New Coach Poll

Who do you want to see as the next head coach?

  • Eddie Jordan

    Votes: 4 4.3%

  • Flip Saunders

    Votes: 11 11.7%

  • PJ Carlesimo

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Avery Johnson

    Votes: 19 20.2%

  • Jeff Van Gundy

    Votes: 18 19.1%

  • Mike Fratello

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Paul Silas

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Elston Turner

    Votes: 11 11.7%

  • Tom Thibodeau

    Votes: 16 17.0%

  • Other (Brian Shaw, Kurt Rambis, etc)

    Votes: 13 13.8%
  • Total voters
    94
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Well, since it's apparently official, we can now see what the fans at KF want to do. I think we all know there will be an interim coach until the offseason, so this isn't for the interim position. This is the replacement.
 
according to yahoo:

Theus knew he was on the way out in Sacramento, especially when his option for next season didn’t get picked up over the summer. Privately, Theus has been plotting a course to return to college basketball. His agent, Lonnie Cooper, should have no problem placing Theus back on campus this spring. Theus took New Mexico State to the NCAA Tournament in 2006-07, his second season on the job there.
Theus is the sixth NBA coach to be fired this season. So far, the Oklahoma City Thunder (P.J. Carlesimo), Washington Wizards (Jordan), Toronto Raptors (Sam Mitchell), Minnesota Timberwolves (Randy Wittman) and Philadelphia 76ers (Maurice Cheeks) have changed coaches. All six were represented by the same agent, Cooper. Jordan and Mitchell are expected to resurface sooner than later in the NBA.

wow. that is not a good portfolio of clients for cooper.
 
I voted for Jeff Van Gundy. I think the guy has a great personality and is respected by his players. If nothing else, I love watching how bad the circles under his eyes get when he is stressed out!
 
Who wouldn't want Tom Thibodeau? He has been a winner at all of his stops, and taught both the Rockets and Celtics how to defend like world beaters.
 
Jespher said:
Who wouldn't want Tom Thibodeau? He has been a winner at all of his stops, and taught both the Rockets and Celtics how to defend like world beaters.
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Yeah, he and JVG are my top two but I don't think Tom would leave Boston right now since he will probably win another championship there.
 
Jespher said:
Who wouldn't want Tom Thibodeau? He has been a winner at all of his stops, and taught both the Rockets and Celtics how to defend like world beaters.
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I would be happy with him as well, but he won't be available until this summer. I want a coach to come in this year and get his feet wet.

Also, do you really think Thibodeau can teach guys like Brad Miller and Mikki Moore how to play defense?
 
Please no to Jeff Van Gundy. I like watching fluid basketball that doesn't make your eyes bleed!

I'd say Jordan because Petrie likes him and didn't want him gone back in the day.
 
For all we know, Natt might be the guy. He's had 13 years of assistant coaching experience, much of it under Sloan at Utah. Not a bad mentor. We'll see....
 
Hmm, I can't give an educated answer. I don't know much about coaches but I did like Avery Johnson (as a person).
 
I'd trust Geoff and go with Brian Shaw. Jeff Van Gundy plays some boring basketball, and while a bit of a big name, Avery Johnson doesn't have the best record in close playoff series...(losing the finals after being up 2-0, losing in the first round to the 8th seed Warriors, while having the reigning MVP on your team).
 
I posted this as part of a post in the Reggie Theus fired thread, but this section seems more applicable here:

I think that we will find someone over this summer more in the Petrie mold. NBA experience, very strong technically, players coach with a softer personality seems to be Petrie's MO (based on Adelman, Stan Van Gundy, and Shaw at least).

I think Shaw could be a possibility again. Flip Saunders could fit, although he's not my first choice. Thibodeau I believe does, but I do not know too much about his personality.

On the flip side, I don't see Avery Johnson fitting this mold; however, the he does seem like a Maloof guy. I also have a hard time imagining JVG in the role.
 
