Mysticist wrote:NavalAviator94 wrote:Woody Allen wrote:Wolves should definitely take Thibs and give him Gregg Popovich type of autonomy. He'd by far be the best coach the franchise has ever seen.
Coaches need a strong GM to save them from themselves. Pop is the coach and President but he has clearly shared it's a Meritocracy and
he has never over ruled his GM .
And how do you know this, exactly ?
I mean, Buford and Pop, their relationship, and the Spurs system of meritocracy, it's on record. RC is a major part of what made the Spurs great, alongside Pop and Peter Holt. You need a strong hierarchy of shared meritocracy.
While Thibs is great and this may be tempting, not every coach makes a great GM. Doc Rivers is the greatest example of that, and even SVG has flubbed a bit. Coaches are increasingly grasping for this sort of power, but I'm not sure it's the answer, great championship teams like the Spurs and Warriors don't have a situation where one of those figures (GM or coach) is dominant over the others, they have a situation where it's a family of respected voices.
I'm not sure what the Wolves' options are in terms of head coachs, if Thibs is truly the best option willing to take the job then I might give him this deal but tbh I'd think twice, thrice, I'd keep thinking about it. The Wolves coaching spot is a juicy a$$ position that many a free floating coach looking for a job would want. I mean, this may be Minnesota, but I think as opposed to the problem with attracting free agents to a cold $hit state like that you should probably have your run of the options with all the various names floating around out there.
Who can say Thibs has what it takes to successfully run a franchise with this level of control and power? All we know about him is he's a good coach of basketball, and even then mostly in a few specific aspects of the game.