Rudy Offered! (UPDATE: Rudy to coach Lakers - News Conference July 10, 3pm Central)

Love it. Doubt it.

 

It seems that Rudy will be coaching Lakers next season. Good luck, Rudy!

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/2664501

"— Tomjanovich, who one source said Monday will take the job, bringing in former Rockets assistant Larry Smith and keeping Lakers assistant Frank Hamblen."

 

If I were Rudy, I wouldn't do that after the way they disrespected me! Of course, I'm not Rudy.

Rudy loves coaching and he's unlikely to get a higher profile offer than this any time soon. Who knows, he might even be able to convince Kobe and Shaq to stay and get along -- he's that well respected. (And yes, I read what Shaq said in the article.) If so, the Lakers will be a contender again.

If not, well, Rudy must really have enjoyed the rebuilding process in Houston......

 

According to this thread:

http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80154

Roy Williams from UNC has been contacted by the Lakers.

 

In any job search, it's natural for a company to have a 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, etc. If the 1st choice doesn't accept an offer, the company gives it to the 2nd choice. Rudy was the 2nd choice. How is this disrespectful? Unless the Lakers told him that he was their guy, definitively, and then went behind his back with Coach K, I don't see this as any kind of dirty pool. This kind of thing happens all the time with NBA head coaches. (Remember last year's coaching carousel? Almost EVERY coach hired was a 2nd choice, including Van Gundy, after Larry Brown went to Detroit).

I'm no Lakers fan, but I don't see this as a dis.

 

Man, wouldn't that suck? Assuming both Kobe and Shaq walk, even if Malone comes back the roster would look somethig like this:

Starters:
Slava Medvedenko
Karl Malone
Devean George
Kareem Rush
Gary Payton

Bench:
Luke Walton
Brian Cook
Rick Fox
Horace Grant
Bryon Russell
Sasha Vujacic

Yeesh. That's a .500 team if I ever saw one.

 

B/C for the most part he comes across as two faced prick. Personally, I think he is a great defensive coach. He seems to be a good teacher but I don't like the way he has two personalities. During the NBA season he is a dick who bashes, criticises & blames his players and acts dry with no carisma. Once the season is over, he comes on the radio and acts all smooth and praises his players and jokes around and seems like the coolest guy in the world. He needs to lighten up and be one person. I guess he is like that to motivate his players but I think he is way too negative during the season. Peace.

 

Even if the Lakers lose both Kobe and Shaq they wont be down for long. They'll rebound because they're the lakers. This is a dream job for a coach. I'd take it now w/o hesitation.

 

The reason it seems like a diss is because Rudy is more qualified to be a NBA coach, 2 rings and a gold medal, where K has never coached a NBA game. and then they were gonna offer K a lot of money on top of that. If anything rudy needs to demand the same money or more

 

Maybe, maybe not. If you polled the league's GMs, I'm sure you'd get a lot of votes on both sides. As for me, I'd want Rudy coaching my team. But the fact that the Lakers had someone else as their first choice doesn't strike me as a slap in the face.

 

re: CD ... bad eyes not heart. if I recall correctly, Les had them both in a meeting and informed them the next coach of the Rockets was between them(CD & RT). CD declined(eyes) ... the rest is history.

 

I am curious to see how much he gets offered? K was worth 8mill a year, Phil got 4-5 mill, what would Rudy get?

 

It's sad to see Rudy ending up in an evil empire.

 

When I went home for lunch, ESPNews was saying they are seriously talking contract details and to expect an announcement by Thursday.

 

Well I don't know about this... I know they offered him the job but I really don't know if he'll really take it. I saw still in houston on Monday walking and playing with his dog. I had a nice little talk with him when I went back to houston for the vacation. I hope to get Rudy back coaching us after a year of Van Gundy. I see Gundy going to L.A and building around guards such as kobe and payton.

 

Oh I have to say he's a real nice guy... we didn't talk about this but he just built his house in Houston and it's gorgeous. I hope he stays retired for another year. Get these guys a defensive mentality and we can throw in Rudy to head coach again to manage that offence.

 

Is Rudy still under contract? If yes, maybe we can ask laker take one of our bad contract.

 

the fact that he has not taken the job yet is a good sign he might not take it at all

 

I can hear it now, on the LA boards:

"With Rudy in place, we now have a legitimate shot at landing Yao in 2 years."