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The Charlotte Hornets are set to hire Kenny Atkinson as the franchise's next head coach. The two sides have agreed to a four-year deal.
Currently as assistant for the Warriors, Atkinson will replace James Borrego in the role.
The Hornets had narrowed their search down to Atkinson and Mike D'Antoni.
Atkinson had a 118-190 record in his previous head coach job with the Nets.
The Hornets have missed the playoffs for six consecutive seasons.
RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
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Pickled Prunes wrote:RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
It's inexplicable!
What's more inexplicable is that people actually believe he's a good coach because one year he coached a team to 7th in the east. In his best season his team was one game over .500 and tied for the 14th best record in the NBA. He has one playoff win to his name and I would bet that he's fired before he has four more.
I understand that some folks don't believe that Stotts and D'Antoni are good coaches. Fine, it's OK to be wrong once in a while.... but this guy???
RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
Pickled Prunes wrote:RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
It's inexplicable!
What's more inexplicable is that people actually believe he's a good coach because one year he coached a team to 7th in the east. In his best season his team was one game over .500 and tied for the 14th best record in the NBA. He has one playoff win to his name and I would bet that he's fired before he has four more.
I understand that some folks don't believe that Stotts and D'Antoni are good coaches. Fine, it's OK to be wrong once in a while.... but this guy???
FeatheryTouch wrote:Pickled Prunes wrote:RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
It's inexplicable!
What's more inexplicable is that people actually believe he's a good coach because one year he coached a team to 7th in the east. In his best season his team was one game over .500 and tied for the 14th best record in the NBA. He has one playoff win to his name and I would bet that he's fired before he has four more.
I understand that some folks don't believe that Stotts and D'Antoni are good coaches. Fine, it's OK to be wrong once in a while.... but this guy???
You are looking at the raw numbers without any context. He wasn't coaching the 96 Bulls. Those Nets teams were very young and talent-deficient, but played hard and together and showed consistent improvement. If anything you could argue he overachieved in Brooklyn with what he had to work with. He also has 9 years as an assistant and is getting valuable finals experience with the Warriors as we speak.
He has a reputation as an excellent "player development" coach, and Hornets have a young core.
Charlotte doesn't always make smart decisions but I think Atkinson is a pretty good hire.
tigerae wrote:Pickled Prunes wrote:RipCityKJ wrote:Hiring a coach with a 42% win percentage will definitely help the franchise succeed!
It's inexplicable!
What's more inexplicable is that people actually believe he's a good coach because one year he coached a team to 7th in the east. In his best season his team was one game over .500 and tied for the 14th best record in the NBA. He has one playoff win to his name and I would bet that he's fired before he has four more.
I understand that some folks don't believe that Stotts and D'Antoni are good coaches. Fine, it's OK to be wrong once in a while.... but this guy???
Stotts would have be good, but D'Antoni is only good (and only good during the season) if the roster fits his system. If the roster does not he's just terrible. Atkinson is an assistant for Kerr right now, which also adds value with them being in the finals.
dubbmotta wrote:tigerae wrote:Pickled Prunes wrote:It's inexplicable!
What's more inexplicable is that people actually believe he's a good coach because one year he coached a team to 7th in the east. In his best season his team was one game over .500 and tied for the 14th best record in the NBA. He has one playoff win to his name and I would bet that he's fired before he has four more.
I understand that some folks don't believe that Stotts and D'Antoni are good coaches. Fine, it's OK to be wrong once in a while.... but this guy???
Stotts would have be good, but D'Antoni is only good (and only good during the season) if the roster fits his system. If the roster does not he's just terrible. Atkinson is an assistant for Kerr right now, which also adds value with them being in the finals.
It’s the Hornets man, having a good regular season and making the playoffs is Sucess. They won’t compete for championships, ever. That’s being said Mike D would of been a better choice with the current roster, Mike D with Melo pushing the ball, Bridgrs catching lobs would of excited that fanbase, generated a lot of money and got them bounced every year in the first round. For this organization that’s success. Not a bad coach but a bad hire for the Hornets. Hornets mess up again
Pickled Prunes wrote:dubbmotta wrote:tigerae wrote:Stotts would have be good, but D'Antoni is only good (and only good during the season) if the roster fits his system. If the roster does not he's just terrible. Atkinson is an assistant for Kerr right now, which also adds value with them being in the finals.
It’s the Hornets man, having a good regular season and making the playoffs is Sucess. They won’t compete for championships, ever. That’s being said Mike D would of been a better choice with the current roster, Mike D with Melo pushing the ball, Bridgrs catching lobs would of excited that fanbase, generated a lot of money and got them bounced every year in the first round. For this organization that’s success. Not a bad coach but a bad hire for the Hornets. Hornets mess up again
D'Antoni has changed his system at every stop. By far the fastest team with a ton of ball movement with the Suns; one of the slowest teams with very little ball movement in HOU. Those were very, very different systems. (Almost opposite.) He creates a system around the personnel and does it very well. Players that buy into his system level up. Average become good, good become great and great become MVP's. If your best players don't buy in, ala Melo, Kobe or Russ, then the team will look pretty bad. I don't see that as being an issue with that young team in CHA.
tigerae wrote:Pickled Prunes wrote:dubbmotta wrote:
It’s the Hornets man, having a good regular season and making the playoffs is Sucess. They won’t compete for championships, ever. That’s being said Mike D would of been a better choice with the current roster, Mike D with Melo pushing the ball, Bridgrs catching lobs would of excited that fanbase, generated a lot of money and got them bounced every year in the first round. For this organization that’s success. Not a bad coach but a bad hire for the Hornets. Hornets mess up again
D'Antoni has changed his system at every stop. By far the fastest team with a ton of ball movement with the Suns; one of the slowest teams with very little ball movement in HOU. Those were very, very different systems. (Almost opposite.) He creates a system around the personnel and does it very well. Players that buy into his system level up. Average become good, good become great and great become MVP's. If your best players don't buy in, ala Melo, Kobe or Russ, then the team will look pretty bad. I don't see that as being an issue with that young team in CHA.
He sucked with the Lakers and sucked with the Knicks. His system has one ball heavy player (Nash, Harden, etc.) and pick and rolls with 3pt shooting on the wings. Kobe was all for D'Antoni, he even defended him against the fans when they started chanting "we want Phil" during games. Problem is he doesn't believe in the post game at all. Melo was a post player in New York and the Lakers had both Pau and Howard along with Kobe who again played a lot in the post.
He also has never proven to me he was able to make adjustments in the playoffs. Even with Houston, he kept giving Harden the ball in the 4th when the entire world knew it was coming and the Warriors kept stopping it. The media asked him about it and he said something along the lines of it got us this far we are not changing now. In turn they lost the series because of it. I was cheering for them in hopes that CP3 would finally get a ring.
Like I said, he can rack up the wins during the regular season as long as the roster fits his run and gun, 7 seconds or less, 3 PT chucking system. Once the playoffs come, though, and the teams start to make adjustments, he just doesn't cut it IMHO. /shrug
