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Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:21 am
by Gladiator
Shabazz wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 5:24 pm
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)

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 6:44 am
by Mori Chu
Gladiator wrote:
Fri May 05, 2023 3:21 am
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 10:38 am
by 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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 3:33 pm
by Superbone
Gladiator wrote:
Fri May 05, 2023 3:21 am
Shabazz wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 5:24 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
by Cap
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 8:34 pm
by Superbone
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:03 pm
by Cap
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 8:34 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:06 pm
by Superbone
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 9:03 pm
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 8:34 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:33 pm
by Cap
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 9:06 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 9:03 pm
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 8:34 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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?

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 9:35 pm
by Kryptonic
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 9:06 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 9:03 pm
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 8:34 pm
Cap wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 6:47 pm
Mori Chu wrote:
Thu May 04, 2023 6:09 pm
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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sat May 06, 2023 11:52 pm
by Superbone

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 5:34 am
by Cap
Superbone wrote:
Sat May 06, 2023 11:52 pm
“Somebody somewhere please give me a job so I can sign this guy!” — Ryan McDonough, on seeing this tweet.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 7:57 am
by Mori Chu
Almost an All-Star in the East(ern Puerto Rico).

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 11:07 am
by ShelC
Pretty strong rookie class. A lot of really good players here.




Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 7:37 pm
by 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

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 11:22 am
by ShelC

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 12:01 pm
by 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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 4:35 pm
by Mori Chu
They also listed Bridges as a guard?!

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Tue May 09, 2023 4:47 pm
by 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.

Re: 2023 General Offseason/PostSeason League News

Posted: Wed May 10, 2023 4:17 pm
by ShelC