I'd prefer Morey gone with McHale together. Get someone who had NBA experience either as a player or as coach and really understand the basketball.
I know Lionel Hollins appears to have a distaste for the analytics movement, but I feel he might the best option. He worked with an all-star center, and he believes in gritty defense and is tough. McHale may be motivational, sure, but he doesn't hold players accountable. Wasn't Hollins the one who got into Bayless' face during the playoffs and asked him 'the hell are you doing?' We need that type of bite on the bench.
SVG is the only guy who can fix this. Dwight can cry about it if he doesn't like it. "Do you want to have fun, or do you want to win?" -Chuck Daly
Would really like to see SVG get a crack at running this team, or George Karl. SVG has proven he can win it all with a 2/5 attack, has gotten bad defensive players to form a cohesive defensive unit that was amongst the best in the league (Turk, Nelson, Lee & old Rashard Lewis playing top 3 defense alongside Howard). He also has proven he can design an offense that is reliant on 3s and shots at the rim. This would be the most talented team he's coached since 2006. George Karl would be interesting because he's implored his teams to take layups, free throws and 3s. The problem is the rockets are already good at these things, and he hasn't proven he can design a team defense that is top 5 in the league. In that respect, he's the inverse of Jeff Van Gundy, who can make a poor defensive group of guys play at a high level on that end, but is near-hopeless on the offensive end of the floor. SVG please. Give him all teh monies
Jim Boylen is an interesting name. He's currently on the Spurs, he was on the Rockets for 2 championships during the Hakeem era and helped coach Yao. Might not be a bad option. If Pops thinks he's good enough to hire, you could do worse.
Quin syder or shaka smart. Preferably Quin Snyder. I think he'll be really good. No big names like jvg please. But this series isnt over yet. McHale still has a chance to prove himself. Give him a shot and support him until seasons over.
Was listening to 610 earlier today, they said JVG and SVG should be co head coaches. Never been done before but if anyone could do it, its Morey. Thoughts?
I'd look to interview: Stan Van Gundy Jim Boylen Kevin Ollie Ettore Messina Quin Snyder and hold out hope that Thibs is let go by Chicago. I'd be fine with interviewing Lionel Hollins, but I'm not as in love with him as others are.
I'd select from: Jim Boylen Quin Snyder David Blatt (Overseas option #1) Maccabi T.A. & Russia's National Team. American born (played: Princeton 1977-81) A genius, underrated coach. Best D-coach I've ever seen. Ettore Messina (Overseas option #2) CSKA Moscow. One of the greatest basketball minds ever. Consulted for LAL
It better not be Finch or any other assistant nor George Karl, because of his playoff track record and douchebag personality.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Informed people around the league say these 7 candidates are NBA head coaching material | <a href="http://t.co/ZTJKfrCoh0" title="http://es.pn/1f7Eogb" org_href="http://es.pn/1f7Eogb">es.pn/1f7Eogb</a></p>— Kevin Arnovitz (@kevinarnovitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinarnovitz/status/459374659872387072" data-datetime="2014-04-24T11:53:48+00:00">April 24, 2014</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Report: Stan Van Gundy told Dwight Howard to go to Houston Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard are still tight. Despite all the drama in Orlando a couple years back they text regularly and both say they have a good relationship. What, you’ve never fought with a friend then made up? That’s what we guys do. So when Dwight Howard was faced last summer with the biggest decision off his career, it should be no shock he turned to a favorite coach and friend for advice. That advice, via Bill Reiter of Fox Sports: If this is true, it shouldn’t be a surprise. Van Gundy is going to look at things from a basketball perspective, and as we have said before Houston was the best basketball decision. With Howard and James Harden, plus good role players such as Chandler Parsons, Omer Asik, Jeremy Lin and other s on the roster this is a team with the foundation to win and win big. They have the pieces in place. The Lakers are in transition now as Kobe Bryant winds down his career, they could have the pieces in place to win again in a couple years, if you trust management to make the smart moves and be able to woo free agents. Howard went with the sure thing. It was the smart move. But now the pressure is on him — nothing is being handed to him and there is no backing out to get to another city. This is the team that will ultimately define his legacy in the NBA, these next several years. Now he has to earn it. http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....an-gundy-told-dwight-howard-to-go-to-houston/
I don't think Barkley can coach, but when he got into this heated argument with Shaq yesterday during half time he was brilliant with his analysis that Rockets had gotten away from their identity by force-feeding Dwight inthe post so much. This was really apparently beginning of 4th.
coaching isnt all about x's and o's, tho its a huge part and is one of the reasonw hy mchale has to go. hell no to barkley.
My first choice would be Karl, but here's a crazy idea: what about Patrick Ewing? He's paid his dues; the guy's been an assistant for the last 11 years. He got his start as a coach here. He worked with Dwight in Orlando. He's worked for JVG, SVG, and Steve Clifford, and he comes from the Pat Riley school of tough, defense-first coaching. It would make sense. I think Ewing deserves a shot. If he'd be willing to buy into the analytic side he would be a legitimate candidate, IMO.
