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

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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I think Dixon will be a really good 4-year player who is capable of becoming an all-conference player by his junior or senior year. I especially think he can be really good playing off the ball and spotting up for threes. I hope he returns.
 
superrific said:
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.
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The real risk there would be that he's hard enough on players that he gets a reputation that drives recruits - HS and portal - away before they ever get on campus (think Coach Doh).

The fact that Demarcus Cousins likes him, though, makes me think that he's probably not to that level of tough on players.
 
superrific said:
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.
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Frankly, he sounds like a college coach in the "light a fire under their asses" kinda way.... Patino very similar, and I think some of that edge and passion (along with a shit-ton of NIL $) is a good thing for this program
 
BillOfRights said:
www.cbssports.com

2026 college basketball coaching carousel grades:North Carolina gets a 'C', LSU earns 'A-'

Several big-time programs will have new faces on the bench next season, and we've got grades for all of them
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
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That article is very, very silly and, if I were the author, I'd be embarrassed my name is on it.

The fact that a guy who won the NBA Championship three years ago is the lowest graded coaching hire on that list - which contains hires who have never been a HC coach at the college or NBA level - shows that it is nothing more than clickbait.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I think Dixon will be a really good 4-year player who is capable of becoming an all-conference player by his junior or senior year. I especially think he can be really good playing off the ball and spotting up for threes. I hope he returns.
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I agree. I said that I'd like to have him back, but that he wouldn't be a big loss. I think that's consistent with "capable of being an all-conference player 2 or 3 years from now." Capable being the key word. He's not sure fire.
 
SnoopRob said:
That article is very, very silly and, if I were the author, I'd be embarrassed my name is on it.

The fact that a guy who won the NBA Championship three years ago is the lowest graded coaching hire on that list - which contains hires who have never been a HC coach at the college or NBA level - shows that it is nothing more than clickbait.
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Carolina getting the lowest grade stood out to me, too, but part of the grade is probably based on the school doing the hiring and how that hiring matches the school's goals and aspirations.

Outside of Lloyd and May, I don't know that Carolina could have hired anyone and gotten above a B plus.
 
SnoopRob said:
That article is very, very silly and, if I were the author, I'd be embarrassed my name is on it.

The fact that a guy who won the NBA Championship three years ago is the lowest graded coaching hire on that list - which contains hires who have never been a HC coach at the college or NBA level - shows that it is nothing more than clickbait.
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For real. Somehow LSU gets an A for hiring Will Wade (um, losing in the First Four is not really a feather in the cap!) AND NCSU gets a B- for Gainey (lol) but Malone is a problem because he lost a lot of games when coaching a talentless bottom feeder.

What a freaking joke.
 
Nalone lasted 9 years with Nuggets. That is an eternity for one coach staying with same team in NBA--coaces are licky to last 5 eithr for w/l or players wanting a change.
 
BillOfRights said:
Carolina getting the lowest grade stood out to me, too, but part of the grade is probably based on the school doing the hiring and how that hiring matches the school's goals and aspirations.

Outside of Lloyd and May, I don't know that Carolina could have hired anyone and gotten above a B plus.
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If you want to give Carolina a B for Malone due to being a blue blood under the assumption that they should have done better, i'd say that's fine.

But a C, when a C is the lowest grade given, is absolutely ridiculous.
 
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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As a pg, I agree. However, I think Dixon would be a very good 2g.
 
superrific said:
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.
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Sure, sure, generational offensive talent owes it all to Malone's system.
 
SnoopRob said:
If you want to give Carolina a B for Malone due to being a blue blood under the assumption that they should have done better, i'd say that's fine.

But a C, when a C is the lowest grade given, is absolutely ridiculous.
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I don't think the consensus on this board would be above a B, and we're all Carolina fans. I think the uncertainty of a first time college head coach navigating NIL and the portal and if he will be able to recruit and relate to teenagers.
 
breepf said:
Sure, sure, generational offensive talent owes it all to Malone's system.
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That's not remotely what I said. You might revisit the distinction between necessary and sufficient.

No coach made Stephen Curry into the best shooter. But Stephen wasn't STEPH under Mark Jackson. It wasn't until Kerr gave him the green light from anywhere within 30-35 feet that he became the MVP
 
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