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The Lakers are trying to interview Thibodeau and there's talk that they could end up having to trade their 6th pick as compensation in order to get him. So if he could be had for a lotto pick would you trade the 8th for him?

I think its kind of foolish to give up that high of a draft pick for a coach, especially for the Lakers.

Q00 wrote:So if he could be had for a lotto pick would you trade the 8th for him?

Yes!

Thibodeau coaching our squad would change the whole culture and he'll finally give us an identity. We already have young talent so getting Thibs for our lotto pick sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Yes...especially if it's going to look like we aren't going to have a shot at Smart. Thibs is a great coach. One that works his players into the ground, but a great coach nonetheless.

I didn't know you can even do that. I'd strongly consider it. I doubt Gores understands this concept.

We couldnt do it even if we wanted to because of the Gordon trade, we cant trade our pick without acquiring another 1st rounder in this years draft, but if Smart isnt there at 8 id probably swap picks with the Bulls for Thibodeau.

joseph mamah wrote:We couldnt do it even if we wanted to because of the Gordon trade, but if Smart isnt there at 8 id probably swap picks with the Bulls for Thibodeau.

Hey look! Somebody that can recall facts!

Thank you sir.

ImHeisenberg wrote:

joseph mamah wrote:We couldnt do it even if we wanted to because of the Gordon trade, but if Smart isnt there at 8 id probably swap picks with the Bulls for Thibodeau.

Hey look! Somebody that can recall facts!

Thank you sir.

Its the trade that keeps on giving.

joseph mamah wrote:We couldnt do it even if we wanted to because of the Gordon trade, we cant trade our pick without acquiring another 1st rounder in this years draft, but if Smart isnt there at 8 id probably swap picks with the Bulls for Thibodeau.

That's not true. They can still do a draft day deal involving the pick, where they make the selection for other team and then make the trade afterwards.

Hell no. Thibs runs a scheme. A scheme can be duplicated. Perfectly? No. But the marginal benefit is not worth a lotto pick. Elite coaches are about managing egos as well. We'll see if he can deal with that.

Q00 wrote:

joseph mamah wrote:We couldnt do it even if we wanted to because of the Gordon trade, we cant trade our pick without acquiring another 1st rounder in this years draft, but if Smart isnt there at 8 id probably swap picks with the Bulls for Thibodeau.

That's not true. They can still do a draft day deal involving the pick, where they make the selection for other team and then make the trade afterwards.

True

ComboGuardCity wrote:Hell no. Thibs runs a scheme. A scheme can be duplicated. Perfectly? No. But the marginal benefit is not worth a lotto pick. Elite coaches are about managing egos as well. We'll see if he can deal with that.

This, just hire one of his assistants or something.

We aren't going to fire our draft pick in 2-3 years when they can't get Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings to listen to them.

Smith has been in the league for 10 years, he is what he is, he isn't suddenly going to change his stripes even if we hired his grandmother to coach.

No...

But I want SVG as Coach

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No, the pick is more valuable to me than Thibs. We could sign a different coach that could have a similar impact on our team. The pick may have star potential, even at 8, we couldn't necessarily sign someone like that in FA.

Of course not. This is a players league. Besides, a disciplinarian coach is only as effective as the management and ownership will let him be. If our management team doesn't buy into that, then no coach will be effective. If they do buy into it, then we won't have issues finding a good coach down the line.

hell yes

No, but I'd trade it for Thibs AND a GM that was guaranteed to be top 10 in the league (by any reasonable measure -- this IS fiction, after all).

From the Lakers standpoint it doesn't make sense to give up their lotto pick for a coach. They need to be focusing way more on building up a young talent base than who is going to be coaching their old mess of a roster. The Pistons are in the opposite situation though. Being that they haven't gotten a coach right in 8 years and desparately need to get it right this time (and are already stocked with young talent). They definitely need a great coach more than another rookie

It would be different if the Pistons had a top 3 pick and could get a future superstar. Then you take the player, but at 8 where you are probably looking at another KCP/Knight/Monroe caliber talent, I value what Thibodeau would bring much more than what this 8th pick will add.

Put it this way, this 8th pick won't turn us into a 50 win team next year by himself. Thibodeau can.

Hell yes,look what hes gotten out of that squad this year without his star player.