RalphySampson said:
I would be happy with him as well, but he won't be available until this summer. I want a coach to come in this year and get his feet wet.

Also, do you really think Thibodeau can teach guys like Brad Miller and Mikki Moore how to play defense?
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I don't think your wants are high on Petrie's list. :p

I bet they keep Natt this year so they don't have to pay another coach while still paying for the last two. Then they can pursue anyone available next year, and they know a position will be open with the Kings unless Natt has some magic pixie dust up his sleeve.
 
Warhawk said:
I bet they keep Natt this year so they don't have to pay another coach while still paying for the last two. Then they can pursue anyone available next year, and they know a position will be open with the Kings unless Natt has some magic pixie dust up his sleeve.
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That's what I think will happen, too.
 
Im not ready to vote yet but I can tell you this. It has to be someone with some track record of success. No more rookies with a nice smile, or little men with big fancy binders. How about a nuts and bolts kind of guy who can teach, motivate, discipline and inspire? Thats alot to ask for but hey, at this point, Im tired of settling on the cheap. If you want someone who can truly coach and NBA team then the Maloofs are going to have to fork over the dough.
 
Superman said:
No thanks on JVG and Flip Saunders.
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People continue to say that about a guy like Flip, but you're talking about a guy who has been to four ECF/WCFs, won 60% of his games, and won 50 games 7 times, and 60 once. He may not in fact be the guy to get you over the top and win a championship, but last time I checked we weren't within megaphone shouting distance of that. And he's done everything else.
 
Bricklayer said:
People continue to say that about a guy like Flip, but you're talking about a guy who has been to four ECF/WCFs, won 60% of his games, and won 50 games 7 times, and 60 once. He may not in fact be the guy to get you over the top and win a championship, but last time I checked we weren't within megaphone shouting distance of that. And he's done everything else.
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Co-signed. You can pretty much say the same about JVG. We need a guy who has experience and can turn this team around and teach our young guys about offense/defense(whichever direction we pick). Flip/JVG can do that.
 
Bricklayer said:
People continue to say that about a guy like Flip, but you're talking about a guy who has been to four ECF/WCFs, won 60% of his games, and won 50 games 7 times, and 60 once. He may not in fact be the guy to get you over the top and win a championship, but last time I checked we weren't within megaphone shouting distance of that. And he's done everything else.
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This is the thing. You look at Flip's record, and it's great and fine and you think of him as an accomplished coach who's just never gotten over the hump. Could share a table with Rick Adelman, JVG, Larry Brown (circa 2003), even Mike D'Antoni would be at that table. And honestly, Flip Saunders is head and shoulders above both Eric Musselman and Reggie Theus; you could stand Muss on Reggie's shoulders, and Flip is still looking down on them. In other words, you could do a lot worse, and we have the past two-plus years.

My problem with Flip Saunders is that, well, frankly, I can't stand him. I've followed the Pistons pretty closely, having family in Detroit. I've seen Saunders lose games for the Pistons with bad decisions. I've heard the grumblings from players (admittedly, a lot of the players the Pistons have had over the past few years have been "malcontents) about his decisions and rotations, his coaching style. And he does not seem to me like the type of guy who would take a young, raw, troubled team and turn them into a hard-charging, disciplined team with a future. Especially a team with no star player; the Wolves had phenom Kevin Garnett. Flip seems more like the guy who would lose his team somewhere toward the end of his second season, right as we're in the middle of the rebuild, trying to turn things around.

On top of that, there are some coaches that you look at and say "that guy won't ever win a championship". JVG is one of them, and I think Flip is also. I think of D'Antoni the same way. Others have Rick Adelman in that category. And this is all just intangible and extremely immaterial, and I'm not surprised that others don't feel the same way.

But Flip Saunders is, shall I say, not one of my favorites for next head coach of the Sacramento Kings.
 
My vote is for Thibodeau, like I said in another thread, I dont want Jordan, Flip or the little general .. I would take Thibodeau or JVG .. but all in all as long as Petrie makes the decision im on board.
 
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