Onus wrote:Old_Blue wrote:Chris Porter's Hair wrote:Some of these responses reminded me of another interesting difference.
Kerr has surrounded himself with talented assistants, and let them play a major part in what we've done. So much so that it is another reason some posters don't credit Kerr with our successes; they will just ascribe offensive success to our offensive assistants, and defensive success to our defensive assistants. I don't buy that entirely, but I do think he's usually surrounded himself with excellent staff and let them help.
This was another area where Mark Jackson was a mess. He chose poor assistants, and couldn't stand to have assistants that might take the attention away from him or disagree with him. I was concerned my terrible memory might be making this up, but this article seems to agree with my recollection:
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/12/6/7344165/mark-jackson-warriors-reasons-joe-lacob
From that article, Jackson's assistants were: Lindsay Hunter, Brian Scalabrine, Pete Myers, Jerry DeGregorio and Darren Erman. I'm trying to remember if any of them have had a job on the bench since.
Now think of Kerr. He's part of the Popovich coaching tree, and has continued to add limbs. There are ex-Warriors assistants scattered around the league, and whenever there's an opening around the league, I worry another of our assistants will get snatched up. He has also not been afraid to bring in high profile assistants who were former head coaches, and who became head coaches again after leaving here.
This is a decent summary:
https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/1d1eit5/does_anyone_have_a_list_of_all_the_former_warrior/
Well said. Steve Kerr hate is, to be blunt, sus.
Is there Steve Kerr hate in this thread?
Gotta be honest, kinda shocked at the fact there is none.