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mcHAPPY wrote: View Posthttp://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/pa...-billy-donovan
List of Top50 college coaches according to ESPN.
List at bottom.
Most are unrealistic.
Ed Pinckney, Chicago Bulls assistant coach
Though they’d deign to admit it, some former players feel head coaches can farm out much of the grind that accompanies the position in the NBA. That wouldn't be the case for Pinckney, who has quickly established a reputation as an inexhaustible worker bee.
As an assistant for Tom Thibodeau, Pinckney has flourished under a serious coach who fetishizes preparation. At the same time, Pinckney has friends all over the game from a lifetime of building up goodwill in basketball as a pro's pro and a teacher.
“Guys would love to play for him,” an assistant NBA coach says. “Anyone who has been around him knows how hard he works and how much he cares. His players would go through walls for him and have a good time doing it.”
The Grizzlies brass was deeply impressed by Pinckney when it invited him in twice last summer during a search that ended with longtime assistant Joerger being elevated to the first chair. With his fluency in Thibodeau's defense, pleasant disposition and intuitive understanding of what it means to be a big man in the NBA, Pinckney is a smart bet to see the inside of a conference room again this summer.
Adrian Griffin, Chicago Bulls assistant coach
Odd as it seems to pair a couple of Thibodeau bench assistants on a diverse list of seven prospective head coaches, Pinckney and Griffin both attracted heavy mention, usually independent of each other.
Griffin is not yet 40 -- 39 until July, he's more than 11 years younger than Pinckney -- which means there are a bunch of people in the game who have watched him grow up from youth camps to his stint now as a lead assistant to Thibodeau. Those who have say that, since high school, Griffin has displayed a polished maturity that screams NBA head coach.
He had barely filed his retirement papers in 2008 when Scott Skiles and the Milwaukee Bucks offered him a job as an assistant. After two seasons with the Bucks, Griffin joined Thibodeau, with whom he’s developed a close relationship. After coaching the Bulls’ summer-league squad, Griffin stuck around Las Vegas to pitch in at Team USA’s minicamp.
“You combine that kind of professionalism with that kind of mentorship and you’re going to have a good chance to succeed,” a general manager says.
The result is a coaching prospect who was characterized by one league insider as “a player-friendly Tom Thibodeau.”
David Vanterpool, Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach
It’s rare in the NBA for someone on the fast track toward management to get off and join a much longer line to become an NBA coach. Yet that’s what Vanterpool did when he left the Thunder front office to join Terry Stotts’ staff in Portland.
Vanterpool was a quick study and likely a future executive in the league, but it tormented him to know there was high-grade basketball development going on in his midst, only it wasn't happening in his department.
“He has a way with players,” a front-office executive says. “He was a tough overseas player who worked at his game.”
Vanterpool both played and coached for Messina in Moscow, an affiliation that means something in an increasingly international league. The two-year stint in the Oklahoma City front office is also the kind of interdisciplinary experience valued by shops like San Antonio. Add to all that a penchant for independent thought, a willingness to admit what you don’t know and a reputation as a solid, agreeable person and a young team could have a head coach to grow up with.
Jim Boylen, San Antonio Spurs assistant coach
Thanks to the success of Steve Clifford in Charlotte, the nomadic, 50-ish, affable, well-respected grinder has come into fashion. And if you’re looking for a prototype, Boylen might be it.
Boylen, not to be confused with former Bulls and Bucks head coach Jim Boylan, sat alongside Rudy Tomjanovich for over a decade and was a lead assistant to Tom Izzo. After four rough seasons at the University of Utah -- “The guy hates recruiting, what can you say?” says a Boylen sympathizer -- he landed with Frank Vogel in Indiana, where he restored his rep as a guy who truly loves to get on the floor and work with players and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty with game preparation.
“He’s been the best guy on almost every staff he’s ever been on,” an NBA general manager says last week prior to Ty Corbin’s departure from Utah. “And the fact that Pop hired him gives him the ultimate stamp of approval.”
An owner looking for sex appeal won’t want to see a glossy image of Boylen on the cover of a season-ticket appeal packet. But there’s a strong consensus that Boylen is an extremely capable lifer who rarely has trouble connecting with players or peers.
Above list also had Tony Bennett and Kevin Ollie.
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Then you have your retreads:
Rick Adelman - He is done.
Larry Brown - too old to grow with this team and unstable: which Brown do you get?
Carlisemo - nope
Butch Carter - hmmmmmm, if John Gibbons can come back.......
Mo Cheeks - NEXT!
Doug Collins - negative
Michael Curry - I really don't know
D'Antoni - no
Del NEgro - ahhhh no
Larry Drew - Nah
Mike Dunleavy - Trying to be an owner - and no
Tim Floyd - any thing related to circa early 2000 Bulls gets a no
Lawrence Frank - lol
Cotton Fitzsimmons - wouldn't that be sweet
Mike Fratello - the czar!
Alvin Gentry - better than most options here
Marc Iavoroni - he blew his chance
Mark Jackson - E-G-O, N-O!
Avery Johnson - with Lowry? lol - no
Eddie Jordan - Princeton!?!?!?! ummm no
George Karl - Lenny Part Deux
Mike Malone - better than most here
Nate McMillan - if only his last name was Dogg
Eric Musselman - DUI guy
Jim O'Brien - i giggled typing
Kevin O'Neill - I burst out loud laughing typing
Terry Porter - no
Pat Riley - I hear he is looking for a more comfy gig
Scott Skiles - will get the most out of the team for one season - max
Isiah Thomas - The Return
JVG - sideline commentating is a good gig, ask the czar!
Darrell Walker - the painful memories
Mike Woodson - Stinks of Knicks
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Reboc wrote: View PostThis thread makes me hate RR.
I'm pretty sure, 100% sure. Dwane Casey is not going anywhere.Last edited by The Great One; Sun Jan 25, 2015, 07:43 PM.Mamba Mentality
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raptors999 wrote: View PostJust speculation but MU was in the building when Casey decides to run plays to end quarters. Plays looked like Nick Nurse ones.
Either they are reading our forums or what we have been criticizing them for is simply the truth.2006-07 NBA Coach of the Year
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