lilfishi22 wrote:bwgood77 wrote:lilfishi22 wrote:Same reason why people seem to be on board with Triano staying on. He's a career assistant coach who's had multiple opportunities in the past.
Well we've seen our players grow and get better under Triano. That's the reason for him. I didn't hear anyone say lets hire him because "he's a career assistant who has multiple opportunities in the past". I did mention he had a lot of experience. Fizdale has been a long time assistant as well but I don't see a compelling reason he'd be a good hire when he just got his first job and lasted a little over a year, and apparently didn't get along with at least Marc Gasol.
He might be a decent hire but I don't see why he would particularly be a good coach. I get that he was at Miami when LeBron, Wade and Bosh were but I don't know how that helps...it was teams with those guys and cheap vets around them getting to the finals.
I'm not saying Fizdale is necessarily a better hire than Triano. I'm highlighting that both guys were career assistants (except for JT's HC stint with the Raps) with questionable records coming in but somehow Triano gets a better rap only because he's done good but hardly revolutionary things for this team. Triano seems like Pops when you compare it to the clown we had in that position before him. The Fizdale firing was panned league-wide and more a testament of the Grizzlies front office than anything. And literally everything you've said about Fizdale could be said for Triano but you seem to dismiss Fizdale. Who knows what Fizdale could do with this young team.
I'm not saying Fizdale would be worse either, but I don't see a compelling argument for him. I like everything about Triano so far, and despite blowout losses, which I expect with a young team without a PG, Booker and Daniels being so bad defensively, Chandler not being great defensively, and are PFs still very much a work in process on D (though I think Bender might be our most valuable defender due to iq, length, agility, ability to switch, disrupt shots, etc...even though he still gets worked sometimes by better players and Jackson is active and will be good...already good on this team along with Bender). When you can't defend well or shoot 3s well consistently. I don't put lack of D on Triano...sure maybe to a small extent but you have to have players who want to play D and have the tools to do so.
Fizdale might do better but I like what I've seen from Triano and if it's strictly between them two I'd go for Triano...unless he doesn't want to be head coach. James Jones playing under Fizdale may have a different perspective. I don't have enough real info to make a totally informed judgement where I do with Triano.
And please not Kidd. He would not be a popular move....Bucks fans hated him (I know Raps fans hated Triano but they had a bad team then too and Raps fans also hated Casey for the longest time). Kidd ran himself out of town as a player, has left two jobs, I don't think gets along particularly well with management and loses the players.
I'd look into Corrego (Spurs assistant who was other finalist for Grizzlies job...may get it now), Blatt and Kokoskov as other guys.
Kokoskov is especially intriguing being a Jazz assistant under Quin Snyder who preaches great defense, particularly if we got Bamba, and especially if we got Doncic, becauses Kokoskov was also the Slovenia coach in 16-17.
