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Jeff Hornacek interviewing for the 76ers Job

mellow said:
Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA First job for (New hired, 33yr old GM) McDonough in Phoenix will be to hire a coach: Expect him to find a bright, young assistant to grow with a full-blown rebuild.


Whew! I guess Jazz are safe. That doesn't sound like Jeff H. at all.
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Oh so Layden didn't get the job then, that's good if you wanted the Jazz to keep Horny (which I do).

Also I totally agree Tony, I hope all my teams will struggle so I can be right and vindicated by my dislike of a coach or player or personnel move or the FO. As a Phins fan I am so elated with every loss and every losing season because Ireland is the GM, winning to prove me wrong is not nearly as satisfying as all this losing that proves ME right because it's all about ME, ME, ME!!

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cctrackstar said:
Jeff would make a great head coach; for a high school team. He seems like a cheeky nice rah rah kind of guy, but I doubt he has the aggression to keep a group of superstars in line. My track coach was the same way, he was friendly, smiled and encouraged great, but when it came to discipline, he had nothing.
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I don't disagree with you, but there are some exceptions - Mark Jackson isn't aggressive, yet he seems to be doing a decent job. Winning tonight after blowing it the other night was impressive. Can't imagine a Ty coached team doing that.
 
CALJAZZFAN said:
Do you think only disciplinarians make good coaches? There is some merit to it. I may be in the minority, but I think Horny has the brains, experience, demeanor and fire to potentially be a good coach. Let's put it this way - he can't be any worse than Ty (granted I'm setting the bar pretty low).
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I think you have to have a mix. Disciplinarians tend to have early results, but then falter down the road when things don't pan out and players lose trust in the coach (see every Doug Collins coached team).

I think we as fans put too much blame on coaches. Being a successful coach is 60% luck in getting players who are both coach-able and talented.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
I think you have to have a mix. Disciplinarians tend to have early results, but then falter down the road when things don't pan out and players lose trust in the coach (see every Doug Collins coached team).

I think we as fans put too much blame on coaches. Being a successful coach is 60% luck in getting players who are both coach-able and talented.
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Probably true. It seems it's more about respect than discipline. Players who respect their coach are likely to be more receptive to coaching.
 
CALJAZZFAN said:
Probably true. It seems it's more about respect than discipline. Players who respect their coach are likely to be more receptive to coaching.
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Yeah, exactly. Respect comes from getting results though. So if a coach doesn't start producing, he starts to lose respect. I think that in part started to happen to Corbin this year a bit. I kind of give him props for the whole thing not completely nose diving (because I think it easily could have). Hopefully he can start the next year out strong and regain the respect and get the team playing together.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Yeah, exactly. Respect comes from getting results though. So if a coach doesn't start producing, he starts to lose respect. I think that in part started to happen to Corbin this year a bit. I kind of give him props for the whole thing not completely nose diving (because I think it easily could have). Hopefully he can start the next year out strong and regain the respect and get the team playing together.
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Good point that's overlooked. It could have been much worse this year.

You're more optimistic than me. :) But agree that if he's going to be our coach next year, I hope he succeeds.

I just want to see the young guys get the reins...
 
Hopefully Corbin sucks *** enough to lose a lot of games and his job but The Four miraculously grow and play well at the same time.
 
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