thing gone all topsy turvy and cats loving dogs. Very good and insightful breakdown by a Denver blogger of Malone's offense/philosophy while he/Cousins were with the Kings:

http://www.denverstiffs.com/2015/6/19/8807483/michael-malones-playbook-post-ups-denver-nuggets


Ironic to have Denver dude get it more than many in Sac, including even our own owner/front office.

 

[HereWeBoogie]

Maybe Malone is cool with a uptempo style now because it fits the Denver roster, and he was against doing it here because it DOES NOT fit out roster

 

[Padrino]

while i'm happy to see mike malone in another head coaching position in advance of next season, i do find myself feeling like he can't quite land the job where's he likely to do the most good. apart from the potential compatibility issues that seemed so obvious upon his hire in denver, he's locked into another situation with a roster that's completely in-flux. the nuggets live in no man's land right now as a team, and nuggets management has to decide what they're going to do with the assets they have. lawson and faried are decent trade chips, and i like nurkic quite a lot, but where do they go from here? at least the kings already have a superstar in demarcus cousins, and if they ever get around to building a decent roster around him, they've got a shot to make noise out west. but the nuggets' future remains a big fat question mark. for malone's sake, i hope denver's decision-makers are considerably more patient than the kings' new regime was when they fired him in the first place...