Head Coaching Candidates - Finalists Nurse/Atkinson/Griffin - Another New Poll Added

[machu46]

Why is that weird? I think you’re just used to us being a loose-lipped organization.

Just in general in sports, I feel like we don't often see hires truly come out of nowhere (meaning no reported interest at any point and then all of a sudden they're hired). There's a chance that they're working their way up to him and interviewing some lesser candidates first but it's kind of an Occam's Razor thing right? Most plausible explanation is probably that we haven't heard us linked with Nurse at all because there's no link to report on at this time.

I wouldn't really understand it if there was never communication between us and Nurse but maybe he declined and we obviously didn't want to leak that. I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait and see. I would think with other high-profile jobs opening up, we'll have to show our cards soon if we haven't already been showing them.

Fair, and I don't necessarily disagree, but has Nurse been linked to anyone other than the Suns? You'd think that any team with a vacancy would be reaching out to him (even though Phoenix and Milwaukee are the only viable landing spots right now if he wants a contender).

It’s possible he might want to take a year off to do TV and chill out or something too but he’s been linked to Houston and Phoenix now. What other vacancies are there at the moment? Just us and Detroit?


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[sidney lanier]

Kerr was calling games when the Ws hired him. He of course had the mystique of a guy who played for Phil and Pop. But his GM tenure was awful.

I wouldn't mind a gutsy hire. We've already incurred most of the risk by firing our championship coach.

I wouldn't either. I think Horst (the real GM) and us RealGM pretenders are all coming to the realization that there is nobody on the list of usual suspects better qualified than the guy who just got booted.

That to me is a good argument for skipping the "none of these are any better" list and taking a flyer.

[SirChurros]

Monte is 27-19 in the playoffs i mean other than a chip thsts not a bad record anyone know his reputation is a xs and os guy

I don't think Monty is a bad coach, but the optics just look awful, IMO.

I'm just not sure how you can sell hiring a guy who blew a 2-0 Finals lead and got outcoached by the guy we fired lead, and whose teams subsequently got obliterated in elimination games the next two postseasons, to the fanbase.

[brewbucks]

No surprise there will be immediate leaks from the Suns with Ishbia in charge. With Lasry out the Bucks don't have a leaker. The names tied to the Bucks for the most part are coaches under contract where we've had to ask permission and that's where the leaks come from. From teams and/or agents. Or someone like Reddick who's agent has every incentive to leak.

As for those 3 names Young is their assistant and will get a courtesy interview. No real reason for him to he on our radar. Bud obviously isn't on our list. And since we don't need permission to talk to Nurse you can bet we've had conversations with him. We just haven't leaked it. He may not even want to come here.

Bottom line is the leaked Suns list isn't automatically "better".

And who is or isn't on a list is irrelevant anyway. It depends who actually gets the job.

And whoever it is will get roasted here by some as we all have our ideas of who it should and shouldn't be.

It seems kind of weird to be blasting Horst based on leaked info that you can be sure isn't 100% complete or accurate.

Right. Give it until end of June and you can put out a verdict on Horst. Draft will be done, big moves will have already happened on the free agent front and a coach will be in place.

Championship level post imo

[Finn]

No surprise there will be immediate leaks from the Suns with Ishbia in charge. With Lasry out the Bucks don't have a leaker. The names tied to the Bucks for the most part are coaches under contract where we've had to ask permission and that's where the leaks come from. From teams and/or agents. Or someone like Reddick who's agent has every incentive to leak.

As for those 3 names Young is their assistant and will get a courtesy interview. No real reason for him to he on our radar. Bud obviously isn't on our list. And since we don't need permission to talk to Nurse you can bet we've had conversations with him. We just haven't leaked it. He may not even want to come here.

Bottom line is the leaked Suns list isn't automatically "better".

And who is or isn't on a list is irrelevant anyway. It depends who actually gets the job.

