Turk Nowitzki wrote:I would love to get people's thoughts on who they would want to hire assuming everyone's favorite two guys are not viable options.
1) Nick Nurse - maybe we don't want him, maybe he doesn't want us, maybe both, but there's been no mention of him so let's hypothetically take him off the table
2) Ty Lue - still under contract with the Clippers, other teams sniffing around, but not much to suggest the Clippers are looking to move on as of now
Again, you can't have either of them. Who do you hire as coach?
The three reported on thus far that I put in my "Intrigued, but not super excited" category were James Borrego, Chris Quinn, and Kenny Atkinson.
I mostly liked the system that Charlotte and Brooklyn played with under Borrego and Atkinson, though both teams were mediocre at best at the time. Still, neither was exactly loaded with talent, so I'm intrigued by the possibilities of them having more talent to work with. Quinn is simply a Spoelstra disciple and we know Spoelstra is a tremendous coach so I'm open to him as a possibility.
The other candidates that I'd be relatively okay with are Monty, Adrian Griffin, and Charles Lee. Can't really say much on Griffin/Lee aside from them being assistants under a couple of good coaches/good team cultures. Monty...he obviously had quite a lot of success with Phoenix. I can't say I like the system they played with, but it was pretty much exactly the type of system you'd want to run with the specific players he was working with so I'm not sure how much of that was his philosophies vs. adapting to his roster. If it's the latter, that's something I consider to be a good thing. If it's the former, no thank you.
