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BadMofoPimp wrote:Magic have to pay a team to take Harrington. Everyone knows Denver has been trying to unload Harrington for 3 years now. And, they were finally able to unload him with Afflalo and get an All-Star caliber player back. Now, that is amazing.
Magic complete coaching staff
Brian Schmitz Orlando Sentinel 1:00 p.m. EST, August 30, 2012
New Magic head coach Jacque Vaughn has added assistants Laron Profit and Luke Stuckey, completing his coaching staff.
The Magic also announced that Gordon Chiesa has been named special consultant to the head coach.
Profit and Stuckey also will be involved in player development.
Chiesa figures to be Vaughn's guru of sorts. He has vast experience as an NBA assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies and Utah Jazz. He also has spent time as a college head coach at Providence and at Manhattan.
New Orleans Hornets assistant coach James Borrego, Houston Rockets assistant coach Brett Gunning and Golden State Warriors assistant coach Wes Unseld Jr. had been previously hired.
Unseld has spent the last seven seasons as an NBA assistant coach. Before his one-year stint with the Warriors, he served six seasons as an assistant with the Washington Wizards and several years before that as a Wizards advance scout.
Gunning completed his first season as an NBA assistant coach last year. Before that, he worked as the Rockets' director of player development and as an assistant coach at Villanova and Hofstra.
Borrego worked with the San Antonio Spurs, as did Vaughn and Magic general manager Rob Hennigan. Borrego started with the Spurs in 2003 as the team's assistant video coordinator. In 2010, the Hornets hired him as an assistant coach.
The Magic are set to open training camp Oct. 1 at Amway Center.
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RYgoBOOM wrote:BadMofoPimp wrote:Magic have to pay a team to take Harrington. Everyone knows Denver has been trying to unload Harrington for 3 years now. And, they were finally able to unload him with Afflalo and get an All-Star caliber player back. Now, that is amazing.
ya I'm starting to wonder with wtf Hennigan was thinking.
I'd rather have gotten Lamb and 1 other player.....
The only thing that I can think to save face of him now is if Hark blows up, or we get an amazing deal with that TLE
Skin wrote:RYgoBOOM wrote:BadMofoPimp wrote:Magic have to pay a team to take Harrington. Everyone knows Denver has been trying to unload Harrington for 3 years now. And, they were finally able to unload him with Afflalo and get an All-Star caliber player back. Now, that is amazing.
ya I'm starting to wonder with wtf Hennigan was thinking.
I'd rather have gotten Lamb and 1 other player.....
The only thing that I can think to save face of him now is if Hark blows up, or we get an amazing deal with that TLE
Harrington's last 2 years are unguaranteed. That makes him more attractive now than it ever was before. You get that right?
You 2 are clowing this place up.
Skin wrote:Harrington's last 2 years are unguaranteed. That makes him more attractive now than it ever was before. You get that right?
You 2 are clowing this place up.
ChildishGambino wrote:people still crying about the deal.......isn't one of the steps acceptance or something? time will tell people....time will tell
BadMofoPimp wrote:ChildishGambino wrote:people still crying about the deal.......isn't one of the steps acceptance or something? time will tell people....time will tell
No. The steps are:
1) Denial
2) Rage
3) Apathy
4) Giving up
I am beginning the Apathy point, but every once in a while, rage rears its ugly head. Eventually, I will just give up. But, after 20 years of vested time, I can't imagine moving any quicker.
BadMofoPimp wrote:Magic have to pay a team to take Harrington. Everyone knows Denver has been trying to unload Harrington for 3 years now. And, they were finally able to unload him with Afflalo and get an All-Star caliber player back. Now, that is amazing.
MagicFan41 wrote:Al Harrington – Orlando Magic
Sources near the Magic deny that Al Harrington was a throw-in in the Dwight Howard trade. There is a belief that Al could be a good locker room influence on Orlando’s cast of young bigs and that’s likely true to start the season. However, at the trade deadline you can bet that the Magic are going to try and off-load Harrington on a playoff team and try to dump the remaining years on his contract.
Harrington is a serviceable player and his deal isn’t crazy, so finding a taker for him might cost the Magic a draft pick, but given how many the Magic are sitting on going forward, offloading his contract money might be more important than a low level pick.
Harrington likely starts the season in Orlando, but in February he’s likely somewhere else.
RYgoBOOM wrote:The offloading part was true though, no one would take Al the last few years, until we came a long. Nothing wrong with that fact if we end up getting goods in return.
OrlandoMajinBuu wrote:From ESPN:
Magic round out coaching staff
New Orlando Magic coach Jacque Vaughn has completed his staff, with the addition of six new assistants.
Vaughn and general manager Rob Hennigan announced Thursday that the team hired James Borrego, Wes Unseld Jr. and Brett Gunning to serve as Vaughn's main assistants. Laron Profit and Luke Stuckey will lead player development, and Gordon Chiesa was hired as a special consultant to Vaughn.
Borrego spent the past two seasons as an assistant in New Orleans. Unseld was a Golden State assistant last season after a stint as a Washington assistant. Gunning served several roles with Houston the past four years.
Profit played four seasons in the NBA and Stuckey coached high school basketball in California the last four years.
The Magic open training camp on Oct. 1.
From Magic:
+ from Denton new article: Vaughn Has His Coaching Staff
http://www.nba.com/magic/news/denton-va ... aff_083012
+ another Denton take: Revealing Vaughn coaching style
http://www.nba.com/magic/news/denton-va ... hes_083012
ChildishGambino wrote:Thank you jesus.....we're going to an uptempo style of play.....the style i've always wanted us to run since it suits us better.....hope Nelson buys in since he was so used to walking the ball up every play.....Hope Turk is in shape to run up and down.....like that Vaughn isn't going to be a micro manager and call every play down the floor like our former coach.....but a concern is that Nelson for the first time in a long time will actually have to play Floor General....which....i'm not sure about...this new sense of freedom might cause Nelson to try to do too much....either way i can't wait for things to get going man.....i'm missing basketball so much right now....i'm like a junkie that needs a fix right now lol
Nyce_1 wrote:ChildishGambino wrote:Thank you jesus.....we're going to an uptempo style of play.....the style i've always wanted us to run since it suits us better.....hope Nelson buys in since he was so used to walking the ball up every play.....Hope Turk is in shape to run up and down.....like that Vaughn isn't going to be a micro manager and call every play down the floor like our former coach.....but a concern is that Nelson for the first time in a long time will actually have to play Floor General....which....i'm not sure about...this new sense of freedom might cause Nelson to try to do too much....either way i can't wait for things to get going man.....i'm missing basketball so much right now....i'm like a junkie that needs a fix right now lol
I think Ish will thrive in this new system. I also loved hearing that we're going to have more player movement in the offense. More read & react type plays.
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