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2 Assistants Added
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:39 am
by evildallas
Just a brief mention at the end of the Sekou Smith article. Jim Todd and Tyrone Hill added to the staff. If anyone has a take or more info on them it would be appreciated.
link here
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:51 am
by fo_o_fo_404
evildallas wrote:Just a brief mention at the end of the Sekou Smith article. Jim Todd and Tyrone Hill added to the staff. If anyone has a take or more info on them it would be appreciated.
link here
Tyrone Hill is a former NBA player (Forward), who played in the league 14 years with teams in Cleveland, Golden State, Miami, etce . He had been a volunteer coach with the Hawks for the past two years.
I know nothing about Jim Todd.
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:23 am
by zaavtra
From what I remember, Jim Todd is known as a big-man coach.
I was lucky enough to see the hawks summer camp team practice on Tuesday for about an hour and a half and I didn't see Tyrone Hill do much during drills, though he did coach one of the teams for scrimmages.
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:30 am
by evildallas
Thanks both of you. I hope that Jim Todd is a big-man coach because our last one was a bad step backward (Alton Lister).
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:42 am
by HMFFL
Jim Todd has been around for years, so he's going to be able to offer us a lot, and I'm very pleased that he's joining our staff. Very classy but intelligent move by Sund.
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:19 am
by lethalweapon3
Jim Todd sounds like a smart pickup. At first I was thinking of Pete Newell holding the "big man" camp, but I forgot Todd ran something like that too years later. He'll do what I hoped Mahorn would do for the Hawks, but with about 5-times less drama.
Good article on him from NBA.com's Bucks page. Like most assistants he doesn't stay in one place long, as his stint last year in Milwaukee was his third separate time with the Bucks. He did a nice job with Bogut's development from what I little I saw last season. Also helped develop the Dunkin Dutchman back in the 80's while an assistant at Marist.
http://www.nba.com/bucks/news/MB_071017.htmlThe Woody Connection is apparently from Milwaukee, where Chris Ford hired him and Woodson as assistants back in 1996.
~lw3
Re: 2 Assistants Added
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:56 am
by fo_o_fo_404
HMFFL wrote:Jim Todd has been around for years, so he's going to be able to offer us a lot, and I'm very pleased that he's joining our staff. Very classy but intelligent move by Sund.
HMFFL...all assistant coaching hires are Woody's decision. Sund's job is the contract negotiations, which NBA Assistants earn an average between $100-300 K a year.