ESPN.com: (Van Gundy) Five-year, $25 million deal waiting in Washington

I say we should just hire Dunleavy. This guy is just waiting for us to call him up. He wants this job, I'm not so sure JVG does. Dunleavy should be the our coach!

 

As I have stated in other threads, the hitch in the gitalong is not the Rockets but the Knicks' contract hold on JVG. Chill out, and wait for the Rocks to negotiate this without having to give up a draft pick, which is a ridiculous price for six weeks of employment!

 

The hitch is not compensation for the Knicks, it is the Washington Wizards owner giving Van Gundy a more lucrative job offer I thought. We will see tomorrow anyway what the hold up is exactly! You could be right...

 

We don't have 6 weeks, we need a coach now.

 

Why? There are no players around to coach. And JVG can tell CD who he wants in the draft or in a trade while studying all the tapes he wants.

 

The Rox's need to show some testicular fortitude(sp), they have the best job available and limiting yourself to these retreads is only going to hurt the org. in the future.


Yeah, let's show some guts and take a crappier coach because he has fewer options and is more willing to jump at this opportunity. WTF?

 

Can you imagine the letdown everybody would have if VG turns down the job and we are stuck with Dunleavy?

We would go from the anti-Rudy to the Rudy clone.

 

Two years ago JVG cited family reasons for stepping down as the Knicks coach, now moving his family from New York to Houston is a concern. However, he would be quite happy to coach Lebron in Cleveland. Does it make any sense?

I guess he just doesn't want to be the first coach to put Yao Ming on the bench.

 

When you make a statement like this you need to build it up a bit I have been left wondering what this is about? I thaught the New Coach was coming to develop Yao Ming?

 

Yetti, you thought EVERYTHING should be made to develop Yao Ming.

No offense, but the way you patrol threads for a slice of Ming bashing, just to come out and say he's the best athlete in the universe....well....it gets kinda tiresome.

 

I just can't see how any coach, who actually would claim it's not about the money, would ever choose to go to Washington unless he was an entry-level coach. By taking the Wizards job, Van Gundy would pretty much be saying it's ALL about the money. I mean, the team has made the playoffs once in <b>25 YEARS</b>! There is no future there. Putting it simply, he has zero chance of winning.

I'd respect him more if he just decided not to coach next year altogether and waited for another job to open up the next season at some place where he and his family would be more comfortable, than take one of the worst coaching jobs in professional sports just to fill his pockets.

 

Am I the only one thinking....Washington!??!!?!? I mean....WASHINGTON?!?!!?!?


Family...2 per cent...yadda yadda...If he turns down the Rocks for the Washington freaking Wizards...well all I can say is UGH!


Would coaches have turned down a chance to coach a young Kareem and Isiah combo? Or, say, Kareem and Fat Lever? FOr Washington?!?!!? We were the best choice in the land...and now people are acting all reasonable about whether Washington's weather is nicer than Houston's as an excuse for JVG to chose the pathetic Wizards franchise...who, by the way, just succeeded in p*ssing off the best marketed player in history...over our beloeved Houston Rockets?

You think if Jackson stepped down we'd see coaches saying about LA.." Yeah...but there's the traffic...and, boy, that smog!"?

What the hell has happened when the team who was called the best opportunity out there has lost it's number 1 already,and is in a dead heat with it's no.2 with the Washington Wizards!?!?!?

 

MacBeth, you are drunk. Go to bed.

 

I *hic* resent that disparag...er...dispara...*hic*...that slight against either my character, my sobriety, or my character.

 

This is the entire holdup, right there.

I don't think this is JVG being indecisive about this job. He was campaigning for this job last year as a commentator (just not directly).

As I have been posting (I could be wrong), maybe the Knicks are asking for too much, and Les has to negotiate with those sorry sumumabeeyotches.

Two exhibition games? So who gets all the dough-re-mi?

Don't you love these "subtle" recruiting attempts to spirit away Yao? NY with this exhibition game thing; Seattle with its Starbucks Frapuccino thing.

Note to teams: YAO IS OURS! HANDS OFF!

Hopefully this will get resolved quickly, in our favor.

 

I think people are being too hard on the Wizards organization. The team has historically sucked. But, it seems to me that Abe Pollin has recently really been intent on turning it around and making it respectable. That's why he hired Jordan and traded away all the salary albatrosses. And, that's why he later fired Jordan too. I think the predicament that Washington is now in is that the owner wants to make it a good team and is working hard to accomplish that, but he doesn't have the front-office talent to get it done. He hoped Jordan would be that talent he needed but was wrong. He then turned to Larry Brown (at least he's proven) hoping he'd be the one, only to lose out to Detroit. So, now he's looking to Jeff Van Gundy.

It's not clear to me whether he's offering $25 million or $35 million. But, I'm very interested to find out. If he's offering $35 million, he's hoping Van Gundy is his savior (mistakenly, I'd think -- JVG is a coach, not a GM) that can finally build a winner. If it is $25 million, then he's just hoping for a good coach and still needs to find his savior for the GM position. Either way, though, I think it is clear that Pollin has the commitment to being competitve, they just need the pieces.

 

Well, it looks like it may be moot, but I think it had to have been 25, and not 35. 35 is just too outrageous, especially for JVG.

 

I know JVG as a TNT commentor had said a lot of complimentary things about Yao. But being a coach is different. Yao has a potential to be good if he pans out. JVG does understand that is a huge 'if'. What 'if' he turns out not to even remotely resemble Hakeem?

Les and CD actually think Yao is THE cornerstone of the Rockets, but Jeff Van Gundy is the kind of coach who wants to win, now, at any cost. If Yao's not up to his standard, he wouldn't mind putting Yao on the bench.

We all know what he did to Camby. Dave Checketts wanted Camby to see more playing time and not languish on the bench. Van Gundy was determined to make Camby -- who had earned a reputation as a soft, unfocused player -- earn his minutes. The conflict almost cost his job. Jeff was one fortunate Allan Houston bounce away from being fired.