2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

[Gladiator]

I think Nick Nurse is probably a better Xs-and-Os coach than Monty, but you'd lose something reputationally with Book and KD if you made that move. I think some of Monty's weaknesses can be supplemented on the assistant level.

This is completely what they need to do - get a great x and o and game flow assistant and let Monty do the people management stuff, which seems to be his strength (and be the face of the franchise at a coaching level)

[Mori Chu]

This is completely what they need to do - get a great x and o and game flow assistant and let Monty do the people management stuff, which seems to be his strength (and be the face of the franchise at a coaching level)

Yeah but you can't really hire somebody like Nick Nurse to be an assistant these days. He'd consider it an insult. And so would Monty, because he'd feel threatened by his lead assistant, who would be obviously capable of replacing him.

[JeremyG]

Yep, it would be D’Antoni 2.0 all over again, when they wanted to hire Thibodeau as his “defensive specialist” but he felt insulted and threatened by it and refused. Then he was gone soon after.

[Superbone]

I think Nick Nurse is probably a better Xs-and-Os coach than Monty, but you'd lose something reputationally with Book and KD if you made that move. I think some of Monty's weaknesses can be supplemented on the assistant level.

This is completely what they need to do - get a great x and o and game flow assistant and let Monty do the people management stuff, which seems to be his strength (and be the face of the franchise at a coaching level)

That Willie Green guy was pretty good.

[Cap]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

[Superbone]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

Somebody watched John Wick 4.

[Cap]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

Somebody watched John Wick 4.

I have not yet. Planning to. Didn’t know about the truel. Thanks for the spoiler.

The Wiki article doesn’t even mention Wick in its list of cultural references.

[Superbone]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

Somebody watched John Wick 4.

I have not yet. Planning to. Didn’t know about the truel. Thanks for the spoiler.

The Wiki article doesn’t even mention Wick in its list of cultural references.

Oops.

[Cap]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

Somebody watched John Wick 4.

I have not yet. Planning to. Didn’t know about the truel. Thanks for the spoiler.

The Wiki article doesn’t even mention Wick in its list of cultural references.

Oops.

It was the pistols at dawn, wasn’t it?

[Kryptonic]

You don't fire Monty and replace him with Bud. You passive aggressively hire Bud and Nurse as assistants and make it super awkward, then Monty leaves after next season.

/s

How do we decide which assistant gets the gig after Monty leaves? Pistols at dawn?

Maybe Kevin Young can throw his hat into the ring and make it a truel.

Somebody watched John Wick 4.

I have not yet. Planning to. Didn’t know about the truel. Thanks for the spoiler.

The Wiki article doesn’t even mention Wick in its list of cultural references.

Oops.

Lol there’s not a truel.. but this one takes a lot of STEPS to get to a good ending.

[Superbone]

[Cap]

“Somebody somewhere please give me a job so I can sign this guy!” — Ryan McDonough, on seeing this tweet.

[Mori Chu]

Almost an All-Star in the East(ern Puerto Rico).

[ShelC]

Pretty strong rookie class. A lot of really good players here.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Technically not NBA news, but I think this is good. I'll try to check it out if the gametime isn't too wacky for me in Korea.

ESPN to bring EuroLeague to U.S. audience

https://www.eurohoops.net/en/euroleague ... ience/amp/

Basketball fans in the USA will be able to view the most exciting moments of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague as ESPN Platform has secured the rights to stream all of the 2022-23 playoffs and Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four, as well as the entire 2023-24 season.

The flagship European basketball competition is back to ESPN platform, which will air all playoffs and Final Four games of the current season on ESPN 3.

The Turkish Airlines EuroLeague is in the middle of the most intense phase of the season with best-of-five playoff series between Olympiacos Piraeus and Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul, AS Monaco and Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv, and Real Madrid and Partizan Mozzart bet Belgrade all going down to do-or-die Game 5s this week. FC Barcelona has already advanced to the Final Four. The victors will play the Final Four from May 19 to 21 in Kaunas, Lithuania, where the last team standing will become the new EuroLeague champion and lift the trophy.

“I am delighted that all U.S. basketball fans will have the possibility to watch all EuroLeague games on ESPN platform,” Alex Ferrer Kristjansson, Euroleague Basketball Marketing and Communication Senior Director, stated. “Globalization is a cornerstone for sports market growth in general and basketball in particular. We are confident that all U.S. basketball fans will appreciate the diversity of our stories and the experience that the EuroLeague delivers during the whole season.”

The agreement with ESPN is another step forward of Euroleague Basketball strategy to expand its reach outside its pan-European frontiers. The ongoing globalization of basketball has seen a growing interest of USA fans and experts to follow the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague where basketball superstar like Luka Doncic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Pau Gasol and Victor Wembanyama made their debuts

[ShelC]

[wpmiller42]

I'm surprised Mikal didn't make the second team. I think he's better than all of them at the G/F spots.

[Mori Chu]

They also listed Bridges as a guard?!

[Split T]

He’s definitely a guard for defensive purposes. He defends point of attack most often. His defense also slipped a bit this year. Think his larger workload played into that.

[ShelC]