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

Post #1361 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:20 am

I'm biased but I think the Bucks are more desirable than the Suns or Philly.

Post #1362 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:23 am

Jez2983 wrote:
rilamann wrote:I still stand by the theory that Nurse has been the guy this whole time, the Bucks are bringing in these other guys for protocol and PR purposes.

It will be very interesting to see what we do with our medical staff if we hired Nurse. Does he throw them out and start with his own (often this is the case) or does he keep the same (extremely effective*) team?

I'm not trying to stir up the load management debate again, but it seems his methods would be somewhat opposed to what we had previously.

*they had our players ready for the playoffs, so they did their job.

I'm not understanding why a coach would bring in a new medical team. He does play his guys more minutes but he also didn't have a team with so many on the brink of Medicare. He isn't going to start playing Jrue, Khris and Brook more at their age. Nor Giannis with his chronic knee. We load managed to the #1 seed and went into the playoffs healthy. If he says he's going to change that and play them more games/minutes I'd pass

Jez2983 · Post #1363 » by **Jez2983** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:26 am

MickeyDavis wrote:
Jez2983 wrote:
rilamann wrote:I still stand by the theory that Nurse has been the guy this whole time, the Bucks are bringing in these other guys for protocol and PR purposes.

It will be very interesting to see what we do with our medical staff if we hired Nurse. Does he throw them out and start with his own (often this is the case) or does he keep the same (extremely effective*) team?

I'm not trying to stir up the load management debate again, but it seems his methods would be somewhat opposed to what we had previously.

*they had our players ready for the playoffs, so they did their job.

I'm not understanding why a coach would bring in a new medical team. He does play his guys more minutes but he also didn't have a team with so many on the brink of Medicare. He isn't going to start playing Jrue, Khris and Brook more at their age. Nor Giannis with his chronic knee.

It's common place with a lot of other sports, new coach brings in the team that they have a good working relationship with. It isn't to disparage the old team, just means they are on the same page from the word go. Conversely, I guess, our current team knows the players extremely well as we've had a fairly settled team.

Just a point of interest for me. I'd be really interested to see what (if anything) Nurse does differently.

Plossum · Post #1364 » by **Plossum** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:28 am

MickeyDavis wrote:I'm biased but I think the Bucks are more desirable than the Suns or Philly.

It may depend where our roster ends up this offseason.

Suns’ cap is a mess worse than ours. They have 163m committed to just 9 players.

Post #1365 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:31 am

I updated the poll

Post #1366 » by **MickeyDavis** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:37 am

Woj worded that kind of weird. "Do something more formal. Meet with the front office and ownership".

So apparently we've had "informal talks". Usually you interview with the GM and then with ownership if/when you're a finalist.

skbucks1985 · Post #1367 » by **skbucks1985** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:38 am

It wouldn't surprise me if Nurse's approach was to go on vacation and then assess when the dust had settled and if a team like Houston wanted to get there's done quickly then he wasn't going to go to Houston

Matches Malone · Post #1368 » by **Matches Malone** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:39 am

MickeyDavis wrote:I updated the poll

Now watch, Horst and Co. will hire one of the coaches you left off the poll :lol:

blazza18 · Post #1369 » by **blazza18** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:49 am

MickeyDavis wrote:I'm biased but I think the Bucks are more desirable than the Suns or Philly.

Pros and cons to all three top jobs.

Frank Nova · Post #1370 » by **Frank Nova** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:49 am

Nurse doesn’t change my stance, Chris Quinn is the guy.

MVP2110 · Post #1371 » by **MVP2110** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:56 am

Frank Nova wrote:Nurse doesn’t change my stance, Chris Quinn is the guy.

Is there a reason besides the fact he's Spo's top guy?

El Pooch Grande · Post #1372 » by **El Pooch Grande** » Fri May 19, 2023 2:57 am

Hallelujah, Nurse is finally a candidate!

Daver · Post #1373 » by **Daver** » Fri May 19, 2023 3:14 am

MickeyDavis wrote:Woj worded that kind of weird. "Do something more formal. Meet with the front office and ownership".

So apparently we've had "informal talks". Usually you interview with the GM and then with ownership if/when you're a finalist.

Been saying that over a week now

drone3 · Post #1374 » by **drone3** » Fri May 19, 2023 3:41 am

Foooof finally..

KidA24 · Post #1375 » by **KidA24** » Fri May 19, 2023 3:44 am

RiotPunch wrote:Still can't believe Udoka took that Houston gig so fast. What the hell was he thinking?

Houston won't publish whatever got me fired from Boston

JayMKE · Post #1376 » by **JayMKE** » Fri May 19, 2023 4:15 am

Could have saved a lot of anxiety if they started with Nurse but better they finish.

VooDoo7 · Post #1377 » by **VooDoo7** » Fri May 19, 2023 5:47 am

MickeyDavis wrote:I'm biased but I think the Bucks are more desirable than the Suns or Philly.

Bucks fired their coach 2 years after winning the championship. Something, I'm sure, potential new coaches take notice of.

Daver · Post #1378 » by **Daver** » Fri May 19, 2023 7:10 am

Just read on BR that nurse will also be in philly this week talking to management to let the bidding war begin

Plossum · Post #1379 » by **Plossum** » Fri May 19, 2023 7:10 am

I voted nurse. I’m not super confident he’ll be any better than Bud but not sure he’ll be worse. Just… different.

There’s too much unknown about the other candidates. They have a much lower floor than Nurse. Nurse is the safe and logical bet.

drew881 · Post #1380 » by **drew881** » Fri May 19, 2023 12:19 pm

VooDoo7 wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:I'm biased but I think the Bucks are more desirable than the Suns or Philly.

Bucks fired their coach 2 years after winning the championship. Something, I'm sure, potential new coaches take notice of.

Phoenix fired a 2 time COY and had a second round exit with an injured Chris Paul and Durant only playing like 8 games. That’s much worse. Philly went to a game 7!in the second round. We have the most justifiable fire, not making it out of round 1.

Favorite Finalist?