KembaWalker wrote:just like all the good players on this team were gotten by the previous regime, the new facilities were also secured by the previous regime
i also wouldnt be surprised if this is one of our most budget coaching staffs of all time. certainly Atkinson and his squad was going to be a much more expensive hire than Lee and that budget ended up killing the hire but even in the past we've had some notable assistants, Borrego was allowed Triano with former HC experience, Clifford had Ty Corbin with former HC experience, we've had notable assistants in the past like Ewing and Silas who went on to become HC candidates around the league. Larry Browns crew certainly didn't come cheap.
I look at our coaching stable now and I see a bunch of nobodies, and maybe thats how Lee wanted it but then it speaks even more poorly of him. if he wants to play good cop Mr. Nice Guy smiling all the time pretending like this utter abomination of a product he put out on the floor every night has him totally unphased, he needs somebody to balance him out. honestly always preferred coaches who seem like dicks, and you have the assistants there to good cop and keep the morale up.
I can't say I agree with your perception of the budget For previous coaching staffs was more. Other than Larry Brown we have never in the history of the return of this franchise spent money on a coach. I doubt we were going to give Atkinson much more than we ended up giving Lee. And the reason Atkinson walked away was because we refused to give him budget to hire assistants he wanted and forced Clifford's old assistance on him because they were already under budget. I mean that is the definition of being a cheap owner. All of the assistants that we hired this summer were all considered to be highly regarded assistance. I'm not defending the performance of the coaching staff and we certainly are on the cheaper side of coaches. But it is definitely some rose colored glasses to suggest that we spent more on coaches under Jordan. That is emphatically false. Ty corbin was definitely not An expensive assistant coach. He was a horrendous head coach and I don't know what he'd been doing prior to joining Clifford staff but I doubt it was much. I think Ewing probably would have joined the coaching staff for free because he was just begging for a shot to be hired. I mean Jordan tried to force Charles Oakley onto a coaching staff at one point. And then Oakley tried to fight Gerald Wallace. There are a million articles over the past decade that mention how cheap of an owner Jordan was.
And of course all of the "good" players that are on the team now were put there by the previous front office because they had six years of lottery picks to do it.
I don't have any issues with people not being happy with the current front office and the current coaching staff. But I will argue all day long about the ineptitude and cheapness of the previous owners and front office.