And whoever it is will get roasted here by some as we all have our ideas of who it should and shouldn't be.

It seems kind of weird to be blasting Horst based on leaked info that you can be sure isn't 100% complete or accurate.

Are you new here?

[buckboy]

It's weird to me how many people assume we are talking to a coach we haven't been linked to at all. Like yea it's certainly possible we are talking to other coaches that haven't been named but also maybe we aren't. We know of some coaches they have talked too specifically

It's really weird to me that some very vocal people in this thread are just assuming as fact that we haven't, and ranting accordingly when they don't know **** all.

[emunney]

Kerr was calling games when the Ws hired him. He of course had the mystique of a guy who played for Phil and Pop. But his GM tenure was awful.

I wouldn't mind a gutsy hire. We've already incurred most of the risk by firing our championship coach.

I wouldn't either. I think Horst (the real GM) and us RealGM pretenders are all coming to the realization that there is nobody on the list of usual suspects better qualified than the guy who just got booted.

That to me is a good argument for skipping the "none of these are any better" list and taking a flyer.

I don't know about a flyer, but I think if you've got conviction you don't let their current job confuse things, whether that's podcaster, NBA assistant, or HC in some other league.

[ReasonablySober]

Bring in white SG from Duke.

[MVP2110]

It's weird to me how many people assume we are talking to a coach we haven't been linked to at all. Like yea it's certainly possible we are talking to other coaches that haven't been named but also maybe we aren't. We know of some coaches they have talked too specifically

It's really weird to me that some very vocal people in this thread are just assuming as fact that we haven't, and ranting accordingly when they don't know **** all.

Some choose to have blind faith in a front office that has had several missteps the last few years, others choose to react to the information we have available

[Matches Malone]

Have we been linked to Chris Quinn at all? I know he was briefly looked at by Detroit. Probably not the experienced coach we need, but I'd rather take a chance on a young coach with potential than spin the wheels with some of these retreads.

[Profound23]

Monte is 27-19 in the playoffs i mean other than a chip thsts not a bad record anyone know his reputation is a xs and os guy

I don't think Monty is a bad coach, but the optics just look awful, IMO.

I'm just not sure how you can sell hiring a guy who blew a 2-0 Finals lead and got outcoached by the guy we fired lead, and whose teams subsequently got obliterated in elimination games the next two postseasons, to the fanbase.

These are my feelings exactly.

[MickeyDavis]

I've posted this before but you can't hire a coach whose team blew a 2-0 Finals lead followed by back to back home playoff elimination losses. He's better off in Detroit or Toronto. Probably Detroit is a better gig, they have some potential good young guys. Raps are a treadmill team.

[MuckyFingers]

I know Phoenix is tied to Lue, but I wonder if they look at Bud. If he wants to coach, doing it out of his hometown state would be ideal.

Can’t wait to see Phoenix give up 130 in the Playoffs next year with Ayton in the drop and Bud doing nothing to adjust the defense.

[MuckyFingers]

I've posted this before but you can't hire a coach whose team blew a 2-0 Finals lead followed by back to back home playoff elimination losses. He's better off in Detroit or Toronto. Probably Detroit is a better gig, they have some potential good young guys. Raps are a treadmill team.

Detroit feels like the perfect team for Williams.

[Matches Malone]

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[WeekapaugGroove]

Mark Jackson?!?! Come on now ffs

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[RubberSoul]

My theory is Horst has to be a poster here and is just trolling realGM right now and he actually has Nurse lined up. Honestly I would do the same if I had his job. Nothing else makes sense.


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[WiscoKing13]

The odds at this time point to us hiring someone worse than Bud.

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[Wonka]

Feeling less and less confident in our FO by the day. The hell is going on?

[Milbucks96]

They have to interview a lot of people that they know they’re not considering, but even giving mark jackson an interview is wild. I think I’m just going to try really hard to ignore the coaching search til they pick someone.