Lets see 19 (roughly 60%) of the current crop of nba head coaches has had nba PLAYING experience. Even your precious Mike D'antoni (20th overall pick in 1973). Sam Cassell would be a great coach. He has the leadership skills that this team is sorely missing and it would translate whether he was a player or a coach. To suggest that sam doesnt have the necessary IQ to be a good coach because they dont understand the game is r****ded. Hell Sam cassell is making the scouting reports for the clippers right now. This is what i mean when i say you dont know what you are talking about. You have been here one month and have racked up a ton of posts full of garbage. Lets compare suras and cassells career averages and see who stacks up better, Especially games missed to injuries. Im not hating on bobby hes great and i would love to have him back when healthy. but to say an oft injured sura over a proven champion and former rocket in Cassell is redickulous. If you still want to debate, ive got plenty of stats to compare for the current crop coaches playing abilities.
the rumour was that the rocks considered trading jho for cassell but passed so the wolves traded him for jaric instead. though you've got to remember cassell was looking washed up then.
I would love to have Sam come back and retire in Rockets Red. Put Alston as his backup and have him learn some winning mentality...Heck, while we are at it, let's just trade for Mobley too. I miss him more than Stevie, that's for sure. It's just conjecture, though. I'm sure that the Clips will re-sign Sam for more than the MLE. Too bad.
well, pardon me STATS-GUY... but what u r saying is wrong.. and all of ur posts are just worthless arguments that dont make sense... u r the one that posts all that trash... why the heck would u want to work on a current player and prepare him for coaching and the dude aint even thinking about doing that ??? and dont give me stupid stats and percentages, players who were NBA players adn wanted to be coaches worked really hard first... we dont need an immature coach in his 30's .. .we need a strong, experienced, old coach who really knows the game... all of these young coaches dont know what real basketball is and they run this "NEW" basketball styles... basketball is all about OLD SCHOOL... especially when u have a dominant center.. u want to develop an inside-out game just like Hakeem's old Rox... now talking about Sura and Cassell.. I like Cassell, the dude is good and I am still mad for the trade ... I think we should've kept him and HOrry because they were both champions... Cassell even improved over the year and he developed great 3 point &midrange game... but if Sura is coming back next season, I wouldn't take Cassell because they are both starters.. we cant bench one of them and play the other... in this case, I would keep Sura (if he's full speed) and I wouldn't trade for Cassell because that's a lot of money... if Sura aint comin back, that's a different story.. and one more thing, if u dont like my posts, (actually, u probably just want to argue because u r bored or something because I've never seen a bigger hater than u r)..dont read them
You two kids settle down. This is only a Rockets BBS. Stop the name calling, please. IF Cassel said he was interested in coaching, I wouldn't mind signing him to a 2 year contract with the potential to be an assistant coach afterwards. It is a big jump to go to head coach. I'd also take Cassel over Sura every day of the week for reasons two numerous to list. I like Sura a lot ...but I like Cassel a lot more.
I like Sura too. but Sam has never missed an entire season like Sura. The only injury season Sam had was the last year in Minesotta. if you guys want to diss each other. make it creative and put some pictures. if you want, i can diss both of you.
What did you call my mother? Getting ET home would be brilliant. I bet he's got a lot of game left, especially with limited minutes. He looks like a coach on the court and on the sideline-- the camera always catches him teaching.
To be honest we also passed on someone else in the Clipper organization three years ago and that might have turned out to be the wrong decision and that is Mike Dunleavy. Clippers we a better defensive and offensive team than Houston. Injuries may have something to do with it on the defensive side but Offensively I'm not so sure.
With the different articles on Cassell, it seems like he has mix feelings about leaving or staying with the Clippers, but if the Rockets showed interest in him, they have a great chance of landing him. He said he loves houston in the article on hoopshype. Sure would like to have him back. Cassell's interview with Hoopshype
good article. besides myself and Jason Kidd. no one remembers this: How does it feel to play against George Karl's team in the playoffs, since you spent some years together in Milwaukee? SC: It was good in Milwaukee. I was second in the league in assists one year. But now, I'm just taking what they give me. They give me passes, I pass. I'm not doing anything spectacular. I'm just taking what they give me, you know what I'm saying? They want to play me with bigger, stronger guys. I know how to play against bigger and stronger guys. That doesn't distract me, and George knows that. George Karl taught me how to do that. Now I'm using it against him right now.
