Almost anybody will be better than Silas, BUT this is a critical decision, can't make a blunder. I like Cassell. Scotty Brooks has been suggested. Not a bad choice. Maybe not a good one. Udoka had the Celtics rolling. How about a successful college coach that would like to move into the NBA?
Ppl can say anybody will be better than Silas. But if the organization your coaching is tanking for draft purposes, they're paying you to lose lol. So Silas was in a catch 22
Nurse or Atkinson as my top tier. Everyone else like Charles Lee, Hammon, Cassell, Abdelfattah, Borrego, etc in the second tier. Would be happy with any of these too honestly. Tactical fit and elite assistant coaching experience is everything as I'm learning from Mike Brown. I don't think he could have done this with another squad but he's the perfect coach for the players they have. Whether for example you see Sengun as the long term option or not, it makes sense to push his potential and then when he's at peak trade value decide if it's going to work. I like Atkinson because he has Warriors experience like Mike Brown and he has experience turning a bunch of disorganized, unintelligent, underperforming players in Brooklyn into a playoff team. He will know how to run offense through Sengun and turn this team into a mature, cohesive unit. If you can get D'Angelo Russell, Spencer Dinwiddie and Caris Levert to buy into winning basketball for the first time in their careers, you have a bit of a magic touch. I like Nurse because he has championship experience as a HC with a loosely assembled team that was not favored to win the title and that's an elite badge that few have. He has experience turning a bunch of mid to late to undrafted picks into players worth $20-$30m per season. He has very good tactical and development experience. Seems like a great package of skills. The only downside with Nurse that bugs me is he whines about referees A LOT. Like Eric Gordon level on the court and doesn't stop after the game. No one is perfect though, this seems to be the least harmful/risky flaw of the candidates.
Why do Rockets look so clueless on hiring HC? Just select one between Nurse and Udoka. What's the point of interviewing so many assistant coaches when you have great coaches like Nurse and Udoka out there?
Can't be upset if it's Nurse. We've got a heck of a decision to make. I wonder what the timeline is, I know they said second round of interviews coming so I'm guessing around conference finals we'll have a new head coach.
Because the Rockets are the ones really being interviewed. Not the other way around. With the top coaches, they don’t need the rockets. They’ll have good options regardless. So likely Udoka, and Nurse are ones trying to string this out.
I would be happy with Nurse or Ime. But I wouldn't want either of them to come in and have total, 100% control over personnel, staff, and everything. I just don't think that kind of arrangement can work. So it really all depends on what the coach is wanting to do. He needs to have a vision that aligns with Tildo (selling Landry's memberships), Stone, and the players. If he instead wants to have some GM responsibility and cash-in all our youth for some 3rd bananas, then I wouldn't want him. So all this to say.... not sure who I want as coach, because I don't know what kind of team these coaches want.
Rox reportedly not too interested in assistant coaches’ first head jobs, so very sorry Sammy. Youdaman! Why would they consider any college coach when the % of success rate moving to NBA is lower than SS’ winning %. By a lot!
https://theathletic.com/4437548/2023/04/21/raptors-nick-nurse-out-coach/ It is not that players had tuned him out — they forced the most turnovers per possession in the league, a core tenet of Nurse’s aggressive, demanding defensive philosophy — but his style of delivery was becoming tiring. After the season ended, Gary Trent Jr., said he had gotten used to hearing Nurse’s criticism of his defence in the media before he would hear it from the coach himself, and he was not the only player who had issues with Nurse. Ujiri would only say that the players “expressed themselves in many ways” in season-ending meetings with the front office. Then there was the issue of the younger players on the roster, with Ujiri plainly saying he was not pleased with their development. He didn’t put that all on Nurse, but he cited “role orientation” and a lack of opportunity to show their growth as problems. Nurse played his starters more than any other coach in the league.
Typically, its 40% coach and 60% Gm control of our roster with them being on the same page. But... the Rockets front office have lost their god-damn mind by making it 100% and coaching philosophies too with line-ups. This toxic culture that we have now has been molding like this for last 12 years. That's why this coaching hire is more important to me than getting Wemby.
