Brad Stevens is the best coach for J-Lin! lolol If D12 chooses Houston, Morey has to make that call. J-lin and Highway_30 for Rondo. I know it's crazy but Boston can cut him. He is not on the Summer League team for a Reason.
Interesting. I believe Rondo is very predictable. He has anger issues and has problems when he doesn't get his way. Those problems will be magnified when he's surrounded by a bunch of young players and coached by a young newbie. If he threw tantrums and disrespected a veteran coach who took him to two NBA finals and one championship, it goes downhill now. Rondo might give it the old "college try" for a while, but that won't last. I bet he'll either explode and rebel or just quietly mail it in until they trade him.
Call me crazy, but I've long seen Daryl Morey in Brad Stevens and have pictured him as an NBA GM in the long term more than a coach.
Wow. He is a great basketball mind and talent evaluator no doubt, but I never pictured him making the jump to the nba. I thought he would continue to build up Butler's program up and eventually make the jump to a big time program ie (replace coach K at Duke when he decides to retire or something like that). It will be interesting to see if he can get grown men to buy into his system.
Uhh Pop coaches X's and O's and his system, that he developed is second to none. He certainly doesn't just handle personalities well.
Many times. For example, IIRC Lawrence Frank was only 33 when he took over as interim coach for the Nets in 2004 and they went on that 12 game winning streak following the firing of Byron Scott.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Congrats, Danny Ainge, on hiring Brad Stevens. He has the demeanor of a composed leader. Hope he’s got the hide of a rhino for NBA grind.</p>— Phil Jackson (@PhilJackson11) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilJackson11/statuses/352789577829851136">July 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Then once he's succeeded at Boston and show he's NBA capable, he'll upgrade to a better system in Houston. win-win.
Pitino, like most college coaches, wins by having a good system and out-talenting most of their competition with superior recruiting. That's not an advantage you have in the NBA. Brad Stevens wins simply with a superior system. It's similar to Steve Spurrier vs Chip Kelly in the NFL. It's unclear whether Kelly (or Stevens) will have any success, but at Oregon, he was winning with mediocre talent and a superior system. Those types of coaches seem more suited for the pros were you can't just out-talent everyone by huge margins.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/SportsCenter">@SportsCenter</a> <a href="http://t.co/irbjzQEiRD">http://t.co/irbjzQEiRD</a> - Rajon Rondo</p>— WFAN Audio (@WFANAudio) <a href="https://twitter.com/WFANAudio/statuses/353173280536002564">July 5, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Spoiler
And so it begins? <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>NBA source familiar with <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23celtics&src=hash">#celtics</a> say team desperately needs another asst coach who can bond with Rondo, someone he can relate to and trust</p>— gary washburn (@GwashNBAGlobe) <a href="https://twitter.com/GwashNBAGlobe/statuses/369144551224532992">August 18, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Yeah, I'm probably reading too much into it.
Sounds bogus. Why would they be 'desperately' looking? How hard could it be to find an assistant coach Rondo likes?
