UNC Basketball Possible coaches - UNC hires ex-Nuggets HC Michael Malone

farce© said:
Well, I’ll just say it.

My feeling about this hire is kinda the same as five years ago when they announced Hubert Davis would be the head coach. I was disappointed. But I got on board and hung in there with a positive attitude for about three years after which I had seen enough to believe my initial reaction to hiring Hubert was probably correct.

I will get on board and give Malone a few years to show I was wrong to feel disappointed in the hire. I hope I’m wrong. On the positive side he has a ton more coaching experience than Hubert did when he was hired, however he has only seven years as a college assistant. But he has a strong NBA coaching resume, and his father was the head coach at Rhodes Island in the 80s, so he’s been around the college game since he was a kid.

I will see how things go before deciding the hire is a failure. However this goes, I believe moving on from Hubert was the right thing to do.
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I’d say a definite positive about Malone is that he’s obviously wanted to be a coach and put his time into becoming one. That was a concern about Hubert - Hubert was happy on TV. He never was a coach until Roy Williams offered him the job. Did Hubert have that burning drive to be a coach?
 
Powell is basically a replacement level player. He is not a loss.

I'm not convinced Dixon is that great either. I think he would be better as the first guard off the bench. So he's a loss but not a heartbreaking one.
 
Calheel said:
I think you can have an unlimited number of assistants now. So who he hires is probably more important than who he retains.
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Yeah, with a coaching change, it seems prudent to enter the portal unless you’re just sure you want to stay at the school, regardless of how things might play out with the new coach. As a player, I wouldn’t want to eliminate any options with that uncertainty.
 
stankeylegjones said:
Not being much of an x and o guy seems to be opposite to everything I have been reading.
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The claim is that the creativity on offense in Denver came from Adelman and his assistants

I mean, there's a reason why he got the head coaching job when Malone was fired

If Malone is smart enough to hire the right people, it might not actually matter whether he's the guru or not

One thing I think we can definitely say about MM coaching, that I am looking forward to, is the willingness to scheme defensively
 
superrific said:
Powell is basically a replacement level player. He is not a loss.

I'm not convinced Dixon is that great either. I think he would be better as the first guard off the bench. So he's a loss but not a heartbreaking one.
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Sophomore Dixon can be special. I like Powell, and I would like to see him come back, but replacing Dixon will be much harder.

If everyone is convinced that Carolina sucked because of Coach Davis, then imagine how great these players will be with an NBA championship coach.
 
Heelsandeers said:
Yeah, he knows a good bit and I trust his instincts overall. He was well ahead of the fire Michael Malone train, though I do think NBA fans in general tend to be too hard on coaching

He doesn't put much stock in Malone's role in Jokic development. Says the Nuggets have one of the top developmental programs in the league, which Adelman has been in charge of since 2017

Says MM isn't much of an X's and O's guy (he was known as a defensive minded coach IIRC when taking the Denver job), doesn't develop talent, but is great at delegating and hiring staff

I hear you on MM's Nuggets resume and winning years, but there's only so low you can when riding a player like Jokic. Those Nuggets teams were very much "Iron-5" for a while with terrible bench play
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1. Jokic and Murray both entered the league before 2017.
2. Player developmental programs only go so far. It was the coach's decision to run the offense through a guy who looked Tyler Hansbrough if Tyler was taller and a couch potato. For a lot of NBA teams, Jokic would have been a rich man's Vlade Divac. He only became JOKIC because Malone put him in a system that allowed him to flourish. That's not some off hand lucky guess.
3. In addition, you can player develop all you want but the key is getting the player in a role in which he can succeed. That's not Adelman's job.

4. I don't know what fire Malone train means. Most NBA folks think it was a bad idea.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Honestly, that article is a pretty mixed analysis of his coaching. There's some positive things there, but some real negatives too. And not many clues as to how he'll handle working with college players.
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Well, maybe. On the other hand, if the main problem is that the players burn out on him, that's much, much less of a problem in college where players are moving around all the time.
 
It’s not an exciting hire to me. It’s a solid hire. It is nice to see former players on board and enthusiastic. Also nice, for me at least, to read some of his past political comments.
 
BillOfRights said:
Sophomore Dixon can be special.
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Maybe, but "can" is doing a lot of work there.

He shot 30% on 2 pointers this year. 36% overall from the field, and barely got to the line. So that would have to improve A LOT for him to be special. He didn't get many steals (few did) nor block a single shot, which speaks to athleticism. His A:TO was fine, but not special and his A rate wasn't that high (though you can't get assists unless the other guy actually makes a basket). He was not special defensively.

Can he improve? of course, but I don't see him being more than a league average PG next year.
 
heelinhell said:
So why did the number #1 player choose BYU over other offers from dook**, UNC,,UCONN,,and kintuckee ? I'm guessing getting paid 7 million dollars to come to no-brand BYU might have been the reason...but I could be wrong.

I think the same is true regarding top tier coaches who are at successful programs already.
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he also went to HS in Utah
 
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