Jay Wright?

[LV-Suns]

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[Saberestar]

I did not see this coming, really interesting.

[bwgood77]

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Funny, he was in my original poll a long time ago as a choice. I updated it later since he didn't have any votes, but I had read at the time back in December that he was on the radar as a potential coach.

[aIvin adams]

"walking shoulder shrug emoji Jay Wright"

seems like a cool guy

[MathiasPW]

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Funny, he was in my original poll a long time ago as a choice. I updated it later since he didn't have any votes, but I had read at the time back in December that he was on the radar as a potential coach.

Yeah yeah right, And I had all the lotto numbers right but decided to change them cause I like odd numbers more.

On a serious note, this is nonsense. GM Ryan McWontTellYou has very tight lips. And to make it known you have a favorite coach before even starting to officially interviewing them is, at least, a bad PR job.

[letsgosuns]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

[kennydorglas]

McD was the first to go after Stevens. I can definitely see this happening.

[TeamTragic]

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Are we finally getting a proper coach?

[bwgood77]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

So who is on your list of good coaching hires? Popovich, Riley, Jackson, Carlisle, Spoelstra, Brown, Kerr, Tomjanovich, 72 year old Billy Cunningham, Larry Costello, 82 year old Bill Russell, 89 year old Red Auerbach, 83 year old K.C. Jones, 81 year old Bill Fitch, 77 year old Paul Westhead, 78 year old Lenny Wilkens, 84 year old Dick Motta, 81 year old Tom Heinsohn, 79 year old Al Attles, 78 year old Red Holzman, 87 year old Bill Sharman, and 78 year old Alex Hannum?

Which would you go after first and who do you think would be game to coach our team?

[bwgood77]

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Funny, he was in my original poll a long time ago as a choice. I updated it later since he didn't have any votes, but I had read at the time back in December that he was on the radar as a potential coach.

Yeah yeah right, And I had all the lotto numbers right but decided to change them cause I like odd numbers more.

On a serious note, this is nonsense. GM Ryan McWontTellYou has very tight lips. And to make it known you have a favorite coach before even starting to officially interviewing them is, at least, a bad PR job.

I didn't know much about him, but I remember two of the names that came up when I researched coaching names on nba short lists, his name and Jay Larranaga's came up. I'd probably prefer Larranaga only because he has been an assistant under Brad Stevens, is fairly young (40) and is more of an up-n-comer. But Jay Wright obviously has a ton of experience and is a very good coach. Villanova doesn't have any premier pro prospects, or maybe any at all, while the teams they rolled over have plenty.

I wanted either an assistant who is young or has coached under a good nba mind, or someone who might be under the radar in college...was thinking mid major....but mainly someone who overachieves with their talent like Jay Wright or Brad Stevens rather than someone who just recruits the best prospects (or basically just gets them because of the big name program) like Calipari, Pitino, Roy Williams, etc.

[Damkac]

Would this mean small ball again?

[letsgosuns]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

So who is on your list of good coaching hires? Popovich, Riley, Jackson, Carlisle, Spoelstra, Brown, Kerr, Tomjanovich, 72 year old Billy Cunningham, Larry Costello, 82 year old Bill Russell, 89 year old Red Auerbach, 83 year old K.C. Jones, 81 year old Bill Fitch, 77 year old Paul Westhead, 78 year old Lenny Wilkens, 84 year old Dick Motta, 81 year old Tom Heinsohn, 79 year old Al Attles, 78 year old Red Holzman, 87 year old Bill Sharman, and 78 year old Alex Hannum?

Which would you go after first and who do you think would be game to coach our team?

I would take any coach that has real NBA experience at a high level over a college coach. Give me one of Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jackson, Luke Walton, George Karl, Vinny Del Negro, P.J. Carlesimo, Earl Watson, even Mike D'antoni. It is not even that I like any of those guys. I just do not believe in bringing in a coach from college because how many times has a team won a championship doing it. One time. It was Larry Brown and it took practically 100 years for him to finally do it. This song and dance has happened so many times and these college coaches always end up getting fired and people say see, there is a big difference between coaching college and the NBA. And there is. If the Suns do this then it is further proof how incompetent Sarver and his staff truly are.

[bwgood77]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

So who is on your list of good coaching hires? Popovich, Riley, Jackson, Carlisle, Spoelstra, Brown, Kerr, Tomjanovich, 72 year old Billy Cunningham, Larry Costello, 82 year old Bill Russell, 89 year old Red Auerbach, 83 year old K.C. Jones, 81 year old Bill Fitch, 77 year old Paul Westhead, 78 year old Lenny Wilkens, 84 year old Dick Motta, 81 year old Tom Heinsohn, 79 year old Al Attles, 78 year old Red Holzman, 87 year old Bill Sharman, and 78 year old Alex Hannum?

Which would you go after first and who do you think would be game to coach our team?

I would take any coach that has real NBA experience at a high level over a college coach. Give me one of Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jackson, Luke Walton, George Karl, Vinny Del Negro, P.J. Carlesimo, Earl Watson, even Mike D'antoni. It is not even that I like any of those guys. I just do not believe in bringing in a coach from college because how many times has a team won a championship doing it. One time. It was Larry Brown and it took practically 100 years for him to finally do it. This song and dance has happened so many times and these college coaches always end up getting fired and people say see, there is a big difference between coaching college and the NBA. And there is. If the Suns do this then it is further proof how incompetent Sarver and his staff truly are.

