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Bring back Sloan and Stevens

zbone

zbone

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After reading this
https://www.cbssports.com/general/blog/gregg-doyel/21932698/why-is-brad-stevens-so-good-here-you-go
and keeping an eye on Bulldogs last few years I feel like this is our guy.

I don't like the idea of throwing yet another rookie coach at our guys and hoping he will swim. It's unfair to players and coach as well. There are no established NBA coaches around without a job apart from JVG and I can see why some don't want him back. At the same time this franchise won't survive more years of Corbin alienating our future core players.
I reckon it would be great to bring back Sloan along with Stevens as assistant and future replacement in a year or two. Stevens would learn few tricks of NBA game management and our players would get a chance of working with a legend.
 
I like it.

Of course you could make a thread about ANY coach out there coming to the jazz and i would like it.
 
Man give up on bring back Sloan. I liked Sloan but he should have retired when Stockton and Malone retired. The league has changed. As far as Stevens goes, I love the way he coaches but the NBA is a whole different monster than coaching in college. However saying that, he is one of the few colleges coaches I would like to coach the Jazz. The other two are Izzo and Coach K.
 
I mentioned this somewhere else but imagine how upset Hayward is going from a coach like Stevens and then being stuck with Corbin.

I think Stevens would make a great NBA head coach. He doesn't need to come in as an assistant first.

Imagine this, we get a coach that actually plans things out a coaches a team. Meanwhile we have a GM that is committed to getting the best players available. Sounds like a match made in heaven.
 
Stevens wouldn't accept. If coaching in the NBA is his goal, then he has the inside track on a HC job right now; a AC job in the pros doesn't really help him.
 
cowhide said:
Man give up on bring back Sloan. I liked Sloan but he should have retired when Stockton and Malone retired. The league has changed. As far as Stevens goes, I love the way he coaches but the NBA is a whole different monster than coaching in college. However saying that, he is one of the few colleges coaches I would like to coach the Jazz. The other two are Izzo and Coach K.
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This is a point that Lindsey has been making the past few weeks. He has been subtle about it but the message has been clear and consistent. I have thought that it was an indictment against Corbin and some of the Jazz's philosophies in evaluating players. I am thinking there are some big changes on the horizon for the Jazz. If the changes include the Rainman, I would be thrilled.
 
Stevens is going to leave his infinitely secure job where he is worshipped and paid well to be #2 to a guy that has his mind 20 years in the past and might be dead in a year? Ridiculous.

Just hire Stevens as HC and figure it out from there. Keep the good luck rolling and see if Scott Skiles is ready to be an assistant.
 
Hell, Phil Johnson had no problem taking a back seat for 20-odd years. See if he is into some kind of mentorship as head AC for a short time. He's the architect behind the offense (AKA the best thing the Jazz accomplished from a coaching standpoint) anyway.
 
Additionally, clean the house of vets that might cause ANY problem at all. Whether that's guys that don't have the heart or mind to execute instruction or whether it's guys that feel they are obligated playing time. Run with The Four, whoever gets drafted this year, and then D-Leaguers/guys pulled from overseas/undrafted FAs/Jamaal Tinsleys that are hungry for any opportunity.

As much as I like Millsap, Mo, and Carroll, that might mean they're gone, too.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Hell, Phil Johnson had no problem taking a back seat for 20-odd years. See if he is into some kind of mentorship as head AC for a short time. He's the architect behind the offense (AKA the best thing the Jazz accomplished from a coaching standpoint) anyway.
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I like Phil and this is not a bad idea. But I feel that they just need to move on from all the history and loyalty and tradition. Get over it. Sloan is not coming back. Stockton and Malone are not coming back. Basketball of the 80s and 90s is not coming back.

Lets figure out what will work for today and go after it, not try to hold onto history.
 
Zulu said:
JVG
SVG
Mike Brown
Flip Saunders
Nate Macmillan
Avery Johnson
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I don't see SVG coming back to coaching. He looks happy where he is now.
And you can't be serious you want anyone of the rest of the guys who would guarantee you perennial mediocrity.
 
zman1527 said:
I like Phil and this is not a bad idea. But I feel that they just need to move on from all the history and loyalty and tradition. Get over it. Sloan is not coming back. Stockton and Malone are not coming back. Basketball of the 80s and 90s is not coming back.

Lets figure out what will work for today and go after it, not try to hold onto history.
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I can see this, too. But as smart as Stevens is and as hard as he works, he still doesn't know as much about NBA basketball as Johnson. I don't think it's wise to completely disregard tradition or ways of the past. I think you get something strong when you can look at the old strategies with fresh eyes and try to take the strengths while minimizing the weaknesses. Besides, it's probably not a bad idea to have a transitional period, anyway, where standbys of the old offense can largely still be the core of the offense while still fleshing out and figuring out new sets.
 
zbone said:
I don't see SVG coming back to coaching. He looks happy where he is now.
And you can't be serious you want anyone of the rest of the guys who would guarantee you perennial mediocrity.
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Of the list the only one I would be interested in is SVG. We should at least make an attempt.
 
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