Flip and the Bench...

<3AmirJohnson<3 · Post #21 » by **<3AmirJohnson<3** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:09 pm

My bad. Laimbeer is an obvious choice I forgot.

jab · Post #22 » by **jab** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:31 pm

Liqourish wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Laimbeer

Laimbeer is the only coaching canidate I know that would keep these egos in check. He's also a man I know our players (Chauncey and Sheed, I'm looking at you) would respect in the LB mode and actually listen to. If they didn't listen, Laimbeer would pull their asses and put them in their place.

Laimbeer has given up on campaigning for the job as the Pistons coach.

Mr D and the rest of the world saw what happen in NY when LB tried the 'respect me or else' mode of coaching.

IMO talk of 'keeping egos in check' is wildly overstated by some posters on realgm forums.

Roscoe Sheed · Post #23 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:56 pm

If I recall correctly, wasn't Nate McMilan available after Brown got fired? McMilan is a far better coach than Saunders. Oh well. I bet Joe D wishes he could go back in time and correct that mistake

HeroicKennedy · Post #24 » by **HeroicKennedy** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:29 pm

Laimbeer would fail in Detroit because he's coaching a veteran team. If we were younger (say, all but one member of the core gone and everyone else under 28), then he could coach them. Laimbeer won't keep Rasheed in check. Your best option is to let Sheed be Sheed and take the good with the bad, because if you try to control him, he's going to turn around and bite you. Not literally, of course.

Personally, I've always been in favor of Jeff Van Gundy. He has a habit of coaching teams well, but management turns against him and blame him for them falling up short. Then, under another coach, the team struggles (New York, Houston). I don't know his philsophies real well, but anyone that calls out a player and says he's a flopper on National TV is aces in my book.

Low-Ki · Post #25 » by **Low-Ki** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 8:54 pm

Before we get a new coach, Rasheed will have to be moved out. I think both Sheed and even Billups might have to be moved out depending on which coach you bring in. I think the rest of the players would be coachable no matter who you brought in.

I have a feeling that Terry Porter will get a HC gig somewhere early in the off-season. Mike Curry is a couple of years away yet.

Roscoe Sheed · Post #26 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:09 pm

Low-Ki wrote:Before we get a new coach, Rasheed will have to be moved out. I think both Sheed and even Billups might have to be moved out depending on which coach you bring in. I think the rest of the players would be coachable no matter who you brought in.

I have a feeling that Terry Porter will get a HC gig somewhere early in the off-season. Mike Curry is a couple of years away yet.

That is not sound reasoning. You should get rid of your two best players for a new coach? :roll:

Roscoe Sheed · Post #27 » by **Roscoe Sheed** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:11 pm

HeroicKennedy wrote:Laimbeer would fail in Detroit because he's coaching a veteran team. If we were younger (say, all but one member of the core gone and everyone else under 28), then he could coach them. Laimbeer won't keep Rasheed in check. Your best option is to let Sheed be Sheed and take the good with the bad, because if you try to control him, he's going to turn around and bite you. Not literally, of course.

Personally, I've always been in favor of Jeff Van Gundy. He has a habit of coaching teams well, but management turns against him and blame him for them falling up short. Then, under another coach, the team struggles (New York, Houston). I don't know his philsophies real well, but anyone that calls out a player and says he's a flopper on National TV is aces in my book.

he is, at least, a defensive minded coach that has coached big egos before (Ewing, Sprewell, McGrady)