Yeah, I just don't believe in him as a head coach. I haven't since he was sporting the interim tag (or really, since he was "installed" on Mike Brown's bench at the organization's demand). And I remain SO annoyed that the Kings let Jordi Fernandez jump ship to Brooklyn just to fire Mike Brown a handful of months later. Why must this franchise always be a step or two slow to everything?
There's always consistent talk around the league about the assistants who are best-positioned to level up. There's more or less a list of guys you'd want to poach off of other team's benches if their current franchise isn't in a position to offer them the big job. Jordi was on that list, and the Nets snapped him up as soon as they possibly could. Doug Christie, on the other hand, was not on that list. There's nothing particularly innovative or novel or exhilarating about his approach to basketball, and there was certainly no chatter around the NBA that he was going to ascend into the big job anywhere but in Sacramento, where sycophancy reigns supreme.
I loved him as a player, but he seems about as ready for the head coaching gig as Vlade was for the GM gig once upon a nightmare. It's a desperately unserious franchise that hires fan favorites into the most significant leadership roles as a half-assed nostalgia ploy.
