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My Pick is Rick Adleman

Dwayne Casey.

He emphasizes defense.

He's 100% class.

He knows Minnesota.

He's demonstrated he's capable.

He's an assistant coach to a team we should pattern ourselves after.

Sam Mitchell. He's gettable, he's respected and he's positive part of our team history.

Frank is still available, has playoff experience.

funkatron101 wrote:Frank is still available, has playoff experience.

I think Frank interests me most... he always had a defensive emphasis too, didn't he?

I'd be happy with Sam Mitchell, Mark Jackson, or Frank.

Reading this list... the only name that makes me think, "we'd probably really improve," is Adleman, and he's almost certainly unavailable.

Mitchell, Jackson, Frank, Casey haven't done anything that suggests they could take on a challenge like this roster, and seems to emphasize to me that if you think the biggest issues with this team are fixed by a coaching you're kidding yourself or assuming the quick change means the obvious change.

You bring in any of those guys with limited experience/success (Frank is the most successful, but did it with veteran all-stars) and they'll probably be louder and more visible/passionate on the sideline and locker room than Rambis, but you're AGAIN having everybody learn everything from scratch, like just about every season post-KG.

I'm SICK of a drastic alteration every year.

JVG

kiwi_adam wrote:JVG

This

TexasGopher wrote:

kiwi_adam wrote:JVG

This ain't gonna happen.

Fixed.

EddyCool wrote:Reading this list... the only name that makes me think, "we'd probably really improve," is Adleman, and he's almost certainly unavailable.

Mitchell, Jackson, Frank, Casey haven't done anything that suggests they could take on a challenge like this roster, and seems to emphasize to me that if you think the biggest issues with this team are fixed by a coaching you're kidding yourself or assuming the quick change means the obvious change.

You bring in any of those guys with limited experience/success (Frank is the most successful, but did it with veteran all-stars) and they'll probably be louder and more visible/passionate on the sideline and locker room than Rambis, but you're AGAIN having everybody learn everything from scratch, like just about every season post-KG.

I'm SICK of a drastic alteration every year.

I'm sick of terrible coaching.

Maybe give Rambis one last chance? Have him hire some new assistants worthy of being a head coach. Maybe now Phil will have more time to answer his phone calls. If Rambis can't make the needed changes, then fire him and promote that assitant. I don't know that the Wolves are ready to succeed regardless of who the coach is. Wouldn't it be worth it to build on Rambis' past two seasons or was it lacking that much direction?

I'm not sure what went wrong in Toronto for Mitchell, but he did win Coach of the Year while he was there so he must have done something right. In my book, that's already better than Rambis.

PuppyBite wrote:Maybe give Rambis one last chance? Have him hire some new assistants worthy of being a head coach. Maybe now Phil will have more time to answer his phone calls. If Rambis can't make the needed changes, then fire him and promote that assitant. I don't know that the Wolves are ready to succeed regardless of who the coach is. Wouldn't it be worth it to build on Rambis' past two seasons or was it lacking that much direction?

imo, no... i started off rambis's biggest supporter, i supported him when things started going south but after a full year, imo, he just isn't very good at coaching. he has no fire or passion and does not stand up for his players which imo are absolutely, completely unacceptable...espeically since we are a young team. he just sits on that chair expressionless while teams go on 10/15-0 runs and ****ing calls a pretty much identical foul to jj bareas on beasley from bynum "a good basketball play"....i can not tell you how ****ing furious i was both during the play and probably even more so hearing rambis's reaction...**** off

I'm between keeping Kurt Rambis or hiring Dwane Casey. If Casey can get Dirk to play defense, I think he can do the same with Kevin Love. There's quite a few similarities between guys on the two rosters, too...

-Dirk & Love, two perimeter oriented bigs
-Chandler & Milicic, former #2 picks who provide solid defense but limited offense (obviously Chandler is much better)
-Kidd & Rubio, two taller point guards with limited athleticism compared to top-tier PGs
-Marion & Johnson, two true SFs with limited ballhandling skills, but play well in open court and play solid defense

you just compared the crappy Wolves to hall of famers, MVPs, and all stars

Devilzsidewalk wrote:you just compared the crappy Wolves to hall of famers, MVPs, and all stars

Hey, they're very similar once you get past the fact that the Mavericks players are actually good at basketball.

I thought I read somewhere that Lawrence Frank has never played basketball at any level. That scares me a little bit. I don't know if a bunch of young guys are going to respect a little 5'7" white guy that's never played basketball before.

Seems like a bad combination when we already have Kahn -- another shrimpy white guy with no bball playing - background as our GM.

No offense to shrimpy white guys out there.

I feel like we gave Dwayne Casey a raw deal and would love to have him back...but I'm sure there is still bad blood there and don't think he is an option.

I think Rick Adelmen is the best available coach, but I don't think we have the star power necessary to lure him here.

Jerry Sloan,....yes please. But It's the same thing as Adelmen, only he's older and more likely to retire/stay retired.

All signs point to Sam Mitchell. Played and was a leader in MN, so he has connections. He was a decent coach, but I think his biggest flaw was getting too personal with his players, which could be awful paired with Love (who can whine at times), Beasley (who can play unmotivated at times), and Darko (who is a head case almost all the time).

After that, it's the same names you hear in every coaching discussion. Frank, SA assistants, HOU assistants, and Mark Jackson. At this point, I'd promote Lambier.

Aside from the offenses they run, I think Mitchell and Rambis are actually quite similar. No thanks.