Well if you count Larry Brown than I'm sure there are more. Chuck Daly for one. Coached Boston College and Penn before moving to NBA and later winning a championship. Paul Westhead also coached at La Salle before joining the Lakers and winning a championship.

There's no magical experience that is right. There will be good smart ones and bad ones regardless of where they came from.

[lilfishi22]

I would take any coach that has real NBA experience at a high level over a college coach. Give me one of Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jackson, Luke Walton, George Karl, Vinny Del Negro, P.J. Carlesimo, Earl Watson, even Mike D'antoni. It is not even that I like any of those guys. I just do not believe in bringing in a coach from college because how many times has a team won a championship doing it. One time. It was Larry Brown and it took practically 100 years for him to finally do it. This song and dance has happened so many times and these college coaches always end up getting fired and people say see, there is a big difference between coaching college and the NBA. And there is. If the Suns do this then it is further proof how incompetent Sarver and his staff truly are.

I would take Brad Stevens over most coaches with NBA experience right now.

[Qwigglez]

"walking shoulder shrug emoji Jay Wright"

seems like a cool guy

Must've broke the news right before that shot...

[TeamTragic]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

So who is on your list of good coaching hires? Popovich, Riley, Jackson, Carlisle, Spoelstra, Brown, Kerr, Tomjanovich, 72 year old Billy Cunningham, Larry Costello, 82 year old Bill Russell, 89 year old Red Auerbach, 83 year old K.C. Jones, 81 year old Bill Fitch, 77 year old Paul Westhead, 78 year old Lenny Wilkens, 84 year old Dick Motta, 81 year old Tom Heinsohn, 79 year old Al Attles, 78 year old Red Holzman, 87 year old Bill Sharman, and 78 year old Alex Hannum?

Which would you go after first and who do you think would be game to coach our team?

That response and age breakdown

[jcsunsfan]

Can't see it. I am sure the players love Watson. Tonights win is because of this story.

[PhxSunsFan13]

So they start chasing this guy all of a sudden because they won a National Championship? Okay, then how about we go after Kevin Ollie who won a National Championship coaching UConn?

[jcsunsfan]

This is nuts if this is true. WHY WON'T THIS TEAM JUST HIRE PEOPLE WITH NBA CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE! Larry Brown is the only coach in NBA history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship. This is so ridiculous. Billy Donovan was a college coach prior to being the Thunder coach and I think this is the worst the Thunder have played since before they had Durant and Westbrook several years ago. Fred Hoiberg was a college coach and then came to coach the Bulls and look how awful the Bulls have been this year. They used to be a Finals contender with Thibodeau and now they look mediocre and might miss the playoffs altogether.

What are the Suns doing? Are they really this insane. What do they think because they have a young roster they need a college coach teaching the players? I would rather Tyson Chandler just coach the players because ya know he has actually won an NBA championship. What free agents will want to come to the Suns if they have a college coach with zero NBA experience. All Sarver has done for five years is hire people with no prior experience at their jobs. Lance Blanks, Lon Babby, Ryan McDonough, Lindsey Hunter, Earl Watson, and now this report of them wanting another person without experience coaching the team. Good job Sarver. Why don't you just ask fans to leave. It is becoming very difficult to support this team.

So who is on your list of good coaching hires? Popovich, Riley, Jackson, Carlisle, Spoelstra, Brown, Kerr, Tomjanovich, 72 year old Billy Cunningham, Larry Costello, 82 year old Bill Russell, 89 year old Red Auerbach, 83 year old K.C. Jones, 81 year old Bill Fitch, 77 year old Paul Westhead, 78 year old Lenny Wilkens, 84 year old Dick Motta, 81 year old Tom Heinsohn, 79 year old Al Attles, 78 year old Red Holzman, 87 year old Bill Sharman, and 78 year old Alex Hannum?

Which would you go after first and who do you think would be game to coach our team?

I would take any coach that has real NBA experience at a high level over a college coach. Give me one of Tom Thibodeau, Mark Jackson, Luke Walton, George Karl, Vinny Del Negro, P.J. Carlesimo, Earl Watson, even Mike D'antoni. It is not even that I like any of those guys. I just do not believe in bringing in a coach from college because how many times has a team won a championship doing it. One time. It was Larry Brown and it took practically 100 years for him to finally do it. This song and dance has happened so many times and these college coaches always end up getting fired and people say see, there is a big difference between coaching college and the NBA. And there is. If the Suns do this then it is further proof how incompetent Sarver and his staff truly are.

Good grief. I find myself agreeing with LGSuns. Although I do not agree about a few of those names (Jackson, Karl, Del NeGro, Carlesimo. DAntoni). I would not rather have them because they have already proven themselves poor or no longer capable coaches.

In fact, the only two coaches I would consider on that list are Walton and Watson. Not because I like youth, but I have been pleased with the coaching job I have seen from each of them so far. I believe they both understand the new NBA. The others do not. Not sure Jay Wright would.

[jcsunsfan]

So they start chasing this guy all of a sudden because they won a National Championship? Okay, then how about we go after Kevin Ollie who won a National Championship coaching UConn?

Nothing happens all of a sudden with McD. If they are going after this guy, they have had him on their radar for a LONG time. I guarantee it.