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...I'm paraphrasing. Here's something from ESPN:
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These points have been brought out on KHTK several times, and so it's interesting how much judgment should be placed on Natt this season.Kenny Natt spent nine seasons as an assistant in Utah, watching Jerry Sloan rule the Jazz with an iron fist.
He also spent time in Cleveland, observing the much softer touch of Paul Silas, then Mike Brown.
He means no disrespect to the folks he worked with on the Cavs, and he thanks them for teaching him the so-called Popovich system, but Natt would prefer to do things Sloan's way (the Jazz coach has been known to yell at players who let their shirts come untucked at practice) now that he is in charge of the Sacramento Kings.
Problem, is, he can't.
Not with the scarlet "I" attached to his title, the "interim" tag that seven NBA coaches are toting into the final two weeks of the regular season. (That's not including Lionel Hollins, who was hired by Memphis through the 2009-10 season, replacing Marc Iavaroni, after Johnny Davis served as interim coach for two games.)
"Just trying to instill discipline in the guys, letting guys know that you want things a certain way, that's one of the things I struggle with being an interim coach. Because it makes a difference when you have two or three years on your contract, whereas when you're an interim coach but you want to be a hard-line disciplinarian, it doesn't work quite the same. It puts me at a disadvantage, so I'm struggling with that," Natt said.
"You also want to be in a position as a coach, as Jerry taught me, that hey, if you're not listening, you're coming out. He still does it now with [Andrei] Kirilenko. And that's another situation that I don't have as an interim coach, because I have only so many guys to work with, and the accountability factor -- you need to use that.
"That's what Sloan does," Natt said. "I can't."
What the Kings say publicly about Natt is the same as what every team with an interim coach is saying: His future will be determined after the conclusion of the regular season.
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