Theus to be Kings' head coach

Heuge said:
It appears to be a bad hire. Fans can bemoan and still be Kings fans.
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i don't think there's anything particularly bad yet about this hire. same with musselman last year (altho we hope with better results): you hope that he can relate to the team and develop some chemistry and help build for the future.

but i'm sorry, hang time is always going to crack me up. :D
 
Heuge said:
It appears to be a bad hire. Fans can bemoan and still be Kings fans.
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It is June 19. It is WAY too early to call it a bad hire. Fans can be displeased and voice their displeasure. It is just disturbing to see a so many negative things about a guy that has not even been given a chance yet. The way it sounds, NO CHOICE would have been welcomed. To this fan, that is sad.
 
VF21 said:
Give him a fair chance. That's all I'm asking people to do...

I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.

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I'm with you, I'll give him a chance and want him do do well so I won't say it's a bad hire until we actually know it's a bad one.
 
Bricklayer said:
I fear you're embarrassed purley because you are a Reggie fan, and that is what the Maloofs are counting on. Old Reggie fans from back in the fuzzy memory old days.

Reggie hasn't been a King in two decades. When he was, we were losers, and so was he. Now we are losers once more, and now he's back. Hardly portentious.

Its not a no hope hiring, but its certainly no higher percentage than Muss was last year.
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I may be a hold-over Reggie fan but that's not the point, Brick. You're totally embittered about everything the franchise has done the past couple of years.

Sorry, but I still choose to have hope for the future and I'm going to welcome Reggie. Partly because of old #24 and partly because I recognize he has coaching abilities. Will it translate to the NBA? Maybe. Maybe not. But I'm not going to make any foregone conclusions.

And yes, we're currently losers. We were losers in the 80s, too. I didn't give up on the team then and I'm not going to give up now.
 
VF21 said:
How can you possibly tell it's a bad hire at this point?

Sorry, Heuge, but the majority of Kings fans I've known over the years have ALWAYS given someone a fair chance. In fact, I think it's one of the things that has separated us from some of the other fanbases.

I, for one, welcome him and wish him well. We don't know what kind of job he will do any more than we knew what kind of job Adelman would do.

But apparently I'm in the minority so I'm going to just bow out and let people vent their spleens. It just makes me a little sad, however, because I expected a little different response.

Peace...
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Would you have had the same sentiment had Larry Brown been name the kings coach?
 
chelle said:
It is June 19. It is WAY too early to call it a bad hire. Fans can be displeased and voice their displeasure. It is just disturbing to see a so many negative things about a guy that has not even been given a chance yet. The way it sounds, NO CHOICE would have been welcomed. To this fan, that is sad.
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Note, it APPEARS to be a bad hire (as op[posed to absolutely is), and its perfectly legitimate to think so. The argument FOR this hire is the weak one, not the other way around.

There is no 100% here. No way to truly know. But anybody who has been watching the game for any length of time can certainly take their best guess. As for anythign more than a guess, it will simply have to remain a lingering suspicion until we are well under way durng the Theus era. Do think there is nioce symetry though: as predicted, as we return to the basement, so do all of the trappings.
 
Hey, New Mexico State was one tough team to play against. They brought it every night. They beat UNR twice. I will not pass judgement until I see how our team plays.
 
VF21 said:
How can you possibly tell it's a bad hire at this point?

Sorry, Heuge, but the majority of Kings fans I've known over the years have ALWAYS given someone a fair chance. In fact, I think it's one of the things that has separated us from some of the other fanbases.

I, for one, welcome him and wish him well. We don't know what kind of job he will do any more than we knew what kind of job Adelman would do.

But apparently I'm in the minority so I'm going to just bow out and let people vent their spleens. It just makes me a little sad, however, because I expected a little different response.

Peace...
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Why did you expect that? In the past few weeks people were never really excited about the idea of Theus.
 
VF21 said:
How can you possibly tell it's a bad hire at this point?

Sorry, Heuge, but the majority of Kings fans I've known over the years have ALWAYS given someone a fair chance. In fact, I think it's one of the things that has separated us from some of the other fanbases.

I, for one, welcome him and wish him well. We don't know what kind of job he will do any more than we knew what kind of job Adelman would do.

But apparently I'm in the minority so I'm going to just bow out and let people vent their spleens. It just makes me a little sad, however, because I expected a little different response.

