JVG could be just waiting for the right oppurtunity. He was a good coach very insightful. He turned down the Mavs already.
Two sentiments have been expressed so far that I agree with. I think it's a little bit of both. 1. Only employees of model organizations get hired to better positions on other teams. The Rockets are a model organization of sorts. 2. Most of these guys are from the CD era. The old school feels a bit of pressure to move on before they are forced to. Frankly, I don't mind the changing of the guard one bit. Can you name other organizations that have had their employees take on premier jobs for other teams? Here's my list: Spurs (Danny Ferry, Sam Presti) Patriots (Charlie Weis, Eric Mangini, Romeo Crennel) Oakland A's (Theo Epstein, Paul Depodesta, JP Ricciardi, Josh Byrnes) Duke (Tommy Amaker, Quin Snyder, Johnny Dawkins, Jeff Capel) (Actually, all of the Pats can go under Parcells' coaching umbrella, and the Dukies can go under Bobby Knights'.) Anyhow, that's a pretty good list. Teams don't lose assistant coaches and assistant GM's because they suck.
Apparently he was hired before the start of this past season. http://www.insidehoops.com/blogs/?p=270 I wonder if he would have stuck around if the Rockets had kept Batum?
Spacemoth Kevin Pritchard (Portland GM) was a scout for several years with the Spurs before going to Portland as the Director of Player Personnel. Then he moved up the ranks as others in the Trailblazers Front Office were shown the Door. Perhaps not the same distinction as the examples that you cited, but it was a promotion from Spurs scout to Portland Director of Player Personnel.
I doubt it was because of money issue. Basketball is a business, coaches and staff only have few shots at moving up in the organization. You can't blame anyone for them taking higher positioned jobs at the first opportunity.
Can we have some kind of compensation in return, draft picks(JVG from Knicks to Rockets) or at least some trades facilitated.
You say that, as you have a typo of your own in the same sentence that is critical of someone else's grammar. Are typos omitted from your list of things you "hate?"
