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Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:12 pm
by Kilo
From the wiretap -
The Detroit Pistons have promoted Pat Garrity to assistant general manager, Andrew Loomis to chief of staff and Bob Beyer to associate head coach.
Quentin Richardson is leaving the organization for personal reasons.
“I’m proud to announce the restructuring of our basketball staff knowing that we have great people expanding their roles while maintaining continuity within our department,” said Stan Van Gundy. “Pat, Andrew and Bob are well deserving of new responsibilities and we welcome Otis to Detroit on a full-time basis. Brendan is moving away from the bench and returning to his New York roots, but will continue to provide great basketball counsel and insight that has made him a great basketball mind for decades. We thank Quentin for his hard work over the last two seasons and respect his desire to spend more time with his family in Orlando.”
I wonder who coaches the GR Drive now. Seems like we're down a coach as well as Malone and QRich leave and only Otis was added.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:21 pm
by DCintheD
is it me or does SVG seem to favor his old buddies from Orlando? I guess its working... but I wish he'd give Sheed a chance to be a personal coach to Andre.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:28 pm
by coordinator0
Kilo wrote:I wonder who coaches the GR Drive now. Seems like we're down a coach as well as Malone and QRich leave and only Otis was added.
I think Richardson was in the front office.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:29 pm
by Kilo
Otis Smith was loyal as hell to Stan in Orlando, and Stan isn't going to forget it. I too wish Sheed played for Stan along the way so he'd feel comfortable with him on the staff. But I also get the feeling that Stan is more demanding out of his coaches and that Sheed wasn't going to be a live in the video room, 16 hour days coach but was more a hang around and give out some pointers type.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:31 pm
by Kilo
coordinator0 wrote:Kilo wrote:I wonder who coaches the GR Drive now. Seems like we're down a coach as well as Malone and QRich leave and only Otis was added.
I think Richardson was in the front office.
Okay, that would make sense. Otis takes over both player development from Q and coaching opening form Malone. Malone was lead assistant, whereas Otis will be low man on the totem pole, so he could do both roles.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:51 pm
by RexRyan
Just don't let him handle personnel, he was pretty much a disaster at Orlando.....
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:55 pm
by Snakebites
He seems to favor people he worked with before. So do many head coaches, probably even most. Like many businesses, the NBA is built on professional relationships. I think you'll find that many coaches have their own retinues of regulars that follow them. Its why guys like Derek Fisher and Kurt Rambis ended up in New York, and why Lawrence Frank found his way back to Doc Rivers' sidelines after his misadventures here and in Brooklyn.
It looks like Otis Smith is coming in as the Director of Player Development, which was Q's old job. He's not going to be an assistant coach. I always thought it was very strange that Otis wasn't given a position with the main organization immediately. Maybe he didn't want it initially.
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:54 pm
by detroitKG
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlHYReM8o9Y[/youtube]
Re: Coaching/Front office restructuring - Brendan Malone retires, Otis Smith joins staff...
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:30 pm
by Pharaoh
No surprise SVG values loyalty & familiarity...
It helps to foster the environment where everyone feels comfortable speaking up even if it's not the majority opinion
We don't need "yes" men - we need people to have a voice regardless of if it's popular or not.
SVG will make the final call since it's his system