Peace...
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I, of course, wish him well.

An underwhelming college coach from the WAC conference is hardly NBA material. My frustration is not with Theus, it is with the choice made by management. I can wish him well and hope he does well and be ticked off at such a hire. Take away his Kings ties and it is a laughable hire.

Peace...
 
Can people tell me what "CHANCE" we should give him? please? with Artest and Bibby likely being traded what chance is he gonna have? the Maloofs hired Theus to coach a rebuilding team and to give him experience. by the 2nd year the Kings will fire Theus and get another coach.

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VF21 said:
How can you possibly tell it's a bad hire at this point?

Sorry, Heuge, but the majority of Kings fans I've known over the years have ALWAYS given someone a fair chance. In fact, I think it's one of the things that has separated us from some of the other fanbases.

I, for one, welcome him and wish him well. We don't know what kind of job he will do any more than we knew what kind of job Adelman would do.

But apparently I'm in the minority so I'm going to just bow out and let people vent their spleens. It just makes me a little sad, however, because I expected a little different response.

Peace...
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The guy has no nba coaching experience. If he was an assistant from the phoenix suns it would be different. But when all you have is playing experience from 2 decades ago, it comes with plenty of skepticism. The only positive aspect you can look at is that the kings will lose and start rebuilding with talent for the next 5 years.+
 
Entity said:
Would you have had the same sentiment had Larry Brown been name the kings coach?
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I would have and he was my least favorite option. I have always, and hope that I will continue to give all new players and coaches a fair chance.
 
ah, almost forgot the traditional greeting.

welcome to the kings, coach theus! now go get 'em! :)

good night, all.
 
VF21 said:
Give him a fair chance. That's all I'm asking people to do...

I'm actually embarrassed by some of the comments made here. If I didn't know better, I'd swear this wasn't a Kings fan board.

:(
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I really don't know what to think of this hiring. Good? Bad? Worse?

Heres to a young, exciting team looking towards the future.
 
I will definitely give him a fair a chance and I hope that he does a great job, BUT he was my least favorite of all the candidates and I would have really preferred someone with at least a little bit of NBA coaching experience. I also really really hope this was Petrie's first choice for coach and not the Maloofs being a dazzled by a dashing young ex-star (especially mama Maloof). Of course I doubt we will ever be able to known how things truly went down.

All that being said I hope he can buck the odds and become a great coach for the Kings. Also on the positive side of things I hope this is a sign that the powers that be plan to totally blow up the team and rebuild with young players.
 
I personally dont like the hire, but according to the Bee he was our third choice after Van Gundy spurned us and Petrie and Larry Brown's reps couldnt come to a contract agreement so they went with Theus. I will give it a change though.
 
I'm thinking the Maloofs were a bit nervous about the prospect of having three head coaches on the payroll if #2 didn't work out, so this is an easy two year hire. With Theus' personality there's not a whole lot of danger of running roughshod over the locker room a la Musselman, at worst we have two years of mediocre coaching as we rebuild.

Of course, he was easily the least qualified candidate.

Yay Kings.
 
IF theus pulls a "musselman" and plays the vets when we are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.. i will be one angry !()#*&$)#(!*$)*(!#!@$)*(.
yes i coined the word "musselman" ;)
 
I really wish I could be excited about this... but I can't. I don't see him lasting his contract. I really hope I'm wrong about this.
 
jimbodan said:
All that being said I hope he can buck the odds and become a great coach for the Kings. Also on the positive side of things I hope this is a sign that the powers that be plan to totally blow up the team and rebuild with young players.
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I think they just have to now. Right? :confused:



Please? :(
 
When has a college coach ever really had success in the NBA? Now we're talking about not only a college coach but one from a small program and has never had coaching experience in the NBA and hasn't even been apart of a championship team as a player IIRC. As far as credentials go I say Brian Shaw beats the crap out of him. Does anyone honestly believe if it wasn't for Theus' history with the kings he would ever have been considered for the job? I'm sure it will be a nice heartfelt moment during the press conference but all that fluff doesn't mean anything on the basketball court. How can people say that since he hasn't been a head coach yet that we can't have an idea how good he will be at the job? I understand optimism and saying there is a chance he'll succeed, but to say we can't use credentials and history to reason that it's not likely he'll succeed is just ridiculous.
 
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